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Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the ...

Catalogue of Byzantine Seals at Dumbarton Oaks and in the ...

Dumbarton Oaks

This is the fifth and most recent catalogue in a series presenting photographs, descriptions, and commentaries on the seals held by Dumbarton Oaks and the Fogg Museum of Art.
Byzantium, a World Civilization

Byzantium, a World Civilization

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Byzantine Art History in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century Henry Maguire DUMBARTON OAKS In a volume celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Byzantine Center at Dumbarton Oaks, it is appropriate to take stock ...
Catalogue of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Dumbarton ...

Catalogue of Greek and Roman Antiquities in the Dumbarton ...

Dumbarton Oaks

This catalogue focuses on the Greek and Roman antiquities of the collections at Dumbarton Oaks. The catalogue also includes other objects, such as a bronze horse, and four floor mosaics from Antioch.
UN Security Council: Practice and Promise

UN Security Council: Practice and Promise

Edward C. Luck

McMahon and Andrew Wedeman (eds) American ForeignPolicy inaGlobalized World (NewYork:Routledge, 2006). 15 Foracareful chronicling ofthe deliberations onthese issues at Dumbarton Oaks,see RobertC. Hilderbrand,Dumbarton Oaks: ...
Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks ...

Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks ...

Dumbarton Oaks

Part I includes the introduction, appendices and bibliography while Part II continues with the catalogue, concordances and indexes.
American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection ...

American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection ...

Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn

An annotated listing of titles held at the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks, with an introduction discussing the evolution of American garden culture and landscape architecture in the course of the 19th century.
Catalogue of Late Roman Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks ...

Catalogue of Late Roman Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks ...

Dumbarton Oaks

This is the first fully illustrated catalogue of a major collection of late Roman and early Byzantine imperial coins.
The Aztec Templo Mayor: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 8th ...

The Aztec Templo Mayor: A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 8th ...

Elizabeth Hill Boone

A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 8th and 9th October 1983 Elizabeth Hill Boone. (Richard Townsend, Cecelia Klein, and Emily Umberger) which treat ritual as it explains and manifests various aspects of rulership. Emily Um- berger's paper ...
UN Security Council Reform

UN Security Council Reform

Peter Nadin

Instead, they have put forward self-serving, take it or leave it plans; and then proceeded to lock horns to the point of stalemate. As such, the real negotiations have yet to begin. Notes 1 Robert C. Hilderbrand, Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of ...
Excavations at Saraçhane in Istanbul: The pottery

Excavations at Saraçhane in Istanbul: The pottery

R. Martin Harrison

This volume completes the final report of major excavations carried out by Dumbarton Oaks and the Istanbul Archaeological Museum at Sarahane in the heart of ancient Constantinople.
Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power

Human Rights and the Negotiation of American Power

Glenn Mitoma

Historian of the Dumbarton Oaks conferences Robert C. Hilderbrand notes that Churchill was unwilling “to take the issue of postwar organization very seriously.” Working prior to the opening of the Soviet archives, Hilderbrand nonetheless ...
Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the ...

Dumbarton Oaks: The Origins of the United Nations and the ...

Robert C. Hilderbrand

Hilderbrand explains why, with the Second World War moving toward an Allied victory in the summer of 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China began to give greater priority to protecting their own sovereignty than ...
The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

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Bouras, Laskarina, and Maria G. Parani. 2008. Lighting in Early Byzantium. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks. Bowes, Kim. 2005. “Personal Devotions and Private Chapels.” In A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 2: Late Ancient Christianity, ...
A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

A History of the Church in the Middle Ages

F Donald Logan

... the Empire and the Church', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 22 (1968), 45–60. On Santa Sophia see RowlandJ. Mainstone, Hagia Sophia: Architecture, Structure and Liturgy ofJustinian's Great Church ([London], 1988) and Robert Mark and Ahmet ...
American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World

