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Author : Eduardo Lourenço
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book This Little Lusitanian House written by Eduardo Lourenço and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald W. Sousa
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1612493505
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (124 download)
Download or read book On Emerging from Hyper-Nation written by Ronald W. Sousa and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Emerging from Hyper-Nation represents Ronald W. Sousa’s attempt to answer the question, “Why do I smile on reading one of Saramago’s ‘historical’ novels?” Why that reaction of emotional release? To answer the “smile question” the book engages in a critical mode that could be described as “discourse analysis.” It combines several critical strains and relies on basic concepts from Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Adlerian psychology, and contemporary cognitive psychology for their discourse-analytical value rather than as entrées into psychoanalytical reading per se. The introductory chapter presents some of the concepts that underlie that compound analytical modality and sets out an overview of twentieth-century Portuguese social and economic history. Then, with an eye to answering the “smile question,” the book reads Nobel Laureate José Saramago’s three novels, Baltasar and Blimunda (1982), The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (1984), and The History of the Siege of Lisbon (1989). Or, better, it seeks to read Sousa’s own reading of the three works, since focus falls on how each novel seeks to construct both its own reading and also Sousa as its reader. The discussion brings to light a number of textual phenomena that bear upon the “smile question.” Among them are that the novels invoke, often subtly, the fascist hermeneutical heritage remaining from before the revolution of 1974 as a constituent part of their communication with the reader; that they summon up historical trauma; that they function as Freudian-style “tendentious jokes”; and that, through these various invocations, they seek to constitute a postrevolutionary Portuguese subject. The reading of Sousa’s reading, then, ends up being a reading of some of the cultural forces at work in postrevolutionary Portugal.
Author : Sarah Ashby
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782844023
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book The Lusophone World written by Sarah Ashby and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portugal's European Union honeymoon has officially ended. It was the victim of a Europe-wide political and financial crisis and an unstable EU identity increasingly splintered along regional and economic fractures. What does this mean for the former good student of European democracy? The answer may lie in renewed Portuguese efforts to deepen and strengthen ties with Lusophone countries across the globe, which since 1996 have been organized into a supranational organization called the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP). While Portugal's marginality in relation to Europe might be emphasized in the corridors of Brussels, within the realm of the CPLP the former world power can once again see itself as existing at the center geographically as well as from a historic-cultural perspective of an extensive international milieu. The Lusophone World: The Evolution of Portuguese National Narratives explores the dialectic between Portugal's sense of identity and belonging in the EU and the CPLP. It provides an analysis of the manner in which Portugal's institutional allegiances to both of these organizations have impacted the political, economic, and social fabric of the nation. The fact that Portugal is turning to its former colonies as alternate partners in trade, commerce, emigration, and development initiatives may not be evidence of straightforward estrangement from the European continent. More likely, Portugal appears to be riding a fresh wave of what it means to be modern in the European milieu. This new concept of modernity, related to rhetoric of hybridity and a self-professed position as interlocutor, could be evidence of a deeper understanding of the new tools needed to survive and prosper in a rapidly-changing European Union.
