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Author : Epsom College
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Register from October, 1855, to July, 1905 written by Epsom College and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Walter Besant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book By Celia's Arbour : a Tale of Portsmouth Town written by Sir Walter Besant and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Balfour Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Lessons in Elementary Physics written by Balfour Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John M. MacKenzie
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526119560
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Imperialism and Popular Culture written by John M. MacKenzie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular culture is invariably a vehicle for the dominant ideas of its age. Never was this more true than in the late-19th and early 20th centuries, when it reflected the nationalist and imperialist ideologies current throughout Europe. This text examines the various media through which nationalist ideas were conveyed in late-Victorian and Edwardian times - in the theatre, "ethnic" shows, juvenile literature, education and the iconography of popular art. Several chapters look beyond World War I, when the most popular media, cinema and broadcasting, continued to convey an essentially late-19th-century world view, while government agencies like the Empire Marketing Board sought to convince the public of the economic value of empire. Youth organizations, which had propagated imperialist and militarist attitudes before the war, struggled to adapt to the new internationalist climate.
Author : Brian Stoddart
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526123827
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The imperial game written by Brian Stoddart and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports history offers many profound insights into the character and complexities of modern imperial rule. This book examines the fortunes of cricket in various colonies as the sport spread across the British Empire. It helps to explain why cricket was so successful, even in places like India, Pakistan and the West Indies where the Anglo-Saxon element remained in a small minority. The story of imperial cricket is really about the colonial quest for identity in the face of the colonisers' search for authority. The cricket phenomenon was established in nineteenth-century England when the Victorians began glorifying the game as a perfect system of manners, ethics and morals. Cricket has exemplified the colonial relationship between England and Australia and expressed imperialist notions to the greatest extent. In the study of the transfer of imperial cultural forms, South Africa provides one of the most fascinating case studies. From its beginnings in semi-organised form through its unfolding into a contemporary internationalised structure, Caribbean cricket has both marked and been marked by a tight affiliation with complex social processing in the islands and states which make up the West Indies. New Zealand rugby demonstrates many of the themes central to cricket in other countries. While cricket was played in India from 1721 and the Calcutta Cricket Club is probably the second oldest cricket club in the world, the indigenous population was not encouraged to play cricket.
Author : Gunter W. Kienast
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)
Download or read book The Medals of Karl Goetz written by Gunter W. Kienast and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the study of the life, work, and inspiration of the medalist Karl Goetz, who lived from 1875 to 1950. The text describes many of the medals and coins he created.
Author : Daniel Gorman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719075292
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Imperial Citizenship written by Daniel Gorman and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the ideological foundations of British imperialism in the early twentieth century by focussing on the heretofore understudied concept of imperial citizenship.
Author : Bernard Porter
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191513415
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Absent-Minded Imperialists written by Bernard Porter and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-11-25 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for example, on her economy, security, population, and eating habits. One might expect this to have been reflected in her society and culture. Indeed, this has now become the conventional wisdom: that Britain was steeped in imperialism domestically, which affected (or infected) almost everything Britons thought, felt, and did. This is the first book to examine this assumption critically against the broader background of contemporary British society. Bernard Porter, a leading imperial historian, argues that the empire had a far lower profile in Britain than it did abroad. Many Britons could hardly have been aware of it for most of the nineteenth century and only a small number was in any way committed to it. Between these extremes opinions differed widely over what was even meant by the empire. This depended largely on class, and even when people were aware of the empire, it had no appreciable impact on their thinking about anything else. Indeed, the influence far more often went the other way, with perceptions of the empire being affected (or distorted) by more powerful domestic discourses. Although Britain was an imperial nation in this period, she was never a genuine imperial society. As well as showing how this was possible, Porter also discusses the implications of this attitude for Britain and her empire, and for the relationship between culture and imperialism more generally, bringing his study up to date by including the case of the present-day USA.
Author : Andrew August
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317877977
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The British Working Class 1832-1940 written by Andrew August and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful new study, Andrew August examines the British working class in the period when Britain became a mature industrial power, working men and women dominated massive new urban populations, and the extension of suffrage brought them into the political nation for the first time. Framing his subject chronologically, but treating it thematically, August gives a vivid account of working class life between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, examining the issues and concerns central to working-class identity. Identifying shared patterns of experience in the lives of workers, he avoids the limitations of both traditional historiography dominated by economic determinism and party politics, and the revisionism which too readily dismisses the importance of class in British society.
