Men and Women.
Barratt, David
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Robert Browning’s Men and Women. [ABSTRACT F...
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Men and Women.
Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Nov2010, p1-4. 4p.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Robert Browning ’s Men and Women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Burlingame, E. L.
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Robert Browning was born at Camberwell on May 7, 1812, the son and grandson of men who...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient & Modern -- Volume 6. 3/1/2006, p158-183. 26p. 1 Black and White Photograph.
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Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 - Andrea del Sarto (Poem : Browning) - Toccata of Galuppi's, A (Poem : Browning) - Confessions (Poem : Browning) - Poetry (Literary form)Content provider:
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Faith and Practice: Islamic Perspectives on Robert Browning .
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Intellectual Discourse. 2020, Vol. 28 Issue 1, p129-148. 20p.
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Anis, Rehnuma Bint;Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
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The Ring and the Book.
Brier, Peter A.;Palmer, Sally B.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book. [AB...
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The Ring and the Book.
Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Nov2010, p1-5. 5p.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of Robert Browning ’s The Ring and the Book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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"Two in the Campagna" by Robert Browning .
Fleischmann, T;Fleischmann, T
Meyers, Jeffrey;Meyers, Jeffrey
Robert Lowell was known not only as a great poet but also as a writer whose devotion t...
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Poets, American--20th century--Biography - Poets--PsychologyContent provider:
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How Robert Frost Made Realism Matter
Jonathan N. Barron;Jonathan N. Barron
Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth...
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How Robert Frost Made Realism Matter
Robert Frost stood at the intersection of nineteenth-century romanticism and twentieth-century modernism and made both his own. Frost adapted the genteel values and techniques of nineteenth-century poetry, but Barron argues that it was his commitment to realism that gave him popular as well as scholarly appeal and created his enduring legacy. This highly researched consideration of Frost investigates early innovative poetry that was published in popular magazines from 1894 to 1915 and reveals a voice of dissent that anticipated “The New Poetry” – a voice that would come to dominate American poetry as few others have.
2015
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Realism in literatureContent provider:
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Chapter 18: Victorian poetry.
Blamires, Harry
Chapter 18 of the book "A Short History of English Literature" is presented. In it the...
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Chapter 18: Victorian poetry.
Short History of English Literature. 1984, p270-300. 31p.
Chapter 18 of the book "A Short History of English Literature" is presented. In it the author presents an overview of the various genres and writers of English literature which developed during the 19th century, focusing on Victorian poetry. The works of Alfred Tennyson are particularly highlighted, along with the contributions of several contemporaries such as Robert Browning , Elizabeth Barrett Browning , and Arthur Hugh Clough.
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19th century English poetry - Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892 - Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861 - Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 - Clough, Arthur Hugh, 1819-1861Content provider:
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The Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America
Robert C. Plumb;Robert C. Plumb
Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Joseph...
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The Better Angels : Five Women Who Changed Civil War America
2020
Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Clara Barton, Julia Ward Howe, and Sarah Josepha Hale came from backgrounds that ranged from abject enslavement to New York City's elite. Surmounting social and political obstacles, they emerged before and during the worst crisis in American history, the Civil War. Their actions became strands in a tapestry of courage, truth, and patriotism that influenced the lives of millions—and illuminated a new way forward for the nation. In this collective biography, Robert C. Plumb traces these five remarkable women's awakenings to analyze how their experiences shaped their responses to the challenges, disappointments, and joys they encountered on their missions. Here is Tubman, fearless conductor on the Underground Railroad, alongside Stowe, the author who awakened the nation to the evils of slavery. Barton led an effort to provide medical supplies for field hospitals, and Union soldiers sang Howe's “Battle Hymn of the Republic” on the march. And, amid national catastrophe, Hale's campaign to make Thanksgiving a national holiday moved North and South toward reconciliation.
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Women and war--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Augustus Hopkins Strong and the Struggle to Reconcile Christian Theology with Modern Thought
John Aloisi;John Aloisi
At the end of the nineteenth century Augustus Hopkins Strong worked to bring modernist...
