Love Insurance
Earl Derr Biggers;Earl Derr Biggers
A zany, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy of improbable proportions, from the creator of ...
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Love Insurance
2014
A zany, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy of improbable proportions, from the creator of Charlie ChanWorking for an American branch of Lloyds'insurers, Owen Jephson is used to underwriting unusual things—weight loss in actors, inconvenient rain at garden parties, twins in the family—nonetheless he is taken aback when Lord Harrowby asks him to insure against his fiancée jilting him at the altar. Never one to turn down an interesting offer, Jephson agrees, but swiftly dispatches Dick Minot to Florida to make sure that Lloyds'assets are protected and that Cynthia Meyrick makes it down the aisle. Unfortunately Minot promptly falls in love with Cynthia after accidentally meeting her on a train, and has to decide where his loyalties lie—should he sabotage or support the wedding, especially as it comes to light Lord Harrowby may not be all that he seems? This light, sophisticated romcom is guaranteed to charm readers.
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Insurance agents--Fiction - Fiance´s--Fiction - Man-woman relationships--FictionContent provider:
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The Victoria Crosses of the Crimean War : The Men Behind the Medals
James W. Bancroft;James W. Bancroft
The Crimean War saw the introduction of the Victoria Cross, which was awarded to 111 m...
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The Victoria Crosses of the Crimean War : The Men Behind the Medals
2017
The Crimean War saw the introduction of the Victoria Cross, which was awarded to 111 men. Whilst the history of the Crimean War has been related many times, never before have the stories of those individuals who were awarded the VC been told. In this, the result of four decades of accumulated research, renowned historian James Bancroft describes who the men were, how they gained the Victoria Cross, and what happened to them afterwards. Great attention has been given to checking the correct spelling of the names of people and locations, burial places and new memorials, and dates of awards and promotions. The author has made every effort to contact museums and other establishments to get up-to-date information on the whereabouts of medals and their accessibility. The men recorded here displayed valor and determination resulting in many deeds of exceptional courage which became a regular occurrence in the illustrious annals of the British Army. Among them are heroes who had the guts to put themselves in mortal danger by picking up live shells that could have exploded and blown them apart at any moment, gallant troopers who took part in a cavalry charge that they knew was doomed before it began and they were about to be cut to pieces, and valiant individuals who had the audacity to sneak into unknown territory to take the conflict into the enemys back yard and risk capture and ill-treatment. This account of the fascinating lives of these heroes is accompanied with forty-five portraits.
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Crimean War, 1853-1856--Medals - Victoria CrossContent provider:
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Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy Over China, 1894–1945
Hiroaki Kuromiya;Hiroaki Kuromiya
Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he...
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Stalin, Japan, and the Struggle for Supremacy Over China, 1894–1945
2023
Stalin was a master of deception, disinformation, and camouflage, by means of which he gained supremacy over China and defeated imperialism on Chinese soil. This book examines Stalin's covert operations in his hunt for supremacy. By the late 1920s Britain had ceded place to Japan as Stalin's main enemy in Asia. By seducing Japan deeply into China, Stalin successfully turned Japan's aggression into a weapon of its own destruction. The book examines Stalin's covert operations from the murder of the Manchurian warlord Zhang Zuolin in 1928 and the publication of the forged “Tanaka Memorial” in 1929, to Stalin's hidden role in Japan's invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the outbreak of all-out war between China and Japan in 1937, and Japan's defeat in 1945. In the shadow of these and other events we find Stalin and his secret operatives, including many Chinese and Japanese collaborators, most notably Zhang Xueliang and Kōmoto Daisaku, the self-professed assassin of Zhang Zuolin. The book challenges accounts of the turbulent history of inter-war East Asia that have ignored or minimized Stalin's presence and instead exposes and analyzes Stalin's secret modus operandi, modernized as “hybrid war” in today's Russia. The book is essential for students and specialists of Stalin, China, the Soviet Union, Japan, and East Asia.
