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The Fortress

Author : S. A. Jones
Publisher : Erewhon Books
ISBN 13 : 1645660044
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Fortress written by S. A. Jones and published by Erewhon Books. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Jones’s radical, detailed vision of what extremes it might take to unlearn misogyny is rendered with insight, immediacy, and painful honesty. This gut-punch of a story is sure to start conversations.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review A searing examination of the dark heart of masculinity confronted by a women-led society. The Handmaid’s Tale meets Herland at a party thrown by Anaïs Nin. Jonathon Bridge has a corner office in a top-tier software firm, tailored suits, and an impeccable pedigree. He has a fascinating wife, Adalia; a child on the way; and a string of pretty young interns as lovers on the side. He’s a man who’s going places. His world is our world: the same chaos and sprawl, haves and have-nots, men and women, skyscrapers and billboards. But it also exists alongside a vast, self-sustaining city-state called The Fortress where the indigenous inhabitants—the Vaik, a society run and populated exclusively by women—live in isolation. When Adalia discovers his indiscretions and the ugly sexual violence pervading his firm, she agrees to continue their fractured marriage only on the condition that Jonathan voluntarily offers himself to The Fortress as a supplicant and stay there for a year. Jonathon’s arrival at The Fortress begins with a recitation of the conditions of his stay: He is forbidden to ask questions, to raise his hand in anger, and to refuse sex. Jonathon is utterly unprepared for what will happen to him over the course of the year—not only to his body, but to his mind and his heart. This absorbing, confronting, and moving novel asks questions about consent, power, love, and fulfillment. It asks what it takes for a man to change, and whether change is possible without a radical reversal of the conditions that seem normal.

Fortress of the Soul

Author : Neil Kamil
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421429357
Total Pages : 1085 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Fortress of the Soul written by Neil Kamil and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 1085 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French Huguenots made enormous contributions to the life and culture of colonial New York during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Huguenot craftsmen were the city's most successful artisans, turning out unrivaled works of furniture which were distinguished by unique designs and arcane details. More than just decorative flourishes, however, the visual language employed by Huguenot artisans reflected a distinct belief system shaped during the religious wars of sixteenth-century France. In Fortress of the Soul, historian Neil Kamil traces the Huguenots' journey to New York from the Aunis-Saintonge region of southwestern France. There, in the sixteenth century, artisans had created a subterranean culture of clandestine workshops and meeting places inspired by the teachings of Bernard Palissy, a potter, alchemist, and philosopher who rejected the communal, militaristic ideology of the Huguenot majority which was centered in the walled city of La Rochelle. Palissy and his followers instead embraced a more fluid, portable, and discrete religious identity that encouraged members to practice their beliefs in secret while living safely—even prospering—as artisans in hostile communities. And when these artisans first fled France for England and Holland, then left Europe for America, they carried with them both their skills and their doctrine of artisanal security. Drawing on significant archival research and fresh interpretations of Huguenot material culture, Kamil offers an exhaustive and sophisticated study of the complex worldview of the Huguenot community. From the function of sacred violence and alchemy in the visual language of Huguenot artisans, to the impact among Protestants everywhere of the destruction of La Rochelle in 1628, to the ways in which New York's Huguenots interacted with each other and with other communities of religious dissenters and refugees, Fortress of the Soul brilliantly places American colonial history and material life firmly within the larger context of the early modern Atlantic world.

America's Fortress

Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813030197
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book America's Fortress written by Thomas Reid and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historian Thomas Reid chronicles the threats and challenges Fort Jefferson's troops faced, which were unlike any faced by soldiers serving elsewhere during the Civil War. Tales of epidemic disease, hurricanes, shipwrecks, prisoner escapes, and Confederate attack stand in stark contrast to "the beauty of the sunsets and the surrounding panorama of nature." Reid offers keen insight into white northerners' perceptions of slaves, slavery, and the emerging free black soldiers of the latter years of the war. He also draws on the writings of Emily Holder, wife of Fort Jefferson's resident surgeon, to offer the first female perspective on life at the fort."--BOOK JACKET.

Fort Mose

Author : Kathleen A. Deagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813013527
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Fort Mose written by Kathleen A. Deagan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1738, when more than 100 African fugitives had arrived, the Spanish established the fort and town of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose, the first legally sanctioned free black community in what is now the United States. This book tells the story of Fort Mose and the people who lived there. It challenges the notion of the American black experience as simply that of slavery, offering instead a rich and balanced view of the African-American experience in the Spanish colonies from the arrival of Columbus to the American Revolution.

Fortifications in Wessex c. 800–1066

Author : Ryan Lavelle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178200551X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Fortifications in Wessex c. 800–1066 written by Ryan Lavelle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The defence of the 9th-century kingdom of Wessex under King Alfred against the 'Great Viking Army' is one of the major military achievements of Early Medieval history. While the guerrilla warfare in the Somerset marshes and the battle of Edington are characteristic of Alfred's military abilities, his definitive physical achievement was a series of some 30 well-structured fortifications (known as burhs) across the kingdom. Many of these fortifications survive to this day and some were even reinforced to stand up to German tanks in the expected invasion of 1940. This title describes their beginnings in the turbulent early years of Alfred's reign as well as their subsequent development and use.

