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Author : Thomas Nunan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1927
Category : American fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047927897
Author : Fitzroy Gardner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0484611690
Excerpt from Days and Ways of an Old Bohemian As I have never kept a diary, except for business and Official purposes, I do not pretend to be precise in my dates. Nor have I adhered strictly to any chronological arrangement. I have just written down things as they have occurred to me, often more with regard to subject than to date. My birth coincided with the more important episode of the Crimean War, also, it happens, with inter alia, the first use Of photography in portraiture, the abolition of the Revenue Stamp on newspapers, and the first issue Of a London daily newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, at the price Of one penny. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Fitzroy Gardner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0267447558
Excerpt from More Reminiscences of an Old Bohemian IT has happened this way More than one of the many flattering reviewers of my Days and Ways of an Old Bohemian, some four years ago, remarked that no doubt I could fill another volume with stories of my exception ally varied experiences oi life. N ow, recalling those friendly suggestions, I realise that, when writing such a book and covering a period of sixty years with no diary or previously prepared notes to rely on, one is apt to overlook many incidents and people as interesting as those remembered at the time. In fact, I find that I have sufficient material for a second book, which I trust will be as well appreciated as the other. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Dinda L. Gorlée
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350011892
Ludwig Wittgenstein's works encompass a huge number of published philosophical manuscripts, notebooks, lectures, remarks, and responses, as well as his unpublished private diaries. The diaries were written mainly in coded script to interpolate his writings on the philosophy of language with autobiographic passages, but were previously unknown to the public and impossible to decode without learning the coding system. This book deciphers the cryptography of the diary entries to examine what Wittgenstein's personal idiom reveals about his public and private identities. Employing the semiotic doctrine of Charles S. Peirce, Dinda L. Gorlée argues that the style of writing reflects the variety of Wittgenstein's emotional moods, which were profoundly affected by his medical symptoms. Bringing Peirce's reasoning of abduction together with induction and deduction, the book investigates how the semiosis of the emotional, energetic, and logical interpretations of signs and objects reveal Wittgenstein's psychological states in the coded diaries.
Author : James Gatheral
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000226577
In the mid-nineteenth century successive cultural Bohemias were proclaimed in Paris, London, New York, and Melbourne. Focusing on networks and borders as the central modes of analysis, this book charts for the first time Bohemia’s cross-Channel, transatlantic, and trans-Pacific migrations, locating its creative expressions and social practices within a global context of ideas and action. Though the story of Parisian Bohemia has been comprehensively told, much less is known of its Anglophone translations. The Bohemian Republic offers a radical reinterpretation of the phenomenon, as the neglected lives and works of British, Irish, American, and Australian Bohemians are reassessed, the transnational networks of Bohemia are rediscovered, the presence and influence of women in Bohemia is reclaimed, and Bohemia’s relationship with the marketplace is reconsidered. Bohemia emerges as a marginal network which exerted a paradoxically powerful influence on the development of popular culture, in the vanguard of material, social and aesthetic innovations in literature, art, journalism, and theatre. Underpinned by extensive and original archival research, the book repopulates the concept of Bohemianism with layers of the networked voices, expressions, ideas, people, places, and practices that made up its constituent social, imagined, and interpretive communities. The reader is brought closer than ever to the heart of Bohemia, a shadowy world inhabited by the rebels of the mid-nineteenth century.
Author : Lately Thomas
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789121278
Originally published in 1962, this book tells the flamboyant story of Abe Ruef and San Francisco’s infamous era of graft. In the year 1906, San Francisco was rocked by two calamitous earthquakes. Nature herself was responsible for one; a man named Ruef was responsible for the other. Abraham Ruef (1864-1936), known as Abe Ruef, was a rogue of innumerable refinements. A classical scholar, a wit, a bon vivant, he was also a political boss who not only picked the city’s officials—among them, “Handsome Gene” Schmitz, San Francisco’s “bassoon mayor”—but picked the city’s pockets as well. When he was finally arraigned for graft, Ruef attempted to appoint himself District Attorney to prosecute the case! In A Debonair Scoundrel, Lately Thomas reconstructs the little known but fantastic career and its gaudy, dramatic setting: a city thrown into wild disorder; fighting in the courts reeking with corruption; kidnappings, and flying bullets with overtones of slapstick comedy and suspense. The men who saw to Ruef’s undoing were relics of a bygone West: millionaire Rudolph Spreckels, who tried to reform his own class; Fremont Older, the Evening Bulletin crusading editor—and others, such as Teddy Roosevelt and William Randolph Hearst. Their encounter with Abe Ruef is wittily described by Lately Thomas, author of The Vanishing Evangelist, who has brought his magnificently creative gifts to a book as brilliant and rambunctious as the fabulous era he describes.
Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317457909
The encyclopedia takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the history of the period. It includes general and specific entries on politics and business, labor, industry, agriculture, education and youth, law and legislative affairs, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, health and medicine, science and technology, exploration, life on the Western frontier, family life, slave life, Native American life, women, and more than a hundred influential individuals.
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082913156
Author : Edmund Henry Lacon Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English essays
ISBN : UIUC:30112074862464
Author : David Williamson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786488872
Organized at Indianapolis in December 1861, the 47th Indiana Volunteer Infantry's Civil War service spanned the Mississippi Valley and the Gulf South. From Louisville to New Orleans and on to Mobile, General James R. Slack and the 47th Indiana took the war to the inland waterways and southern bayous, fighting in many of the Civil War's most famous campaigns, including Vicksburg, Red River and Mobile. This chronicle of the 47th Indiana follows the regiment's odyssey through the words of its officers and men. Sources include Chaplain Samuel Sawyer's account of their exploits in the Indianapolis Daily Journal, soldiers' accounts in Indiana newspapers, stories of war and intrigue from newspapermen of the "Bohemian Brigade," and General Slack's own story in letters to his wife, Ann, including his postwar command on the Rio Grande. Numerous photographs, previously unpublished battle and area maps, and a full regimental roster complete this detailed account.
Author : Eagle Glassheim
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674018893
This illuminating study examines the dramatic transformation of Bohemian noble identity from the rise of mass politics in the late nineteenth century to the descent of the Iron Curtain after World War II. At the turn of the twentieth century, some 300 noble families owned over a third of the Habsburg Bohemian Crownlands. With the Empire's demise in 1918, the once powerful Bohemian nobility quickly became a target of the nationalist revolution sweeping the new Czechoslovak state. Eagle Glassheim traces the evolving efforts of the nobles to define their place in this revolutionary new order. Nobles saw little choice but to ally with Czech and German national parties, initially in the hopes of assuaging radical land reform. Yet they retained aristocratic political and social traditions that continued to shape their national identities after 1918. Some moved toward a hybrid national identification, embracing a form of German internationalism and a vision of pan-European unity that led many to support Hitler's expansionist efforts in the late 1930s. Others trumpeted their new-found Czech nationalism in resisting the Nazi occupation. Noble Nationalists offers valuable insights on the nationalization of a conservative political elite, as well as on the national and social revolutions that recast Central Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Author : Livia Rothkirchen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803205024
Published by the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, and Yad Vashem, Jerusalem “We were both small nations whose existence could never be taken for granted,” Vaclav Havel said of the Czechs and the Jews of Israel in 1990, and indeed, the complex and intimate link between the fortunes of these two peoples is unique in European history. This book, by one of the world’s leading authorities on the history of Czech and Slovak Jewry during the Nazi period, is the first to thoroughly document this singular relationship and to trace its impact, both practical and profound, on the fate of the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia during the Holocaust. Livia Rothkirchen provides a detailed and comprehensive history of how Nazi rule in the Czech lands was shaped as much by local culture and circumstances as by military policy. The extraordinary nature of the Czech Jews’ experience emerges clearly in chapters on the role of the Jewish minority in Czech life; the crises of the Munich agreement and the German occupation, the reaction of the local population to the persecution of the Jews, the policies of the London-based government in exile, the question of Jewish resistance, and the special case of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto. The Jews of Bohemia and Moravia is based on a wealth of primary documents, many uncovered only after the 1989 November Revolution. With an epilogue on the post-1945 period, this richly woven historical narrative supplies information essential to an understanding of the history of the Jews in Europe.
Author : Martin Schmidt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781498291293
Author : Gustave Louis Maurice Strauss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:669775191
Author : William Cushing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026053921