Автор: Ducker John T. Название: Beyond Empire: The End of Britain`s Colonial Encounter ISBN: 1788317351 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788317351 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 42240.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Beyond Empire looks at three decades of British colonial administration to assess the capacity of the independent governments of Africa to achieve independence. A wealth of archival material and a unique review of British press over those decades brings to life the dynamic and the tension of the process of decolonisation. Addressing a wide range of issues, from education, constitutional change and economic relations, Beyond Empire sheds new light on aspects of colonial history at the country level, with the focus on the African administrations themselves as agents in the decolonisation process.
The most comprehensive survey of the British coastline ever compiled, exploring every stretch of the shores of England and Wales via their history, architecture, wildlife, culture and more.
Stuart Fisher, bestselling author of the similarly comprehensive Canals of Britain, visits all the places of interest along the entire coastline of England and Wales: from remote countryside to modern cities, exploring history and heritage, striking architecture and dramatic engineering, wildlife, wonderful flora and fauna, art and literature. When all her islands are taken into consideration, the British coastline spans almost 8,000 miles, which is longer than both Brazil's and Mexico's. From the clear blue waters of serene Cornish bays to the tempestuous seas around rugged Pembrokeshire headlands, this new book journeys around the varied shorelines of England and Wales to complete the most comprehensive survey ever taken. Fisher's journey takes him from industrial hubs to small villages and fishing communities, providing a keen insight into what makes each stretch of Britain's shoreline unique and special. Evocative and often dramatic color photographs help capture the great variety of the coast, and maps, book covers, stamps and local artifacts help convey the character of each area. This comprehensive and absorbing survey is a treasure trove of interest and knowledge for walkers, cyclists, boaters, holidaymakers and indeed anyone with an interest in coastal Britain.
This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an unusual group of primary sources to investigate how nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented Chinese people, places, and things, and how, in the process, ethnographic, geographic, and aesthetic representations of China shaped British writers' and artists' vision of their own lives and experiences. For many Britons, China was much more than a geographical location; it was also a way of seeing and being seen that could be either embraced as creative inspiration or rejected as contagious influence. In both cases, the idea of China's visual difference stood in negative contrast to Britain's evolving sense of the visual and literary real. To better grasp what Romantic and Victorian writers, artists, and architects were doing at home, we must also understand the foreign "objects" found in their midst and what they were looking at abroad.
Автор: Gilchrist Kim, Hopkins Lisa, Bruster Douglas Название: Staging Britain`s Past: Pre-Roman Britain in Early Modern Drama ISBN: 1350163341 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350163348 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 176260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Staging Britain's Past is the first study of the early modern performance of Britain's pre-Roman history. The mythic history of the founding of Britain by the Trojan exile Brute and the subsequent reign of his descendants was performed through texts such as Norton and Sackville's Gorboduc, Shakespeare's King Lear and Cymbeline, as well as civic pageants, court masques and royal entries such as Elizabeth I's 1578 entry to Norwich. Gilchrist argues for the power of performed history to shape early modern conceptions of the past, ancestry, and national destiny, and demonstrates how the erosion of the Brutan histories marks a transformation in English self-understanding and identity.
When published in 1608, Shakespeare's King Lear claimed to be a "True Chronicle History". Lear was said to have ruled Britain centuries before the Romans, a descendant of the mighty Trojan Brute who had conquered Britain and slaughtered its barbaric giants. But this was fake history. Shakespeare's contemporaries were discovering that Brute and his descendants, once widely believed as proof of glorious ancient origins, were a mischievous medieval invention. Offering a comprehensive account of the extraordinary theatrical tradition that emerged from these Brutan histories and the reasons for that tradition's disappearance, this study gathers all known evidence of the plays, pageants and masques portraying Britain's ancient rulers. Staging Britain's Past reveals how the loss of England's Trojan origins is reflected in plays and performances from Gorboduc's powerful invocation of history to Cymbeline's elegiac erosion of all notions of historical truth.
Автор: Persoff Meir Название: Hats In The Ring Choosing Britains Chief ISBN: 1618111779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618111777 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 79470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Prior to the latest Chief Rabbinical selection process, seven eminent rabbis were appointed to British Jewry's highest ecclesiastical post, although only six were installed and saw out their terms of office. The manner of their appointment was invariably coloured by intrigue, in-fighting and a host of other influences, not least an increasingly potent input by the dayanim of the London Beth Din, themselves not immune to strategic self-interest. Meir Persoff's scholarly yet accessible account of these seven appointments draws on a wealth of hitherto unaccessed and unpublished material, and on the stories of many of the protagonists involved, including in fascinating detail those who, by fair means and foul, failed to gain (or chose to reject) the coveted prize.
Автор: Brita Bergland Название: Spell ISBN: 0996748067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780996748063 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 20460.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The Los Angeles Times praises the wordplay and the richness of Bergland`s poetry, "erupting through deep forest, with all the exuberance and reticence of Emily Dickinson."
Автор: Heimarck Brita Renee Название: Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization: Village Voices and Urban Views ISBN: 1138810568 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138810563 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book explores the effects of modernization on the study, practice and performance of Balinese traditional arts, especially the shadow play, based on discourses ranging from performers to administrators.
Автор: Alcraft, Rob Hammonds, Heather Millett, Peter Mcdougall, Jill Manning, Mick Granstrom, Brita Название: Oxford reading tree infact: level 8: class pack of 36 ISBN: 0198307918 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198307914 Издательство: Oxford Education Рейтинг: Цена: 374880.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Oxford Reading Tree inFact is a non-fiction series that aims to engage children in reading for pleasure as powerfully as fiction does. This pack contains 36 books, six of each of Way-out Day Out, Mini Marvels, Wild Wheels, The Pizza Patch, Beaks and Feet, and Pick Your Queen!.
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