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Bearing Witness

Author : Claas Kirchhelle
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030627926
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Bearing Witness written by Claas Kirchhelle and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access book is the biography of one of Britain’s foremost animal welfare campaigners and of the world of activism, science, and politics she inhabited. In 1964, Ruth Harrison’s bestseller Animal Machines triggered a gear change in modern animal protection by popularising the term ‘factory farming’ alongside a new way of thinking about animal welfare. Here, historian Claas Kirchhelle explores Harrison’s avant-garde upbringing, Quakerism, and how animal welfare debates were linked to concerns about the wider ethical and environmental trajectories of post-war Britain. Breaking the myth of Harrison as a one-hit wonder, Kirchhelle reconstructs Harrison’s 46 years of campaigning and the rapid transformation of welfare politics and science during this time. Exacerbated by Harrison’s own actions, the decades after 1964 saw a polarisation of animalpolitics, a professionalisation of British activism, and the rise of a new animal welfare science. Harrison’s belief in incremental reform allowed her to form ties to leading scientists but alienated her from more radical campaigners. Many of her 1964 demands gradually became part of mainstream politics. However, farm animal welfare’s increasing marketisation has also led to a relative divorce from the wider agenda of social improvement that Harrison once bore witness to. This is the first book to cast light on the interlinked histories of British farm animal welfare activism, science, and legislation. Its unique scope allows it to go beyond existing accounts of modern British animal welfare and will be of interest to those interested in animal welfare, environmentalism, and the behavioural sciences.

Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society

Author : Bryan Cheyette
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521558778
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Constructions of 'the Jew' in English Literature and Society written by Bryan Cheyette and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-26 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining cultural theory, discourse analysis and new historicism with readings of the works of major contemporary authors, this study concludes that "the Jew" is characterized unstereotypically as the embodiment of uncertainty within English literature and society.

The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bernard Shaw

Author : A. M. Gibbs
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813059496
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by A. M. Gibbs and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2005-11-23 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Shaw fashioned public images of himself that belied the nature and depth of his emotional experiences and the complexity of his intellectual outlook. In this absorbing biography, noted Shavian authority A. M. Gibbs debunks many of the elements that form the foundation of Shaw's self-created legend--from his childhood (which was not the loveless experience he claimed publicly), to his sexual relationships with several women, to his marriage, his politics, his Irish identity, and his controversial philosophy of Creative Evolution. Drawing on previously unpublished materials, including never-before-seen photographs and early sketches by Shaw, Gibbs offers a fresh perspective and brings us closer than ever before to the human being behind the masks.

Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1142 pages
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Download or read book Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sir Robert Ho Tung

Author : May Holdsworth
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888754246
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Sir Robert Ho Tung written by May Holdsworth and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Robert Ho Tung (1862–1954) is a compelling figure in Hong Kong history. He is regularly portrayed as the colony’s greatest philanthropist and wealthiest man of his day, the first Chinese to live on the Peak, and, at the end of his life, the ‘Grand Old Man of Hongkong’. The illegitimate son of a Chinese mother and European father, he was highly sensitive about his mixed heritage though he consistently made the most of his fate. He was a man perfectly in tune with his place and time, his success driven as much by his entrepreneurial talents as by his being Eurasian. This book shows him in all his immense variety—clerk with the Imperial Maritime Customs, chief compradore of Jardine Matheson, financial wizard, husband and lover, patriarch of a large family of five sons and eight daughters, loyal British subject but also, paradoxically, Chinese patriot. China’s president Yuan Shikai awarded him the Order of the Excellent Crop, and King George V knighted him. May Holdsworth’s thoughtful and deftly written account of the life is the first full-length biography in English. Given unique and unprecedented access to family and personal papers, including letters, diaries, notes, and photographs, she offers a nuanced perspective on a public but also private man. Her book will be a rich resource for historians and general readers interested in the men and women who played a key part in the shaping of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Hong Kong. ‘With painstaking research using an invaluable cache of private letters, family photographs, and other rarely seen archival materials, May Holdsworth has produced a definitive English-language biography of Hong Kong’s Grand Old Man, Sir Robert Ho Tung, as both public figure and private man. A must-read for anyone interested in Hong Kong history.’ —Emma J. Teng, Massachusetts Institute of Technology ‘This biography of Sir Robert Ho Tung is well written, well organized, and based on original unpublished documentary sources that have not been previously utilized. Though of a scholarly nature, it is eminently readable and should appeal to a broad readership, including lovers of Hong Kong history.’ —Edward J. M. Rhoads, University of Texas at Austin

Bernard Shaw and His Publishers

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Bernard Shaw and His Publishers written by Bernard Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bernard Shaw

Author : Margery M. Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Margery M. Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Apple Cart, Too True to Be Good, on the Rocks, and Millionairess

Author : Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198809948
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Apple Cart, Too True to Be Good, on the Rocks, and Millionairess written by Bernard Shaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four dramas in this volume are some of George Bernard Shaw's most interesting plays. They stretch from 1929 to 1935 and coincide with the Great Depression, the intensification of the crisis of democracy that began after the war, and the rise of totalitarianism, all of which find expressionin these plays. They also signal the beginning of an important new phase in Shaw's writing, one marked especially by the development of two new Shaw genres: the political extravaganza and the political allegory.The Apple Cart (1929) marked Shaw's return to playwriting after the long hiatus that followed Saint Joan (1923). The Apple Cart is perhaps the most pointed critique of parliamentary democracy in the entire Shavian canon.Too True to Be Good (1931) is another 'political extravaganza', with the opening stage direction - 'The patient is sleeping heavily. Near her, in the easy chair, sits a Monster' - signaling that Shaw is advancing further into uncharted dramaturgical territory. He began writing shortly before histrip to the Soviet Union and finished the play and wrote the preface after his return. In the preface Shaw asserts that the USSR is a new Catholic church.The dark mood continues in Shaw's next play, On the Rocks (1933) which Shaw subtitled, 'a political comedy'. It is reminiscent of The Apple Cart in that it is sharply focused on British politics and set in the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street during the economic depression of the 1930s.Shaw started writing The Millionairess in 1934 and finished it in 1935. On the surface, it is a simple comedy, and if not for the preface we might acquiesce to Shaw's assessment that the play 'oes not pretend to be anything more than a comedy of humorous and curious contemporary characters such asBen Jonson might write'. Yet the preface appended to the play is entirely about leadership and declaims at great length on Mussolini and Hitler.