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Hybrid warfare--Soviet Union - Espionage--Soviet Union - Information warfare--Soviet UnionContent provider:
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A Little History of Poetry
John Carey;John Carey
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the pre...
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A Little History of Poetry
2020
A vital, engaging, and hugely enjoyable guide to poetry, from ancient times to the present, by one of our greatest champions of literature--selected as the literature book of the year by the London Times “[A] fizzing, exhilarating book.”—Sebastian Faulks, Sunday Times, London“Delightful.'”—New York Times Book Review What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing language. It is language made special so that it will be remembered and valued. It does not always work—over the centuries countless thousands of poems have been forgotten. But this Little History is about some that have not. John Carey tells the stories behind the world's greatest poems, from the oldest surviving one written nearly four thousand years ago to those being written today. Carey looks at poets whose works shape our views of the world, such as Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Yeats. He also looks at more recent poets, like Derek Walcott, Marianne Moore, and Maya Angelou, who have started to question what makes a poem “great” in the first place. For readers both young and old, this little history shines a light for readers on the richness of the world's poems—and the elusive quality that makes them all the more enticing.
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Poetry--History and criticismContent provider:
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The Booles and the Hintons : Two Dynasties That Helped Shape the Modern World
Gerry Kennedy;Gerry Kennedy
In 1983 Gerry Kennedy set off on a tour through Russia, China, Japan and the USA to vi...
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The Booles and the Hintons : Two Dynasties That Helped Shape the Modern World
2016
In 1983 Gerry Kennedy set off on a tour through Russia, China, Japan and the USA to visit others involved in the global anti-war movement. Only dimly aware of his Victorian ancestors: George Boole, forefather of the digital revolution and James Hinton, eccentric philosopher and advocate of polygamy, he had directly followed in the footsteps of two dynasties of radical thinkers and doers .Their notable achievements, in which the women were particularly prominent, involved many spheres. Boole's wife, Mary Everest, niece of George Everest, surveyor of the eponymous mountain, was an early advocate of hands-on education. Of the five talented Boole daughters, Ethel Voynich, wife of the discoverer of the enigmatic, still unexplained Voynich Manuscript, campaigned with Russian anarchists to overthrow the Tsar. Her 1897 novel The Gadfly, filmed later with music by Shostakovich, sold in millions behind the Iron Curtain . She was rumoured to have had an affair with the notorious ‘Ace of Spies', Sidney Reilly. One of Ethel's sisters married Charles Howard Hinton: a leading exponent of the esoteric realm of the fourth dimension and inventor of the gunpowder baseball-pitcher. Of their descendants, Carmelita Hinton also pioneered progressive education in the USA at her school in Putney, Vermont. Her children dedicated their lives to Mao's China. Appalled by the dropping on Japan of the atomic bomb that she had helped design, Joan Hinton defected to China and actively engaged in the Cultural Revolution. William Hinton wrote the influential documentary Fanshen based on his experience in 1948 of revolutionary change in a Shanxi village. Other members of the clan became renowned in their fields of physics, entomology and botany. Their combined legacy of independent and constructive thinking is perhaps typified by the invention of the Jungle Gym: the climbing-frame now used by children the world over. In The Booles and the Hintons the author embarks on a quest to reveal the stories behind their remarkable lives.
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Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945 : A University of Illinois Press Anthology
Laurie Matheson;Laurie Matheson
This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that ...
