The Figure of the Child in WWI American, British, and Canadian Children`s Literature, Galway, Elizabeth A.

Автор: Gail Dallas Hook
Название: Protectorate Cyprus: British Imperial Power before WWI
ISBN: 1780761147 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780761145
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Cyprus was crucial to British imperial ambitions in the East as the Ottoman Empire became increasingly fragile in the nineteenth century. This title assesses education and labour policy, agriculture, harbour development and tourism and demonstrates the impact of British colonialism on the Cypriot population.

Автор: Gail Dallas Hook
Название: Protectorate Cyprus: British Imperial Power before WWI
ISBN: 1350154725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350154728
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: A strategic outpost in the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus was vital to British imperial ambitions in the East as the Ottoman Empire grew increasingly fragile in the nineteenth century. Here, Gail Dallas Hook describes the British occupation of Cyprus from 1878 to 1914, during which British government, science, and capital investment were installed alongside a new British colonial community, building 'British Cyprus' long before the island became a formal part of the British Empire. Protectorate Cyprus further demonstrates how the British attempted to bring 'good government' to Cyprus yet failed to resolve the issues of Muslim and Greek Orthodox divisions. It is a unique representation of Britain's 'informal empire' before World War I that has been little studied. Protectorate Cyprus is a crucial addition to the history of the British Empire.

Автор: Clarke G. H.
Название: A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 (WWI Centenary Series)
ISBN: 1473314119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473314115
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Описание: "The present Anthology contains a number of representative poems produced by English-speaking men and women. The editorial policy has been humanly hospitable, rather than academically critical, especially in the case of some of the verses written by soldiers at the Front, which, however slight in certain instances their technical merit may be, are yet psychologically interesting as sincere transcripts of personal experience, and will, it is thought, for that very reason, peculiarly attract and interest the reader. It goes without saying that there are several poems in this group which conspicuously succeed also as works of art. For the rest, the attempt has been made, within such limitations as have been experienced, to present pretty freely the best of what has been found available in contemporary British and American war verse." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

Автор: Naomi Morgenstern
Название: Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics
ISBN: 1517903785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517903787
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Exploring how the figure of the "wild child" in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity

In the eighteenth century, Western philosophy positioned the figure of "the child" at the border between untamed nature and rational adulthood. Contemporary cultural anxieties about the ethics and politics of reproductive choice and the crisis of parental responsibility have freighted this liminal figure with new meaning in twenty-first-century narratives.

In Wild Child, Naomi Morgenstern explores depictions of children and their adult caregivers in extreme situations--ranging from the violence of slavery and sexual captivity to accidental death, mass murder, torture, and global apocalypse--in such works as Toni Morrison's A Mercy, Cormac McCarthy's The Road, Lionel Shriver's We Need to Talk about Kevin, Emma Donoghue's Room, and Denis Villeneuve's film Prisoners. Morgenstern shows how, in such narratives, "wild" children function as symptoms of new ethical crises and existential fears raised by transformations in the technology and politics of reproduction and by increased ethical questions about the very decision to reproduce. In the face of an uncertain future that no longer confirms the confidence of patriarchal humanism, such narratives displace or project present-day apprehensions about maternal sacrifice and paternal protection onto the wildness of children in a series of hyperbolically violent scenes.

Urgent and engaging, Wild Child offers the only extended consideration of how twenty-first-century fiction has begun to imagine the decision to reproduce and the ethical challenges of posthumanist parenting.

Автор: Boucher
Название: Empire`s Children
ISBN: 1107041384 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107041387
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Empire`s Children is a pioneering new study of child emigration. Dating back to its origins, Dr Boucher charts how the desire to fulfil the Victorian concept of a global British race influenced the actions of government charities, the evolution of child welfare, and the experiences of child emigrants.

Автор: Boucher
Название: Empire`s Children
ISBN: 1316620301 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316620304
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Empire`s Children is a pioneering new study of child emigration. Dating back to its origins, Dr Boucher charts how the desire to fulfil the Victorian concept of a global British race influenced the actions of government charities, the evolution of child welfare, and the experiences of child emigrants.

Название: History of Ambulance Company Number 139 (WWI Centenary Serie
ISBN: 1473313872 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473313873
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Описание: "This book is an attempt to give a brief account of the life of the men of Ambulance Company Number 139 during their services in the Great War. It was written by the men while they were awaiting sailing orders for home, in barn-loft billets of the village of Aulnois-Sous-Vertuzey, France, while the memories of our experiences were still fresh in our minds." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

Автор: Bairnsfather, Bruce
Название: Fragments from france (wwi centenary series)
ISBN: 1473314410 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473314412
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Описание: I hope that this forecast is a true one. If this sketch book is worthy to outlast the days of the war, and to be kept for remembrance on the shelves of those who have lived through it, it will have done its bit. For will it not be a standing reminder of the ingloriousness of war, its preposterous absurdity, and of its futility as a means of settling the affairs of nations? This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

Автор: Bairnsfather, Bruce
Название: Bullets & billets (wwi centenary series)
ISBN: 1473314402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781473314405
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Описание: "Down South, in the Valley of the Somme, far from the spots recorded in this book, I began to write this story. In billets it was. I strolled across the old farmyard and into the wood beyond. Sitting by a gurgling little stream, I began, with the aid of a notebook and a pencil, to record the joys and sorrows of my first six months in France. I do not claim any unique quality for these experiences. Many thousands have had the same. I have merely, by request, made a record of my times out there, in the way that they appeared to me." This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a commemorative tribute to mark the passing of one of the world's bloodiest wars, offering new perspectives on this tragic yet fascinating period of human history. Each publication also includes brand new introductory essays and a timeline to help the reader place the work in its historical context.

Автор: Martel Gordon
Название: The Month That Changed the World: July 1914 and Wwi
ISBN: 0199665397 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199665396
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The dramatic step-by-step account of how the assassination of an Austrian archduke in the Balkans led to the cataclysm of the First World War over five fateful weeks in the summer of 1914.

Автор: Tunstall Graydon A.
Название: Written in Blood: The Battles for Fortress Przemyl in Wwi
ISBN: 0253021979 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253021977
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Bloodier than Verdun, the battles for Fortress Przemyl were pivotal to victory on the Eastern Front during the early years of World War I. Control of the fortress changed hands three times during the fall of 1914. In 1915, the Austro-Hungarian armies launched three major offensives to penetrate the Russian encirclement and relieve the 120,000 trapped in the besieged fortress. Drawing on myriad sources, historian Graydon A. Tunstall tells of the impossible conditions facing the garrison: starvation, "horse-meat" diets, deplorable medical care, prostitution, alcoholism, dismal morale, and a failed breakout attempt. By the time the fortress finally fell to the Russians on March 22, 1915, the Hapsburg Army had sustained 800,000 casualties; the Russians, over a million. The fortress, however, had served its purpose. Tunstall argues that the besieged garrison kept the Russian army from advancing farther and obliterating the already weakening Austro-Hungarian forces at the outset of the War to End All Wars.

Автор: Woofenden Todd a.
Название: Hunters of the Steel Sharks: The Submarine Chasers of Wwi
ISBN: 0978919203 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780978919207
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In 1918, a war time fleet of 303 U.S. submarine chasers formed a new offensive against the enemy, armed with depth charges, deck guns and an array of new, top secret submarine detection and pursuit devices.

These miniature wooden war ships, the smallest commissioned vessels in the American navy, were the first major deployment mechanism for early antisubmarine warfare equipment, and were remarkable in their capabilities and service: Chasers crossed the Atlantic Ocean on their own power; performed submarine hunts and attacks from bases in Plymouth, Queenstown (Cobh) and Corfu; assisted with post-war diplomacy along the eastern shore of the Adriatic Sea; helped facilitate troop evacuation in northern Russia; and participated in the clearing of the North Sea mine barrage.

This is the history of the submarine chasers of the Great War, extensively illustrated with period photographs and diagrams, and rich with personal anecdotes, an up-close account of the early days of ASW based on rare, unpublished documents.2006, Signal Light Books. Softcover, 218 pages.