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A Cruel Necessity

Author : L.C. Tyler
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472115058
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book A Cruel Necessity written by L.C. Tyler and published by Constable. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first John Grey historical mystery The theatres are padlocked. Christmas has been cancelled. It is 1657 and the unloved English Republic is eight years old. Though Cromwell's joyless grip on power appears immovable, many still look to Charles Stuart's dissolute and threadbare court-in-exile, and some are prepared to risk their lives plotting a restoration. For the officers of the Republic, constant vigilance is needed. So, when the bloody corpse of a Royalist spy is discovered on the dung heap of a small Essex village, why is the local magistrate so reluctant to investigate? John Grey, a young lawyer with no clients, finds himself alone in believing that the murdered man deserves justice. Grey is drawn into a vortex of plot and counter-plot and into the all-encompassing web of intrigue spun by Cromwell's own spy-master, John Thurloe. So when nothing is what is seems, can Grey trust anyone? 'Tyler juggles his characters, story wit and clever one liners with perfect balance' - The Times 'A cracking pace, lively dialogue, wickedly witty one-liners salted with sophistication . . . Why would we not want more of John Grey?' - The Bookbag

Cruel Necessity

Author : Oliver Woodman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781973146797
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book Cruel Necessity written by Oliver Woodman and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England. 1600s. As the first of the battles of the English Civil War subside, the Souter family retreats to the family farm in Suffolk. As Josiah Souter slowly recuperates from the shocks of war, his father John tends him, along with others of their community and beyond, who have been bereaved or traumatised by their wartime experiences. It seems that life is getting back to normal. But it cannot last. The embers of the war flare again, and the country plunges once more into battle. For many at the farm, their friends and associates, the pull of war and their chosen cause is inescapable. But even as they fight, there is land to manage, communities to sustain. And of course, there is the small matter of England's future to be determined. As the battles rage, who will win their freedom and who will lose everything -- both on the battlefield, and at home? Cruel Necessity is a fast-paced and engaging story that gives readers a fascinating, detailed description of both the battlefield and domestic sphere at this crucial period in the UK's history. With a cast of engaging characters it will appeal not only to fans of history and historic novels, but to anybody who enjoys an engaging and immersive tale. Praise for Oliver Woodman 'Meticulous historical fiction'- Richard Foreman Oliver Woodman's working life gave him a wonderful training in the written and spoken word. But history was always a great love, as was communicating its fascination. Immersion in the seventeenth century began with childhood lectures over Sunday lunch from his father. Apart from recreating a luxuriant historical texture, Oliver Woodman's main achievement is to look at choices from different points of view and provide an insight into how attitudes and beliefs reflect the worlds into which we are born and live.

Cruel Necessity

Author : Patricia Gregori
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953230600
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Cruel Necessity written by Patricia Gregori and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Understanding World Religions

Author : David Whitten Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742550551
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Understanding World Religions written by David Whitten Smith and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding World Religions studies major worldviews in relation to justice and peace: Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Marxist, and Native American. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is given as a case study for how worldviews impact justice and peace. Further chapters explore Christian social teaching, liberation theologies, active nonviolence, and just war theory.

Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence

Author : Martin Holtz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429603665
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Constructions of Agency in American Literature on the War of Independence written by Martin Holtz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the negotiation of agency is central not only to the experience of war but also to its representation in cultural expressions, ranging from a notion of disablement, expressed in victimization, immobilization, traumatization, and death, to enablement, expressed in the perpetration of heroic, courageous, skillful, and powerful actions of assertion and dominance. In order to illustrate this thesis, it provides a comprehensive analysis of literary representations of the American War of Independence from 1775, the beginning of the war, up until roughly 1860, when the Civil War marked a decisive historical turning point. As the first national war, it has an unquestionably exemplary status for the development of American conceptions of war. The in-depth study of exemplary texts from a variety of genres and by authors like Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Sedgwick, William Gilmore Simms, and Herman Melville, demonstrates that the overall character of Revolutionary War literature presents the war as a forum in which collective and individual agency is expressed, defended, and cultivated. It uses the military environment in order to teach the values of discipline and self-subordination to a communal good, which are perceived as basic principles of a Republican virtue to guide the actions of the autonomous individual in a popular democracy.

Loving and Being Loved

Author : Annette Marie Maillard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Loving and Being Loved written by Annette Marie Maillard and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grip

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Grip written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oliver Cromwell

Author : Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Cromwell written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Cromwell is a biography written by Samuel Rawson Gardiner. Oliver Cromwell was an English general who commanded the armies of the Parliament of England in opposition to King Charles I throughout the English Civil War.

War: A Cruel Necessity?

Author : Robert A. Hinde
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781850438243
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book War: A Cruel Necessity? written by Robert A. Hinde and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 1994-12-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History is often presented in terms of a series of conquests and conflicts, a perpetual cycle of war and peace. As a result, there is rarely a focus on the socio-cultural dynamics and institutional mechanisms which maintain patterns of violence. This book examines the important questions which have often been ignored: how does war come to be seen as an acceptable way of solving conflict? How do combatants understand their roles in different situations of violence? What factors complicate the commonplace view that war is 'a cruel necessity'?

Works ...

Author : Sydney Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Works ... written by Sydney Smith and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Modern British Essayists

Author : Francis Jeffrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Modern British Essayists written by Francis Jeffrey and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Author : Sir James Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical and Miscellaneous Essays written by Sir James Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critical and Miscellaneous Writings

Author : Thomas Noon Talfourd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Critical and Miscellaneous Writings written by Thomas Noon Talfourd and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Author : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical and Miscellaneous Essays written by Sir James Fitzjames Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd

Author : Thomas Noon Talfourd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd written by Thomas Noon Talfourd and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith. Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays

Author : Sydney Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith. Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays written by Sydney Smith and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Judging the Past

Author : Geoffrey Scarre
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031345118
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Judging the Past written by Geoffrey Scarre and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an extended argument for the thesis that people of the present day are not debarred in principle from passing moral judgement on people who lived in former days, notwithstanding the inevitable differences in social and cultural circumstances that separate us. Some philosophers argue that because we can see things only from our own peculiar historical situation, we lack a sufficiently objective vantage point from which to appraise past people and their acts. If they are correct, then the judgements passed by twenty-first-century people must inevitably be biased and irrelevant, grounded on moral standards that would have seemed alien in that 'foreign country' of the past. This book challenges this relativistic position, contending that it seriously underestimates our ability to engage imaginatively with people who, however much their lifestyles may have differed from our own, were our fellow human beings, endowed with the same basic instincts, aversions, desires and aspirations. Taking a stand on a naturalistic theory of human beings, coupled with a Kantian conception of the equal worth of all human members of the Kingdom of Ends, Scarre argues that historical moral judgements can be sensitive to circumstances, fitting and fair, and untainted by anachronism. The discussion ends by examining the implications of this position for the practice of historians and for the ethics of memory and commemoration.