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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6DUG
Author : Peter O. K. Krehl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1298 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540304210
This unique and encyclopedic reference work describes the evolution of the physics of modern shock wave and detonation from the earlier and classical percussion. The history of this complex process is first reviewed in a general survey. Subsequently, the subject is treated in more detail and the book is richly illustrated in the form of a picture gallery. This book is ideal for everyone professionally interested in shock wave phenomena.
Author : Josef Lewis Altholz,J. L. Altholz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521521122
This book contains 2,500 bibliographical entries covering most aspects of the history of Victorian England.
Author : Albert Gallatin Mackey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118405591
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082974166
Author : Newton Free Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Classified catalogs
ISBN : UIUC:30112033736601
Author : Albert Gallatin Mackey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Freemasonry
ISBN : NYPL:33433075953657
Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781118896280
An authoritative review of literary biography covering the seventeenth century to the twentieth century A Companion to Literary Biography offers a comprehensive account of literary biography spanning the history of the genre across three centuries. The editor – an esteemed literary biographer and noted expert in the field – has encouraged contributors to explore the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the writing of biographies of writers. The text examines how biographers have dealt with the lives of classic authors from Chaucer to contemporary figures such as Kingsley Amis. The Companion brings a new perspective on how literary biography enables the reader to deal with the relationship between the writer and their work. Literary biography is the most popular form of writing about writing, yet it has been largely neglected in the academic community. This volume bridges the gap between literary biography as a popular genre and its relevance for the academic study of literature. This important work: Allows the author of a biography to be treated as part of the process of interpretation and investigates biographical reading as an important aspect of criticism Examines the birth of literary biography at the close of the seventeenth century and considers its expansion through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Addresses the status and writing of literary biography from numerous perspectives and with regard to various sources, methodologies and theories Reviews the ways in which literary biography has played a role in our perception of writers in the mainstream of the English canon from Chaucer to the present day Written for students at the undergraduate level, through postgraduate and doctoral levels, as well as academics, A Companion to Literary Biography illustrates and accounts for the importance of the literary biography as a vital element of criticism and as an index to our perception of literary history.
Author : Bruce Kinzer,Molly Baer Kramer,Richard Trainor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192678201
The essays in this volume, taken together, span the era of British history from 1780 to the present that has engrossed the attention of Brian Harrison in a career of more than fifty years. In keeping with his diverse interests, they vary widely in subject matter. Yet each contributes, in some fashion, to an appreciation of the complexities of reform in modern Britain. Throughout his career Harrison has demonstrated an unwavering interest in social movements and pressure groups. He has analysed the organisation of reform movements and their bases of support; explored the aspirations and beliefs motivating individuals to start or join such movements; and examined the ideas and ideals shaping their conception of human improvement. No one has done more to show that the significance of a reform movement's triumphs and disappointments can be grasped only in relation to the forces amassed to resist its claims. The essays gathered here, on the Harrisonian theme of reform and its complexities, form an acknowledgment of the massive mark their honouree has made on the study of modern British history. They are preceded by a Foreword composed by Keith Thomas and an editorial Introduction tracing the course of Harrison's scholarship and connecting that scholarship to the substance of the essays. The volume encompasses both wide-ranging analytical investigations and telling case studies. All have new things to say on the subject of reform and its complexities in modern Britain.
Author : Theodore Corbett
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399040457
While many books have been written on the naval history of the Revolution, this is one of the first to treat it in its entirety as an Atlantic-wide conflict. While its geographical scope is vast, it features overlooked aspects of the war in which sloops and barges fought, actions which proved to be as decisive as the familiar ship of the line confrontations. It is also history from the bottom up, emphasizing the role of the crew as much the not always heroic officers. From naval perspective the rebellious colonies did not gain a military victory, though Benjamin Franklin was able to secure their independence at the peace table in Europe. The final chapter on the Royal Navy’s evacuation of white and black loyalists, will be examined in more detail in the author’s forthcoming Pen & Sword book.