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Augustus Hopkins Strong and the Struggle to Reconcile Christian Theology with Modern Thought
2021
At the end of the nineteenth century Augustus Hopkins Strong worked to bring modernists and traditional Christians together but found the task more difficult than many imagined. In the wake of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species in 1859, Christianity, or at least many people's understanding of Christianity, was evolving. The rising popularity of Darwinism combined with the pervasive influence of German idealism began forcing many professing Christians to rethink the faith they had long taken for granted. Among those who would be compelled to face the apparent conflicts between modern thought and traditional orthodoxy was Baptist theologian Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836-1921). As president and professor of systematic theology at Rochester Theological Seminary for forty years (1872-1912) Strong stood as the premier theologian of the Northern Baptists at the end of the nineteenth century. Yet, as author John Aloisi shows in this important study, he remains a puzzling figure. Strong considered himself a defender of orthodoxy even as the school he led transitioned to a more modern and arguably less orthodox understanding of the Christian faith. His Systematic Theology went through eight editions, and the later editions increasingly reflected a shift in his thinking. Strong wrestled with how to reconcile Christian theology with modern thought while also trying to solve tensions within his own theology. He hoped to be able to bring modernists and more traditional Christians together around a concept he labeled ethical monism. In the end, while his effort suggested the task was more difficult than many understood it to be, Strong's journey had a significant impact on the direction of Rochester Theological Seminary. This book is openly available in digital formats thanks to a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Theology - Monism - Baptists--Doctrines--History - Philosophy and religionContent provider:
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Love Among the Ruins.
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Delaney, Bill
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Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition. Jan2002, p1-2. 2p.
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Love Among the Ruins.
Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition. Jan2002, p1-2. 2p.
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"The Land We Have We Wish to Keep": Miami Autonomy and Resistance to Removal in Indiana, 1812 –1826.
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Indiana Magazine of History. Jun2023, Vol. 119 Issue 2, p139-176. 38p.
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Peyton, John T.
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Indiana Magazine of History. Jun2023, Vol. 119 Issue 2, p139-176. 38p.
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Political Friendship : Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866
Michael Weaver;Michael Weaver
Between periods of revolution, state repression, and war across Central and Western Eu...
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Political Friendship : Liberal Notables, Networks, and the Pursuit of the German Nation State, 1848-1866
2024; Vol. 00029
Between periods of revolution, state repression, and war across Central and Western Europe from the 1840s through the 1860s, German liberals practiced politics beyond the more well-defined realms of voluntary associations, state legislatures, and burgeoning political parties. Political Friendship approaches 19th century German history's trajectory to unification through the lens of academics, journalists, and artists who formed close personal relationships with one another and with powerful state leaders. Michael Weaver argues that German liberals thought with their friends by demonstrating the previously neglected aspects of political friendship were central to German political culture.
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Friendship--Germany--History--19th century - Political culture--Germany--History--19th century - Intellectuals--Political activity--Germany--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” : A Life
William F. Halloran;William F. Halloran
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of h...
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William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod” : A Life
2022
William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. A Scottish poet, novelist, biographer, and editor, he began in 1893 to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod who became far more than a pseudonym. Enlisting his sister to provide the Macleod handwriting, he used the voluminous Fiona correspondence to fashion a distinctive personality for a talented, but remote and publicity-shy woman. Sometimes she was his cousin and other times his lover, and whenever suspicions arose, he vehemently denied he was Fiona. For more than a decade he duped not only the general public but such literary luminaries as George Meredith, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, William Butler Yeats, and E. C. Stedman. Drawing extensively on his letters, his wife Elizabeth Sharp's Memoir, and accounts by friends and associates, this biography provides a lucid and intimate account of William Sharp's life, from his rejection of the dour religion of his Scottish boyhood, his turn to spiritualism, to his role in the Scottish Celtic Revival in the mid-nineties. The biography illuminates his wide network of close male and female friendships, through which he developed advanced ideas about the place of women in society, the constraints of marriage, the fluidity of gender identity, and the complexity of the human psyche. Uniquely this biography reveals the autobiographical content of the writings of Fiona Macleod, the remarkable extent to which Sharp used the feminine pseudonym to disguise his telling and retelling the complex story of his extramarital love affair with a beautiful and brilliant woman. The biography illuminates not only the talented and conflicted William Sharp, but also the cultural landscape of Great Britain in the late-nineteenth century. From late Pre-Raphaelitism through the'yellow nineties” and on to the excesses of the early twentieth century, Sharp dabbled in all the movements that comprised what some have called the Age of Decadence.
