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Raise the Titanic - The Making of the Movie Volume 1 (hardback) (Hardcover): Jonathan Smith Raise the Titanic - The Making of the Movie Volume 1 (hardback) (Hardcover)
Jonathan Smith
R1,464 Discovery Miles 14 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Tell Johnny Hello - From the Letters and Diary of S/Sgt. Carl E. Cleland (Hardcover): John C Cleland Tell Johnny Hello - From the Letters and Diary of S/Sgt. Carl E. Cleland (Hardcover)
John C Cleland
R727 R680 Discovery Miles 6 800 Save R47 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Historic Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School (Hardcover): Richard Dillingham, Dan Slagle, Sarah Weston Hart The Historic Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School (Hardcover)
Richard Dillingham, Dan Slagle, Sarah Weston Hart
R1,090 Discovery Miles 10 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
For Them's Return - Northchurch Folk Who Survived the First World War (Hardcover): Richard North For Them's Return - Northchurch Folk Who Survived the First World War (Hardcover)
Richard North
R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain (Hardcover): Ana Maria G. Laguna Cervantes, the Golden Age, and the Battle for Cultural Identity in 20th-Century Spain (Hardcover)
Ana Maria G. Laguna
R3,380 Discovery Miles 33 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Studies that connect the Spanish 17th and 20th centuries usually do so through a conservative lens, assuming that the blunt imperialism of the early modern age, endlessly glorified by Franco's dictatorship, was a constant in the Spanish imaginary. This book, by contrast, recuperates the thriving, humanistic vision of the Golden Age celebrated by Spanish progressive thinkers, writers, and artists in the decades prior to 1939 and the Francoist Regime. The hybrid, modern stance of the country in the 1920s and early 1930s would uniquely incorporate the literary and political legacies of the Spanish Renaissance into the ambitious design of a forward, democratic future. In exploring the complex understanding of the multifaceted event that is modernity, the life story and literary opus of Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) acquires a new significance, given the weight of the author in the poetic and political endeavors of those Spanish left-wing reformists who believed they could shape a new Spanish society. By recovering their progressive dream, buried for almost a century, of incipient and full Spanish modernities, Ana Maria G. Laguna establishes a more balanced understanding of both the modern and early modern periods and casts doubt on the idea of a persistent conservatism in Golden Age literature and studies. This book ultimately serves as a vigorous defense of the canonical as well as the neglected critical traditions that promoted Cervantes's humanism in the 20th century.

Stories of Survival - The People of Ferramonti: Then and Now (Hardcover): Yolanda Ropschitz-Bentham Stories of Survival - The People of Ferramonti: Then and Now (Hardcover)
Yolanda Ropschitz-Bentham
R724 R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unknown Chicago Tales (Hardcover): John R. Schmidt Unknown Chicago Tales (Hardcover)
John R. Schmidt
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Conservative Party and the Destruction of Selective Education in Post-War Britain - The Great Evasion (Hardcover): Piers... The Conservative Party and the Destruction of Selective Education in Post-War Britain - The Great Evasion (Hardcover)
Piers Legh
R3,030 Discovery Miles 30 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book tells the untold story of the Conservative Party's involvement in terms of stance and policy in the destruction of selective state education from 1945 up to the present day. Close consideration is paid to their attitudes and prejudices towards education, both in power and in opposition. Legh examines the Party's responses to the pressure for comprehensive schooling and egalitarianism from the Labour Party and the British left. In doing so, Legh defies current historiography to demonstrate that the Party were not passive actors in the advancement of comprehensive schooling. The lively narrative is moved along by the author's critical examination of the Education Ministers throughout this period: Florence Horsbrugh and David Eccles serving under Churchill and Eden and also Quintin Hogg and Geoffrey Lloyd under Macmillan, as well as Edward Boyle and Margaret Thatcher under Edward Heath. Legh's detailed research utilises a range of government documents, personal papers, parliamentary debates and newspapers to provide this crucial re-assessment of the Conservative Party and selective education, and in doing so questions over-simplistic generalisations about wholescale support for selective education policy. It reveals instead questioning, compromises and disagreements within the Party and its political and ideological allies. The result is a stimulating revival of existing scholarship which will be of interest to scholars of British education and politics.

Hidden History of Boone County, Indiana (Hardcover): Heather Phillips Lusk Hidden History of Boone County, Indiana (Hardcover)
Heather Phillips Lusk
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Great Railroad Revolution (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition): Christian Wolmar The Great Railroad Revolution (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
Christian Wolmar
R544 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R29 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line--the first American railroad--in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods to waging war. It united far-flung parts of the country, boosted economic development, and was the catalyst for America's rise to world-power status.

Every American town, great or small, aspired to be connected to a railroad and by the turn of the century, almost every American lived within easy access of a station. By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a latticework of more than 200,000 miles of railroad track and a series of magisterial termini, all built and controlled by the biggest corporations in the land. The railroads dominated the American landscape for more than a hundred years but by the middle of the twentieth century, the automobile, the truck, and the airplane had eclipsed the railroads and the nation started to forget them.

In "The Great Railroad Revolution," renowned railroad expert Christian Wolmar tells the extraordinary story of the rise and the fall of the greatest of all American endeavors, and argues that the time has come for America to reclaim and celebrate its often-overlooked rail heritage.

