Originally published in 1900. This volume is a compilation of the Jatki or Western Punjábi language. The compiler has worked entirely in the South of the Punjáb, and the work does not pretend to be more than a contribution to a very widely spokn and full language. No one man could hope to complete a dictionary of dialects spread over so wide an area.
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This collection is the first book-length scholarly study of the pervasiveness and significance of Roxolana in the European imagination. Roxolana, or "Hurrem Sultan," was a sixteenth-century Ukrainian woman who made an unprecedented career from harem slave and concubine to legal wife and advisor of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). Her influence on Ottoman affairs generated legends in many a European country. The essays gathered here represent an interdisciplinary survey of her legacy; the contributors view Roxolana as a transnational figure that reflected the shifting European attitudes towards "the Other," and they investigate her image in a wide variety of sources, ranging from early modern historical chronicles, dramas and travel writings, to twentieth-century historical novels and plays. Also included are six European source texts featuring Roxolana, here translated into modern English for the first time. Importantly, this collection examines Roxolana from both Western and Eastern European perspectives; source material is taken from England, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey, Poland, and Ukraine. The volume is an important contribution to the study...
Includes data for the executive branch of the Federal Government only.
This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total war.
Contains the reports of state departments and officials for the preceding fiscal biennium.
Vols. 10-11 include Meteorology of England by James Glaisher as seperately paged section at end.