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Author : David Marples
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838266749
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)
Download or read book 'Our Glorious Past' written by David Marples and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Gascoigne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1849837457
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Glorious written by Paul Gascoigne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even people who don't know football know who 'Gazza' is. The man born as Paul John Gascoigne to a working-class family in the North-East has found headlines on the front pages almost as often as the back pages throughout his life, thanks in great part to his more than colourful lifestyle. But it is for his time as a footballer of the very highest order that Gazza's name will forever live in sporting history. During a career that spanned more than ten different clubs, among them Newcastle United, Tottenham, Lazio and Rangers, and which included countless unforgettable England performances, Gazza established himself as one of the sport's all-time greats: a master of skill, flair and invention like none that his country had produced before nor perhaps ever will again. Told in Gazza's own unique voice and fully illustrated with hundreds of photos from the moments that he feels defined his career,Glorious: My World, Football and Meis a celebration, offering an unrivalled insight into the mind of this greatest of footballers.
Author : Gordon Corrigan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1605986054
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book A Great and Glorious Adventure written by Gordon Corrigan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glory and tragedy of the Hundred Years War is revealed in a new historical narrative, bringing Henry V, the Black Prince, and Joan of Arc to fresh and vivid life. In this captivating new history of a conflict that raged for over a century, Gordon Corrigan reveals the horrors of battle and the machinations of power that have shaped a millennium of Anglo-French relations. The Hundred Years War was fought between 1337 and 1453 over English claims to both the throne of France by right of inheritance and large parts of the country that had been at one time Norman or, later, English. The fighting ebbed and flowed, but despite their superior tactics and great victories at Crécy, Poitiers, and Agincourt, the English could never hope to secure their claims in perpetuity: France was wealthier and far more populous, and while the English won the battles, they could not hope to hold forever the lands they conquered. Military historian Gordon Corrigan's gripping narrative of these epochal events is combative and refreshingly alive, and the great battles and personalities of the period—Edward III, The Black Prince, Henry V, and Joan of Arc among them—receive the full attention and reassessment they deserve.
Author : Serge Brunier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521791489
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Glorious Eclipses written by Serge Brunier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stargazers who may have missed the last total solar eclipse of the 20th century this past summer have just been given another chance to observe this "once in a lifetime" occurrence. Inside Glorious Eclipses they will find startling images and rich personal accounts that fully capture this event and other recent eclipses. The book will also insure that readers will not miss another eclipse in the next 60 years! Specially designed in a beautiful, large format, the volume portrays eclipses of all kinds--lunar, solar, and those occurring elsewhere in the Solar System and beyond. Brunier and Luminet have gathered together all aspects of eclipses, and carefully selected a host of lavish images. The authors detail the history of eclipses, the celestial mechanics involved, their observation, and scientific interest. Personal accounts of recent eclipses are also included as well as all relevant information about forthcoming eclipses up to 2060. Complete with NASA maps and data, Glorious Eclipses is the ultimate source for all those interested in these remarkable (and rare) celestial events. Serge Brunier is chief editor of the journal Ciel et Espace, a photo-journalist, and the author of many nonfiction books aimed at both specialists and the general public. Jean-Pierre Luminet is an astrophysicist at the Paris-Meudon Observatory and director of research at the Centre pour la Recherche Scientifique. He is the author of many popular astronomy books, including Black Holes (Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Author : Joint Association of Classical Teachers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521219761
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Reading Greek written by Joint Association of Classical Teachers and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The JACT Reading Greek Course has been written for beginners in the upper school, at university and in adult education. It aims to enable students to read fifth and fourth century Attic Greek, Homer and Herodotus, with some fluency and intelligence in one to two years. The main medium of learning is a continuous, graded Greek text, adapted from original sources.
Author : Anurag Mehta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788176760331
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Glorious History of India for Children written by Anurag Mehta and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iain Manley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789881998408
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Tales of Old Singapore written by Iain Manley and published by . This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the history of Singapore, discussing the culturally diverse population, its history as a center of trade, and its time spent under the rule of the British Empire.
Author : Ranjan Ghosh
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 0857454846
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (574 download)
Download or read book A Lover's Quarrel with the Past written by Ranjan Ghosh and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although not a professional historian, the author raises several issues pertinent to the state of history today. Qualifying the 'non-historian' as an 'able' interventionist in historical studies, the author explores the relationship between history and theory within the current epistemological configurations and refigurations. He asks how history transcends the obsessive 'linguistic' turn, which has been hegemonizing literary/discourse analysis, and focuses greater attention on historical experience and where history stands in relation to our understanding of ethics, religion and the current state of global politics that underlines the manipulation and abuse of history.
Author : Brian Drohan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472826906
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Imjin River 1951 written by Brian Drohan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After China's November 1950 intervention in the war and the subsequent battle of the Chosin Reservoir, UN forces faced a new onslaught in the spring of 1951 with over 350,000 veteran troops attacking along the Imjin River. The US 3rd Infantry Division took the brunt of the attack along with the attached British 29th Infantry Brigade which included the Gloucestershire Regiment (the “Glosters”). The heroic defence of the American and British forces would pass into legend, most especially the doomed effort of the Glosters, as they sought to buy time for the rest of the UN forces to regroup and organise an effective defence of Seoul, the South Korean capital city. Featuring full colour commissioned artwork, maps and first-hand accounts, this is the compelling story of one of the most epic clashes of the Korean War.