American Foreign Policy in a Globalized World

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Address before Joint Sessionof Congress. 34. U.S. Department of State,President Truman's Address. 35. U.S. Department of State, Address at Final PlenarySession. 36. Robert C. Hilderbrand, Dumbarton Oaks:The Originsof the United Nations ...
Twin Oaks

Twin Oaks

Melissa Palmer

Twin Oaks is a self-contained community where it seems that skies are always blue, the grass is always green, flowers bloom prolifically, the houses exude charm and grace and the people are decent and always cordial.
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs

Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs

Nadia Maria El-Cheikh

Dumbarton Oaks Papers 18 (1964): 114-132; Vassilios Christides, The Image of the Pre-lslamic Arab in the Byzantine Sources (Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1970); Alain Ducellier, "Mentalite historique et realites politiques: L''Islam et les Musulmans vus par les Byzantins du XHIeme siècle," Byzan- tinische Forschungen 4 (1972): 31-63; Speros Vryonis, "Byzantine Attitudes towards Islam during the Late Middle Ages," Byzantina kai Metabyzantina 2 (1981): 263-286; Elizabeth ...
The Secret of Laurel Oaks

The Secret of Laurel Oaks

Lois Ruby

ABOUT THIS GUIDE The information, activities, and discussion questions that follow are intended to enhance your reading of The Secret of Laurel Oaks. Please feel free to adapt these materials to suit your needs and interests. WRITING AND ...
Agriculture Teachers Directory

Agriculture Teachers Directory

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... Luther Macomb 74852— Van Reed, Jr., Macomb Madill 73446 -Ron Clampet, Madill Mangum 73554— Loyd Fletcher, ... Nowata Oaks 74359— Bill Kimbrell, Oaks Mission Oilton 74052-Guy Shoulders, Oilton Okarche 73762 -Mark Walta, ...
The Demise of the Inhuman: Afrocentricity, Modernism, and ...

The Demise of the Inhuman: Afrocentricity, Modernism, and ...

Ana Monteiro-Ferreira

In M. K. Asante and M. Karenga, eds., Handbook of Black Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications. ———. (2005). “Creole.” In M. K. Asante and A. Mazama, eds., Encyclopedia ofBlack Studies. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publica- tions, ...
Raising Biracial Children

Raising Biracial Children

Kerry Ann Rockquemore

Maria P. P. Root (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1992); George Kitahara Kich, “The Developmental Process of Asserting a Biracial, Bicultural Identity,” Racially Mixed People in America, ed. Maria P. P. Root (Thousand Oaks , Calif.
Network Journalism: Journalistic Practice in Interactive Spheres

Network Journalism: Journalistic Practice in Interactive Spheres

Ansgard Heinrich

London/Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. van Dijk, Jan (2004). 'Digital Media'. In John D.H. Downing; Denis McQuail; Philip Schlesinger; Ellen Wartella (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies (pp.145–163). London/Thousand Oaks/New Delhi: ...
27 Views of Raleigh: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry

27 Views of Raleigh: The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry

Margaret Maron

The City of Oaks in Prose & Poetry Margaret Maron, John Kessel, Elaine Neil Orr, G.D. Gearino, David Rigsbee, Bridgette A. Lacy, Angela Davis-Gardner, Kelly Starling Lyons, Andrea Weigl, Scott Huler. i got over it—one usually does—and the ...
The Life of William Denny: Ship-Buider, Dumbarton

The Life of William Denny: Ship-Buider, Dumbarton

Alexander Balmain Bruce

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Scotland and the Sea: The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History

Scotland and the Sea: The Scottish Dimension in Maritime History

Nick Robins

And the evidence is still here, in the Cutty Sark, the Denny test tank at Dumbarton, and the Burrell Collection at Pollock, all reminders of a remarkable story. As seen in Scottish Memories Magazine.
The Sky is Falling!

The Sky is Falling!

Apple Jordan

Chicken Little is the laughingstock of the town of Oakey Oaks, but when there is an alien invasion, he saves the world and becomes a hero.

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