Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Abraham Lincoln And The London Punch Cartoons Comments And Poems Published In The London Charivari During The American Civil War 1861 1865 War College Series full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Abraham Lincoln And The London Punch Cartoons Comments And Poems Published In The London Charivari During The American Civil War 1861 1865 War College Series ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Marion Harry Spielmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The History of "Punch" written by Marion Harry Spielmann and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Larcom Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Mr. Punch's History of Modern England: 1857-1874 written by Charles Larcom Graves and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elisabeth Cheauré
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839428580
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Humour and Laughter in History written by Elisabeth Cheauré and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humour can be used as a »weapon« or as a means of coping with problematic historical events, especially in times of war and crisis. The book presents examples from different cultures (Russia, Europe, USA), from different historical epochs (from the Napoleonic era up to the current time) and from different medias (caricature, journalism, film). By looking at the individual cases it becomes possible to recognize some general structural patterns and to gain a deeper insight into the »functioning« of humour and laughter.
Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110708573X
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Joanne Shattock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and authoritative overview of the diversity, range and impact of the newspaper and periodical press in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : Shane McCorristine
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787352455
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Spectral Arctic written by Shane McCorristine and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.
Author : Richard Holmes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307908704
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Falling Upwards written by Richard Holmes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-10-29 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)** **Time Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013** **The New Republic Best Books of 2013** In this heart-lifting chronicle, Richard Holmes, author of the best-selling The Age of Wonder, follows the pioneer generation of balloon aeronauts, the daring and enigmatic men and women who risked their lives to take to the air (or fall into the sky). Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet is a compelling adventure that only Holmes could tell. His accounts of the early Anglo-French balloon rivalries, the crazy firework flights of the beautiful Sophie Blanchard, the long-distance voyages of the American entrepreneur John Wise and French photographer Felix Nadar are dramatic and exhilarating. Holmes documents as well the balloons used to observe the horrors of modern battle during the Civil War (including a flight taken by George Armstrong Custer); the legendary tale of at least sixty-seven manned balloons that escaped from Paris (the first successful civilian airlift in history) during the Prussian siege of 1870-71; the high-altitude exploits of James Glaisher (who rose) seven miles above the earth without oxygen, helping to establish the new science of meteorology); and how Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, and Jules Verne felt the imaginative impact of flight and allowed it to soar in their work. A seamless fusion of history, art, science, biography, and the metaphysics of flights, Falling Upwards explores the interplay between technology and imagination. And through the strange allure of these great balloonists, it offers a masterly portrait of human endeavor, recklessness, and vision. (With 24 pages of color illustrations, and black-and-white illustrations throughout.)
Author : Mellonee V. Burnim
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317934423
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book African American Music written by Mellonee V. Burnim and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-11-13 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Music: An Introduction, Second Edition is a collection of seventeen essays surveying major African American musical genres, both sacred and secular, from slavery to the present. With contributions by leading scholars in the field, the work brings together analyses of African American music based on ethnographic fieldwork, which privileges the voices of the music-makers themselves, woven into a richly textured mosaic of history and culture. At the same time, it incorporates musical treatments that bring clarity to the structural, melodic, and rhythmic characteristics that both distinguish and unify African American music. The second edition has been substantially revised and updated, and includes new essays on African and African American musical continuities, African-derived instrument construction and performance practice, techno, and quartet traditions. Musical transcriptions, photographs, illustrations, and a new audio CD bring the music to life.
Author : Frederick Charles Danvers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Memorials of Old Haileybury College written by Frederick Charles Danvers and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Parton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Caricature and Other Comic Art in All Times and Many Lands written by James Parton and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rufus Rockwell Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Lincoln in Caricature written by Rufus Rockwell Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductions of thirty-two cartoons, originally published between 1860 and 1865 in P̲u̲n̲c̲h̲, H̲a̲r̲p̲e̲r̲'̲s̲ W̲e̲e̲k̲l̲y̲, and other magazines. Pages 3-[18]: Wilson's commentary to each plate.
