Imperial Eden

Author : Robert Ratcliffe Taylor
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781490750040

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Imperial Eden by Robert Ratcliffe Taylor Pdf

Imperial Eden is a collection of poems written mainly by citizens of Victoria, British Columbia, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries about that city. Established in 1843 as a Hudsons Bay Company trading post, Victoria became the capital of the province in 1866. Before the opening of the Panama Canal and the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, however, its inhabitants were relatively isolated from the rest of North America. The citys beautiful location and its semi-Mediterranean climate inspired visitors, locals, and poets to describe it as a paradise. But this remote Eden, surrounded by mountains, forest and the sea, was deeply loyal to Great Britain, believing that its far-flung empire was the repository of freedom and many civic and moral virtues. As well, local writers exhibited a militarism usually associated with Prussia. Eager to defend the British Empire, many of its citizens enthusiastically supported England in the remote South African War (1899-1902) and volunteered for service in the Great War (1914-18). Both wars were seen as a defence of decency and civilization embodied by Britain.This book shows how local poets lauded the beauty, the Britishness of Victoria and the imperial connection, but also how, confronted with the realities of modern warfare, their loyalty to the Empire waned c. 1920.

Author : James Graham
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472537027

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Eden's Empire by James Graham Pdf

Fifty years ago, Britain propelled itself into a disastrous war in the Middle East. Condemned by the UN and accused of falsifying intelligence, the Prime Minister was left fighting for his political life against a Party disillusioned, a public betrayed, and a wily Chancellor with ambitions to take his place... With the pressure of opposition to his war, Prime Minister Anthony Eden rapidly lost his grip on both the Empire and his health. Unable to control the growing power of both the United States and the Arab world, nor his own failing body, history would mark him as the worst British Prime Minister of the twentieth century. A new, uncompromising political thriller exploring with electrifying theatricality the events of the Suez Crisis, and the tragic story of its flawed hero - Churchill's golden boy and heir apparent, Anthony Eden.

Author : Elizabeth Callaway
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813944586

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Eden's Endemics by Elizabeth Callaway Pdf

In the past thirty years biodiversity has become one of the central organizing principles through which we understand the nonhuman environment. Its deceptively simple definition as the variation among living organisms masks its status as a hotly contested term both within the sciences and more broadly. In Eden’s Endemics, Elizabeth Callaway looks to cultural objects—novels, memoirs, databases, visualizations, and poetry— that depict many species at once to consider the question of how we narrate organisms in their multiplicity. Touching on topics ranging from seed banks to science fiction to bird-watching, Callaway argues that there is no set, generally accepted way to measure biodiversity. Westerners tend to conceptualize it according to one or more of an array of tropes rooted in colonial history such as the Lost Eden, Noah’s Ark, and Tree-of-Life imagery. These conceptualizations affect what kinds of biodiversities are prioritized for protection. While using biodiversity as a way to talk about the world aims to highlight what is most valued in nature, it can produce narratives that reinforce certain power differentials—with real-life consequences for conservation projects. Thus the choices made when portraying biodiversity impact what is visible, what is visceral, and what is unquestioned common sense about the patterns of life on Earth.

Author : David Rechter
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781802079241

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At Eden’s Door by David Rechter Pdf

Leon Kellner was part of the intellectual and cultural elite of imperial Austria. Engaged in politics, a member of his regional parliament, and an essayist of repute, he was also a Zionist leader and confidant of Theodor Herzl. He created an institution for Jews’ cultural, educational, and social advancement modelled on London’s Toynbee Hall, which spread across east-central Europe to great effect. He was also an internationally recognized Shakespeare scholar. Yet for all this, today he is little known. How did someone born into a lower-middle-class Orthodox Jewish family from the province of Galicia come to gain such prominence in the Habsburg empire? Kellner’s is a thoroughly Habsburg Jewish story, spanning east and west and shaped by the empire’s history, politics, and culture. He was a singular character: a Galician Jew at home in Vienna and in Czernowitz, eyes towards Zion, yet content also in London, and never more so than when absorbed in the minutiae of Shakespeare’s texts. Kellner’s world was destroyed twice over: Habsburg Austria came to an end in 1918, east-central European Jewry in 1945. This biography recovers at least part of what was lost.

Author : Jeremy Paxman
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780670919604

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Empire by Jeremy Paxman Pdf

From the bestselling author of The English comes Empire, Jeremy Paxman's history of the British Empire accompanied by a flagship 5-part BBC TV series, for readers of Simon Schama and Andrew Marr. The influence of the British Empire is everywhere, from the very existence of the United Kingdom to the ethnic composition of our cities. It affects everything, from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to war to the adventurers we admire. From the sports we think we're good at to the architecture of our buildings; the way we travel to the way we trade; the hopeless losers we will on, and the food we hunger for, the empire is never very far away. In this acute and witty analysis, Jeremy Paxman goes to the very heart of empire. As he describes the selection process for colonial officers ('intended to weed out the cad, the feeble and the too clever') the importance of sport, the sweating domestic life of the colonial officer's wife ('the challenge with cooking meat was "to grasp the fleeting moment between toughness and putrefaction when the joint may possibly prove eatable"') and the crazed end for General Gordon of Khartoum, Paxman brings brilliantly to life the tragedy and comedy of Empire and reveals its profound and lasting effect on our nation and ourselves. 'Paxman is witty, incisive, acerbic and opinionated . . . In short, he carries the whole thing off with panache bordering on effrontery' Piers Brendon, Sunday Times 'Paxman is a magnificent historian, and Empire may be remembered as his finest work' Independent on Sunday Jeremy Paxman was born in Yorkshire and educated at Cambridge. He is an award-winning journalist who spent ten years reporting from overseas, notably for Panorama. He is the author of five books including The English. He is the presenter of Newsnight and University Challenge and has presented BBC documentaries on various subjects including Victorian art and Wilfred Owen.

