Iris And The Keepers Empire
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Iris Origo
Author | : Caroline Moorehead |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781567921830 |
A biography.
Newsletter of the Empire State Iris Society
Author | : Empire State Iris Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Irises (Plants) |
ISBN | : |
Iris and Ruby
Author | : Rosie Thomas |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 2011-11-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0007460104 |
A gripping, exotic and epic tale for fans of Dinah Jeffries and Victoria Hislop
Metaphysical Animals
Author | : Clare Mac Cumhaill |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2023-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1984898981 |
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley—who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II. The history of European philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch were philosophy students at Oxford when most male undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women, all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to the war’s darkest revelations. Neither the great Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense of this new human reality of limitless depravity and destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to bring philosophy back to life. We are metaphysical animals, they realized, creatures that can question their very being. Who am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness? The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will become. Written with expertise and flair, Metaphysical Animals is a lively portrait of women who shared ideas, but also apartments, clothes and even lovers. Mac Cumhaill and Wiseman show how from the disorder and despair of the war, four brilliant friends created a way of ethical thinking that is there for us today.
Earl Bathurst and British Empire
Author | : Neville Thompson |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 507 |
Release | : 1999-03-16 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473813840 |
“An accessible scholarly biography of a politician whom [Thomspon] rightly suggests has been largely neglected.” —The English Historical Review Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst family archives. These private papers clearly established what Bathurst’s contemporaries well knew, that he was a very effective administrator of the Colonial Office and a figure of first rank in the war against Napoleon, in diplomacy and in domestic politics. This biography also throws fresh light on other leading figures of the period notably The Duke of Wellington and The Prince Regent.
The Secret Keeper
Author | : Kate Morton |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2013-07-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1439152810 |
A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.
Imperial Intimacies
Author | : Hazel V. Carby |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1788735110 |
'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the 'white Carbys' and the 'black Carbys', as Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between the Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby's family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire's interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.