Author : Will Ferguson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550547375
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Bastards and Boneheads written by Will Ferguson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hilarious new system for evaluating Canada's political leaders, from the best-selling author of Why I Hate Canadians.
Author : Peter Horton
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832545352
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Manufacturing Masculinity written by Peter Horton and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2017 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This tribute to Professor J. A. (Tony) Mangan is well-deserved. Professor Mangan is a path-breaking scholar. Mangan's impact is measurable in the rarest of ways: institution-building. Under his leadership, a globally situated team has opened a new relationship between sport and the academy and I recommend Manufacturing Masculinity: The Mangan Oeuvre -- Global Reflections on J.A. Mangan's Studies of Masculinity, Imperialism and Militarism as, yet again, it offers a unique consideration of the relationship between sport and academy. Professor John D. Kelly - University of Chicago Professor Mangan has since the early 1980s been one of the foremost international scholars within his chosen field of cultural history. Over this period he has possibly more convincingly than any other international academic shown in his research how much sport and associated forms of competitive performance have not only reflected and reproduced but indeed sometimes also reformed and redirected fundamental political, cultural and social structures and ideological transformative forces in modern civilisation. Professor Henrik Meinander - University of Helsinki Professor Mangan is widely and greatly respected in China as a scholar of international distinction... he has made both direct and indirect contributions to Chinese scholarship especially regarding Chinese women and their long struggle for emancipation... Finally, and I cannot stress this point too strongly, a most important contribution ... has been his crystal clear and nuanced writing style much appreciated by... Chinese who wish to write for the international scholastic world. Professor Dong Jinxia - Peking University No one has had a more influential role in, or made a greater contribution to the cultural history of modern sport than Professor J.A. Mangan. With his visionary, pioneering monographs and many seminal edited collections and as founding editor of the series Sport in the Global Society with its numerous volumes and most especially as founding editor and editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport for some thirty years -- which he took from the original three numbers a year to eighteen numbers a year, his contribution has been unparalleled. Professor Roberta J. Park - University of California, Berkeley
Author : Ayhan Kaya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429855435
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Populism and Heritage in Europe written by Ayhan Kaya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Populism and Heritage in Europe explores popular discourses about European and national heritage that are being used by specific political actors to advance their agendas and to prevent minority groups from being accepted into European society. Investigating what kind of effect the politics of fear has on these notions of heritage and identity, the book also examines what kind of impact recent events and crises have had on the types of European memories and identities that have been promoted by the supporters of right-wing populist parties. Based on qualitative fieldwork conducted in six countries, this book specifically analyses how anti-European identities are being articulated by right-wing populist individuals. Providing an analysis of the manifestos, speeches and official documents of such parties, the book examines how they instrumentalise xenophobia, Islamophobia, Euroscepticism, globalisation and international trade in European spaces to mobilise the masses hit by financial crisis and refugee crisis. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the sympathisers of populist movements, Kaya provides some insights into the main motivations of these individuals in resorting to nativist and populist discourses, whilst also providing a thorough analysis of the use of the past and heritage by such parties and their followers. Populism and Heritage provides a unique insight into one of the most contested trends of the contemporary age. As such, the book should be of great interest to those working in the fields of heritage studies, cultural studies, politics, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and history.
Author : Georg G Iggers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317895010
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book A Global History of Modern Historiography written by Georg G Iggers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the effect of professionalization, which served as a model not only for Western but also for much of non-Western historical studies. At the same time it critically examines the reactions in post-modern and post-colonial thought to established conceptions of scientific historiography. A main theme of the book is how historians in the non-Western world not only adopted or adapted Western ideas, but also explored different approaches rooted in their own cultures.
Author : Daniel R. Woolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199533091
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Oxford History of Historical Writing: 1800-1945 written by Daniel R. Woolf and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronological scholarly survey of the history of historical writing in five volumes. Each volume covers a particular period of time, from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.
Author : Michael O. Slobodchikoff
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1640124985
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Challenge to NATO written by Michael O. Slobodchikoff and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post–Cold War order established by the United States is at a crossroads: no longer is the liberal order and U.S. hegemonic power a given. The Challenge to NATO is a concise review of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), its relationship with the United States, and its implications for global security. Despite seeing its seventieth anniversary in 2019, NATO faces both external and internal threats to its continued survival. This volume examines the organization’s past, its current regional operations, and future threats facing the Atlantic Alliance, with contributions by well-known academics, former central figures within NATO, and diplomats directly involved in NATO operations. In this volume, Michael O. Slobodchikoff, G. Doug Davis, and Brandon Stewart bring together differing perspectives and orientations to provide a complete understanding of the future of the Atlantic Alliance.
Author : Carl W. Reddel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Transformation in Russian and Soviet Military History written by Carl W. Reddel and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roumen Daskalov
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004464875
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Master Narratives of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria written by Roumen Daskalov and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the establishment of a master narrative of the Middle Ages in Bulgaria and its evolution to the present day, including the attempt at a Marxist counter-narrative, thereby offering a critical analysis of Bulgarian historiographical views.