Fortress Israel

Author : Patrick Tyler
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429944471
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Fortress Israel written by Patrick Tyler and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit," writes the prizewinning journalist Patrick Tyler in the prologue to Fortress Israel. "They carry the military identity for life, not just through service in the reserves until age forty-nine . . . but through lifelong expectations of loyalty and secrecy." The military is the country to a great extent, and peace will only come, Tyler argues, when Israel's military elite adopt it as the national strategy. Fortress Israel is an epic portrayal of Israel's martial culture—of Sparta presenting itself as Athens. From Israel's founding in 1948, we see a leadership class engaged in an intense ideological struggle over whether to become the "light unto nations," as envisioned by the early Zionists, or to embrace an ideology of state militarism with the objective of expanding borders and exploiting the weaknesses of the Arabs. In his first decade as prime minister, David Ben-Gurion conceived of a militarized society, dominated by a powerful defense establishment and capable of defeating the Arabs in serial warfare over many decades. Bound by self-reliance and a stern resolve never to forget the Holocaust, Israel's military elite has prevailed in war but has also at times overpowered Israel's democracy. Tyler takes us inside the military culture of Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, introducing us to generals who make decisions that trump those of elected leaders and who disdain diplomacy as appeasement or surrender. Fortress Israel shows us how this martial culture envelops every family. Israeli youth go through three years of compulsory military service after high school, and acceptance into elite commando units or air force squadrons brings lasting prestige and a network for life. So ingrained is the martial outlook and identity, Tyler argues, that Israelis are missing opportunities to make peace even when it is possible to do so. "The Zionist movement had survived the onslaught of world wars, the Holocaust, and clashes of ideology," writes Tyler, "but in the modern era of statehood, Israel seemed incapable of fielding a generation of leaders who could adapt to the times, who were dedicated to ending . . . [Israel's] isolation, or to changing the paradigm of military preeminence." Based on a vast array of sources, declassified documents, personal archives, and interviews across the spectrum of Israel's ruling class, FortressIsrael is a remarkable story of character, rivalry, conflict, and the competing impulses for war and for peace in the Middle East.

The Nineteenth Century and After

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1062 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nineteenth Century and After written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twentieth Century

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Twentieth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nineteenth century and after (London)

Old Québec: The Fortress of New France

Author : Gilbert Parker
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Old Québec: The Fortress of New France written by Gilbert Parker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For at least the first hundred years of its existence, Quebec was New France; and the story of Quebec in that period is the story of all Canada. The fortress was the heart and soul of French enterprise in the New World. From the Castle of St. Louis, on the summit of Cape Diamond, went forth mandates, heard and obeyed in distant Louisiana. The monastic city on the St. Lawrence was the centre of the web of missions, which slowly spread from the dark Saguenay to Lake Superior. The fearful tragedies of Indian warfare had their birth in the early policy of Quebec. The fearless voyageurs, whose canoes glided into unknown waters, ever westward—towards Cathay, as they believed—made Quebec their base for exploration. And as time went on, the rock-built stronghold of the north became the nerve-centre of that half-century of conflict which left the flag of Britain waving in victory on the Plains of Abraham..." 'Old Québec: The Fortress of New France' is a historical novel on the history of the Canadian city of Quebec. The city is at the centre of many historical events that shaped the Candian nagion from its early days as a center of French occupation.

Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France

Author : Gilbert Parker
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France written by Gilbert Parker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historical account of the city of Quebec in Canada starts from its earliest founding to the beginning of the twentieth century. The main historical figures are put into context, and the change of rule from France to Britain is explained clearly. A must-read for anyone wanting to find out more about this unique Canadian city.

Queensland Geographical Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queensland Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings and Transactions of the Queensland Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings and Transactions of the Queensland Branch of the Geographical Society of Australasia written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Island Fortress

Author : Norman Longmate
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446475778
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Island Fortress written by Norman Longmate and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Isles, it is often believed, have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years. In fact, as Norman Longmate reveals in this highly entertaining book (the successor to his acclaimed Defending the Island), foreign soldiers have landed on British soil on many occasions.In this definitive study of a long-neglected subject Norman Longmate make constant use of original sources, including contemporary eyewitness accounts. These are woven into an enthralling narrative, packed with fact - about weapons, ships, armies and fortresses - spiced with anecdote, and ranging over international and political as well as military and naval history. The result is above all an exciting story, which shows how, against all the odds, the British people managed to retain their freedom from the days of James I to those of George VI.

The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London

Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London written by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes list of members.

Fortnightly Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1114 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fortnightly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: