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Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Century of Dishonor written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108072070
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A Century of Dishonour written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1881 work addresses the history of broken treaties and massacres suffered by Native American tribes in the nineteenth century.
Author : James Adair
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108060188
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The History of the American Indians written by James Adair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique upon publication in 1775, this history provides an invaluable insight into Native American social and political culture.
Author : David Rakoff
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385676174
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish written by David Rakoff and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the incomparable David Rakoff, a poignant, beautiful, witty and wise novel in verse whose scope spans the 20th Century. David Rakoff, who died in 2012 at the age of 47, built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists of our time. This intricately woven novel, written with humour, sympathy and tenderness, proves him the master of an altogether different art form. Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die; Cherish, Perish leaps cities and decades as Rakoff, a Canadian who became an American citizen, sings the song of his adoptive homeland--a country whose freedoms can be intoxicating, or brutal. Here the characters' lives are linked to each other by acts of generosity or cruelty. A critic once called Rakoff "magnificent," a word which perfectly describes this wonderful novel in verse.
Author : Jill Paton Walsh
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312355364
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Debts of Dishonor written by Jill Paton Walsh and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-04-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Booker Prize finalist Walsh returns to her series set at Cambridge Universityfeaturing amateur sleuth Imogen Quy.
Author : Niels F. May
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000396347
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book National History and New Nationalism in the Twenty-First Century written by Niels F. May and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought on the terrain of popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has taken on a newly important and contested role. Irrespective of national specifics, the narratives of new nationalism are quite similar everywhere. National history is said to stretch back many centuries, expressesing the historical continuity of a homogeneous people and its timeless character. This people struggles for independence, guided by towering leaders and inspired by the sacrifice of martyrs. Unlike earlier forms of nationalism, the main enemies are no longer neighbouring states, but international and supranational institutions. To use national history as an integrative tool, new nationalists claim that the media and school history curricula should not contest or question the nation and its great historical deeds, as doubts threaten to weaken and dishonour the nation. This book offers a broad international overview of the rhetoric, contents, and contexts of the rise of these renewed national historical narratives, and of how professional historians have reacted to these phenomena. The contributions focus on a wide range of representative nations from around all over the globe.
Author : william christie macleod
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Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book the american indian frontier written by william christie macleod and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine de Pizan
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961015
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Treasure of the City of Ladies written by Christine de Pizan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2003-10-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Europe’s first professional woman writer, The Treasure of the City of Ladies offers advice and guidance to women of all ages and from all levels of medieval society, from royal courtiers to prostitutes. It paints an intricate picture of daily life in the courts and streets of fifteenth-century France and gives a fascinating glimpse into the practical considerations of running a household, dressing appropriately and maintaining a reputation in all circumstances. Christine de Pizan’s book provides a valuable counterbalance to male accounts of life in the middle ages and demonstrates, often with dry humour, how a woman’s position in society could be made less precarious by following the correct etiquette.
Author : Joanne B. Freeman
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717613
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Field of Blood written by Joanne B. Freeman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the best history books I've read in the last few years." —Chris Hayes The Field of Blood recounts the previously untold story of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ONE OF SMITHSONIAN'S BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF THE YEAR Historian Joanne B. Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, she shows that the Capitol was rife with conflict in the decades before the Civil War. Legislative sessions were often punctuated by mortal threats, canings, flipped desks, and all-out slugfests. When debate broke down, congressmen drew pistols and waved Bowie knives. One representative even killed another in a duel. Many were beaten and bullied in an attempt to intimidate them into compliance, particularly on the issue of slavery. These fights didn’t happen in a vacuum. Freeman’s dramatic accounts of brawls and thrashings tell a larger story of how fisticuffs and journalism, and the powerful emotions they elicited, raised tensions between North and South and led toward war. In the process, she brings the antebellum Congress to life, revealing its rough realities—the feel, sense, and sound of it—as well as its nation-shaping import. Funny, tragic, and rivetingly told, The Field of Blood offers a front-row view of congressional mayhem and sheds new light on the careers of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and other luminaries, as well as introducing a host of lesser-known but no less fascinating men. The result is a fresh understanding of the workings of American democracy and the bonds of Union on the eve of their greatest peril.
Author : Kathy Stuart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521027212
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Defiled Trades and Social Outcasts written by Kathy Stuart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a social and cultural history of 'dishonourable people' (unehrliche Leute), an outcast group in early modern Germany. Executioners, skinners, grave-diggers, shepherds, barber-surgeons, millers, linen-weavers, sow-gelders, latrine-cleaners, and bailiffs were among the 'dishonourable' by virtue of their trades. It shows the extent to which dishonour determined the life-chances and self-identity of dishonourable people. Taking Augsburg as a prime example, it investigates how honourable estates interacted with dishonourable people, and shows how the pollution anxieties of early modern Germans structured social and political relations within honourable society.
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Areopagitica written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Shields Kollmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501706950
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book By Honor Bound written by Nancy Shields Kollmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Russians from all ranks of society were bound together by a culture of honor. Here one of the foremost scholars of early modern Russia explores the intricate and highly stylized codes that made up this culture. Nancy Shields Kollmann describes how these codes were manipulated to construct identity and enforce social norms—and also to defend against insults, to pursue vendettas, and to unsettle communities. She offers evidence for a new view of the relationship of state and society in the Russian empire, and her richly comparative approach enhances knowledge of statebuilding in premodern Europe. By presenting Muscovite state and society in the context of medieval and early modern Europe, she exposes similarities that blur long-standing distinctions between Russian and European history.Through the prism of honor, Kollmann examines the interaction of the Russian state and its people in regulating social relations and defining an individual's rank. She finds vital information in a collection of transcripts of legal suits brought by elites and peasants alike to avenge insult to honor. The cases make clear the conservative role honor played in society as well as the ability of men and women to employ this body of ideas to address their relations with one another and with the state. Kollmann demonstrates that the grand princes—and later the tsars—tolerated a surprising degree of local autonomy throughout their rapidly expanding realm. Her work marks a stark contrast with traditional Russian historiography, which exaggerates the power of the state and downplays the volition of society.
Author : Sir George Abraham Grierson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Modern Vernacular Literature of Hindustan written by Sir George Abraham Grierson and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen Hunt Jackson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book A Calendar of Sonnets written by Helen Hunt Jackson and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Goddard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0552164526
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Take No Farewell written by Robert Goddard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love stories. Geoffrey Staddon had never forgotten the house called Clouds Frome, his first important commission and the best thing he had ever done as an architect. Twelve years before the day in September 1923 when a paragraph in the newspaper made his blood run cold, he had turned his back on it for the last time, turned his back on the woman he loved, and who loved him. But when he read that Consuela Caswell had been charged with murder by poisoning he knew, with a certainty that defied the great divide of all those years, that she could not be guilty. As the remorse and shame of his own betrayal of her came flooding back, he knew too that he could not let matters rest. And when she sent her own daughter to him, pleading for help, he knew that he must return at last to Clouds Frome and to the dark secret that it held.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus written by William Shakespeare and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.
Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (933 download)
Download or read book A History of England in the Eighteenth Century written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
