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The War of the Fists
Author: Robert Charles Davis
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780195084047
Category: Medical
Page: 242
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Language: en
Pages: 242
Pages: 242
"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
Pages: 253
Pages: 253
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: 698
Pages: 698
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
The 712th Tank Battalion landed in Normandy three weeks after D-Day and spent eleven months in combat. Along the way, its men dug up potatoes with their tanks and roasted them on the exhausts; liberated Calvados; drank wine and champagne; collected Lugers, banners and other trophies of war; and fought
Language: en
Pages: 207
Pages: 207
In Municipal Officials, Their Public, and the Negotiation of Justice in Medieval Languedoc, Turning explores the role of the urban public in shaping local jurisdiction as the region of Languedoc became a part of the Capetian kingdom in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
