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The War of the Fists
Author: Robert Charles Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780195084047
Category: Medical
Page: 232
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Language: en
Pages: 232
Pages: 232
"The War of the Fists" is a study of 17th-century worker culture in the city of Venice, focusing on the mock battles, or "battagliole", which the town's two popular factions waged on public bridges. Their importance in the city's plebeian life makes bridge battles an extremely valuable point of entry
Language: en
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Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Academic curricula are being strengthened and enriched through the enlightened realization that no discipline is complete unto itself. In the interdisciplinary studies that result, the one theme that remains universal is popular culture. Academia throughout the disciplines is rapidly coming to understand that it should be used in courses campus-wide
Language: en
Pages: 573
Pages: 573
A terrible weapon has come into the hands of Saddam Hussein, presenting a dangerous challenge to General Schwarzkopf and his colleagues, and a heroic young spy in Baghdad holds the only hope for discovering its hiding place. Reprint.
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Winner of the American Catholic Historical Association's Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History The master ship builders of seventeenth-century Venice formed part of what was arguably the greatest manufacturing complex in early modern Europe. As many as three thousand masters, apprentices, and laborers regularly worked in the city's enormous
