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Free Download The Baths Basilica, Wroxeter: Excavations 1966-90 By Philip Barker, Roger White, Kate Pretty, Heather Bird, Mike Corbishley
1997 | 602 Pages | ISBN: 1850745285 | PDF | 92 MB
With contributions by Miranda Armour-Chelu, Richard Brickstock, John Casey, Mike Charles, Sue Colledge, Rowena Gale, Mark Hassall, Robert Ixer, Alison Locker, Mick Monk, Sidney Renow, Robin P Symonds, Roberta Tomber, Felicity Wild, and Leonard Wilkinson.Ebook (PDF) published 2013.The excavations at Viroconium cornoviorum (Wroxeter), Shropshire, on the site of the baths basilica, built c 150 AD have provided seminal information of considerable importance for the study of the late and post-Roman periods in Britain. This is presented here in detail, with lavish illustrations including a large number of conjectural reconstructions of buildings and site panoramas, and 177 loose leaf plans. The final chapter considers the difficulty of dating late and sub-Roman sites, and locates the site within the broader framework of Roman and sub-Roman Britain. Considerable quantities of artefacts and environmental material were recovered, but only information related to the interpretation of the structures is presented here. The life of the baths basilica continued to the end of the fifth century. The site and neighbouring town blocks were then redeveloped with the construction of up to seventy timber buildings set on rubble and posthole foundations. Analysis of these buildings show that they were laid out using Roman modules. Chief among them, and occupying the centre of the site, was a massive winged house, apparently indicating the conversion of a former public space into a private demesne. Subsequently parts of the area seem to have again changed status with part of the east-west street taken over and occupied by market booths. Abandonment is indicated by a radiocarbon date of between 600 and 790 AD obtained from a single burial cut into the latest structures.

Free Download Correspondence: 1923 – 1966 by Theodor W. Adorno, Siegfried Kracauer, translated by Susan Reynolds, Michael Winkler
English | November 2, 2020 | ISBN: 0745649238 | True EPUB | 450 pages | 2.4 MB
Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the 20th century. While Adorno became the leading intellectual figure of the Frankfurt School, Kracauer’s writings on film, photography, literature and the lifestyle of the middle classes opened up a new and distinctive approach to the study of culture and everyday life in modern societies.

Free Download A History of Malawi, 1859-1966 By John McCracken
2012 | 485 Pages | ISBN: 1847010504 | PDF | 12 MB
This is a comprehensive history of Malawi during the colonial period. Using a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it places this history within the context of the pre-colonial past. The book examines the way in which British people, starting with David Livingstone, followed by the pioneer Scottish Presbyterian missionaries and including soldiers, speculators, colonial officials and politicians, played an influential part in shaping Malawi. But even more important is the story of how Malawian people responded to the intrusion of colonialism and imperialism and the role they played in the dissolution of the colonial state. There is much here on resistance to colonial occupation, including religious-inspired revolt, on the shaping of the colonial economy, on the influence of Christian missions and on the growth of a powerful popular nationalism that contained within it the seeds of a new authoritarianism. But space is also given to less mainstream activities: the creation of dance societies, the eruption of witchcraft eradication movements and the emergence of football as a popular national sport. In particular, the book seeks to demonstrate the interrelationship between environmental and economic change and the impact these forces had on a poverty-stricken yet resilient Malawian peasantry.