European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2009

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• The Karaites of Galicia

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: M. Kizilov
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  • Drawing on sources in original languages, the book offers the first comprehensive study of the history, ethnography and convoluted ethnic identity of the Galician Karaites, a non-Talmudic Turkic-speaking minority of Jewish scripturalists.

• King's Sister – Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549) and her Evangelical Network (2 vols)

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: A. Reid
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  • This study establishes the existence of a network of reformers led by the French king’s sister, Marguerite of Navarre, and traces their monumental, and ultimately stymied, attempt from 1520 to 1550 to renew the French church along evangelical (Protestant) lines.

• Knights on the Frontier

  • Type: E-Book
  • Author: A. Echevarria
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  • The privileged Muslim bodyguard employed by Castilian kings provides a fascinating episode of Muslim-Christian relations in late Medieval Spain, where frontier ideals triumphed. Conversion and assimilation of this group into Christian society tells a different story from that of compulsory baptism and expulsion during the sixteenth century.

• Knowledge and Colonialism

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  • Author: S. Huigen
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  • Knowledge and Colonialism examines writings and drawings of eighteenth-century scientific travellers in South Africa against the background of administrative and commercial discourses. It is argued that these travellers benefited more from their relationship with the colonial order than the other way around