Paine wrote fiction, humor, verse and edited several magazines, but his outstanding work was a three-volume biography of Mark Twain, with whom he lived and traveled for four years. His travel books, all widely circulated, included The Car That Went Abroad; The Ship Dwellers; and this volume, The Tent Dwellers. In the Tent Dwellers, Paine describes the fishing/canoeing expedition on the waterways in southwest Nova Scotia, Canada, he made with his friend Eddie and their guides in 1908. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read.

    Originally disseminated by the German Social-Democratic Party (SPD) in 1908, The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx summarizes Kautsky’s perspective on the importance of the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to the workers’ movement, as well as his reflections on the status of Marx’s thought as it relates to European intellectual history. It also contains an important formulation of the so-called merger formula, the notion that a mass party capable of enacting revolution must come about through the “merger” of socialism and the workers’ movement. The Historic Accomplishment of Karl Marx contains ideas that were vital for Lenin’s intellectual development and is a shining example of the oft-neglected socialist theory that was produced during the time of the Second International. The introduction by Alexander Gallus reflects on the continuing relevance of Kautsky’s thought to socialists and the workers’ movement, and examines the state of the world in 2020 through this lens.

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    It deals, not with a period of great attainment in fine art, but with a beautiful and dignified scheme of peasant decoration, based upon the traditions of Indian art and craft.Sinhalese art is essentially Indian, but possesses this special interest, that it is in many ways of an earlier character, and more truly Hindu - though Buddhist in intention - than any Indian art surviving on the mainland so late as the beginning of the nineteenth century. The minor arts, and the painting, are such as we might expect to have been associated with the culture of Asoka's time, and the builders of Barahat.The period dealt with has been called Mediaeval; but it must be understood that changes of style in decorative art take place comparatively slowly, and that it is generally impossible to say at a glance whether a given piece of work be of the sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth century, or even older or later. Most of the specimens here figured or described date from the latter part of the eighteenth century.Mediaeval conditions survived in full force until the British occupation of Kandy in 1815, and what is actually described in this book is the work of Sinhalese craftsmen under mediaeval conditions, mainly as these survived in the eighteenth century, and, in a less degree, even to the present day.

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    Sargon II became co-regent with Shalmaneser V in 722 BC, and became the sole ruler of the kingdom of Assyria in 722 BC after the death of Shalmaneser V. It is not clear whether he was the son of Tiglath-Pileser III or a usurper unrelated to the royal family. In his inscriptions, he styles himself as a new man, rarely referring to his predecessors; however he took the name Sharru-kinu ("true king"), after Sargon of Akkad, who had founded the first Semitic Empire in the region some 16 centuries earlier. The nine chapters of Western Asia in the Days of Sargon of Assyria covers the history of Sargon II’s reign. A table of contents is included for easier navigation.