WHITE HUNS

or Hephthaliteshĕfˈthəlītsˌ, people of obscure origins, possibly of Tibetan or Turkish stock. They were called Ephthalites by the Greeks, and Hunas by the Indians. There is no definite evidence that they are related to the Huns. The White Huns were an agricultural people with a developed set of laws. They were first mentioned by the Chinese, who described them (a.d. 125) as living in Dzungaria. They displaced the Scythians and conquered Transoxiana and Khorasan before 425. They crossed (425) the Syr Darya (Jaxartes) River and invaded Persia. Held off at first by Bahram Gur, they later (483–85) succeeded in making Persia tributary. After a series of wars (503–13) they were driven out of Persia, permanently lost the offensive, and were finally (557) defeated by Khosru I. The White Huns also invaded India and succeeded in extending their domain to include the Ganges valley. They temporarily overthrew the Gupta empire but were eventually driven out of India in 528 by a Hindu coalition. Although in Persia they had little effect, in India the White Huns influenced society by altering the caste system and disrupting the hierarchy of the ruling families. Some of the White Huns remained in India as a distinct group.

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War Bird: The Life and Times of Elliott White Springs
Book by Burke Davis; University of North Carolina Press, 1987
Subjects: Cotton Textile Industry--United States--History, Industrialists--United States--Biography, Novelists, American--20th Century--Biography, Springs Industries--History, Springs, Elliott White, World War, 1914-1918--Biography
...dark glasses and am sure I can fly. Im going to get my five Huns if it costs me both eyes." He looked into a hotel mirror on...second birthday -- and mused, "Well, I am an old man...no white hairs, but... reflection shows unmistakable signs of old...
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Colored White: Transcending the Racial Past
Book by David R. Roediger; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Civil Rights Movements--United States, Minorities--United States--Political Activity, Minorities--United States--Social Conditions, Racism--United States, United States--Race Relations, United States--Social Conditions, White Supremacy Movements--United States, Whites--United States--Race Identity
...the least civilized countries of Europe and the replacing of the independent and intelligent coal miners of Pennsylvania by the Huns and Slavs. They feared that an American miner in Pennsylvania could thrive only if he Latinizes his name. They explicitly asked...
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In the Master's Eye: Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature
Book by Susan J. Tracy; University of Massachusetts Press, 1995
Subjects: African Americans In Literature, American Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Literature--Male Authors--History And Criticism, American Literature--Southern States--History And Criticism, Literature And Society--Southern States--History--19th Century, Patriarchy In Literature, Poor In Literature, Social Classes In Literature, Southern States--In Literature, Women And Literature--Southern States--History--19th Century, Working Class Whites In Literature
...justice as well as revenge. In the end, the superior Singleton has to recognize that in the lesser man he had awakened "courage to desperation and love of the fight--that rapture of strife, which was the Huns passion" 403; see also 398-
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The White Man's Dilemma: Climax of the Age of Imperialism
Book by Nathaniel Peffer; John Day, 1927
Subjects: Imperialism
...British friend told me. "What does it matter now that America is in? Let all the half-castes quit and we white men will lick the Huns ourselves." In form the statement may have been hyperbolical, in essence it is the conviction of the majority...
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The Rising Tide of Color against White World-Supremacy
Book by Lothrop Stoddard; Scribner, 1920
Subjects: Caucasian Race, Race Relations
...expansion the Crusades had utterly failed. In fact, far from expanding, white Europe had been continuously assailed by brown and yellow Asia. Beginning with the Huns in the last days of Rome, continuing with the Arabs, and ending with the...
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"The Hun Is at the Gate!": Historicizing Kipling's Militaristic Rhetoric, from the Imperial Periphery to the National Center
Journal article by A. Michael Matin; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 31, 1999
Subjects: Imperialism in literature--Analysis, Kipling, Rudyard--Criticism, interpretation, etc., War and literature--Analysis
...he implemented the image of the Germ-hun with a simile ironically anticipatory of...as the origin of the subsequent use of "Hun" as synonymous with "German" (p. 207...Cf. fn. 4 in Michael Matin, "`The Hun is At the Gate!: Historicizing Kiplings...