Author : Helen Wussow,Mary Ann Gillies
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781942954132

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Virginia Woolf and the Common(wealth) Reader by Helen Wussow,Mary Ann Gillies Pdf

Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, addressing the theme of Virginia Woolf and the Commonwealth reader.

Author : Stuart Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 703 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009308694

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Untied Kingdom by Stuart Ward Pdf

How did Britain cease to be global? In Untied Kingdom, Stuart Ward tells the panoramic history of the end of Britain, tracing the ways in which Britishness has been imagined, experienced, disputed and ultimately discarded across the globe since the end of the Second World War. From Indian independence, West Indian immigration and African decolonization to the Suez Crisis and the Falklands War, he uncovers the demise of Britishness as a global civic idea and its impact on communities across the globe. He also shows the consequences of this diminished 'global reach' in Britain itself, from the Troubles in Northern Ireland to resurgent Englishness and the startling success of separatist political agendas in Scotland and Wales. Untied Kingdom puts the contemporary travails of the Union for the first time in their full global perspective as part of the much larger story of the progressive rollback of Britain's imaginative frontiers.

Author : Deborah Hart
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781925267402

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Guarding Eden by Deborah Hart Pdf

Guarding Eden tells the personal stories of twelve ordinary people who were so concerned about climate change that they altered their lives to do something about it. Some did quiet backroom work in research, drafted submissions or wrote to politicians; others decided to go public, really public - one was part of the team occupying a 160-metre power-plant chimney, one went on a hunger strike publicised around the world, another started the Lock the Gate Alliance. They come from all walks of life: there's a nurse, a musician, an insurance broker, a teacher, a lawyer, a vet. Surprisingly touching, Guarding Eden makes an issue as complex and controversial as climate change feel human and deeply real.

Author : Simon Ball
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007332359

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The Guardsmen: Harold Macmillan, Three Friends and the World they Made by Simon Ball Pdf

From the playing fields of Eton via the horrors of the Western Front to the pinnacle of political power in 20th-century Britain – a brilliant collective biography of Harold Macmillan, Lord Salisbury, Oliver Lyttleton and Harry Crookshank.

Author : Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Cattle
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066646310

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Holstein-Friesian Herd-book by Holstein-Friesian Association of America Pdf

Author : Jean L. Manore,Dale Miner
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780774840064

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The Culture of Hunting in Canada by Jean L. Manore,Dale Miner Pdf

The Culture of Hunting in Canada covers elements of the history of hunting from the pre-colonial period until the present in all parts of Canada and features essays by practitioners and scholars of hunting and by pro- and anti-hunting lobbyists. The result crosses the boundaries between scholarship and personal reflection, and between academia and advocacy. Topics include hunting identities; conservation and its relationship to hunting; tensions between hunters and non-hunters and between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal hunting groups; hunting ethics; debates over hunting practices and regulations; animal rights; and gun control. This book makes an unprecedented contribution to the study of hunting in Canada and its role in our culture.

Author : You-Me Park,Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134297337

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The Postcolonial Jane Austen by You-Me Park,Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Pdf

This volume offers a unique contribution to both postcolonial studies and Austen scholarship by: * examining the texts to illumine nineteenth century attitudes to colonialism and the expanding Empire * revealing a new range of interpretations of Austen's work, each shaped by the critic's particular context * exploring the ways in which the study of Austen's novels raises fresh issues for post-colonial criticism. Bringing together work by highly-respected critics from four continents and a range of disciplines, this newly paperbacked volume allows sometimes surprising and always fascinating new insights into some of the most frequently studied - and best loved - novels in the English language.

Author : Terje Tvedt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857716507

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The River Nile in the Age of the British by Terje Tvedt Pdf

The Nile today plays a crucial role in the economics, politics and cultural life of ten countries and their more than 300 million inhabitants. No other international river basin has a longer, more complex and eventful history than the Nile. In telling the detailed story of the hydropolitics of the Nile valley in a period during which the conceptualisation, use and planning of the waters were revolutionised, and many of the most famous politicians of the twentieth century – Churchill, Mussolini, Eisenhower, Eden, Nasser and Haile Selassie – played active parts in the Nile game, this work will stand as a case study of a much more general and acute question: the political ecology of trans-national river basins.

Author : J. Hart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2001-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312299200

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Representing the New World by J. Hart Pdf

Representing the New World argues for the importance of Spain in the New World as an example of France and England in their efforts to establish colonies and suggests that this example was ambivalent and contradictory as well as surprisingly persistent in the representations of Spain in French and English texts concerning the Americas.

Author : David Bromige
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0876857977

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Men, Women, and Vehicles by David Bromige Pdf

Stories by David Bromige.