Author : Helen B. McCartney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139448093
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Citizen Soldiers written by Helen B. McCartney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popular image of the British soldier in the First World War is of a passive victim, caught up in events beyond his control, and isolated from civilian society. This book offers a different vision of the soldier's experience of war. Using letters and official sources relating to Liverpool units, Helen McCartney shows how ordinary men were able to retain their civilian outlook and use it to influence their experience in the trenches. These citizen soldiers came to rely on local, civilian loyalties and strong links with home to bolster their morale, whilst their civilian backgrounds helped them challenge those in command if they felt they were being treated unfairly. The book examines the soldier not only in his military context but in terms of his social and cultural life. It will appeal to anyone wishing to understand how the British soldier thought and behaved during the First World War.
Author : Brad Beaven
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137483164
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Port Towns and Urban Cultures written by Brad Beaven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the port’s prominence in maritime history, its cultural significance has long been neglected in favour of its role within economic and imperial networks. Defined by their intersection of maritime and urban space, port towns were sites of complex cultural exchanges. This book, the product of international scholarship, offers innovative and challenging perspectives on the cultural histories of ports, ranging from eighteenth-century Africa to twentieth-century Australasia and Europe. The essays in this important collection explore two key themes; the nature and character of ‘sailortown’ culture and port-town life, and the representations of port towns that were forged both within and beyond urban-maritime communities. The book’s exploration of port town identities and cultures, and its use of a rich array of methodological approaches and cultural artefacts, will make it of great interest to both urban and maritime historians. It also represents a major contribution to the emerging, interdisciplinary field of coastal studies.
Author : Catherine Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460099
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book At Home with the Empire written by Catherine Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was there, part of the given world that had made them who they were. They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire.
Author : Jenny MacLeod
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047402596
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Uncovered Fields written by Jenny MacLeod and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-12-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents original research on the military, social and cultural history of the First World War. Inspired by the reinvigoration of this subject area in the last decade, its chapters explore the stresses of waging a war, whose “totalizing logic” issued formidable challenges to communities, accounted for the pervasion of the conflict into the private sphere, and brought about specific intellectual responses. Subjects included are race and gender relations, shellshock, civil-military relations, social mobilization and military discipline. It encompasses an unusually broad geographical range, including papers on Britain, France and Germany, but also Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria-Hungary and Latin America. This collective undertaking will interest those who are dedicated to the comparative history of modern warfare. Contributors include: Olivier Compagnon, Emmanuelle Cronier, Anne Duménil, Stefan Goebel, Hans-Georg Hofer, Jean-Yves LeNaour, Andre Loez, Jenny Macleod, Jessica Meyer, Michelle Moyd, Michael Neiberg, Tammy Proctor, Pierre Purseigle, Matthew Stibbe, Ismee Tames, Susanne Terwey.
Author : Brad Beaven
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781526106698
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Visions of Empire written by Brad Beaven and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated from the 1890s onward. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Three case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography.
Author : R.H. Tawney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136576592
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book History and Society written by R.H. Tawney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. H. Tawney believed that the subject of economic history raises questions which touch the fundamental concerns of all thinking people. By setting economic development firmly within the framework of cultural and political life, he provided an alternative to the recent fragmentation of economic history into a number of increasingly technical specialisms. First published as a collection in 1978, these ten essays, spanning the length of Professor Tawney’s career remain as controversial and potent as ever, and the original introduction by J. M. Winter provides the first full evaluation and significance of R. H. Tawney’s approach to economic history. Among the essays included in this volume are the indispensible studies of ‘The Rise of the Gentry’ and ‘Harrington’s Interpretation of His Age’, as well as ‘The Abolition of Economic Controls, 1918-1921’, here published in full for the first time. Other selections, such as Tawney’s celebrated inaugural lecture as Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics in 1933, ‘the Study of Economic History’, offer a representative sample of the range and sweep of Tawney’s historical imagination. Taken together, these essays demonstrate the validity of Tawney’s conviction that economic historians must confront not only the creation of wealth, but also the moral questions surrounding its distribution.
Author : Chretien de Troyes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187580
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.
Author : Kenneth Lunn
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780720123494
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (234 download)
Download or read book History of Work and Labour Relations in the Royal Dockyards written by Kenneth Lunn and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents nine essays that grew from an original study of the political economy of Portsmith at the beginning of the 20th century and spread to comparative studies of other Royal Dockyards in Britain, centers of building, repairing, and maintaining ships. They look at forms of employment, the changing nature of industrial relations over the centuries, and the impact of the rundown of the yards after World War II. Arrangement is chronological in order to trace the major changes in the mediating processes between the authorities and the workers. Distributed by Continuum. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
