The Customs House

Author : Andrew Motion
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571288120

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The Customs House by Andrew Motion Pdf

Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of the poems are in the voices of combatants, others are based on memories of the poet's father, who landed at D-day and fought in France and Germany. The poems combine understatement with a clear-eyed and unswerving candour.The Customs House has other rooms: a group of topographies, mapping moments in a marriage against the contingencies of place and family history; and several 'found poems', in which the poet collaborates with his source, mixing what is there already with what is about to be there: whether a remarkable sonnet sequence on the last days of the Baroque genius Francesco Borromini, or in other poems a richly imagined extrapolation from the silent premises of a painting.

Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019577949

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The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne Pdf

Author : Gautham Rao
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226367071

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National Duties by Gautham Rao Pdf

Epilogue: Charleston, 1832 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index

Author : Ann Coburn
Publisher : Oberon Books
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1840021144

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Get Up And Tie Your Fingers/Safe by Ann Coburn Pdf

On 14 October 1881, forty-five fishing boats set out from Eyemouth harbour, heart of the Scottish Borders' fishing industry. Only twenty-five returned. A small community was torn apart by the loss of husbands, brothers, fathers and sons. Get Up And Tie Your Fingers dramatises the daily lives of the herring lassies and fishwives who lived in this community: lives dominated by work, overshadowed by the moods of the sea, but released in the telling of stories and the singing of songs. Safe plunders story-telling techniques of a different kind - namely fairytales - to investigate a very contemporary concern: the safety versus freedom debate for parents and children. As a group of parents gather in a disused warehouse to construct a carnival float, fairytale conventions and symbols begin to invade reality, and the parents have to face up to the dilemmas of modern parenting and the failings of their own fathers and mothers.

Author : Y. M. Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Customhouses
ISBN : 0646164678

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The Customs House Port Murthoo by Y. M. Johnson Pdf

Author : Mike Hollow
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780749026974

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The Custom House Murder by Mike Hollow Pdf

First Published as Enemy Action. September, 1940. With London having endured the Blitz for nearly a month, people are calling for vengeance, but once again the night heralds more destruction. In Custom House, anxious residents dutifully head to the nearest public air-raid shelter as the warning siren wails. When dawn brings the all-clear, people disperse, but one man remains - he is dead, stabbed through the heart. Detective Inspector John Jago discovers that the victim was a pacifist. But why, then, was he carrying a loaded revolver in his pocket?

Author : Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781478022367

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Dockside Reading by Isabel Hofmeyr Pdf

In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials would leaf through publications looking for obscenity, politically objectionable materials, or reprints of British copyrighted works, often dumping these condemned goods into the water. These practices, echoing other colonial imaginaries of the ocean as a space for erasing incriminating evidence of the violence of empire, informed later censorship regimes under apartheid in South Africa. By tracking printed matter from ship to shore, Hofmeyr shows how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters. Set in the environmental context of the colonial port city, Dockside Reading explores how imperialism colonizes water. Hofmeyr examines this theme through the concept of hydrocolonialism, which puts together land and sea, empire and environment.

Author : Tak-Wing Ngo,Yongping Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134034406

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Rent Seeking in China by Tak-Wing Ngo,Yongping Wu Pdf

In China, rent seeking has been linked to the idea of the local developmental state in which rapid economic development is explained in terms of the promotion of village and township enterprises by local cadres who wants to maximize revenue. At the same time, the rent-seeking state is also seen as the root of corrupt practices and in the creation of a political market where state assets and authorities are diverted into private interests. Despite the prevalence of rent seeking practices in present day China, no systematic study of the phenomenon across different regions and economic sectors has yet been undertaken and as such what accounts for the occurrence of the phenomenon, what range of activities are related to rent seeking practices and, more importantly, how rent seeking shapes political and economic development are barely understood. Rent Seeking in China seeks to address these questions using case studies from across economics sectors including primary industry, strategic industry, heavy industry, and light industry. It will be invaluable reading for students and scholars of Chinese politics, comparative politics and Chinese economic and business management.

