Reflecting on Things Past
Author | : Peter Alexander Rupert Carington Baron Carrington |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Peter Alexander Rupert Carington Baron Carrington |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Hannah Arendt |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780804744997 |
This is the first volume in any language that collects Hannah Arendt's remarkable series of essays and notes on literary figures and cultural questions.
Author | : Marcel Proust |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 1378 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781840221466 |
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing "la recherche du temps perdu." Moncrieff's translation strives to capture the extraordinary blend of muscular analysis with poetic reverie that typifies Proust's style.
Author | : Richard Davis |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2013-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1443853240 |
Few subjects have aroused more controversy in recent years than that of empire, and that of the British Empire in particular. Few other subjects are of greater importance to today’s world. How the British Empire was created and maintained, and the impact it had on both the colonised and the colonisers, have been the source of long-running and heated debates amongst historians, politicians and in the media. For several decades it has been analysed from numerous different perspectives, providing a wide range of differing interpretations. Over recent years, new studies have extended the scope of imperial history into previously ignored fields that have significantly added to our understanding. Imperial history can, therefore, no longer be regarded as the exclusive realm of the political historian, or the reserve of an essentially British approach. The British Empire was complex. Each of the far-flung components that made it up had its own particularities. At various times and in various places it took on different forms and had different meanings. It affected people across the globe in a multitude of ways. This inevitably produces a multi-facetted picture. The large number of actors, in Britain and in the colonised world, who played a part in its history adds to this impression. As a consequence, it is difficult to come up with one, all-encompassing, history of the British Empire. All these aspects of the British Empire are apparent in the story of how it ended. What precisely decolonisation was, how it came about, and what it meant for the British and for those who gained their independence, varied considerably from one part of the Empire to another, and from one period to another. How these changes came about, how independence was won across the colonial world, and how it was resisted, are dealt with here across a selection of different case studies. Understanding how the British Empire collapsed tells us a great deal about what this Empire was and about its legacy in today’s world.
Author | : Noah Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 942 |
Release | : 1832 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William W. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1860 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Daniel Defoe |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2022-04-22 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1684483328 |
Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period.
Author | : R. Gerald Hughes |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2014-01-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1780936451 |
Focusing on the Cold War and the post-Cold War eras, R. Gerald Hughes explores the continuing influence of Appeasement on British foreign policy and re-evaluates the relationship between British society and Appeasement, both as historical memory and as a foreign policy process. The Postwar Legacy of Appeasement explores the reaction of British policy makers to the legacies of the era of Appeasement, the memory of Appeasement in public opinion and the media and the use of Appeasement as a motif in political debate regarding threats faced by Britain in the post-war era. Using many previously unpublished archival sources, this book clearly demonstrates that many of the core British beliefs and cultural norms that had underpinned the Chamberlainite Appeasement of the 1930s persisted in the postwar period.