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In the Sixteenth century, Paris dominated France as the economic, social, and political center of all that happened in the Western world. For a brief moment, at the close of the Habsburg-Valois War, a small and virtually insignificant town snatched away the center stage; the final negotiations for peace would take place in Cambresis. Each power involved in the treaty wanted to see a quick end to the war, but not at their own expense. France and Spain, the "superpowers" of the negotiations, struggled to come out on top, but while their differences appeared to take precedence over all else, it was the English, looked down upon by both their allies and enemies, who had a major impact on the development of the treaty. A military victory in the war was virtually impossible; likewise, no victors emerged from the negotiations.

12 Qur'anic Spirituality's Devotional and Social Dimensions 13 Qur'anic Spirituality's Political Dimension ; Part III: Qur'anic Jesus; 14 Jesus' Origins and Person ; 15 Jesus' Words and Works ; 16 Jesus' Death and Beyond ; 17 Jesus' Community and Scripture ; Part IV: Christian Response; 18 An Arabic Qur'an for the Arab People ; 19 Could the Qur'an Be the Bible's Sequel? ; 20 The Bible and the Qur'an: So Close, Yet So Far ; Glossary ; Author Index ; Subject Index ; Scripture Index ; Praise for The Qur'an in Context ; About the Author ; More Titles from InterVarsity

The authors (professors of history and art history at the U. of Regina, Canada) conduct a discourse analysis of how Canada's indigenous peoples have been portrayed in Canadian newspapers from the sale of Hudson's Bay Company lands to Canada in 1869 through to 2009, arguing that the newspapers have been and continue to be steered by the colonial imagery with respect to Canada's indigenous. They support this argument through examinations of how indigenous Canadians were represented in newspaper accounts of colonial land sales, the resistance struggles of Metis leader Louis Riel, the 1913 death of Canadian Native poet Pauline Johnson, native contributions to World War II, a 1974 aboriginal protest occupation of a park in the Ontario town of Kenora, and Bill C-31 of 1985 (which amended the Indian Act by barring certain discriminatory practices)

Garifuna live in Central America, primarily Honduras, and the United States. Identified as Black by others and by themselves, they also claim indigenous status and rights in Latin America. Examining this set of paradoxes, Mark Anderson shows how, on the one hand, Garifuna embrace discourses of tradition, roots, and a paradigm of ethnic political struggle. On the other hand, Garifuna often affirm blackness through assertions of African roots and affiliations with Blacks elsewhere, drawing particularly on popular images of U.S. blackness embodied by hip-hop music and culture. Black and Indigenous

In this essay, the presence of Napoleon in Sebald's work is shown to be a major structuring element of his conception of realism, which he sees as an ethical response to mass historical catastrophes. Sebald understands the violence of the modern period as originating during the Napoleonic era and extending to World War II and the Holocaust; the realism of Stendhal, Balzac, Hebel and Büchner is thus fundamentally linked to the documentary realism of Nossack, Kluge, Weiss and Sebald himself. Drawing on Celan's notion of the 'Meridian' connecting the madness of Büchner's 'Lenz' to the Final Solution, Sebald consistently posits a contingent link between the Napoleonic and Hitler eras, between historical and personal catastrophes.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 333-355). ; This thesis advocates the application of an interdisciplinary approach to the historical archaeology of Tswana towns of the late Moloko period in South Africa, and asserts the importance of examining such sites on a case by case basis against the defined backdrop of their unique historical, political and biophysical contexts. The early 19th century Tlokwa capital of Marothodi, in the Pilanesberg region of South Africa, forms the focus of a study through which the value of this approach is demonstrated. The historical, political and biophysical context of the site is explored, with an emphasis on Tlokwa oral traditions. Archaeological investigation reveals details of settlement organisation, while preliminary ceramic analysis contributes to an understanding of ancestral identity, indicating a possible affinity with early Fokeng lineages stemming from Northern Nguni origins. All of the above is relevant to one particular aspect of production. The organisation of both iron and copper production at Marothodi is explored and analysed against the wider contextual backdrop of the capital. The intensification of metallurgical output, and the adaptation of Tswana cultural codes to the unprecedented demands of living in an aggregated community, demonstrate the degree to which historical context could influence the organisation of production, and consequently the archaeological expression of the town. In summary, this research suggests a period of ascendant political status for the Tlokwa at this time in the history of the chiefdom; a conclusion that could only have been reached through a combination of historical, biophysical, ethnographic and archaeological data.