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Auld Lang Syne : A Song and Its Culture
Morag Josephine Grant;Morag Josephine Grant
In Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture, M. J. Grant explores the history of this ic...
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Auld Lang Syne : A Song and Its Culture
2021
In Auld Lang Syne: A Song and its Culture, M. J. Grant explores the history of this iconic song, demonstrating how its association with ideas of fellowship, friendship and sociality has enabled it to become so significant for such a wide range of individuals and communities around the world. This engaging study traces different stages in the journey of Auld Lang Syne, from the precursors to the song made famous by Robert Burns to the traditions and rituals that emerged around the song in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including its use as a song of parting, and as a song of New Year. Grant's painstaking study investigates the origins of these varied traditions, and their impact on the transmission of the song right up to the present day. Grant uses Auld Lang Syne to explore the importance of songs and singing for group identity, arguing that it is the active practice of singing the song in group contexts that has made it so significant for so many. The book offers fascinating insights into the ways that Auld Lang Syne has been received, reused and remixed around the world, concluding with a chapter on more recent versions of the song back in Scotland. This highly original and accessible work will be of great interest to non-expert readers as well as scholars and students of musicology, cultural and social history, social anthropology and Scottish studies. The book contains a wealth of illustrations and includes links to many more, including manuscript sources. Audio examples are included for many of the musical examples. Grant's extensive bibliography will moreover ease future referencing of the many sources consulted.
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Music--19th century--History and criticism.650 - Songs, Scots--History and criticismContent provider:
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A Blot in the ’Scutcheon.
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Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition. Jan1976, p1-3. 3p.
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A Blot in the ’Scutcheon.
Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition. Jan1976, p1-3. 3p.
A summary and analysis of A Blot in the ’Scutcheon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Eighteenth century - Vendetta - SuicideContent provider:
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Phelps, William Lyon
Presents the complete text of "Robert Browning: How to Know Him" by Phelps, William Ly...
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Robert Browning: How to Know Him. 3/1/2006, p1. 178p.
Presents the complete text of "Robert Browning : How to Know Him" by Phelps, William Lyon, 1865-1943.
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Beside You in Time : Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Freeman;Elizabeth Freeman
In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outli...
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Beside You in Time : Sense Methods and Queer Sociabilities in the American Nineteenth Century
2019
In Beside You in Time Elizabeth Freeman expands biopolitical and queer theory by outlining a temporal view of the long nineteenth century. Drawing on Foucauldian notions of discipline as a regime that yoked the human body to time, Freeman shows how time became a social and sensory means by which people assembled into groups in ways that resisted disciplinary forces. She tracks temporalized bodies across many entangled regimes—religion, secularity, race, historiography, health, and sexuality—and examines how those bodies act in relation to those regimes. In analyses of the use of rhythmic dance by the Shakers; African American slave narratives; literature by Mark Twain, Pauline Hopkins, Herman Melville, and others; and how Catholic sacraments conjoined people across historical boundaries, Freeman makes the case for the body as an instrument of what she calls queer hypersociality. As a mode of being in which bodies are connected to others and their histories across and throughout time, queer hypersociality, Freeman contends, provides the means for subjugated bodies to escape disciplinary regimes of time and to create new social worlds.
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Time perception in literature - Human body in literature - Time--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century - Homosexuality--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century - Queer theory - American literature--African American authors--19th century--History and criticism - Literature and society--United States--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St Lawrence
Claire Elizabeth Campbell;Edward MacDonald;Brian Payne;Claire Elizabeth Cam...
The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an eco...