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Music in Black American Life, 1600-1945 : A University of Illinois Press Anthology
2022
This first volume of Music in Black American Life collects research and analysis that originally appeared in the journals American Music and the Black Music Research Journal, and in the University of Illinois Press's acclaimed book series Music in American Life. In these selections, experts from a cross-section of disciplines engage with fundamental issues in ways that changed our perceptions of Black music. The topics includes the culturally and musically complex Black music-making of colonial America; string bands and other lesser-known genres practiced by Black artists; the jubilee industry and its audiences; and innovators in jazz, blues, and Black gospel. Eclectic and essential, Music in Black American Life, 1600–1945 offers specialists and students alike a gateway to the history and impact of Black music in the United States. Contributors: R. Reid Badger, Rae Linda Brown, Samuel A. Floyd Jr., Sandra Jean Graham, Jeffrey Magee, Robert M. Marovich, Harriet Ottenheimer, Eileen Southern, Katrina Dyonne Thompson, Stephen Wade, and Charles Wolfe
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African Americans--Music--History and criticismContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
The Entrepreneurs : The Relentless Quest for Value
Derek Lidow;Derek Lidow
Finalist, 2023 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of ManagementEntrepreneurs are amon...
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The Entrepreneurs : The Relentless Quest for Value
2022
Finalist, 2023 George R. Terry Book Award, Academy of ManagementEntrepreneurs are among the primary shapers of our culture, yet their role in driving progress and influencing society has often been overlooked. As far back as we can trace human history, there have been entrepreneurs. Almost five millennia ago, copper tool manufacturers set up a factory in what today is southwest Spain, profiting for hundreds of years from trade around the Mediterranean. Papyri document the diverse investments of an ancient Egyptian businessperson, from grain-yielding land to flax for linen cloth. What do these figures have in common with renowned modern entrepreneurs, and how do their similarities help us achieve a deeper understanding of entrepreneurship as well as the potential for a healthier, wealthier, and more equitable and sustainable future?Derek Lidow delves into the deep history of innovation to deliver essential new insights into how entrepreneurs create value and bring about change. Telling the captivating stories of people from many different cultures over thousands of years, he shows how entrepreneurs transform the world through relentless innovation. Lidow demonstrates that far from being heroic lone individuals, they copy and then add to the inventions of others. The cumulative innovations of swarms of entrepreneurs expand the scale, scope, and range of products and services. Lidow emphasizes how entrepreneurship can harm society as well as benefit it, and he underscores ways to mitigate its harmful side and harness its positive effects. By highlighting the fundamental qualities of innovation throughout history, this book provides indispensable new perspective on how it is shaping our present and future.
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Management--Technological innovations - Risk management - Entrepreneurship - Industrial management--Environmental aspects - Value addedContent provider:
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Ireland and Ukraine : Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History
Stephen Velychenko;Joseph Ruane;Liudmyla Hrynevych;Stephen Velychenko;Josep...
The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire, colony, and national l...
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Ireland and Ukraine : Studies in Comparative Imperial and National History
2022
The contributors to this volume show that the themes of empire, colony, and national liberation movements can be addressed in a European continental as much as in Asian, Latin American, or African contexts. There is a further benefit from a within-Europe comparison: It calls into question the tendency to assume fundamental differences between “western” and “eastern” Europe, including the now largely abandoned distinction between a “western” nationalism, defined as a civil nationalism, and an “eastern” one, defined as ethnic. It also answers the question whether intra-European comparison of this kind is possible, in a context where post-Soviet scholarship is often invisible in Anglo-American scholarship. As Norman Davies reminds us, low public awareness of Europe's smaller and, in west-European minds, “more distant” nations, underlies the persistence of false generalizations about them, including assumptions like “that the whole of the west was advanced while the whole of the east was backward.”
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Nationalism--Ukraine - Nationalism--Ireland - National liberation movements - Electronic booksContent provider:
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Canadian State Trials, Volume V : World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939–1990
Barry Wright;Susan Binnie;Eric Tucker;Barry Wright;Susan Binnie;Eric Tucker
The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political tria...
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Canadian State Trials, Volume V : World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty, 1939–1990
2022; Vol. Volume V
The fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period of 1939 to 1990. Essays by historians and legal scholars shed light on experiences during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, including uses of the War Measures Act and the Official Secrets Act with the unfolding of the Cold War and legal responses to the FLQ (including the October Crisis), labour strikes, and Indigenous resistance and standoffs. The volume critically examines the historical and social context of the trials and measures resulting from these events, concluding the first comprehensive series on this important area of Canadian law and politics. The fifth volume's exploration of state responses to real and perceived security threats is particularly timely as Canada faces new challenges to the established order ranging from Indigenous nations demanding a new constitutional framework to protestors challenging discriminatory policing and contesting public health measures. (Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History)
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Political crimes and offenses--Canada--History - Trials (Political crimes and offenses)--CanadaContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
AIA Guide to Chicago
American Institute of Architects Chicago;Laurie McGovern Petersen;American ...
Chicago's architecture attracts visitors from around the globe. The fourth edition of ...
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AIA Guide to Chicago
2022
Chicago's architecture attracts visitors from around the globe. The fourth edition of the AIA Guide to Chicago is the best portable resource for exploring this most breathtaking and dynamic of cityscapes. The editors offer entries on new destinations like the Riverwalk, the St. Regis Chicago, and The 606 as well as updated descriptions of Willis Tower and other refreshed landmarks. Thirty-four maps and over 500 photos make it easy to find each of the almost 2000 featured sites. A special insert, new to this edition, showcases the variety of Chicago architecture with over 80 full-color images arranged chronologically. A comprehensive index organizes entries by name and architect. Sumptuously detailed and user friendly, the AIA Guide to Chicago encourages travelers and residents alike to explore the many diverse neighborhoods of one of the world's great architectural destinations.
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Architecture--Illinois--Chicago--GuidebooksContent provider:
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Biggers, Earl Derr (b. 1884–d. 1933) American novelist Earl Derr Biggers created Charl...
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Encyclopedia of the American Novel. 2013.
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Playwrights - Mystery writers - American writers - Male writers - NovelistsContent provider:
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Earl Derr Biggers Warren, Ohio; August 26, 1884 Pasadena, California; April 5, 1933 Po...
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Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction, Rev. ed. 2008, v. 1, p113-118.
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Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story
Laird R. Blackwell;Laird R. Blackwell
Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Elle...
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Frederic Dannay, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and the Art of the Detective Short Story
2019
Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) was--with his partner Manfred Lee--the creator of the Ellery Queen detective novels and short stories. Dannay was also a literary historian and critic, and the editor of the renowned Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine. Queen--both a pen name and the fictional protagonist of the stories--was also a vital force behind the continuing popularity of crime fiction in the early to mid-20th century, after the deaths of Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Melville Davisson Post, and other Old Masters of the genre. This book presents the first critical study of Ellery Queen's role in the preservation of the detective short story. Many of the writers, characters and stories EQMM championed are covered, including such celebrated authors as Allingham, Ambler, Ellin, Innes, Vickers, and even William Butler Yeats.
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Detective and mystery stories--History and criticismContent provider:
eBook Community College Collection (EBSCOhost)
Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History
Patricia Emison;Patricia Emison
Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas---not ...
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Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History
2021
Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas---not least the idea of the power of visual art---across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History examines the early flourishing of film, 1920s-mid-60s, as partly reprising the introduction of mass media in the Renaissance, allowing for innovation that reflected an art free of the control of a patron though required to attract a broad public. Rivalry between word and image, narrative and visual composition shifted in both cases toward acknowledging the compelling nature of the visual. The twentieth century also saw the development of the discipline of art history; transfusions between cinematic practice and art historical postulates and preoccupations are part of the story told here.
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Art, Renaissance - Motion pictures--History - Art and motion picturesContent provider:
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Redemption and Regret : Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale
James Scarth Gale;Daniel Pieper;James Scarth Gale;Daniel Pieper
Redemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished typescripts of James Scarth ...
