Splendidly Victorian

Author : Michael H. Shirley,Todd E. A. Larson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351788182

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Splendidly Victorian by Michael H. Shirley,Todd E. A. Larson Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. The eminent historian of Victorian Britain, Walter L. Arnstein has, over the course of a career spanning more than 40 years, arguably introduced more students to British history than any other American historian. This collection of essays by some of his former students celebrates Arnstein's inspirational teaching and writing with surveys and analyses of various aspects of the social, cultural, economic and political history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Nineteenth-century topics covered in the volume include early Victorian caricatures and the thin legal lines that they often trod; British Army fashion and its contribution to Royal spectacles; Free Trade Radicals and how they viewed educational reform and moral progress; the persistence of Chartist ideology following the failure of the movement in 1848; Disraeli and Derby's involvement with the Navy's administration; religious periodicals and their influence; the myth of Bismarck as an honest broker of peace and the subsequent collapse of the myth as a later source of enmity in Anglo-German relations; the powerful mystique evoked back in England by the London missionary societies Mongolian; missions; Victorian urban planning and the re-introduction of the market place.

Author : Michael H. Shirley,Todd E. A. Larson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1315629186

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Splendidly Victorian by Michael H. Shirley,Todd E. A. Larson Pdf

Author : Francis Edward Foden,Frank Foden
Publisher : Vallentine Mitchell
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011021121

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Philip Magnus: Victorian Educational Pioneer by Francis Edward Foden,Frank Foden Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117452560

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Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News by Anonim Pdf

Author : Daniel Tatarsky
Publisher : Portico
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781911042631

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The Splendid Book of the Bicycle by Daniel Tatarsky Pdf

Cycling is hugely popular nowadays. Since 2003 more than 100 million bikes have been produced each year, more than twice the amount of cars. And in 2011, more than 741,000 people cycled to work, an increase of 90,000 from 2001. The Splendid Book of the Bicycle is a wide-ranging celebration of the bicycle and cycling, incorporating social history, sport and science. It covers the bicycle’s invention and subsequent historical development, stories of intrepid early cyclists who travelled the world, the 20th-century popularity of cycle touring, and the depiction of bicycles in films, books and art. It examines the sport of cycling, including histories of the Tour de France and the other great European races, the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España, and goes on to explore velodrome-based cycling and the rise of BMX and mountain biking. It investigates the science behind balance and aerodynamics, and covers the future of bicycles, including innovative flying, floating and electric bikes. It also touches on the technical aspects of bicycles, including an exploded diagram of a typical bike and tips for basic maintenance of your own bike. Beautifully illustrated with vintage and modern images, this book is a perfect gift for both bike obsessives and general readers. Word count: 35,000 words

Author : Gordon Marsden
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0582036852

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Victorian Values by Gordon Marsden Pdf

"Victorian Values is an absorbing portrait of Victorian society and culture, presenting different aspects of the age through profiles of representative or pioneering figures - among them Dickens, Pugin, Mary Kingsley, Lord Leighton, Gladstone and Joseph Chamberlain. It illuminates Victorian attitudes to a range of issues from education, health and self-help to civic ideals and sexual identity. Widely used and enjoyed by students, teachers and general readers alike, it has now been extended with four new essays and the Introduction, comparing the Victorian age with our own, has been updated and rewritten."--

Author : Stephanie Owen Reeder
Publisher : National Library Australia
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780642277244

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The Vision Splendid by Stephanie Owen Reeder Pdf

The Vision Splendid features the sketchbooks of 22 nineteenth-century artists, ranging from well-known professionals like Eugene von Gu�rard and John Glover to amateurs about whom little is known. These artists, engineers, surveyors, military men, solicitors, public servants and pastoralists all delighted in recording what they saw and then sharing it with family, friends and the wider public. The sketches reveal what colonial life in Australia was like at that time, both in the country and in the city, and the challenges the artists faced depicting landscapes that were so different from those in Europe.

Author : Samantha Matthews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192599841

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Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture by Samantha Matthews Pdf

'Will you write in my album?' Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but also Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and Sara Coleridge. Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture presents the first critical and cultural history of this forgotten phenomenon. It asks a series of questions. Where did 1820s 'albo-mania' come from, and why was it satirized as a women's 'mania'? What was the relation between visitors' books associated with great institutions and country houses, personal albums belonging to individuals, and the poetry written in both? What caused albums' re-gendering from earlier friendship books kept by male students and gentlemen on the Grand Tour to a 'feminized' practice identified mainly with young women? When albums were central to women's culture, why were so many published album poems by men? How did amateur and professional poets engage differently with albums? What does album culture's privileging of 'original poetry' have to say about attitudes towards creativity and poetic practice in the age of print? This volume recovers a distinctive subgenre of occasional poetry composed to be read in manuscript, with its own characteristic formal features, conventions, themes, and cultural significance. Unique albums examined include that kept at the Grande Chartreuse, those owned by Regency socialite Lady Sarah Jersey, and those kept by Lake poets' daughters. As Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture shows, album poetry reflects changing attitudes to identity, gender, class, politics, poetry, family dynamics, and social relations in the Romantic period.

Author : John Charmley
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571309252

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Splendid Isolation? by John Charmley Pdf

Splendid Isolation? is at once a portrait of British politics and diplomacy at the height of British power and a revisionist account of the First World War. John Charmley argues a powerful and challenging case, forcing a fresh look at a period long held to be part of the glorious British past.