Author : Dagnosław Demski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788389499769
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Images of the Other in Ethnic Caricatures of Central and Eastern Europe written by Dagnosław Demski and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book Images of the Other in Ethnic Caricatures of Central and Eastern Europe contains 16 articles and over 100 graphics namely ethnic caricatures. It presents work of scientists from Central and Eastern Europe focusing in their texts on data also from that region. Contributors of the volume represent various scientific disciplines and thus various approaches. In the book one can find theoretical articles as well as particular interpretations of visual data. Images of the Other in Ethnic Caricatures is the first such detailed study on nineteenth- and early twentieth- century ethnic caricatures from Central and Eastern Europe. However the aim of editors of the volume was not to introduce to the readers all-encompassing analysis of those pictures, but rather to make an attempt of deconstructing stereotypes existing behind pictures and depicted in those graphics. The general aim of the volume is to start a discussion on ethnic caricatures, their perceiving and their function and not to give final solutions for studying it
Author : Sergei Eisenstein
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780720615579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Immoral Memories written by Sergei Eisenstein and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), creator of such masterpieces as Battleship Potemkin, Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, was perhaps the greatest of all film directors. He wrote his autobiography in 1946, two years before his death, and it is a work of major importance in the light it sheds on his personality and mercurial genius. Vivid, eccentric and free-ranging, Immoral Memories is written in a style reminiscent of the brilliant visual effects of montage and dynamic progression that characterize its author's film-making technique. He recounts his life in Russia from the time of the Revolution, during which he served in the Bolshevik army as a volunteer, his travels in the West and his encounters with a remarkable medley of individuals during his long career. He gives us unique insights, too, into his triumphs and tribulations. His disappointments and despair were exemplified by the banning of the film Ivan the Terrible, Part II, which was not released until fifteen years after his death. And he never expected his autobiography to be published in Russia. Yet in answer to his query "Has there been life" he replied that there had been "life lived acutely, joyously, tormentedly, at times even sparkling, unquestionably colourful, and such a life that, I suppose, I would not exchange for another""--Publisher's description.
Author : Sir William Howard Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book My Diary North and South written by Sir William Howard Russell and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses problems of America.
Author : Charles Royster
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307760596
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Destructive War written by Charles Royster and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the moment the Civil War began, partisans on both sides were calling not just for victory but for extermination. And both sides found leaders who would oblige. In this vivid and fearfully persuasive book, Charles Royster looks at William Tecumseh Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, the men who came to embody the apocalyptic passions of North and South, and re-creates their characters, their strategies, and the feelings they inspired in their countrymen. At once an incisive dual biography, hypnotically engrossing military history, and a cautionary examination of the American penchant for patriotic bloodshed, The Destructive War is a work of enormous power.
Author : A. Maxwell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137277149
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Patriots Against Fashion written by A. Maxwell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the era of the French revolution, patriots across Europe tried to introduce a national uniform. This book, the first comparative study of national uniform schemes, discusses case studies from Austria, Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Turkey the United States, and Wales.
Author : Sean Pryor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781013286643
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Writing, Medium, Machine written by Sean Pryor and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies is a collection of thirteen essays by leading scholars which explores the mutual determination of forms of writing and forms of technology in modern literature. The essays unfold from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives the proposition that literature is not less but more mechanical than other forms of writing: a transfigurative ideal machine. The collection breaks new ground archaeologically, unearthing representations in literature and film of a whole range of decisive technologies from the stereopticon through census-and slot-machines to the stock ticker, and from the Telex to the manipulation of genetic code and the screens which increasingly mediate our access to the world and to each other. It also contributes significantly to critical and cultural theory by investigating key concepts which articulate the relation between writing and technology: number, measure, encoding, encryption, the archive, the interface. Technography is not just a modern matter, a feature of texts that happen to arise in a world full of machinery and pay attention to that machinery in various ways. But the mediation of other machines has beyond doubt assisted literature to imagine and start to become the ideal machine it is always aspiring to be. Contributors: Ruth Abbott, John Attridge, Kasia Boddy, Mark Byron, Beci Carver, Steven Connor, Esther Leslie, Robbie Moore, Julian Murphet, James Purdon, Sean Pryor, Paul Sheehan, Kristen Treen. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author : Harold Holzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780252026690
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (266 download)
Download or read book The Lincoln Image written by Harold Holzer and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating examination of the relationship between Lincoln's image, the printmaker's craft, and the political culture that helped shape them both, "The Lincoln Image" documents how printmakers both chronicled and influenced the president's transformation into an American icon. 106 photos.