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The Greater Gulf : Essays on the Environmental History of the Gulf of St Lawrence
2019; Vol. 00006
The largest estuary in the world, the Gulf of St Lawrence is defined broadly by an ecology that stretches from the upper reaches of the St Lawrence River to the Gulf Stream, and by a web of influences that reach from the heart of the continent to northern Europe. For more than a millennium, the gulf's strategic location and rich marine resources have made it a destination and a gateway, a cockpit and a crossroads, and a highway and a home. From Vinland the Good to the novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Gulf has haunted the Western imagination. A transborder collaboration between Canadian and American scholars, The Greater Gulf represents the first concerted exploration of the environmental history – marine and terrestrial – of the Gulf of St Lawrence. Contributors tell many histories of a place that has been fished, fought over, explored, and exploited. The essays'defining themes resonate in today's charged atmosphere of quickening climate change as they recount stories of resilience played against ecological fragility, resistance at odds with accommodation, considered versus reckless exploitation, and real, imagined, and imposed identities. Reconsidering perceptions about borders and the spaces between and across land and sea, The Greater Gulf draws attention to a central place and part of North Atlantic and North American history. Contributors include Rainer Baehre (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jack Bouchard (Folger Institute), Claire Campbell (Bucknell University), Caitlin Charman (Memorial University of Newfoundland), Jack Little (Simon Fraser University), Edward MacDonald (University of Prince Edward Island), Matthew McKenzie (University of Connecticut), Suzanne Morton (McGill University), Brian Payne (Bridgewater State University), John G. Reid (St. Mary's University), and Daniel Soucier (University of Maine).
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Ecology--Saint Lawrence, Gulf of--HistoryContent provider:
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The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 1 : 1865–1887
Andrew Hobbs;Andrew Hobbs
Anthony Hewitson (1836-1912) was a typical Victorian journalist, working in one of the...
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The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist, Volume 1 : 1865–1887
2022; Vol. 00001
Anthony Hewitson (1836-1912) was a typical Victorian journalist, working in one of the largest sectors of the periodical press, provincial newspapers. His diaries, written between 1862 and 1912, lift the veil of anonymity hiding the people, processes and networks involved in the creation of Victorian newspapers. They also tell us about Victorian fatherhood, family life, and the culture of a Victorian town. Diaries of nineteenth-century provincial journalists are extremely rare. Anthony Hewitson went from printer's apprentice to newspaper reporter and eventually editor of his own paper. Every night he jotted down the day's doings, his thoughts and feelings. The diaries are a lively account of the reporter's daily round, covering meetings and court cases, hunting for gossip or attending public executions and variety shows, in and around Preston, Lancashire. Andrew Hobbs's introduction and footnotes provide background and analysis of these valuable documents. This full scholarly edition offers a wealth of new information about reporting, freelancing, sub-editing, newspaper ownership and publishing, and illuminates aspects of Victorian periodicals and culture extending far beyond provincial newspapers. The Diaries of Anthony Hewitson, Provincial Journalist are an indispensable research tool for local and regional historians, as well as social and political historians with an interest in Victorian studies and the media. They are also illuminating for anyone interested in nineteenth-century social and cultural history. Open Book Publishers gratefully acknowledge funding for this book from the Marc Fitch Fund, the Historic Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, and the University of Central Lancashire.
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Journalists--Great Britain--DiariesContent provider:
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Freedom From Violence and Lies : Essays on Russian Poetry and Music by Simon Karlinsky
Robert P. Hughes;Richard Taruskin;Thomas A. Koster;Robert P. Hughes;Richard...
Freedom from Violence and Lies is a collection of forty-one essays by Simon Karlinsky ...
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Freedom From Violence and Lies : Essays on Russian Poetry and Music by Simon Karlinsky
2013
Freedom from Violence and Lies is a collection of forty-one essays by Simon Karlinsky (1924–2009), a prolific and controversial scholar of modern Russian literature, sexual politics, and music who taught in the University of California, Berkeley's Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures from 1964 to 1991. Among Karlinsky's full-length works are major studies of Marina Tsvetaeva and Nikolai Gogol, Russian Drama from Its Beginnings to the Age of Pushkin; editions of Anton Chekhov's letters; writings by Russian émigrés; and correspondence between Vladimir Nabokov and Edmund Wilson. Karlinsky also wrote frequently for professional journals and mainstream publications like the New York Times Book Review and the Nation. The present volume is the first collection of such shorter writings, spanning more than three decades. It includes twenty-seven essays on literary topics and fourteen on music, seven of which have been newly translated from the Russian originals.