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Redemption and Regret : Modernizing Korea in the Writings of James Scarth Gale
2021
Redemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished typescripts of James Scarth Gale, a Canadian missionary to Korea for four decades (1888–1927). During his time in Korea, Gale developed into the foremost Western scholar of Korean history, language, and literature, completing the first translation of Korean literature into a Western language, the first translation of English literature into Korean, and the first comprehensive Korean-English dictionary. In addition to these translations, the typescripts entitled Pen Pictures of Old Korea (ca. 1910) and Old Corea (ca. 1925), each presented here with introductory essays, contain Gale's observations of various cultural artifacts, behaviours, and practices. Gale lived in Korea during a tumultuous and transformative period that witnessed the transition of the country from a'hermit'suzerain kingdom to an independent empire, and finally to a colonial possession of Japan. Pen Pictures of Old Korea and Old Corea preserve what Gale viewed as inevitably fated for extinction. This realization imbues his writings with a sense of ambivalence towards the'passing'of traditional Korea – owing to the conflict between his profound admiration for pre-modern Korean culture and his Western missionary identity, which demanded that the country adapt to a modern, Christian world.
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Korean languageContent provider:
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Nobody's People : Hierarchy As Hope in a Society of Thieves
Anastasia Piliavsky;Anastasia Piliavsky
What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope...
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Nobody's People : Hierarchy As Hope in a Society of Thieves
2021
What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a'caste of thieves'in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. Failing to find a place inside hierarchic relations, the book's heroes are'nobody's people': perceived as worthless, disposable and so open to being murdered with no regret or remorse. Following their journey between death and hope, we learn to perceive vertical, non-equal relations as a social good, not only in rural Rajasthan, but also in much of the world—including settings stridently committed to equality. Challenging egalo-normative commitments, Anastasia Piliavsky asks scholars across the disciplines to recognize hierarchy as a major intellectual resource.
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Social status--India--Rajasthan - Thieves--India--Rajasthan--Social conditions - Kanjar (South Asian people)--India--Rajasthan--Social conditionsContent provider:
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Sudden Death in Opera: Love, Mortality and Transcendence on the Lyric Stage
Michael Trimble, Author;Robert Ignatius Letellier, Author;Dale Hesdorffer, ...
An aspect of dying in opera, rarely observed or commented on, is Sudden Unexpected Dea...
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Sudden Death in Opera: Love, Mortality and Transcendence on the Lyric Stage
2021
An aspect of dying in opera, rarely observed or commented on, is Sudden Unexpected Death. There are many deaths in this melodramatic genre: most follow expected causes like murder, suicide, or old age. This book explores those deaths which occur without obvious natural causes. These are often central to the overall drama of the opera, representing denouements forming the epiphany of the story and the apotheosis for the audience. The book identifies 50 operas where such events occur, exploring the role of the dramatis personae, the circumstances of their dying, and specific themes that emerge. These include a preponderance of females, especially in the 19th century, who die mainly at the end of the operas, often in the context of tragedy. It charts the growing awareness in the medical sciences of the unconscious forces driving human behaviour, including liminal mental states and trances, which influenced these operas and continue to affect human behaviour to the present day. In addition, the changing philosophies that are intertwined with operatic narratives, in particular stemming from Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, are important in the book's exegesis, as is the special role of Wagner's compositions. This leads to the exploration of recurrent concepts such as the Liebestod, the ewig Weibliche and redemption itself.
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Death in operaContent provider:
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Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 2021
Grey House Publishing Canada;Grey House Publishing Canada
An indispensable guide to government in Canada, Canadian Parliamentary Guide provides ...
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Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 2021
2021; Vol. 02021
An indispensable guide to government in Canada, Canadian Parliamentary Guide provides information on both federal and provincial governments, courts, and their elected and appointed members.
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‘Those Gay Days of Wickedness and Wit’ : The Restoration Period in Popular Historiographies (18th–21st Centuries)
Dorothea Flothow;Dorothea Flothow
The popular re-imaginings of past historical periods – in particular of ‘successful'pe...
