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Historiography traditionally accepts periodization which considered the First World War as an absolute watershed in the European history as a whole. This text, through a collection of essays by Italian and foreign specialists, seeks to investigate the premises and the results of the First World War in a vast area ranging from the Balkans to the Caucasus normally underrated by historiography, focusing on a series of problems (of ethnic, cultural or political character) which due to their complexity must be faced in an overall framework that takes into account the pre-war period and the first two decades of the twentieth century. The works reveal a very complex and stimulating picture, which leads us to reflect on long-term events and problems that involved all the countries that participated to the regional events, full of consequences for the peoples who lived there.
Balkan --- Caucasus --- First World War --- Long After-War (1918-1923) --- European Ethnic Hostility --- European Cultural Clash
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The demonstrations of monks in Tibet and Myanmar (Burma) in recent times as well as the age-old conflict between a predominantly Buddhist population and a Hindu minority in Sri Lanka raise the question of how the issues of human rights and Buddhism are related. The question applies both to the violation of basic rights in Buddhist countries and to the defence of those rights which are well-grounded in Buddhist teachings. The volume provides academic essays that reflect this up to now rather neglected issue from the point of view of the three main Buddhist traditions, Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana. It provides multi-faceted and surprising insights into a rather unlikely relationship. »[The] transdisciplinary, transcultural, and transreligious approach is the strong point of this book.« Gudula Linck, Internationales Asienforum, 3-4 (2011)
Cultural studies --- Asia. --- Burma. --- China. --- Cultural Clash. --- Human Rights. --- Human. --- Intercultural Studies. --- Religion. --- Religious Studies. --- Sociology of Religion. --- Thailand. --- Tibet. --- Buddhism; Human Rights; Intercultural Studies; Cultural Clash; Burma; Thailand; China; Tibet; Human; Religion; Religious Studies; Sociology of Religion; Asia --- Human rights --- Religious aspects --- Buddhism. --- Buddhism --- Human Rights --- Intercultural Studies --- Cultural Clash --- Burma --- Thailand --- China --- Tibet --- Human --- Religion --- Religious Studies --- Sociology of Religion --- Asia
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Historiography traditionally accepts periodization which considered the First World War as an absolute watershed in the European history as a whole. This text, through a collection of essays by Italian and foreign specialists, seeks to investigate the premises and the results of the First World War in a vast area ranging from the Balkans to the Caucasus normally underrated by historiography, focusing on a series of problems (of ethnic, cultural or political character) which due to their complexity must be faced in an overall framework that takes into account the pre-war period and the first two decades of the twentieth century. The works reveal a very complex and stimulating picture, which leads us to reflect on long-term events and problems that involved all the countries that participated to the regional events, full of consequences for the peoples who lived there.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 --- Regional & national history --- Balkan --- Caucasus --- First World War --- Long After-War (1918-1923) --- European Ethnic Hostility --- European Cultural Clash
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Historiography traditionally accepts periodization which considered the First World War as an absolute watershed in the European history as a whole. This text, through a collection of essays by Italian and foreign specialists, seeks to investigate the premises and the results of the First World War in a vast area ranging from the Balkans to the Caucasus normally underrated by historiography, focusing on a series of problems (of ethnic, cultural or political character) which due to their complexity must be faced in an overall framework that takes into account the pre-war period and the first two decades of the twentieth century. The works reveal a very complex and stimulating picture, which leads us to reflect on long-term events and problems that involved all the countries that participated to the regional events, full of consequences for the peoples who lived there.
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 --- Regional & national history --- Balkan --- Caucasus --- First World War --- Long After-War (1918-1923) --- European Ethnic Hostility --- European Cultural Clash
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"In the wake of the conquests of Alexander the Great, the ancient world of the Bible--the ancient Near East--came under Greek rule, and in the land of Israel, time-old traditions and Greek culture met. But with the accession of King Antiochus IV, the soft power of culture was replaced with armed conflict, and soon the Jews rebelled against their imperial masters, as recorded in the Biblical books of Maccabees. Whereas most scholars have dismissed the Biblical accounts of religious persecution and cultural clash, Sylvie Honigman combines subtle literary analysis with deep historical insight to show how their testimony can be reconciled with modern historical analysis by learning to converse with the biblical authors, so to speak, in their own language to understand the way they described their own experiences. Honigman contents that their stories are not mere fantasies but genuine attempts to cope with the massacre that followed the rebellion by giving it new meaning. This reading also discloses fresh political and economic factors"--
Jews --- Maccabees. --- Jewish high priests --- Juifs --- Maccabées --- Grands prêtres (Judaïsme) --- Kings and rulers --- History --- History. --- Rois et souverains --- Histoire --- Antiochus --- Bible. --- History of Biblical events. --- 222.9 --- Makkabeeën --- Antiochnus --- Antiochos --- אנטיוכוס --- אנטיוכוס, --- 2 Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- 2 Machabees (Apocrypha) --- 2nd Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- 2nd Machabees (Apocrypha) --- Maccabees, 2nd (Apocrypha) --- Machabees, 2nd (Apocrypha) --- Makabim 2 --- Second Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- Second Machabees (Apocrypha) --- Sefer ha-Makabim 2 --- 1 Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- 1st Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- First Maccabees (Apocrypha) --- Makabim 1 --- Sefer ha-Makabim 1 --- Brothers. --- Antiochus IV, King of Syria, approximately 215 B.C.-164 B.C. --- Bible. Apocrypha. Maccabees, 1st -- History of Biblical events. --- Bible. Apocrypha. Maccabees, 2nd -- History of Biblical events. --- Jewish high priests -- History. --- Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. --- Jews -- Kings and rulers -- Brothers. --- Maccabees --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Judaism --- Brothers --- Maccabées --- Grands prêtres (Judaïsme) --- Asmoneans --- Hasmonaeans --- Hasmoneans --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Head priests, Jewish --- High priests, Jewish --- Jewish head priests --- Priests, Jewish --- alexander the great. --- ancient greece. --- ancient near east. --- ancient world. --- armed conflict. --- bible study. --- bible. --- biblical accounts. --- biblical stories. --- books in the bible. --- books of the maccabees. --- cultural clash. --- economic influences. --- greece. --- greek culture. --- greek rule. --- hellenistic culture and society series. --- historical perspective. --- historical. --- imperial masters. --- jews. --- judaism. --- judean rebellion. --- king antiochos iv. --- land of israel. --- literary analysis. --- political influences. --- power of culture. --- rebellion. --- religious persecution. --- testimony.
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