Author : Francisco Adolpho Coelho
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tales of Old Lusitania written by Francisco Adolpho Coelho and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0553446754
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (534 download)
Download or read book Dead Wake written by Erik Larson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania “Both terrifying and enthralling.”—Entertainment Weekly “Thrilling, dramatic and powerful.”—NPR “Thoroughly engrossing.”—George R.R. Martin On May 1, 1915, with WWI entering its tenth month, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were surprisingly at ease, even though Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone. For months, German U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era’s great transatlantic “Greyhounds”—the fastest liner then in service—and her captain, William Thomas Turner, placed tremendous faith in the gentlemanly strictures of warfare that for a century had kept civilian ships safe from attack. Germany, however, was determined to change the rules of the game, and Walther Schwieger, the captain of Unterseeboot-20, was happy to oblige. Meanwhile, an ultra-secret British intelligence unit tracked Schwieger’s U-boat, but told no one. As U-20 and the Lusitania made their way toward Liverpool, an array of forces both grand and achingly small—hubris, a chance fog, a closely guarded secret, and more—all converged to produce one of the great disasters of history. It is a story that many of us think we know but don’t, and Erik Larson tells it thrillingly, switching between hunter and hunted while painting a larger portrait of America at the height of the Progressive Era. Full of glamour and suspense, Dead Wake brings to life a cast of evocative characters, from famed Boston bookseller Charles Lauriat to pioneering female architect Theodate Pope to President Woodrow Wilson, a man lost to grief, dreading the widening war but also captivated by the prospect of new love. Gripping and important, Dead Wake captures the sheer drama and emotional power of a disaster whose intimate details and true meaning have long been obscured by history. Finalist for the Washington State Book Award • One of the Best Books of the Year: The Washington Post, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Miami Herald, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, LibraryReads, Indigo
Author : Francisco Adolfo Coelho
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Tales of Lusitania from The Folklore of Portugal written by Francisco Adolfo Coelho and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was significant in the development of Portuguese ethnography since it served as both a scientific study and a collection of stories for children to enjoy. Francisco Adolfo, the writer, is a philologist from Portugal. Henriqueta Monteiro has also translated this work into English. Every story in this book is unique to the European heritage. Some of the stories are quite unusual and bizarre. Overall, the storylines in the books are fairly recognizable - sometimes the entire plot, sometimes just key phrases or scenes.
Author : Michael Martin
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075096281X
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book RMS Lusitania: It Wasn't and It Didn't written by Michael Martin and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within hours of the sinking of RMS Lusitania by a German submarine off the Cork coast in May 1915, a narrative was created which over time became the accepted truth of the incident. Many people today still believe the sinking of the Lusitania was a savage attack on an innocent vessel that brought America into the war. In this book, author and historian Michael Martin raises a series of disturbing questions that challenge this longheld perspective. Examining a raft of old and new evidence suggesting a more sinister function of RMS Lusitania, this book explores the widespread use of civilian vessels within the war effort; it shines a light on the operational response of the Royal Navy in the immediate aftermath of the incident; and it looks at the nature of the response of the United States at this crucial juncture. And, above all, this book questions the narrative that has grown up around one of the most pivotal junctures in the war to end all wars.
Author : Thomas C. Button
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Letters from Lusitania; and other compositions, in prose and verse, by T.C.B. written by Thomas C. Button and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Jackson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336882998X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Fair Lusitania written by Catherine Jackson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632860856
Total Pages : 787 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Lusitania written by Diana Preston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On May 7, 1915, toward the end of her 101st eastbound crossing, from New York to Liverpool, England, R.M.S. Lusitania-pride of the Cunard Line and one of the greatest ocean liners afloat-became the target of a terrifying new weapon and a casualty of a terrible new kind of war. Sunk off the southern coast of Ireland by a torpedo fired from the German submarine U-20, she exploded and sank in eighteen minutes, taking with her some twelve hundred people, more than half of the passengers and crew. Cold-blooded, deliberate, and unprecedented in the annals of war, the sinking of the Lusitania shocked the world. It also jolted the United States out of its neutrality and hastened the nation's entry into World War I. In her riveting account of this enormous and controversial tragedy, Diana Preston recalls both a pivotal moment in history and a remarkable human drama. The story of the Lusitania is a window on the maritime world of the early twentieth century: the heyday of the luxury liner, the first days of the modern submarine, and the climax of the decades-long German-British rivalry for supremacy of the Atlantic. Above all, it is the story of the passengers and crew on that fateful voyage-a story of terror and cowardice, of self-sacrifice and heroism, of death and miraculous survival.
Author : Kevin Kiely
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847175694
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)
Download or read book SOS Lusitania written by Kevin Kiely and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most dramatic seafaring tragedies ever ... Thirteen-year-old Finbar Kennedy runs away from home in Queenstown (Cobh) to follow his sea-captain father onto the Lusitania. On the return journey from New York, Finbar works as a deck-hand, and running messages gives him a lot of information. He begins to understand that something strange is happening. But what can he do? And whom can he trust? Fact is stranger than fiction: In May 1915 the huge liner, the Lusitania, sank off the Cork coast near the Old Head of Kinsale. This happened during the First World War. But, unlike the Titanic tragedy, this was no accident. The ship was torpedoed by a German submarine. Rumour had it that there were spies, arms and gold on board the Lusitania. These rumours were true.