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‘Those Gay Days of Wickedness and Wit’ : The Restoration Period in Popular Historiographies (18th–21st Centuries)
2021; Vol. 00035
The popular re-imaginings of past historical periods – in particular of ‘successful'periods like the Victorian or the Tudor Ages – in modern media are currently a flourishing field of study. By comparison, the Restoration period (1660–1688/9) is under-researched in studies of popular historiography. This era has a dubious reputation characterized by uninhibited libertines, the twin catastrophes fire and plague, and a growing absolutism overcome in the ‘Glorious Revolution'. Yet in the last three centuries, the Restoration period has featured in numerous historical novels, historical romances, in history plays and historical comedies. The present study examines changing images of this period in popular historiographical genres since the early eighteenth century and analyses them in the context of the political, cultural, and historiographical discourses of their time. Additionally, it traces the historiographical changes in these genres, offering insights into their developments and functions in the field of historiography.
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Coming to Terms with America : Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
Jonathan D. Sarna;Jonathan D. Sarna
Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,...
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Coming to Terms with America : Essays on Jewish History, Religion, and Culture
2021
Coming to Terms with America examines how Jews have long “straddled two civilizations,” endeavoring to be both Jewish and American at once, from the American Revolution to today. In fifteen engaging essays, Jonathan D. Sarna investigates the many facets of the Jewish-American encounter—what Jews have borrowed from their surroundings, what they have resisted, what they have synthesized, and what they have subverted. Part I surveys how Jews first worked to reconcile Judaism with the country's new democratic ethos and to reconcile their faith-based culture with local metropolitan cultures. Part II analyzes religio-cultural initiatives, many spearheaded by women, and the ongoing tensions between Jewish scholars (who pore over traditional Jewish sources) and activists (who are concerned with applying them). Part III appraises Jewish-Christian relations: “collisions” within the public square and over church-state separation. Originally written over the span of forty years, many of these essays are considered classics in the field, and several remain fixtures of American Jewish history syllabi. Others appeared in fairly obscure venues and will be discovered here anew. Together, these essays—newly updated for this volume—cull the finest thinking of one of American Jewry's finest historians.
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Freedom of religion--United States--History - Jews--United States--Social conditions - Jews--United States--History - Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History - Christianity and other religions--Judaism--HistoryContent provider:
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The Rebel Suffragette : The Life of Edith Rigby
Beverley Adams;Beverley Adams
The suffragette movement swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. ...
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The Rebel Suffragette : The Life of Edith Rigby
2021
The suffragette movement swept the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Led by the Pankhurst's, the focus of the movement was in London with demonstrations and rallies taking place across the capital. But this was a nationwide movement with a strong northern influence with Edith Rigby being an ardent supporter. Edith was a controversial figure, not only was she was the first woman to own and ride a bicycle in her home town but she was founder of a school for girls and young women. Edith followed the example of Emmeline Pankhurst and her supporters and founded the Preston branch of the Women's Social and Political Union. She was found guilty of arson and an attempted bomb attack in Liverpool following which she was incarcerated and endured hunger strike forming part of the ‘Cat and Mouse'system with the government. During a political rally with Winston Churchill Edith threw a black pudding at a MP. There are many tales to tell in the life of Edith Rigby, she was charismatic, passionate, ruthless and thoroughly unpredictable. She was someone who rejected the accepted notion of what a woman of her class should be the way she dressed and the way she ran her household but she was independent in mind and spirit and always had courage in her own convictions. As a suffragette, she was just as effective and brave as the Pankhurst women. This is the story of a life of a lesser known suffragette. This is Edith's story.
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Suffragists--Great Britain - Women--Political activity--Great Britain--History--20th centuryContent provider:
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Print Culture at the Crossroads : The Book and Central Europe
Elizabeth Dillenburg;Howard Louthan;Drew B. Thomas;Elizabeth Dillenburg;How...
Print Culture at the Crossroads investigates how the spread of printing shaped a disti...