Author : Gillian T. Cell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317087663
Despite the relative obscurity surrounding the earliest English settlements in Newfoundland, the documents in this volume show that they were neither unimportant, nor, ultimately, unsuccessful. Unlike the sites of other English colonies founded in the New World in the early 17th century, Newfoundland had an already-established economic base - the flourishing fishery for cod in which European fishermen had engaged for over a century. Settlement, from its beginnings in 1610, was closely tied to the exploitation of the fishery. But fishing was not the only occupation; the early settlers searched for iron and tried to grow food, to make glass and soap, and to establish a trade in furs with the indigenous Beothuk Indians. Keenly aware of their new and often hostile environment, the colonists recorded their impressions of the island's geography, climate, resources, and people, as well as their own struggle to survive. Some of their earliest letters are printed in this collection. In the third decade of the century, the first wave of settlers sent by the Newfoundland company were followed by a second despatched by independent proprietors: the Welshmen, William Vaughan, the courtier, Lord Baltimore, and the lord deputy of Ireland, Lord Falkland. Their correspondence and the writings of their publicists reveal not only their idiosyncratic reasons for involvement in Newfoundland, but also place the island and its fishery firmly in the context of their economic and strategic significance to England. In the works of Richard Whitbourne, reprinted here for the first time, are to be found the most complete statements of the value and practice of the fishery and the international trade in fish, together with vividly detailed descriptions of the island with which a lifetime connection had bred a loving obsession.
Author : PhilipRoss Bullock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351550512
Philip Ross Bullock looks at the life and works of Rosa Newmarch (1857-1940), the leading authority on Russian music and culture in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England. Although Newmarch's work and influence are often acknowledged - most particularly by scholars of English poetry, and of the role of women in English music - the full range of her ideas and activities has yet to be studied. As an inveterate traveller, prolific author, and polyglot friend of some of Europe's leading musicians, such as Elgar, Sibelius and Jank, Newmarch deserves to be better appreciated. On the basis of both published and archival materials, the details of Newmarch's busy life are traced in an opening chapter, followed by an overview of English interest in Russian culture around the turn of the century, a period which saw a long-standing Russophobia (largely political and military) challenged by a more passionate and well-informed interest in the arts Three chapters then deal with the features that characterize Newmarch's engagement with Russian culture and society, and - more significantly perhaps - which she also championed in her native England; nationalism; the role of the intelligentsia; and feminism. In each case, Newmarch's interest in Russia was no mere instance of ethnographic curiosity; rather, her observations about and passion for Russia were translated into a commentary on the state of contemporary English cultural and social life. Her interest in nationalism was based on the conviction that each country deserved an art of its own. Her call for artists and intellectuals to play a vital role in the cultural and social life of the country illustrated how her Russian experiences could map onto the liberal values of Victorian England. And her feminism was linked to the idea that women could exercise roles of authority and influence in society through participation in the arts. A final chapter considers how her late interest in the music of Czechoslovakia pi
Author : Sir Stanley Mordaunt Leathes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Asia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044048335087
Author : Adolphus William Ward, Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Stanley Leathes,Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Gwenfair Walters Adams
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830872992
"If we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his." (Rom. 6:5) With its themes of grace, sin, justification, and salvation through Christ alone, Paul's letter to the early church in Rome has been a primary focus of Christian reflection throughout church history. Sixteenth-century reformer Martin Luther reflected the church's longstanding emphasis on this portion of the canon: "This letter is truly the most important piece in the New Testament. It is purest Gospel. . . . It is impossible to read or to meditate on this letter too much or too well. The more one deals with it, the more precious it becomes and the better it tastes." In this volume of the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, church historian Gwenfair Adams guides readers through a diversity of early modern commentary on the first eight chapters of Paul's epistle to the Romans. Readers will hear from familiar voices as well as discover lesser-known figures, from a variety of theological traditions including Lutherans, Reformed, Radicals, Anglicans, and Roman Catholics. Drawing upon a wide range of resources—including commentaries, sermons, treatises, and confessions—much of which appears here for the first time in English, this volume provides resources for contemporary preachers, enables scholars to better understand the depth and breadth of Reformation commentary, and seeks to help all those who desire to be united with Christ.