A Nation Astray

Author : Ingrid Anne Kleespies
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501756689

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A Nation Astray by Ingrid Anne Kleespies Pdf

The metaphor of the nomad may at first seem surprising for Russia given its history of serfdom, travel restrictions, and strict social hierarchy. But as the imperial center struggled to tame a vast territory with ever-expanding borders, ideas of mobility, motion, travel, wandering, and homelessness came to constitute important elements in the discourse about national identity. For Russians of the nineteenth century national identity was anything but stable. This rootlessness is at the core of A Nation Astray. Here, Ingrid Anne Kleespies traces the image of the nomad and its relationship to Russian national identity through the debates and discussion of literary works by seminal writers like Karamzin, Pushkin, Chaadaev, Goncharov, and Dostoevsky. Appealing to students of Russian Romanticism, nationhood, and identity, as well as general readers interested in exile and displacement as elements of the human condition, this interdisciplinary work illuminates the historical and philosophical underpinnings of a basic aspect of Russian self-determination: the nomadic constitution of the Russian nation.

Author : William Hoyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Alcoholism
ISBN : OXFORD:600040832

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Our National Drink Bill as it Affects the Nation's Well-being by William Hoyle Pdf

Author : Emma Donoghue
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316206266

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Astray by Emma Donoghue Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents. ​ The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.

Author : Ingrid Kleespies,Lyudmila Parts
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644697009

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Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century by Ingrid Kleespies,Lyudmila Parts Pdf

Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century brings together a range of international scholars for a reexamination of Ivan Goncharov’s life and work through a twenty-first century critical lens. Contributions to the volume highlight Goncharov’s service career, the complex and understudied manifestation of Realism in his work, the diverse philosophical threads that shape his novels, and the often colliding contexts of writer and imperial bureaucrat in the 1858 travel text Frigate Pallada. Chapters engage with approaches from post-colonial and queer studies, theories of genre and the novel, desire, laughter, technology, and mobility and travel.

Author : Philip Howell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-13
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780813936871

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At Home and Astray by Philip Howell Pdf

Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that country’s social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on Victorian Britain, and especially London, to show how the dog’s changing place in society was the subject of intense debate and depended on a fascinating combination of forces even to come about. Despite a relationship with humans going back thousands of years, the dog only became fully domesticated and installed at the heart of the middle-class home in the nineteenth century. Dog breeding and showing proliferated at that time, and dog ownership increased considerably. At the same time, the dog was increasingly policed out of public space, the "stray" becoming the unloved counterpart of the household "pet." Howell shows how this redefinition of the dog’s place illuminates our understanding of modernity and the city. He also explores the fascinating process whereby the dog’s changing role was proposed, challenged, and confronted—and in the end conditionally accepted. With a supporting cast that includes Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Darwin, and subjects of inquiry ranging from vivisection and the policing of rabies to pet cemeteries, dog shelters, and the practice of walking the dog, At Home and Astray is a contribution not only to the history of animals but also to our understanding of the Victorian era and its legacies.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1094 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106512346

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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Honor ̌de Balzac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112114883678

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The Comédie Humaine by Honor ̌de Balzac Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1530 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009845889

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Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1060 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : MINN:31951D010698006

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The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Edyta M. Bojanowska
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674985704

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A World of Empires by Edyta M. Bojanowska Pdf

Through the lens of a classic Russian travelogue, this historical study examines early globalization and Russia’s participation in the Imperial race. In the 1850s, American Commodore Matthew Perry embarked on a legendary expedition to open trade relations with Japan. Less well known is the Russian expedition that followed on his heels. Serving aboard the Russian Frigate Pallada was the novelist Ivan Goncharov, who turned his impressions into a bestselling book. In A World of Empires, Edyta Bojanowska uses Goncharov’s travelogue as a window onto mid-19th century global imperialism. Goncharov recounts experiences in Africa’s Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, and the British ports of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, offering keen insight on imperial expansion, cooperation, and competition. Often overlooked in the history of European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an increasingly assertive empire, eager to position itself on the world stage and fully conversant with the ideologies of civilizing mission and race. Goncharov’s gripping narrative offers a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Bojanowska’s illuminating analysis reveals both a zeal to emulate European powers and a determination to define Russia against them. A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11576213

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Parliamentary Debates by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas J. Kiresuk,Aaron Smith,Joseph E. Cardillo
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317767022

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Goal Attainment Scaling by Thomas J. Kiresuk,Aaron Smith,Joseph E. Cardillo Pdf

There is an extensive literature on Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS), but the publications are widely scattered and often inaccessible, covering several foreign countries and many professional disciplines and fields of application. This book provides both a user manual and a complete reference work on GAS, including a comprehensive account of what the method is, what its strengths and limitations are, how it can be used, and what it can offer. The book is designed to be of interest to service providers, program directors and administrators, service and business organizations, program evaluators, researchers, and students in a variety of fields. No previous account of GAS has provided an up-to-date, comprehensive description and explanation of the technique. The chapters include a basic "how to do it" handbook, step-by-step implementation instructions, frequently occurring problems and what should be done about them, methods for monitoring the quality of the goal setting process, and a discussion of policy and administration issues. There are many illustrations from actual applications including examples of goals scaled for the individual, the specific program, the agency, or the total system. Procedures for training and estimates of training costs are also provided.

Author : United States. National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN : UCAL:B5338842

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Report - National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity by United States. National Advisory Council on Economic Opportunity Pdf

Author : Edward J. Young
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802895514

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Book of Isaiah by Edward J. Young Pdf

A classic in conservative Old Testament scholarship, this three-volume commentary concentrates primarily on the meaning of the text of Isaiah rather than on specific textual problems. Volume 1 covers chapters 1-18; Volume 2 looks at chapters 19-39; Volume 3 surveys chapters 40-66.

Author : Tom Butler
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441178008

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Religion and Public Life by Tom Butler Pdf

For more than twenty years, Bishop Tom Butler has related religious belief to the events of public life, both national and global, in regular contributions to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day. Each 'Thought' is prompted by current events, without knowing how the news will develop, thereby illustrating how religion relates to contemporary life and how the insights it offers may develop over time. Here, Tom Butler explores themes ranging from The Gulf Wars and Terrorism via Science, Medical Ethics and Political Life to Religion itself. Drawing on (and incorporating) a selection of Thought for the Day scripts covering a twenty-year period, he charts the developing relationship between religion and public life and explores the Church's role of bringing religious values and insights to bear on topical issues and restating the public's hopes and fears in religious language.