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Author | : Miri Rubin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2020-03-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110848123X |
Explores how medieval towns and cities received newcomers, and the process by which these 'strangers' became 'neighbours' between 1000 and 1500.
Author | : Kelley Armstrong |
Publisher | : Minotaur Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250786592 |
In the next riveting thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong, the paranoia increases – along with the stakes – as the town of Rockton tries to solve the latest mystery at their door. Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it’s the natural flux of things, but Casey’s not so sure. It seems like something bigger is happening in the small town they call home. When an injured hiker stumbles from the woods, someone who seems to have come to the Yukon for a wilderness vacation but instead is now fighting for her life, it’s all hands on deck. What – or who – attacked this woman, and why? With the woman unconscious, and no leads, Casey and Eric don’t know where the threat is coming from. Plus, the residents of their deeply secretive town are uneasy with this stranger in their midst. Everyone in Rockton wants this mystery solved – and fast.
Author | : Amy Stanley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501188542 |
*Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Biography* *Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award* *Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography* A “captivating” (The Washington Post) work of history that explores the life of an unconventional woman during the first half of the 19th century in Edo—the city that would become Tokyo—and a portrait of a city on the brink of a momentous encounter with the West. The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in a rural Japanese village and was expected to live a traditional life much like her mother’s. But after three divorces—and a temperament much too strong-willed for her family’s approval—she ran away to make a life for herself in one of the largest cities in the world: Edo, a bustling metropolis at its peak. With Tsuneno as our guide, we experience the drama and excitement of Edo just prior to the arrival of American Commodore Perry’s fleet, which transformed Japan. During this pivotal moment in Japanese history, Tsuneno bounces from tenement to tenement, marries a masterless samurai, and eventually enters the service of a famous city magistrate. Tsuneno’s life provides a window into 19th-century Japanese culture—and a rare view of an extraordinary woman who sacrificed her family and her reputation to make a new life for herself, in defiance of social conventions. “A compelling story, traced with meticulous detail and told with exquisite sympathy” (The Wall Street Journal), Stranger in the Shogun’s City is “a vivid, polyphonic portrait of life in 19th-century Japan [that] evokes the Shogun era with panache and insight” (National Review of Books).
Author | : Robert Walter Stuart Mackay |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1854 |
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Author | : Linda Grant |
Publisher | : Virago Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-08-13 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : 9780349010489 |
When a dead body is found in the Thames, caught in the chains of HMS Belfast, it begins a search for a missing woman. A policeman, a documentary film-maker and an Irish nurse named Chrissie all respond to the death of the unknown woman in their own ways. London is a place of random meetings, shifting relationships and some, like Chrissie intersect with many. Linda Grant weaves a tale around ideas of home; how London can be a place of exile or expulsion, how home can be a physical place or an idea, how all our lives intersect.
Author | : Li Zhang |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0804742065 |
With rapid commercialization, a booming urban economy, and the relaxation of state migratory policies, over 100 million peasants, known as China's "floating population," have streamed into large cities seeking employment and a better life. This book traces the profound transformation this massive flow of rural migrants has caused as it challenges Chinese socialist modes of state control.
Author | : Johann Hugo Wyttenbach |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1839 |
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Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1848 |
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Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1824 |
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Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1873 |
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