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"The Huns and Vandals Are Thundering at Our Gates and within Our Gates": Faces of the Enemy in Saskatoon during the Second World War
Journal article by Brendan Kelly; Urban History Review, Vol. 39, 2011
Subjects: Canada. Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian history--Military aspects, Canadians--Military aspects, Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, University of Saskatchewan
...that Parkers reference to "white people" denoted their "heart...province liked to paint their barns white with green roofs. Was this...Yes, Mr. Chappel, the Huns and Vandals are thundering at...thrilling to believe that "the Huns and Vandals are thundering at...
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"The Hun Is at the Gate!": Historicizing Kipling's Militaristic Rhetoric, from the Imperial Periphery to the National Center
Journal article by A. Michael Matin; Studies in the Novel, Vol. 31, 1999
Subjects: Kipling, Rudyard--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Politics and literature--Analysis, War and literature--Analysis
"THE HUN IS AT THE GATE!": HISTORICIZING KIPLINGS...Observing that Kiplings concept of "The White Mans Burden," crystallized in the 1899...texts--both of them, in contrast to "The White Mans Burden," legitimations of specifically...
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"The Attila the Hun Law": New York's Rockefeller Drug Laws and the Making of a Punitive State
Journal article by Julilly Kohler-Hausmann; Journal of Social History, Vol. 44, 2010
Subjects: Drug abuse treatment--Laws, regulations and rules, Drug abuse--Care and treatment, Drug abuse--Laws, regulations and rules, Governors--Social policy, Narcotic laws--Interpretation and construction, Rockefeller, Nelson A.--Social policy
"The Attila the Hun Law": New Yorks Rockefeller Drug Laws...confined to poor communities of color. White, middle class youth were increasingly...Legislators jokingly called it the "Attila the Hun Law," apparently referencing the laws...
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Hun: Thai Doll Puppetry
Journal article by Surapone Virulrak, Kathy Foley; Asian Theatre Journal, Vol. 18, 2001
Subjects: Puppet theater--History, Puppets--Social aspects
Hun: Thai Doll Puppetry. by Surapone...Posayakrit. His research into hun has contributed to a resurgence...those developing contemporary hun, their performance practice...Popular Shadow Theatre. Bangkok: White Orchid. Chakrabhand, Posayakrit...
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Double Vision: The Art of Hun Liu
Magazine article by Nancy Walkup; School Arts, Vol. 97, May-June 1998
Subjects: Liu, Hung--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Painters, Chinese--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Double vision: the art of Hun Liu. by Nancy Walkup In todays culturally diverse society, the work...is also the symbol of the moon and the protector of early morning. White is also the color of mourning in China. This painting is based on...
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The End of the Great White Male: After More Than Two Centuries of Running the Nation, American White Men Are Being Threatened with Loss of Power
Magazine article by John R. Graham; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 122, November 1993
Subjects: Power (Philosophy)--Social aspects, White men--Management
...the messenger was the great white males wife. He could not come...information age full tilt. The great white male is threatened by several...them is sheer numbers. The Huns once again are invading, but...U.S. society, the great white male mentality can not accept...
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Of Skulls and Buttocks
Magazine article by Anthony Pagden; The National Interest, March 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The History of White People (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...of how certain white people came to invent...the line between "Whites" and "Blacks...than they did to the whiter, blonder peoples...in labeling all "white" people after the...single European or white race." Here were...horde of Slavs, Huns and Jews" now seeking...and physiognomy, whites, blacks, Asiatics...
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Pakistan: Pakistan in History
Magazine article by Richard H. Curtiss; The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Vol. XV, September 30, 1996
Subjects: History, Pakistan
...included the Sakas who arrived from Central Asia in the second century B.C., the Parthian Persians, the Kushans, the White Huns, the Guptas from present-day India, Sasanian Persians, Seljuk Turks and Hindu Shahis. The Coming of Islam Islam...