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia - Powhatan People and the Color Line (Hardcover): Laura J. Feller Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia - Powhatan People and the Color Line (Hardcover)
Laura J. Feller
R1,396 Discovery Miles 13 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state's long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage across color lines. How indigenous peoples of Virginia resisted erasure and built their identities as Native Americans is the powerful story this book tells. Spanning a century of fraught history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians, descendants of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan chiefdom, undertook to sustain their Native identity in the face of deep racial hostility from segregationist officials, politicians, and institutions. Like other Southeastern Native groups living under Jim Crow regimes, tidewater Native groups and individuals fortified their communities by founding tribal organizations, churches, and schools; they displayed their Indianness in public performances; and they enlisted whites, including well-known ethnographers, to help them argue for their Native distinctness. Describing an arduous campaign marked by ingenuity, conviction, and perseverance, Laura J. Feller shows how these tidewater Native people drew on their shared histories as descendants of Powhatan peoples, and how they strengthened their bonds through living and marrying within clusters of Native Virginians, both on and off reservation lands. She also finds that, by at times excluding African Americans from Indian organizations and Native families, Virginian Indians themselves reinforced racial segregation while they built their own communities. Even as it paved the way to tribal recognition in Virginia, the tidewater Natives' sustained efforts chronicled in this book demonstrate the fluidity, instability, and persistent destructive power of the construction of race in America.

An Outline of Modern Imperialism .. (Hardcover): T (Thomas) B 1890 Ashcroft An Outline of Modern Imperialism .. (Hardcover)
T (Thomas) B 1890 Ashcroft
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History of the 113th Field Artillery, 30th Division (Hardcover): Arthur Lloyd B 1881 Fletcher History of the 113th Field Artillery, 30th Division (Hardcover)
Arthur Lloyd B 1881 Fletcher
R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Navy Eternal [microform] - Which is the Navy-that-floats, the Navy-that-flies and the Navy-under-the-sea (Hardcover): Lewis... The Navy Eternal [microform] - Which is the Navy-that-floats, the Navy-that-flies and the Navy-under-the-sea (Hardcover)
Lewis Anselm Da Costa 1886- Ritchie
R941 Discovery Miles 9 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
It Wasn't So Jolly - The Story of the Jolly Rogers and the James Horner Crew 1942-1945 (Hardcover): Thomas A. Baker It Wasn't So Jolly - The Story of the Jolly Rogers and the James Horner Crew 1942-1945 (Hardcover)
Thomas A. Baker
R1,084 Discovery Miles 10 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Long Island's Gold Coast Elite and the Great War (Paperback): Richard F. Welch Long Island's Gold Coast Elite and the Great War (Paperback)
Richard F. Welch
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
SOE in the Marches - The Special Operations Executive in Shropshire and Herefordshire (Hardcover): Bernard O'Connor SOE in the Marches - The Special Operations Executive in Shropshire and Herefordshire (Hardcover)
Bernard O'Connor
R1,063 Discovery Miles 10 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine - Life of an American Family (Hardcover): Roberta Ames The Ames Farm of Woolwich, Maine - Life of an American Family (Hardcover)
Roberta Ames; As told to Erik Lund
R608 Discovery Miles 6 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Malta - The Nurse of The Mediterranean (Hardcover): Albert Glenthorne MacKinnon Malta - The Nurse of The Mediterranean (Hardcover)
Albert Glenthorne MacKinnon
R934 Discovery Miles 9 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Frightened Physicists (Hardcover): Jim Sargent The Frightened Physicists (Hardcover)
Jim Sargent; Edited by Amy Smith; Cover design or artwork by Fiona Jayde
R821 R721 Discovery Miles 7 210 Save R100 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Jewish Unions in America - Pages of History and Memories (Hardcover): Bernard Weinstein The Jewish Unions in America - Pages of History and Memories (Hardcover)
Bernard Weinstein
R1,357 Discovery Miles 13 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2 (Hardcover): Nestar Russell Understanding Willing Participants, Volume 2 (Hardcover)
Nestar Russell
R1,621 Discovery Miles 16 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Memoirs of an Ambassador; a Contribution to the Political History of Modern Times (Hardcover): Wilhelm Eduard Schoen,... The Memoirs of an Ambassador; a Contribution to the Political History of Modern Times (Hardcover)
Wilhelm Eduard Schoen, Constance Vesey
R928 Discovery Miles 9 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Packinghouse Daughter - A Memoir (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed): Cheri Register Packinghouse Daughter - A Memoir (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed)
Cheri Register
R414 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R29 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A unique blend of memoir and public history, Packinghouse Daughter, winner of the Minnesota Book Award, tells a compelling story of small-town, working-class life. The daughter of a Wilson & Company millwright, Cheri Register recalls the 1959 meatpackers' strike that divided her hometown of Albert Lea, Minnesota. The violence that erupted when the company "replaced" its union workers with strikebreakers tested family loyalty and community stability. Register skillfully interweaves her own memories, historical research, and oral interviews into a narrative that is thoughtful and impassioned about the value of blue-collar work and the dignity of those who do it.

The Shuster Mission to Iran - Leaving Something Worthwhile Behind (Hardcover): Joan Gaughan The Shuster Mission to Iran - Leaving Something Worthwhile Behind (Hardcover)
Joan Gaughan
R669 Discovery Miles 6 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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