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...Claire Cookson-Hills Contemporary Egyptian regulation of the Nile is a direct outgrowth of the traditions of British imperialism. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the British extended their military and political occupation of Egypt to the physical regulation of the river...

... in Histoiy? September 2 Cultural Evolution 1I.Nine Civilizations NEAREAST September 7 TEACHING RADICAL HISTORY/139 Tigris-Euphrates and Nile World Societies (WS),3-32. September 9 Marks of Civilization in the East INDIA September 14...

.... They included Kru, Senegalese, and Hausa from West Africa; Zanizibaris from East Africa; and local captives and slaves. However, Samarin has not adequately dealt with the Nilotic slave trade and the impact of the IaZZaba (travelling merchants from the Nile Valley)? One important aspect...

... to the technocratic aspirations of British engineers, the result of which radically transformed the Nile River basin and the human communities along its shore. Maria Teresa Armijos examines how elite modernist approaches to water pol- icies in Ecuador were based on racist and classist assumptions...

... along the Nile, then hop over to the pharaoh’s back-lot and catch Charleton Heston hiding in the bull rushes. So it is written, so it shall be done. BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE KINGS: PART TWO Finally, speaking of pharaohs, we were shocked to read in a supermarket tabloid a while ago...

...). 12. One of the first efforts was Giuseppe Cocchiara’s The History of Folklore in Europe, trans. John D. Niles (1954; Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1981), but his survey stops in the early twentieth century. A translation of some...

.... A spate of new books have appeared on the subject.67 And Niles Eldredge, a lead- ing evolutionist, is creating a new journal, Outreach and Education in Evolution, designed to provide teachers with accessible and current information on the subject for use in the classroom...

... . “The Art of Truck Modding on the Nile (Sudan): An Attempt to Trace Creativity.” In The Speed of Change: Motor Vehicles and People in Africa, 1890–2000 , edited by Gewald Jan-Bart Luning Sabine van Walraven Klaas , 151 – 74 . Leiden : Brill . Breckenridge Keith . 1995...

... in the final poem. The result was a poem that the workers collectively performed, each writer reading his stanza in performance and the entire group collectively incanting the refrain, “Oh! What a Life!” To get a higher position You have to climb Maluti Mountain Cross the river Nile and Kalahari...

..., and more. A radical approach to unpacking tourism highlights how tourism, as a form of paradigmatic modern encounter, bleeds into diplomacy, militarism, and empire building. After all, it was Cook’s ships that ferried the British army up the Nile to relieve General Charles Gordon at Khartoum in 1884...

... sustainable lifestyles in particular times and places” and concludes that the ancient Egyptians in their relationship with the Nile, and the indigenous agricultural practices of the Hopi and the Balinese “give reason for positive evaluations” (238). Hughes, Simmons, Beinart and Hughes, and Radkau also...

... Nile and Michael Peterson, special BLOOD MONEY?/207 issue of Journal of Australian Studies (St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 1998). 20. Richard Broome, “Historians, Aborigines and Australia: Writing the National Past...

... sanctuary ordinance did not work. These politicians argued that the ordinance failed because San Francisco city officials had not previously handed over Ramos — who had committed felonies as a juve- nile — to federal immigration officials. State and federal authorities contended that San Francisco’s...

... of the people. I was also intrigued by the geography of Upington, which is on the Orange River. There is this irrigated land, it’s sort of like the Nile, and then there’s semidesert on either side of it. So when I came back to Cape Town, I looked to see if this had been researched and any historical work...

... after the arrest of the boy vandals, appear to be the first that charged vandalism specifically against children. Not even the police in Brooklyn had bothered to arrest the disorderly juve- niles among the crowds in Prospect Park the year before.58That the obe- lisk vandals were children...

... Trading,” Tulane Environmental Law Journal 17 (2004): 267 – 99. 10. Ramin Rosencranz, “U.S. Climate Change Policy,” in Climate Change Policy: A Survey, ed. Stephen H. Schneider, Armin Rosencranz, and John O. Niles (Washington, DC: Island Press, 2002), 221 – 34. 11. Bryner, “Carbon...

... are at the edge of a black world. The black belt of the Congo, the Nile, and the Ganges reaches by way of Guiana, Haiti, and Jamaica, like a red arrow, up into the heart of white America. Thus I see a mighty synthesis: you can work in Africa and Asia right here...

... a cartoonist, art instructor, and author of two publications on Palestinian folklore. In 1998 he won the Nile Award at the Cairo Biennial for his series of clay panels, I, Ismail, and the Palestine Prize for the Visual Arts. Frequently infused with visions of resistance, Mansour’s early paintings drew...

... up in New York City, the son of Robert and Helen Merrell Lynd, authors of the sociological classic Middletown (published that same year). He attended and dropped out of both Harvard and Columbia before finally returning to Harvard and graduating in 1951, the year he married Alice Niles. After he...

... frame operated by a crank leading from one of the axles: "On a flag floating over the machinery, were the names, H. Clay, H. Niles, and M. Carey [three of the manufacturers' most effective propagandists] , and attached to the flag-staff was a placard 'Encourage...