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This significant new work focuses on the formation and fragmentation of an Arab-Muslim state and its society in Sicily and south Italy between 800 and 1300, which led to the formation of an enduring Muslim-Christian frontier during the age of the Crusades. It examines the long- and short-term impact of Muslim authority in regions that were to fall into the hands of European rulers, and explains how and why Muslim and Norman conquests imported radically different dynamics to the central Mediterranean. On the island of Sicily, a majority Muslim population came to be ruled by Christian kings who
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'Amusements they must have, or life would hardly be worth living...' Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, 1895This text explores life in the mining villages of the north-east of England in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - a time of massive social and industrial change. The sporting lives of these communities are often marginalized by historians, but this thoroughly researched account reveals how play as well as work were central to the lives of the working classes.Miners contributed significantly to the economic success of the north-east during this time, yet living condi
Working class --- Miners --- Leisure --- Recreation --- Manners and customs --- Amusements --- Community centers --- Free time (Leisure) --- Leisure time --- Mineral industries --- Commons (Social order) --- Labor and laboring classes --- Laboring class --- Labouring class --- Working classes --- Social classes --- Labor --- History --- Employees --- Employment --- 316.7:796 --- 379.8 <41> --- 796 <09> <41> --- 316.7:796 Sociologie van de sport --- Sociologie van de sport --- 379.8 <41> Recreatie. Vrijetijdsbesteding. Sociaal-culturele voorzieningen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Recreatie. Vrijetijdsbesteding. Sociaal-culturele voorzieningen--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 796 <09> <41> Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van ...--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Lichamelijke opvoeding. Sport en spel--Geschiedenis van ...--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland
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Olavus rex Norvegiae --- Norway --- Saints --- Olav - II, - King of Norway, - 995-1030.
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