Bøger af Thomas Ward

Flora, Or The Gypsy¿¿¿¿¿¿¿s Frolic: A Pastoral Opera In Three Acts (1858) is a play written by Thomas Ward. The story revolves around a gypsy girl named Flora, who falls in love with a young man named Wilford. However, their love is threatened by the jealousy of Wilford's former lover, Lady Arabella, who seeks to destroy their relationship. The play is set in a pastoral landscape, with scenes of rustic life and natural beauty. It features songs and musical performances, as well as dance sequences and comedic moments. Overall, Flora, Or The Gypsy¿¿¿¿¿¿¿s Frolic is a romantic and entertaining play that explores themes of love, jealousy, and the power of nature.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

While there are differences between cultures in different places and times, colonial representations of indigenous peoples generally suggest they are not capable of literature nor are they worthy of being represented as nations. Colonial representations of indigenous people continue on into the independence era and can still be detected in our time. The thesis of this book is that there are various ways to decolonize the representation of Amerindian peoples. Each chapter has its own decolonial thesis which it then resolves. Chapter 1 proves that there is coloniality in contemporary scholarship and argues that word choices can be improved to decolonize the way we describe the first Americans. Chapter 2 argues that literature in Latin American begins before 1492 and shows the long arc of Mayan expression, taking the Popol Wuj as a case study. Chapter 3 demonstrates how colonialist discourse is reinforced by a dualist rhetorical ploy of ignorance and arrogance in a Renaissance historical chronicle, Agustin de Zrates Historia del descubrimiento y conquista del Per. Chapter 4 shows how by inverting the Renaissance dualist configuration of civilization and barbarian, the Nahua (Aztecs) who were formerly considered barbarian can be civilized within Spanish norms. This is done by modeling the categories of civilization discussed at length by the Friar Bartolome de las Casas as a template that can serve to evaluate Nahua civil society as encapsulated by the historiography of Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl, a possibility that would have been available to Spaniards during that time. Chapter 5 maintains that the colonialities of the pre-Independence era survive, but that Criollo-indigenous dialogue is capable of excavating their roots to extirpate them. By comparing the discussions of the hacienda system by the Peruvian essayist Manuel Gonzlez Prada and by the Mayan-Quiche eye-witness to history Rigoberta Mench, this books shows that there is common ground between their viewpoints despite the different genres in which their work appears and despite the different countries and the eight decades that separated them, suggesting a universality to the problem of the hacienda which can be dissected. This book models five different decolonizing methods to extricate from the continuities of coloniality both indigenous writing and the representation of indigenous peoples by learned elites.

This text is a rigorous introduction to Ergodic theory, developing the machinery of conditional measures and expectations, mixing, and recurrence. It describes some recent applications to number theory, and goes beyond the standard texts in this topic.

Includes up-to-date material on recent developments and topics of significant interest, such as elliptic functions and the new primality testSelects material from both the algebraic and analytic disciplines, presenting several different proofs of a single result to illustrate the differing viewpoints and give good insight