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Architecture and meaning on the Athenian Acropolis
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ISBN: 0521470242 0521469813 9780521469814 9780521470247 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

The votive statues of the Athenian Acropolis
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ISBN: 0521815231 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,


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L'Acropole d'Athènes. Monuments, cultes et histoire du sanctuaire d'Athèna Polias
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ISBN: 2708406876 9782708406872 Year: 2003 Volume: 7 Publisher: Paris : E. Picard,


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A pictorial history of Arkansas's Old State House : celebrating 175 years
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ISBN: 1610751868 9781610751865 9781557289551 Year: 2011 Publisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press,

Beyond Little Rock
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ISBN: 1610750659 9781610750653 9781557288509 155728850X 9781557288516 1557288518 Year: 2007 Publisher: Fayetteville University of Arkansas Press

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John A. Kirk is professor of United States history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970, for which he won the 2003 J. G. Ragsdale Book Award.

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Elizabeth and Hazel : two women of Little Rock
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ISBN: 1452604185 1283292513 9786613292513 0300178352 9780300178357 9780300141931 0300141939 Year: 2011 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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The names Elizabeth Eckford and Hazel Bryan Massery may not be well known, but the image of them from September 1957 surely is: a black high school girl, dressed in white, walking stoically in front of Little Rock Central High School, and a white girl standing directly behind her, face twisted in hate, screaming racial epithets. This famous photograph captures the full anguish of desegregation-in Little Rock and throughout the South-and an epic moment in the civil rights movement.In this gripping book, David Margolick tells the remarkable story of two separate lives unexpectedly braided together. He explores how the haunting picture of Elizabeth and Hazel came to be taken, its significance in the wider world, and why, for the next half-century, neither woman has ever escaped from its long shadow. He recounts Elizabeth's struggle to overcome the trauma of her hate-filled school experience, and Hazel's long efforts to atone for a fateful, horrible mistake. The book follows the painful journey of the two as they progress from apology to forgiveness to reconciliation and, amazingly, to friendship. This friendship foundered, then collapsed-perhaps inevitably-over the same fissures and misunderstandings that continue to permeate American race relations more than half a century after the unforgettable photograph at Little Rock. And yet, as Margolick explains, a bond between Elizabeth and Hazel, silent but complex, endures.

Breaking the silence : Little Rock's Women's Emergency Committee to Open Our Schools, 1958-1963
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ISBN: 1610750837 9781610750837 1557284563 9781557284563 1557285152 9781557285157 Year: 1997 Publisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press,


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Remember Little Rock
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ISBN: 9781613765029 1613765029 9781625342690 9781625342683 1625342683 1625342691 Year: 2017 Publisher: Amherst : Baltimore, Md. : University of Massachusetts Press, Project MUSE,

Warfare and agriculture in classical Greece, revised edition
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ISBN: 9780520921757 9780585154855 1280087919 9786613520302 0520921755 0585154856 9780520215962 0520215966 0520210255 0520215966 9780520210257 Year: 1998 Publisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press,

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The ancient Greeks were for the most part a rural, not an urban, society. And for much of the Classical period, war was more common than peace. Almost all accounts of ancient history assume that farming and fighting were critical events in the lives of the citizenry. Yet never before have we had a comprehensive modern study of the relationship between agriculture and warfare in the Greek world. In this completely revised edition of Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece, Victor Davis Hanson provides a systematic review of Greek agriculture and warfare and describes the relationship between these two important aspects of life in ancient communities. With careful attention to agronomic as well as military details, this well-written, thoroughly researched study reveals the remarkable resilience of those farmland communities.In the past, scholars have assumed that the agricultural infrastructure of ancient society was often ruined by attack, as, for example, Athens was relegated to poverty in the aftermath of the Persian and later Peloponnesian invasions. Hanson's study shows, however, that in reality attacks on agriculture rarely resulted in famines or permanent agrarian depression. Trees and vines are hard to destroy, and grainfields are only briefly vulnerable to torching. In addition, ancient armies were rather inefficient systematic ravagers and instead used other tactics, such as occupying their enemies' farms to incite infantry battle. Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece suggests that for all ancient societies, rural depression and desolation came about from more subtle phenomena-taxes, changes in political and social structure, and new cultural values-rather than from destructive warfare.

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War damage, Industrial --- Agriculture --- Bomb damage in industry --- Post-attack rehabilitation of industry --- War damage control in industry --- War --- Buildings --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- History. --- Defense measures --- Economic aspects --- War damage --- Greece --- Attikē (Greece) --- Attiki, Greece --- Atiki (Greece) --- Attica (Greece) --- Attika (Greece) --- Attikēs Nomos (Greece) --- Attiki (Greece) --- Attikis Nomos (Greece) --- Attique (Greece) --- Periféreia Attikís (Greece) --- Periphereia Attikēs (Greece) --- Region of Attica (Greece) --- Αττική (Greece) --- History --- Agriculture -- Defense measures -- Greece -- History.. --- War damage, Industrial -- Greece -- History.. --- Attike (Greece) -- History.. --- Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C. --- Agriculture - Defense measures - Greece - History --- War damage, Industrial - Greece - History --- Attikē (Greece) - History --- Greece - History - Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C --- academic. --- acropolis. --- agrarian. --- agricultural. --- agriculture. --- ancient greece. --- ancient greek. --- ancient world. --- aristophanes. --- athens. --- classical greece. --- classical period. --- classical world. --- cultural context. --- cultural history. --- cultural studies. --- farming. --- government and governing. --- greek philosophy. --- historical. --- history buff. --- history. --- invasion. --- military. --- politics. --- research. --- rural society. --- scholarly. --- social studies. --- warfare. --- wartime.

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