Author : Iver Bernstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198021711

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The New York City Draft Riots by Iver Bernstein Pdf

For five days in July 1863, at the height of the Civil War, New York City was under siege. Angry rioters burned draft offices, closed factories, destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines, and hunted policemen and soldiers. Before long, the rioters turned their murderous wrath against the black community. In the end, at least 105 people were killed, making the draft riots the most violent insurrection in American history. In this vividly written book, Iver Bernstein tells the compelling story of the New York City draft riots. He details how what began as a demonstration against the first federal draft soon expanded into a sweeping assault against the local institutions and personnel of Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party as well as a grotesque race riot. Bernstein identifies participants, dynamics, causes and consequences, and demonstrates that the "winners" and "losers" of the July 1863 crisis were anything but clear, even after five regiments rushed north from Gettysburg restored order. In a tour de force of historical detection, Bernstein shows that to evaluate the significance of the riots we must enter the minds and experiences of a cast of characters--Irish and German immigrant workers, Wall Street businessmen who frantically debated whether to declare martial law, nervous politicians in Washington and at City Hall. Along the way, he offers new perspectives on a wide range of topics: Civil War society and politics, patterns of race, ethnic and class relations, the rise of organized labor, styles of leadership, philanthropy and reform, strains of individualism, and the rise of machine politics in Boss Tweed's Tammany regime. An in-depth study of one of the most troubling and least understood crises in American history, The New York City Draft Riots is the first book to reveal the broader political and historical context--the complex of social, cultural and political relations--that made the bloody events of July 1863 possible.

Author : Liz Gillis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1781174652

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Women of the Irish Revolution 1913-1923 by Liz Gillis Pdf

'Women of the Irish Revolution' tells the story of the role that women played both directly and indirectly in the Irish revolution. These women were vital to the revolutionary movement. They were part of a generation who made a conscious decision to stand up for not only their rights, but also the rights of future generations, at a time when society viewed the role of women as that of mother and wife. The independence movement could not have succeeded without their contribution, which saw them put themselves in great danger in order to help free their country. The book also tells the story of those who, though not directly involved, lost so much as a result of that conflict. For they were the wives, mothers, sisters and girlfriends of the men who fought for Irish freedom, and their story is one that needs to be told. History, they say, is written by the victors, and more often than not the victors are men. The women from this period are the forgotten generation and it is now time to remember them.

Author : Felix Flügel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 954 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : English language
ISBN : UOM:35112104921533

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German and English by Felix Flügel Pdf

Author : A. Larsen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11642919

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Dansk-norsk-engelsk Ordbog ved A. Larsen by A. Larsen Pdf

Author : IBP USA
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781438767406

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Cuba Investment and Business Guide Volume 1 Strategic and Practical Information by IBP USA Pdf

Cuba Investment and Business Guide - Strategic and Practical Information

Author : W. D. Chester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Customhouses
ISBN : UCAL:B3218321

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Chronicles of the Customs Department by W. D. Chester Pdf

Author : Derek R. Whaley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : California
ISBN : 1508570736

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Santa Cruz Trains by Derek R. Whaley Pdf

Once there was an endless redwood wilderness, populated by only the hardiest of people. Then, the sudden blast of a steam whistle echoed across the canyons and the valleys-the iron horse had arrived in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Driven by the need to transport materials like lumber and lime to the rest of the world, the railroad brought people seeking out new ways of living, from the remote outposts along Bean and Zayante Creeks to the bustling towns of Los Gatos and Santa Cruz. Bridges and tunnels marked the landscape, and each new station, siding and spur signaled activity: businesses, settlements, and vacation spots. Summer resorts in the mountains evolved into sprawling residential communities which formed the backbone of the towns of the San Lorenzo Valley today. Much of the history of the locations along the route has since been forgotten. This is their story. Third Revision (February 2016) Addenda available at http://www.whaleyland.com/downloads/addenda1.3.pdf Exclusive CreateSpace Discount: Enter MU236Q6V into the coupon code field and get this book for $5.00 off! Offer only valid through CreateSpace. Review this book at GoodReads (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25144919)