Author : Naomi E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1993-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773591615

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The Splendid Vision by Naomi E.S. Griffiths Pdf

This history traces the ncwc's development and assesses the effectiveness of its many interventions in the political process over the past 100 years. The author shows that through the Council, women have dealt with virtually all the major social and political issues that have faced Canada.

Author : Thomas Simonsen
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781486307494

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Splendid Ghost Moths and Their Allies by Thomas Simonsen Pdf

The Hepialidae (Ghost Moths) are a family of often spectacular micro-moths. The Australian region is one of the hot spots for hepialid diversity and the fauna is divided into three groups: primitive Hepialidae with small, often overlooked species; oxycanine Hepialidae, containing the large and poorly known genus Oxycanus and its allies; and finally the hepialine Hepialidae, which span from stunning, green Splendid Ghost Moths in the genus Aenetus, to the enormous moths in the genera Zelotypia and Abantiades (which include some of the most impressive insects in the world), to smaller, drab pest species in the genus Oncopera. Splendid Ghost Moths and Their Allies is the first work to provide comprehensive information about the taxonomy, biology, diversity and morphology of all 70 Australian hepialine Hepialidae species, including the descriptions of 15 species and one genus new to science. Each species is illustrated with colour photographs of males and females and drawings of the genitalia, and the book also contains identification keys to genera and species. Distribution maps and detailed information on where each species is found are included, as well as a species richness map for the group in Australia. This book is an invaluable reference for moth enthusiasts, professional entomologists and nature conservationists alike.

Author : T. Hunt,M. Lessard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-04-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780230523418

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Women and the Colonial Gaze by T. Hunt,M. Lessard Pdf

"Women and the Colonial Gaze" examines the way images of women have been used by colonizers and subject peoples to define the colonial relationship.

Author : Jess Nevins
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476665009

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The Victorian Bookshelf by Jess Nevins Pdf

This introductory guide to the canon of Victorian literature covers 61 novels by authors from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. Brief critical essays describe what each book is about and argue for its cultural, historical and literary importance. Literary canons remain a subject of debate but critics, readers and students continue to find them useful as overviews--and examinations--of the great works within a given period or culture. The Victorian canon is particularly rich with splendid novels that educate, enlighten and entertain. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Steve Kemper
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393285536

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A Splendid Savage: The Restless Life of Frederick Russell Burnham by Steve Kemper Pdf

"Rich, detailed, and pitch-perfect, with the witty and wonderful skipping off every page." —Maxwell Carter, Wall Street Journal Frederick Russell Burnham’s (1861–1947) amazing story resembles a newsreel fused with a Saturday matinee thriller. One of the few people who could turn his garrulous friend Theodore Roosevelt into a listener, Burnham was once world-famous as “the American scout.” His expertise in woodcraft, learned from frontiersmen and Indians, helped inspire another friend, Robert Baden-Powell, to found the Boy Scouts. His adventures encompassed Apache wars and range feuds, booms and busts in mining camps around the globe, explorations in remote regions of Africa, and death-defying military feats that brought him renown and high honors. His skills led to his unusual appointment, as an American, to be Chief of Scouts for the British during the Boer War, where his daring exploits earned him the Distinguished Service Order from King Edward VII. After a lifetime pursuing golden prospects from the deserts of Mexico and Africa to the tundra of the Klondike, Burnham found wealth, in his sixties, near his childhood home in southern California. Other men of his era had a few such adventures, but Burnham had them all. His friend H. Rider Haggard, author of many best-selling exotic tales, remarked, “In real life he is more interesting than any of my heroes of romance.” Among other well-known individuals who figure in Burnham’s story are Cecil Rhodes and William Howard Taft, as well as some of the wealthiest men of the day, including John Hays Hammond, E. H. Harriman, Henry Payne Whitney, and the Guggenheim brothers. Failure and tragedy streaked his life as well, but he was endlessly willing to set off into the unknown, where the future felt up for grabs and values worth dying for were at stake. Steve Kemper brings a quintessential American story to vivid life in this gripping biography.

Author : Rachelle Hope Saltzman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496831606

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Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest by Rachelle Hope Saltzman Pdf

Co-winner of the 2021 Elli Köngäs-Maranda Prize awarded by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society Contributions by Susan Eleuterio, Andrea Glass, Rachelle Hope Saltzman, Jack Santino, Patricia E. Sawin, and Adam Zolkover The 2016 US presidential campaign and its aftermath provoked an array of protests notable for their use of humor, puns, memes, and graphic language. During the campaign, a video surfaced of then-candidate Donald Trump’s lewd use of the word “pussy”; in response, many women have made the issue and the term central to the public debate about women’s bodies and their political, social, and economic rights. Focusing on the women-centered aspects of the protests that started with the 2017 Women’s March, Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest deals with the very public nature of that surprising, grassroots spectacle and explores the relationship between the personal and the political in the protests. Contributors to this edited collection use a folkloristic lens to engage with the signs, memes, handmade pussy hats, and other items of material culture that proliferated during the march and in subsequent public protests. Contributors explore how this march and others throughout history have employed the social critique functions and features of carnival to stage public protests; how different generations interacted and acted in the march; how perspectives on inclusion and citizenship influenced and motivated participation; how women-owned businesses and their dedicated patrons interacted with the election, the march, and subsequent protests; how popular belief affects actions and reactions, regardless of some objective notion of truth; and how traditionally female crafts and gifting behavior strengthened and united those involved in the march.