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Books > Humanities > History > European history > General
Her canvases were the court of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette;
the Great Terror; America at the time of Washington and Jefferson;
Paris under the Directoire and then under Napoleon; Regency London;
the battle of Waterloo; and, for the last years of her life, the
Italian ducal courts. She witnessed firsthand the demise of the
French monarchy, the wave of the Revolution and the Reign of
Terror, and the precipitous rise and fall of Napoleon. Lucie
Dillon--a daughter of French and British nobility known in France
by her married name, Lucie de la Tour du Pin--was the chronicler of
her age.
In this compelling biography, Caroline Moorehead illuminates
the extraordinary life and remarkable achievements of this strong,
witty, elegant, opinionated, and dynamic woman who survived
personal tragedy and the devastation wrought by momentous historic
events.
In this study Erika L. Briesacher argues that festivals in Lubeck,
Germany spanning 1920 to 1960 demonstrate interlocking economic,
social, and cultural factors that contribute to local, national,
and international identity formation. Focusing on institutional
records as well as public discourse and material artifacts, the
author traces the mobilization of "Nordic" as a distinctly German
in-group during the Weimar, Nazi, and early Cold War eras,
highlighting particular ways participants included and excluded
racial, religious, and other cultural identities in their own
"imagined community." Focusing on the festival as both a site of
participation and consumption, the author assesses two postwar
periods as well as the legacy of the Holocaust in a northwest
German town.
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Travels in the Air; c. 3
(Hardcover)
James 1809-1903 Glaisher, Camille 1842-1925 Flammarion; Created by W de (Wilfrid) 1824-1914 Fonvielle
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R1,020
Discovery Miles 10 200
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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On 26 April 1986, the unthinkable happened near the Ukrainian town
of Pripyat: two massive steam explosions ruptured No. 4 Reactor at
the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, immediately killing 30 people
and setting off the worst nuclear accident in history. The
explosions were followed by an open-air reactor core fire that
released huge amounts of radioactive contamination into the
atmosphere for the next nine days, spreading across the Soviet
Union, parts of Europe, and especially neighbouring Belarus, where
around 70% of the waste landed. The following clean-up operation
involved more than half a million personnel at a cost of $68
billion, and a further 4,000 people were estimated to have died
from disaster-related illnesses in the following 20 years. Some
350,000 people were evacuated as a result of the accident
(including 95 villages in Belarus), and much of the area returned
to the wild, with the nearby city of Pripyat now a ghost town.
Chernobyl provides a photographic exploration of the catastrophe
and its aftermath in 180 authentic photos. See the twisted wreckage
of No. 4 Reactor, the cause of the nuclear disaster; marvel at
historic photos of the clean-up operation, with helicopters
spraying decontamination liquid and liquidators manually clearing
radioactive debris; see the huge cooling pond used to cool the
reactors, and which today is home to abundant wildlife, despite the
radiation; explore the ghost town of Pripyat, with its decaying
apartment blocks, empty basketball courts, abandoned amusement
park, wrecked schools, and deserted streets.
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