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Music and literature - Russian poetry--20th century--History and criticism - Modernism (Literature)--RussiaContent provider:
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The European Experience : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
Jan Hansen;Jochen Hung;Jaroslav Ira;Judit Klement;Sylvain Lesage;Juan Luis ...
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians f...
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The European Experience : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
2023
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today's history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European'analyses of the continent's past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline.
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
David Michael Smith;David Michael Smith
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death...
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Endless Holocausts : Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
2023
An argument against the myth of'American exceptionalism'Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has plagued the globe for over a century. However much the ruling class insists on U.S. superiority, we find ourselves in the midst of a sea change. Perpetual wars, deteriorating economic conditions, the resurgence of white supremacy, and the rise of the Far Right have led millions of people to abandon their illusions about this country. Never before have so many people rejected or questioned traditional platitudes about the United States.In Endless Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death, far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world. At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for common dignity and the sake of the greater good.
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National characteristics, American - World politics - Crimes against humanity--History - Political violence--United States--History - Genocide--History - Imperialism--Social aspects--United StatesContent provider:
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The Winchester Mint and Coins and Related Finds From the Excavations of 1961–71
Martin Biddle;Martin Biddle
Edited by Martin Biddle with a catalogue of the known coins of the mint by Yvonne Harv...
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The Winchester Mint and Coins and Related Finds From the Excavations of 1961–71
2023
Edited by Martin Biddle with a catalogue of the known coins of the mint by Yvonne Harvey, this volume records and illustrates the minting of silver pennies in Winchester between the reigns of Alfred the Great and Henry III, a period of three and a half centuries. At the Mint, which was situated in the area of the High Street to the east of where the city's cross now stands, at least 24 million silver pennies (possibly as many as 50 million) were struck. Five and a half thousand survive in museums and collections all over the world. These have been sought out and photographed (some 3200 coins in 6400 images detailing both sides), and minutely catalogued by Yvonne Harvey for this volume. During the period from late in the reign of Alfred to the time of Henry III, dies for striking the coins were produced centrally under royal authority in the most sophisticated system of monetary control at the time in the western world. In this first account of a major English mint to have been made in forty years, a team of leading authorities have studied and analysed the use the Winchester moneyers made of the dies, and together with the size, weight, and the surviving number of coins from each pair of dies, have produced a detailed account of the varying fortunes of the mint over this period. Their results are critical for the economic history of England and the changing status of Winchester over this long period, and provide the richest available source for the history of the name of the city and the personal names of its citizens in the later Anglo-Saxon period.
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Silver coins--England--Winchester - Coins, Medieval--England--WinchesterContent provider:
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Changing Cultures : European Perspectives on the History of Portland Cement and Reinforced Concrete, 19th and 20th Centuries
João Mascarenhas-Mateus;João Mascarenhas-Mateus
The construction practices we employ in our daily life in European societies today wer...
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Changing Cultures : European Perspectives on the History of Portland Cement and Reinforced Concrete, 19th and 20th Centuries
2023
The construction practices we employ in our daily life in European societies today were shaped by major changes in the past, such as the introduction and dissemination of Portland cement and reinforced concrete, a development that constitutes a fundamental chapter in the history of construction in the 19th and 20th centuries. Such changes were boosted by several innovations in the fields of applied mathematics, chemistry and physics. They involved patents licensing, optimization of materials production and machinery. There were new legislative frameworks, a specific knowledge transfer within a network of actors and the transformation of hierarchical frameworks. Written by international specialists, this two-part book is centred on case studies from the UK, Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Portugal, Spain and Italy. The first part explores the mutual international influence between these countries and their intrinsic characteristics in this field, resulting from each nation's particular economic, social, political, cultural and technological conditions. The second part focuses on the history of public works companies. Capable of carrying out both private works and major infrastructures, these players exemplify the technological and business advances that the construction sector has experienced over the last two centuries. This book is a must-read for researchers on contemporary construction history in Europe. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Create Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND) license.
