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Author | : Brendan McConville |
Publisher | : Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807858660 |
King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Author | : Brendan McConville |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807838861 |
Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break with the king. By reading American history forward from the seventeenth century rather than backward from the Revolution, McConville shows that political conflicts long assumed to foreshadow the events of 1776 were in fact fought out by factions who invoked competing visions of the king and appropriated royal rites rather than used abstract republican rights or pro-democratic proclamations. The American Revolution, McConville contends, emerged out of the fissure caused by the unstable mix of affective attachments to the king and a weak imperial government. Sure to provoke debate, The King's Three Faces offers a powerful counterthesis to dominant American historiography.
Author | : Marjorie Allen Seiffert |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1929 |
Genre | : Poetry |
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Author | : Sarah Nicholson |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2002-05-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567009432 |
A fascinating intertextual study of the classic biblical tragedy of Saul, the first king of Israel, as first narrated in biblical narrative and later reworked in Lamartine's drama Saul: Tragédie and Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. Plot and characterization are each explored in detail in this study, and in each of the narrations the hero's tragic fate emerges both as the result of a character flaw and also as a consequence of the ambivalent role of the deity, showing a double theme underlying not only the biblical vision but also its two very different retellings nearer to our own times.
Author | : Lloyd C. Gardner |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2011-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1459617754 |
Three Kings reveals a story of America's scramble for political influence, oil concessions, and a new military presence based on airpower and generous American aid to shaky regimes in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, and Iraq. Marshaling new and revelatory evidence from the archives, Lloyd Gardner deftly weaves together three decades of U.S. moves in the region to offer the first history of America's efforts to supplant the British empire in the Middle East. From the early efforts to support and influence the Saudi regime (including the creation of Dhahranairbase, the target of Osama bin Laden's first terrorist attack in 1996) and the CIA-engineered coup in Iran to Nasser's Egypt and, finally, the rise of Iraq as a major petroleum power, Three Kings is ''a valuable contribution to our understanding of our still-deepening involvement in this region'' (Booklist).As American policy makers and military planners grapple with the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, Gardner uncovers the largely hidden story of how the United States got into the Middle East in the first place.
Author | : Susan Ossman |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002-02-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822328964 |
DIVA transnational study of female beauty based in an ethnographic study of beauty salons in Cairo, Casablanca, and Paris./div
Author | : Kenneth Ewart Boulding |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1990-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780803938625 |
Defining power as the ability to get what we want, this volume identifies three major types of power: threat power; economic power; and, integrative power. It argues that threat power should not be seen as fundamental since it is not effective unless reinforced by economic and integrative power.
Author | : Paul Sheetz |
Publisher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2006-08 |
Genre | : Fall of man |
ISBN | : 1597816574 |
Author | : Matthew Condon |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2023-11-28 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 0702269646 |
One of the landmark Australian true-crime books, with a new introduction following the death of disgraced Police Commissioner Terry Lewis. Three Crooked Kings is the shocking true story of Queensland and how a society was shaped by almost half a century of corruption. At its core is Terry Lewis, deposed and jailed former police commissioner. From his entry into the force in 1949, Lewis rose through the ranks, becoming part of the so-called Rat Pack with detectives Glen Hallahan and Tony Murphy under the guiding influence of Commissioner Frank Bischof.The next four decades make for a searing tale of cops and killings, bagmen and blackmail, and sin and sleaze that exposes a police underworld that operated from Queensland to New South Wales. This gripping book examines the final pieces of the puzzle, unearths new evidence on cold cases, and explores the pivotal role that whistleblower Shirley Brifman, prostitute and brothel owner, played until her sudden death.Awarded journalist and novelist Matthew Condon has crafted the definitive account of an era that changed a state and is still reverberating to this day.
Author | : George R. R. Martin |
Publisher | : Tor Books |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2022-03-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250167922 |
The next anthology in George R. R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series, Three Kings. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth’s population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces. Queen Margaret, who came to the English throne after the death of her sister Elizabeth, now lies on her death-bed. Summoning the joker ace Alan Turing, she urges him to seek the true heir: Elizabeth's lost son. He was rumored to have died as a baby but, having been born a joker, was sent into hiding. Margaret dies and her elder son Henry becomes king and at once declares he wants to make England an "Anglo-Saxon country" and suggests jokers be sent "to the moon." Dangerous tensions begin to tear the country apart. The Twisted Fists—an organization of jokers led by the Green Man—are becoming more militant. And Babh, goddess of war, sees opportunities to sow strife and reap blood... At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.