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Warriors at the Little Bighorn 1876


Free Download Richard Hook, "Warriors at the Little Bighorn 1876"
English | 2004 | pages: 51 | ISBN: 1841766666 | PDF | 5,8 mb
The battle which took place on the Little Bighorn river on June 25, 1876 has passed into legend as "Custer’s Last Stand". This remarkable book is a unique analysis of the oral and pictorial evidence for the appearance of nearly 30 named Sioux and Cheyenne warriors who were present that day, and for their parts in the battle. The fruit of many years’ study by one of today’s most internationally respected interpreters and illustrators of Native American material culture, it offers biographical notes and meticulously researched color reconstructions, together with rare photographs and pictographs.

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Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950 National Self and Non-National Other


Free Download Arabs in Turkish Political Cartoons, 1876-1950: National Self and Non-National Other (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) by Ilkim Büke Okyar
English | April 17, 2023 | ISBN: 0815638043, 0815637977 | True PDF | 344 pages | 159 MB
The emergence of Turkish nationalism prior to World War I opened the way for various ethnic, religious, and cultural stereotypes to link the notion of the "Other" to the concept of national identity. The founding elite took up a massive project of social engineering that now required the amplification of Turkishness as an essential concept of the new nation-state. The construction of Others served as a backdrop to the articulation of Turkishness -and for Turkey in many ways, the Arab in his keffiyeh and traditional garb constituted the ultimate Other.

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