Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams

Название: England in the Age of Shakespeare
ISBN: 0253042305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253042309
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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How did it feel to hear Macbeth's witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard's era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare's plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare's audiences would have recognized. These moments of recognition often reflected the audience's own experiences of what it was to, as Hamlet says, "grunt and sweat under a weary life." Black's clear and sweeping approach seeks to reclaim Shakespeare from the ivory tower and make the plays' histories more accessible to the public for whom the plays were always intended.

Автор: Adams Ephraim Douglass
Название: Great Britain and the American Civil War
ISBN: 1374875880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781374875883
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Автор: Szasz Ferenc Morton
Название: Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends
ISBN: 0809337657 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780809337651
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Описание: Today the images of Robert Burns and Abraham Lincoln are recognized worldwide, yet few are aware of the connection between the two. In Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns: Connected Lives and Legends, author Ferenc Morton Szasz reveals how famed Scots poet Robert Burns—and Scotland in general—influenced the life and thought of one of the most beloved and important U.S. presidents and how the legends of the two men became intertwined after their deaths. This is the first extensive work to link the influence, philosophy, and artistry of these two larger-than-life figures. Lacking a major national poet of their own in the early nineteenth century, Americans in the fledgling frontier country ardently adopted the poignant verses and songs of Scotland’s Robert Burns. Lincoln, too, was fascinated by Scotland’s favorite son and enthusiastically quoted the Scottish bard from his teenage years to the end of his life. Szasz explores the ways in which Burns’s portrayal of the foibles of human nature, his scorn for religious hypocrisy, his plea for nonjudgmental tolerance, and his commitment to social equality helped shape Lincoln’s own philosophy of life. The volume also traces how Burns’s lyrics helped Lincoln develop his own powerful sense of oratorical rhythm, from his casual anecdotal stories to his major state addresses.Abraham Lincoln and Robert Burns connects the poor-farm-boy upbringings, the quasi-deistic religious views, the shared senses of destiny, the extraordinary gifts for words, and the quests for social equality of two respected and beloved world figures. This book is enhanced by twelve illustrations and two appendixes, which include Burns poems Lincoln particularly admired and Lincoln writings especially admired in Scotland.

Автор: Chris R. Langley
Название: The National Covenant in Scotland, 1638-1689
ISBN: 1783275308 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781783275304
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: What did it mean to be a Covenanter?

Название: History of Britain & Ireland
ISBN: 1409346269 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409346265
Издательство: Британия Холдинг
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Описание: Traces the key events that have shaped the British Isles. From the Elizabethan age of Shakespeare to the Iraq and Afghan wars of the 21st century, this book offers a definitive visual chronicle of the most colourful and defining episodes in British history.

Автор: Pramod K. Nayar
Название: The British Raj: Keywords
ISBN: 0367279746 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367279745
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book documents the words and terms that the British used to describe, define, understand and judge the subcontinent. It offers insights into the cultures of the Raj, through a sampling of its various terms, concepts and nomenclature.

Автор: Neufeld Matthew
Название: Civil Wars After 1660
ISBN: 184383815X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843838159
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Описание: This book examines the conflicting ways in which the civil wars and Interregnum were remembered, constructed and represented in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. It argues that during the late Stuart period, public remembering of the English civil wars and Interregnum was not concerned with re-fighting the old struggle but rather with commending and justifying, or contesting and attacking, the Restoration settlements. After the return of King Charles II the political nation had to address the question of remembering and forgetting the recent conflict. The answer was to construct a polity grounded on remembering and scapegoating puritan politics and piety. The proscription of the puritan impulse enacted by the Restoration settlements was supported by a public memory of the 1640s and 1650s which was used to show that Dissenters could not, and should not, be trusted with power. Drawing upon the interdisciplinary field of social memory studies, this book offers a new perspective on the historical and political cultures of early modern England, and will be of significant interest to social, cultural and political historians as well as scholars working in memory studies. Matthew Neufeld is Lecturer in early modern British history at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.

Автор: Jeffries
Название: The Colonial Empire and its Civil Service
ISBN: 1107475023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107475021
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Originally published in 1938, this book provides a history of the civil service in British colonies, as well as a review of the contemporary colonial service. Jeffries also details the financial organisation of colonial governments, as well as a summary of appointments to colonial posts from 1921 to 1936.

Автор: Clark
Название: Everyday Violence in the Irish Civil War
ISBN: 1316635279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316635278
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book provides an innovative study of the violence experienced by non-combatants during the Irish Civil War of 1922-3. The author surveys the function and frequency of violent acts ranging from arson, intimidation and animal maiming, to assault, murder and sexual abuse that transpired amongst civilians and revolutionaries throughout the period of conflict.

Автор: Firth
Название: The Parallel between the English and American Civil Wars
ISBN: 1107673615 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107673618
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Originally published in 1910, this book addresses the parallels between the English and American civil wars in order to bring out the special characteristics of each. The similarities between the two wars were commented upon during the American civil war but the conflicts differ from one another in several important ways, which Firth highlights.

Автор: Langley, Chris R. (newman University, Uk)
Название: Worship, civil war and community, 1638-1660
ISBN: 1848935218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781848935211
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book provides readers with an insight into the complexities of parish-worship during the momentous conflicts of the mid-seventeenth century. Using local source material, the study assesses the flexible and varied responses of parishes across Scotland and the degree of local negotiation of official Church policy.

Автор: Morrill, Lecturer In History And Fellow John (bishop Grosseteste University Lincoln)
Название: Nature of the english revolution
ISBN: 1138161845 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138161849
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Описание: John Morrill has been at the forefront of modern attempts to explain the origins, nature and consequences of the English Revolution. These twenty essays -- seven either specially written or reproduced from generally inaccessible sources -- illustrate the main scholarly debates to which he has so richly contributed: the tension between national and provincial politics; the idea of the English Revolution as "the last of the European Wars of Religion''; its British dimension; and its political sociology. Taken together, they offer a remarkably coherent account of the period as a whole.