Author : David Ramsay
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473860237
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Lusitania Saga & Myth written by David Ramsay and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-08-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of one of the greatest maritime disasters in history—the Lusitania’s proud service, its sinking by a German U-Boat, and the tragic aftermath. When the RMS Lusitania entered service in 1907, she was the pride of the Cunard fleet. The first transatlantic express liner powered by marine turbines, she had a top speed of twenty-five knots and could make the Liverpool-New York crossing in five days, restoring British supremacy along the key North Atlantic route. All this ended during World War I, on 7 May 1915, when she was torpedoed by a German submarine and sank eighteen minutes later, taking with her the lives of the 1,198 passengers and crew. In this well-researched book, the author concentrates not just on the disaster but its consequences, including the political recriminations and the governmental inquiry. The loss of American citizens was a major reason why the United States entered the War. Fully-illustrated with rare historical photographs, this is a fascinating study of a major shipping catastrophe with profound repercussions that would have an effect not just on maritime law, but on the future of the world.
Author : Anthony Richards
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459743490
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book The Lusitania Sinking written by Anthony Richards and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2019-09-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, The Lusitania Sinking tells the story in the emotive framework of a family looking for information on their son’s death.
Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632862247
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Voices of the Lusitania written by Diana Preston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana Preston curates a spectacular and harrowing collection of voices from the Lusitania tragedy. Eyewitness accounts capture the ship's sinking in real-life detail as more than half the ship's crew and passengers were drowned when a German U-boat torpedoed the ship on its 101st crossing of the Atlantic on May 7th, 1915.
Author : Greg King
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250052548
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Lusitania written by Greg King and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers - to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare. A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery. Was she carrying munitions that exploded? Did Winston Churchill engineer a conspiracy that doomed the liner? Lost amid these tangled skeins is the romantic, vibrant, and finally heartrending tale of the passengers who sailed aboard her. Lives, relationships, and marriages ended in the icy waters off the Irish Sea; those who survived were left haunted and plagued with guilt. Now, authors Greg King and Penny Wilson resurrect this lost, glittering world to show the golden age of travel and illuminate the most prominent of Lusitania's passengers. Rarely was an era so glamorous; rarely was a ship so magnificent; and rarely was the human element of tragedy so quickly lost to diplomatic maneuvers and militaristic threats"--
Author : Leonard Carpenter
Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1633536564
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Lusitania Lost written by Leonard Carpenter and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World War I spy thriller from an author who puts “electrifying action into everything he writes” (Jonathan Maberry, New York Times–bestselling author). Alma Brady is on the run from a New York mob boss. Desperate to escape Big Jim Hogan and his murderous gang, she joins a group of nurses bound for the Great War in Europe. Their ship is the Lusitania, the most celebrated luxury liner of 1915, with a passenger list of Broadway and Continental celebrities—who do not realize they are headed for certain doom. Aboard the ship she meets Matthew Vane, a war correspondent who wants to find out what secret weapons may be hidden in the Lusitania cargo hold. During the one-week voyage, these characters will be drawn into romance, intrigue and murder, in an epic historical thriller that takes us above and below decks, into the German U-boat lurking nearby, and to the capitals and battlefields of Europe. “Anyone who thrilled to the Titanic film will love this book.” —Sandra Nielsen
Author : David Menary
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329435516
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Lusitania: The Waterloo County Connection written by David Menary and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was May, 1915, and a German U-boat had the largest passenger ocean liner on the high seas in its sights. This is the tale of two men from Ontario's Waterloo County who were on that ship. The Lusitania sinking was one of the greatest nautical disasters of all time. Their struggle for survival in the face of great odds would haunt them for the rest of their lives.