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Production Slate
Magazine article by Andrew O. Thompson; American Cinematographer, Vol. 77, July 1996
...The films lead, Brenda Blethyn (A River Huns Through It), walked away with Best Actress honors for her portryal of Cynthia, a white Londoner suddenly reunited with the black...mammoth alien Destroyer obliterating the White House. Their favorite trick for the film...
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Is American Pleading Hun Sen's Case? Ex-White House Lawyer Denies Writing Treatise Defending Killings
Newspaper article by Richard S. Ehrlich; The Washington Times, July 29, 1997
Subjects: Hun Sen, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Is American pleading Hun Sens case? Ex-White House lawyer denies writing treatise...PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A former White House lawyer is now a legal adviser...to be quoted on his role in the "white paper," a 6,000-word document...
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Foreigners Flee Cambodia under Hun Sen's Regime
Newspaper article by Richard Ehrlich; The Washington Times, July 15, 1997
Subjects: Cambodia, Hun Sen, United Nations
...Foreigners flee Cambodia under Hun Sens regime by Richard Ehrlich...government. Second Prime Minister Hun Sen seized total control of most...suspended its aid projects to protest Hun Sens bloody grasp for total power...said, vowing to stay on. The white-haired American said a Cambodian...
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IT'S BUGS HUN-NY; What's Up Doc? Venglos Misses out on Big Name
Newspaper article by Paul Drury; The Mirror (London, England), September 19, 1998
Subjects: Celtic
ITS BUGS HUN-NY; Whats Up Doc? Venglos Misses out on Big Name. by Paul Drury RANGERS...customers drawings of Bugs, wearing the light blue of Rangers and the green and white of Celtic. It was hoped that the limited-edition pictures - only 250 of...
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Clywed Y Llais Unigryw Ei Hun Am Y Tro Cyntaf; Wedi Dros 40 Mlynedd Fel Aelod O Un O Grwpiau Mwyaf Poblogaidd Cymru Erioed, Mae Elwyn Wilson Jones Newydd Gyhoeddi Ei Albwm Unigol Gyntaf
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), September 6, 2006
Clywed Y Llais Unigryw Ei Hun Am Y Tro Cyntaf; Wedi Dros 40 Mlynedd Fel Aelod O Un O Grwpiau Mwyaf...fel Paul Robeson, a Mahalia Jackson, ac yn fwy diweddar Sir Willard White, ac maer tri yn arwyr i mi." Bu Paul Robeson yng Nghymru ym 1940...
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Heroism, Humour and the Shadow of the Hun; Enthralling, Funny, Deeply Poignant, Pathe Newsreels Captured the Spirit - and Voice - of Wartime Britain. as the Mail Gives Away a Unique Collection of These Magnificent Films on DVD, a Historian Celebrates Their Magic
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 12, 2010
Subjects: Historians, Video recording industry, Video recordings
Heroism, Humour and the Shadow of the Hun; Enthralling, Funny, Deeply Poignant...people made homeless by the savagery of the Hun; whether you were wat ching Portsmouth...For us, viewing these black-and-white images 65 years and more after they were...
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encyclopedia articles on: White Huns  - 16 results

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White Huns
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
WHITE HUNS or Hephthalites hef th lits , people of...that they are related to the Huns . The White Huns were an agricultural people with a...finally (557) defeated by Khosru I. The White Huns also invaded India and succeeded in...
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Huns
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HUNS nomadic and pastoral people...countries they ravaged. The Huns have been described as short...and habits with those of the White Huns, the Magyars, the Mongols...known; some believe that the White Huns were remnants of the Hunnic...
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Sassanid
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...significance and glory. Bahram V, ruling 420 38, was defeated by the Emperor Theodosius but succeeded against the White Huns. The Armenians were overwhelmed by Yazdagird II in 451, and their land was overrun by Sassanids under Khosrow I , who...
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Hephthalites
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HEPHTHALITES see White Huns . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Armenia , Country, Asia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and Rome. Attempts at independence were short-lived, as Armenia was the constant prey of Persians, Byzantines, White Huns, Khazars, and Arabs. From 886 to 1046 the kingdom enjoyed autonomy under native rulers, the Bagratids; it was then...
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