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by Jean-Michel Ganteau
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
This book visits vulnerability in contemporary British fiction, considering vulnerability in its relation to poetics, politics, ethics, and trauma. Vulnerability and risk have become central issues in contemporary culture, and artistic productions have increasingly made it their responsibility to...
The Boy Detective in Early British Children’s Literature
Patrolling the Borders between Boyhood and Manhood
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
This book maps the development of the boy detective in British children’s literature from the mid-nineteenth to the early-twentieth century. It explores how this liminal figure – a boy operating within a man’s world – addresses adult anxieties about boyhood and the boy’s transition to manhood....
by W.H. Fitchett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
To many Indians, it was their First War of Independence. To the British, it was a military mutiny. Either way, neither country would be the same by the time it was over.
In 1857, the soldiers (sepoys) belonging to the army of the British East India Company were issued new rifles. To load them,...
Love and Mutiny
Tales from British India
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
The year is 1857. The British, having colonized India, have ruled her for a hundred years. The East India Company manages the business of governance, but not necessarily with a view to protecting the best interests of the people of India. The British who were born and reared in India see themselves...
by Justin McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
British Political Leaders Justin McCarthy, irish nationalist and Liberal historian, novelist and politician (1830-1912) This ebook presents «British Political Leaders», from Justin McCarthy. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents...
Writing Jewish
Contemporary British-Jewish Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
British-Jewish writers are increasingly addressing challenging questions about what it means to be both British and Jewish in the twenty-first century. Writing Jewish provides a lively and accessible introduction to the key issues in contemporary British-Jewish fiction, memoirs and journalism, and explores...
Ten Years In India, In The 16th Queen's Lancers: And Three Years In South Africa, In The Cape Corps Levies
Including Battles Of Ghuznee, Maharajpoor, Aliwal, Cabul, Buddewal, Sobraon, And Kaffir War Of 1850-51
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“The Life of a Scarlet Lancer at war
“This is an essential book for all those interested in the wars in India as the British Empire finally brought the jewel of the sub-continent into the crown of its young Queen-Empress, Victoria. It is also an ideal view of life within the ranks of a British...
The Pirates of Malabar
And An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Colonel John Biddulph (25 July 1840 – 24 December 1921) was a British soldier, author and naturalist who served in the government of British India.
He was educated at Westminster School, and at the age of 18 joined the 19th Lancers and proceeded to India where he served in Awadh during...
Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2005
Sarah Broom provides an engaging, challenging and lively introduction to contemporary British and Irish poetry. The book covers work by poets from a wide range of ethnic and regional backgrounds and covers a broad range of poetic styles, including mainstream names like Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann...
by Julia Wilhelm
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2008
Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Fachbereich 05 - British Studies), course: Examenskolloquium, 37 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: World literature is full...
The Last Governor
Chris Patten and the Handover of Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
1 July 1997 marked the end of British rule of Hong Kong, whereby this territory was passed into the hands of the People’s Republic of China.
In 1992, Chris Patten, former chairman of the Conservative Party, was appointed Hong Kong's last governor, and was the man to oversee the handover ceremony...
Neo-Tories
The Revolt of British Conservatives against Democracy and Political Modernity (1929-1939)
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The danger to British democracy in the interwar period came from a different source to that which has thus far been assumed. It came from a network of radical conservatives who challenged the political system and sought to replace it with an authoritarian corporate state.
In this book, Bernhard...
Enlightenment Travel and British Identities
Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland and Wales
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Thomas Pennant of Downing, Flintshire (1726–1798), naturalist, antiquarian and self-styled ‘Curious Traveller’, published accounts of his pioneering travels in Scotland and Wales to wide acclaim between 1769 and 1784, directly inspiring Dr Johnson, James Boswell and hundreds of subsequent tourists....
Ploughman's Lunch and the Miser's Feast
Authentic Pub Food, Restaurant Fare, and Home Cooking from Small Towns, Big Cities, and Country Vill
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Celebrity television chefs like Jamie Oliver and culinary stars like Hugh Fearnely-Wittingstall have made Americans newly aware of the great potential in British cooking. But the new British food revolution is not limited to fine restaurants and television. Within Britain, pub and country inn chefs,...