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Author : J. Ross Dancy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783270033
Overturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century.
Author : Godfrey Cheshire,Matt Zoller Seitz,Armond White
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781609809775
A dialogue about cinema's legacy and best directors through essays by three of the best long-form critics out there, collected from the legendary NYPress for the first time. Comprising of the kind of long-form criticism that is all too rare these days, the weekly film columns in the NYPress included polemics, reviews, interviews, festival reports and features. A far cry from what is often derisively termed the "consumer report" mode of criticism, Cheshire, Seitz and White were passionately engaged with the film culture of both their own time, and what had come before. They constituted three distinctly different voices: equally accomplished, yet notably individual, perspectives on cinema. Their distinctive tastes and approaches were often positioned in direct dialogue with each other, a constant critical conversation that frequently saw each writer directly challenging his colleagues. Dialogue is important in criticism, and here you can find a healthy example of it existing under one proverbial roof. This three-way dialogue between Cheshire, Seitz and White assesses the 1990s in cinema, along with pieces on New York's vibrant repertory scene that allow us to read the authors' takes on directors such as Hitchcock, Lean, Kubrick, Welles, Fassbinder and Bresson; as well as topics such as the legacy of Star Wars, film noir, early film projection in New York City, the New York Film Critics Circle, Sundance, the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the emerging cinema of Iran and Taiwan.
Author : Mark Wahlgren Summers
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807844462
Relations between the press and politicians in modern America have always been contentious. In The Press Gang, Mark Summers tells the story of the first skirmishes in this ongoing battle. Following the Civil War, independent newspapers began to sep
Author : Nicholas Rogers
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826423733
The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away to a harsh life at sea, sometimes for years at a time. Nicholas Rogers explains exactly how the press gang worked, whom it was aimed at and how successful it was in achieving its ends. He also shows the limits to its operations and the press gang's need for cooperation from local authorities, who were by no means prepared to support it. Written by an expert in the social history of eighteenth-century Britain, it is both well-researched and highly readable.
Author : Matthew Skelton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780141925776
Who or what is Endymion Spring? A power for good, or for evil . . . A legendary book that holds the secret to a world of knowledge . . . A young boy without a voice – whose five-hundred-year-old story is about to explode in the twenty-first century . . . Set in present-day Oxford and Germany at the dawn of printing, one magical book sets two boys’ worlds alight – bringing them unimaginable danger, excitement and power . . . Skelton's brilliant literary debut. Powerfully gripping, a perfect, magical read for teenagers and adults alike.
Author : Roy Greenslade
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0330393766
Tracing the changing face of British newspapers, Roy Greenslade shows how the way we live has been shaped by what we read. While analysing such dominant media figures as Rupert Murdoch and Robert Maxwell the book also examines the trends, the biases and the impact of the press as we know it today.
Author : Daniel James Ennis
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874137551
"Even as press-gangs roamed the London streets, eighteenth-century writers applauded, critiqued, and condemned the practice Pepys called "a great tyranny" - the means of naval recruitment by which Britain simultaneously manned her fleets and oppressed her citizens." "This book centers on literature produced in "moments of crisis" - times when Britain faced a military challenge and thus needed her Navy most. When the French gained the upper hand early in the Seven Years' War, David Garrick was moved to write "To honour we call you, not press you like slaves, / For who are so free as we sons of the waves?" This characterization of the press as benign was common in the theater, even as sailors brawled with press-gangs on London Bridge. At the same time, novelists bitterly attacked impressment policy, showing how the press weighs most heavily on the poor."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : J. R. Hutchinson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368357467
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Aaron Chapman
Publisher : Arsenal Pulp Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781551526720
The story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the city’s east side. Corrupt cops, hapless criminals, and murder figure in this story that questions which gang was tougher: the petty criminals, or the police themselves.
Author : Lambert A. Wilmer
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382319779
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Andrew Doherty
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750995948
Waterford harbour has centuries of tradition based on its extensive fishery and maritime trade. Steeped in history, customs and an enviable spirit, it was there that Andrew Doherty was born and raised amongst a treasure chest of stories spun by the fishermen, sailors and their families. As an adult he began to research these accounts and, to his surprise, found many were based on fact. In this book, Doherty will take you on a fascinating journey along the harbour, introduce you to some of its most important sites and people, the area's history, and some of its most fantastic tales. Dreaded press gangs who raided whole communities for crew, the search for buried gold and a ship seized by pirates, the horror of a German bombing of the rural idyll during the Second World War – on every page of this incredible account you will learn something of the maritime community of Waterford Harbour.
Author : Jim Sangster
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0952695502
Author : Taste This (Performance group)
Publisher : Raincoast Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029447948
Boys like her is an adrenaline-rush road movie of young queer life and gender transformation. First stop, the Canada-U.S. border, four young queers in a borrowed car pulled over, notebooks, make-up, clothes and violin flung out on the concrete. The car is checked for drugs, contraband, fruit - and declared clean. The four in a borrowed car are smuggling dangerous goods. But what they're smuggling can't be sniffed out, pawed through, or seized. They're smuggling stories, poetry, scripts; words they've sold in performance on-stage. Felons, all of them, they've memorized their act and now are speeding away from the border, smiling, self-satisfied and definitely up to no good. Join Anna, Ivan, Zoe and Lyndell as they evade customs, tell their stories, forget underwear, break hearts and come clean. Surrender yourself to the brash fun of Zoe's Amsterdam "sideshow", to the darling day when Ivan first sheds her bikini top, to the fearless audacity of Anna's superhero adventure, and the soulfol guiding spirit of Lyndell's violin, Experience the world and truth of Taste This, where stories have no hard and fast boundaries, where gender and genre are malleable and where transgression is often the way to the most delightful transformations.
Author : Robert Duran
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231158671
Refusing to cast gangs in solely criminal terms, Robert J. Durán, a former gang member turned scholar, recasts such groups as an adaptation to the racial oppression of colonization in the American Southwest. Developing a paradigm rooted in ethnographic research and almost two decades of direct experience with gangs, Durán completes the first-ever study to follow so many marginalized groups so intensely for so long, revealing their core characteristics, behavior, and activities within two unlikely American cities. Durán spent five years in Denver, Colorado, and Ogden, Utah, conducting 145 interviews with gang members, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and other related individuals. From his research, he constructs a comparative outline of the emergence and criminalization of Latino youth groups, the ideals and worlds they create, and the reasons for their persistence. He also underscores the failures of violent gang suppression tactics, which have only further entrenched these groups within the barrio. Encouraging cultural activists and current and former gang members to pursue grassroots empowerment, Durán proposes new solutions to racial oppression that challenge and truly alter the conditions of gang life.
Author : Sudhir Venkatesh
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440631894
A New York Times Bestseller "A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist "A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally ignored or lumped into ill-defined stereotype." —Finanical Times Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of Freakonomics When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice survey on urban poverty--and impress his professors with his boldness. He never imagined that as a result of this assignment he would befriend a gang leader named JT and spend the better part of a decade embedded inside the projects under JT’s protection. From a privileged position of unprecedented access, Venkatesh observed JT and the rest of his gang as they operated their crack-selling business, made peace with their neighbors, evaded the law, and rose up or fell within the ranks of the gang’s complex hierarchical structure. Examining the morally ambiguous, highly intricate, and often corrupt struggle to survive in an urban war zone, Gang Leader for a Day also tells the story of the complicated friendship that develops between Venkatesh and JT--two young and ambitious men a universe apart. Sudhir Venkatesh’s latest book Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy—a memoir of sociological investigation revealing the true face of America’s most diverse city—is also published by Penguin Press.
