South Africa in 1867.19 The book is organised according to the classification system developed by George Robert Gray, head of the ornithological section of the British Museum, in Genera of Birds (1840),20 the then most comprehensive list of orders, tribes, families and genera for ornithologists....
is Thy servant and son of Thy two servants. Thou has taken him for Thyself and hast chosen for him what is near Thee. He lies prostrate in Thy presence and controls for himself nor harm, nor profit, nor signs rendering manifest his actions, waiting for the day of reckoning, announcing ...
This chapter discusses nationalism and the (re)production and transformation of national identity, as well as the implicated notion of modernity, through analysing discourses and narratives on bread in Japan. I argue that despite tenacious associations of bread with the West in Japan, not only do ...
The niña in the orange dress in Santiago de Cuba and this niño in the yellow pants in Trinidad will be taught about MartÃ’s hopes for all Cuban children. The poet wroteIsmaelilloin 1892 for his son of the same name. Martà was in exile and missed his lit...
Beg is a police governor in Michailopol, a run-down border city in the steppes, somewhere east of the Carpates. He is a single, middle-aged man having a sexual relationship with Zita, his housekeeper. As a governor, he has to move between the officers who take his orders and people ...