Bernard Shaw

Author : Dan H. Laurence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw written by Dan H. Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803834
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Warren's Profession, Candida, and You Never Can Tell are plays which give a clear sense of the range of Shaw's first forays into playwriting. Together they showcase his early negotiations between his political and social concerns and the constraints and possibilities of the British stageat the fin de siecle.These plays are bound together by shared concerns with gender roles, sexuality, concepts of familial and social duty, and how all these are shaped by wider financial, political, literary, philosophical and theatrical influences.Mrs Warren's Profession is the best known of Shaw's 'Plays Unpleasant', his first exercises in using the theatre as a means to awaken the consciences of morally complacent audiences. Written in 1893 in angry response to the success of A. W. Pinero's sensational hit The Second Mrs Tanqueray and arevival of Dumas's La dame aux camelias, Mrs Warren's Profession did not receive a public performance in Britain until 1925. Shaw's provocative response to the sentimental 'fallen woman' plays that dominated the fin-de-siecle stage was a play in which prostitution was presented not as a question offemale sexual morality, but as a direct result of the systematic economic exploitation of women.Candida (1894), by contrast, was categorised by Shaw as one of his 'Plays Pleasant', but the label was characteristically deceptive. The play appeared at first sight to offer audiences a reassuringly familiar drama of a marriage threatened by an interloper but ultimately reaffirmed when the wiferecognises her true place and her dangerous admirer is sent out into the cold. But, as critics have noted, the play was a re-working by Shaw of Ibsen's A Doll's House in which the husband played the part of the over-protected doll, unaware of the real power dynamics of his marriage.You Never Can Tell (1897) was Shaw's seaside comedy of manners, complete with an all-knowing waiter, exuberant twins, a lovelorn dentist, a long-lost father, lashings of food, and a comic catchphrase to provide the title. Shaw took all these familiar elements of Victorian farce and reworked theminto a modern play of ideas, in which etiquette and ideologies collide. Just as in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest (a comparison which Shaw always stubbornly rejected), questions of class, marriage, manners, money, sex and identity underpin the plot of love-at-first-sight, mislaid parentsand reunited families.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1951 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1A: Books and Part 1B: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections

Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Player's Library

Author : British Drama League. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
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Download or read book The Player's Library written by British Drama League. Library and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition

Author : Michael Holroyd
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393343715
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Bernard Shaw: The One-Volume Definitive Edition written by Michael Holroyd and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-09 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We regard Mr. Holroyd with awe, as a prodigy among biographers."—The New York Times Book Review In a single-volume format, Michael Holroyd's masterpiece of a biography offers new verve and pace; Shaw's world is more dramatically revealed as Holroyd counterpoints the private and public Shaw with inimitable insight and scholarship.

Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara

Author : George Bernard Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198828853
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Man and Superman, John Bull's Other Island, and Major Barbara written by George Bernard Shaw and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate George Bernard Shaw remains one of the world's most important and popular writers. His plays are regularly performed around the world, from the boards of Broadway and the West End to regional, community, and college stages.The three plays selected here are widely considered to be three of the most important in the canon of modern British theatre:Man and Superman: a four-act comedy for serious people, staged in part at Royal court in 1905, it is one of the early works of Modernism to take an ancient myth and restage it in contemporary mode (and its influence extends across world literature, palpable in writings from Mann to Joyce). Its storyof how a sensitive woman compels a superman-figure to adjust to her needs and those of the real world provides an updated commentary on Nietzsche's still-fashionable notions of ubermensch; and its famous third act introduces a persistent Shavian theme, which goes back as far as earliest religiousliterature-that the truly damned are those who are happy in hell.John Bull's Other Island takes up that idea: to the visionary, hell may be the ultimate modern dream of efficiency and rational administration, as manifested in a colonial Ireland run by liberal exploiters. Commissioned by WB Yeats to mark the opening of Ireland's National Theatre, the Abbey, theplay was promptly refused by its Directors (who disliked its mechanical mockeries of mechanism but may have missed its visionary qualities). It was performed to huge acclaim in London in November 1904 and it made Shaw famous, the supreme example of the Playwright as Thinker and, ever afterwards,one of the most valued commentators on Anglo-Irish relations.Major Barbara: a three-act drama which in classic Shavian style unmasks the motivation of puritan idealists and dedicated industrialists, this work (like the previous two) pits a strong woman against a sardonic, practical man. Having exposed the mendacity of apostles of efficiency, Shaw seems thento submit to their doctrine, arguing that a pure private charity towards the destitute is no adequate substitute. Like the previous two works, this is a problem play, in the course of which the audience sympathy is aroused and then repelled in all directions. The suggestion that it may be acceptableto take money from tainted sources, such as arms manufacturers, caused much debate in 1905 - and even more after the carnage wrought by mechanized guns in World War One.