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Print Culture at the Crossroads : The Book and Central Europe
2021; Vol. 00075
Print Culture at the Crossroads investigates how the spread of printing shaped a distinctive literary culture in Central Europe during the early modern period. Moving beyond the boundaries of the nation state, twenty-five scholars from over a dozen countries examine the role of the press in a region characterised by its many cultures, languages, religions, and alphabets. Antitrinitarians, Roman and Greek Catholics, Calvinists, Jews, Lutherans, and Orthodox Christians used the press to preserve and support their communities. By examining printing and patronage networks, catalogues, inventories, woodblocks, bindings, and ownership marks, this volume reveals a complicated web of connections linking printers and scholars, Jews and Christians, across Central Europe and beyond.
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Books--Europe, Central--History - Book industries and trade--Europe, Central--History - Printing--Europe, Central--History - Libraries--Europe, Central--History - Language and languages--Variation--History - Religious literature--Distribution--Europe, Central--History - Religion and religious literature--Europe, Central--HistoryContent provider:
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At the Limits of Cure
Bharat Jayram Venkat;Bharat Jayram Venkat
Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s ...
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At the Limits of Cure
2021
Can a history of cure be more than a history of how disease comes to an end? In 1950s Madras, an international team of researchers demonstrated that antibiotics were effective in treating tuberculosis. But just half a century later, reports out of Mumbai stoked fears about the spread of totally drug-resistant strains of the disease. Had the curable become incurable? Through an anthropological history of tuberculosis treatment in India, Bharat Jayram Venkat examines what it means to be cured, and what it means for a cure to come undone. At the Limits of Cure tells a story that stretches from the colonial period—a time of sanatoria, travel cures, and gold therapy—into a postcolonial present marked by antibiotic miracles and their failures. Venkat juxtaposes the unraveling of cure across a variety of sites: in idyllic hill stations and crowded prisons, aboard ships and on the battlefield, and through research trials and clinical encounters. If cure is frequently taken as an ending (of illness, treatment, and suffering more generally), Venkat provides a foundation for imagining cure otherwise in a world of fading antibiotic efficacy.
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Tuberculosis--India--Prevention - Tuberculosis--Treatment--India - Tuberculosis--India--History--20th centuryContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Dialogues Between Media
Paul Ferstl;Paul Ferstl
Comparative Literature is changing fast with methodologies, topics, and research inter...
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Dialogues Between Media
2021; Vol. 00021
Comparative Literature is changing fast with methodologies, topics, and research interests emerging and remerging. The fifth volume of ICLA 2016 proceedings, Dialogues between Media, focuses on the current interest in inter-arts studies, as well as papers on comics studies, further testimony to the fact that comics have truly arrived in mainstream academic discourse.'Adaptation'is a key term for the studies presented in this volume; various articles discuss the adaptation of literary source texts in different target media - cinematic versions, comics adaptations, TV series, theatre, and opera. Essays on the interplay of media beyond adaptation further show many of the strands that are woven into dialogues between media, and thus the expanding range of comparative literature.
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Art and literature--Congresses - Comparative literature--Congresses - Literature--Adaptations--Congresses - Comic books, strips, etc.--History and criticism--CongressesContent provider:
eBook Open Access (OA) Collection (EBSCOhost)
Exploring Written Artefacts : Objects, Methods, and Concepts
Jörg B. Quenzer;Jörg B. Quenzer
The series Studies in Manuscript Cultures (SMC) publishes monographs and collective vo...
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Exploring Written Artefacts : Objects, Methods, and Concepts
2021; Vol. 00025
The series Studies in Manuscript Cultures (SMC) publishes monographs and collective volumes contributing to the study of written artefacts. This field of study embraces disciplines such as art history, codicology, epigraphy, history, material analysis, palaeography and philology. SMC encourages comparative approaches, without regional, linguistic, temporal or other limitations on the objects studied; it contributes to a larger historical and systematic survey of the role of written artefacts in ancient and modern cultures, and in so doing provides a new foundation for ongoing discussions in cultural studies.
