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Lincolnshire is England's second-largest county-and one of the
least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable
towns and undervalued countryside conceal fascinating stories, and
unique landscapes: its Wolds are lonely and beautiful, its towns
characterful; its marshlands and dynamic coast are metaphors of
constant change. From plesiosaurs to Puritans, medieval ghosts to
eighteenth-century explorers, poets to politicians, and Vikings to
Brexit, this marginal county is central to England's identity.
Canute, Henry IV, John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford all called
Lincolnshire home. So did saints, world-famed churchmen and
reformers-Etheldreda, Gilbert, Guthlac and Hugh, Robert
Grosseteste, John Wycliffe, John Cotton, John Foxe and John
Wesley-as well as Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, John Harrison and
George Boole. Lincolnshire explorers went everywhere: John Smith to
Jamestown, George Bass and Matthew Flinders to Australia, and John
Franklin to a bitter death in the Arctic. Artists and writers have
been inspired-including Byrd, Taverner, Stukeley, Stubbs, Eliot and
Tennyson-while Thatcher wrought neo-liberalism. Extraordinary
architecture testifies to centuries of both settlement and unrest,
from Saxon towers to sky-piercing spires; evocative ruined abbeys
to the wonder of the Cathedral. And in between is always the
little-known land itself-an epitome of England, awaiting discovery.
Geordie Newcastle is a unique collection of evocative photographs
from a golden age in Newcastle's past. The result of hours of
research in Newcastle City Library's archive to restore photographs
from the original glass plates which hadn't been touched for
decades. From the end of the 19th Century to the 1950s, the
pictures chosen offer us a glimpse into a world that some of us
will remember with fondness and that helped shape what it means to
be a Geordie today.
In this compelling book, Rien Fertel tells the story of humanity's
complicated and often brutal relationship with the brown pelican
over the past century. This beloved bird with the mythically
bottomless belly-to say nothing of its prodigious pouch-has been
deemed a living fossil and the most dinosaur-like of creatures. The
pelican adorns the Louisiana state flag, serves as a religious icon
of sacrifice, and stars in the famous parting shot of Jurassic
Park, but, most significantly, spotlights our tenuous connection
with the environment in which it flies, feeds, and roosts-the
coastal United States. In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated the
first national wildlife refuge at Pelican Island, Florida, in order
to rescue the brown pelican, among other species, from the plume
trade. Despite such protections, the ubiquity of synthetic "agents
of death," most notably DDT, in the mid-twentieth century sent the
brown pelican to the list of endangered species. By the mid-1960s,
not one viable pelican nest remained in all of Louisiana.
Authorities declared the state bird locally extinct. Conservation
efforts-including an outlandish but well-planned birdnapping-saved
the brown pelican, generating one of the great success stories in
animal preservation. However, the brown pelican is once again under
threat, particularly along Louisiana's coast, due to land loss and
rising seas. For centuries, artists and writers have portrayed the
pelican as a bird that pierces its breast to feed its young,
symbolizing saintly piety. Today, the brown pelican gives itself in
other ways, sacrificed both by and for the environment as a
bellwether bird-an indicator species portending potential disasters
that await. Brown Pelican combines history and first-person
narrative to complicate, deconstruct, and reassemble our vision of
the bird, the natural world, and ourselves.
'Medieval market,' 'bustling High Street', 'wild west 'a wasteland,
'massage parlours' 'gay area' 'up and coming.' Old Market conjures
a myriad of conflicting associations in the minds of
Bristolians...There is some truth to all these associations. They
reveal the story of Old Market's brightest hour as part of
Bristol's shopping Golden Mile, the turbulent inter-war years, the
impact of war, post war decline brought on by housing road and
retail redevelopment, rejuvenation by sexual and ethnic minority
groups. Vice and Virtue details each phase, introducing the reader
to the people, the institutions and the processes that have created
Old Market's rich heritage. The title is a playful nod to complex
and interlinked themes that have defined this area for centuries.
Discover 366 fun and surprising stories about Wales - each linked
to a specific day of the year. Did you know that the recipe of
Tennessee's famous Jack Daniel's whiskey is rumoured to have
originated in Llanelli, or that the world's first radio play was
set in a Welsh coal mine? Why was a showing of the Jurassic Park
film in Carmarthen so special, and how is Rupert Bear connected to
Snowdonia? Delve in to discover the stories that most history books
leave out.
This book will appeal to scholars and general readers who are
interested in Byzantine History, Society, and Culture, the History
of Masculinity, and the History of Sexuality / This book challenges
contemporaty views by placing at centre stage Byzantine men's
desiring relations with one another / This book transforms our
understanding of Byzantine elite men's culture and is an important
addition to the history of sex and desire between men.
In For the People: Left Populism in Spain and the US Jorge Tamames
offers a stimulating comparative study of Spain's Podemos and the
Bernie Sanders movement in the US. Left populism emerges as a
potential powerful antidote to rising inequality in both Europe and
America. Recent years have witnessed dramatic challenges to
established politics across Europe and America. Opposition to
business-as-usual has not been limited to the radical right: left
populist movements with transformative agendas offer a very
different - if equally radical - response to the status quo.
Focusing on left populist movements in the contrasting political
landscapes of Spain and the US, For the People brings together
insights from Karl Polanyi, Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe to
offer a bold new explanatory framework for today's left populism.
The book will be a key text for activists, students of politics,
and anyone interested in the current political landscape of Europe
and America. It grounds its insights in a careful excavation of
recent political history in the two countries, tracing the
emergence and advance of left parties and movements from the early
days of neoliberalism in the 1970s, through the political
landslides that followed the 2008 financial crisis and the post2011
protest cycle, up to the present day. In the age of Trump and
Brexit, For the People offers an indispensable mix of theoretical,
historical and practical insights for all those interested in and
inspired by the radical potentials of left populism.
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Arctic is
demanding global attention. It is warming, melting, and thawing in
a manner that threatens fundamental state-change. For communities
that call the Arctic 'home' this is unwelcome. A warming Arctic
brings with it the spectre of costly disruption and interference in
indigenous lives and communal welfare. For others, the
disappearance of sea ice makes the Arctic appear more accessible
and less remote. This also brings with it dangers such as the
prospect of a new era of great power rivalries involving China,
Russia, and the United States. Submarine and long-range bomber
patrolling are now commonplace. New terms such as 'global Arctic'
are being used to capture the dynamic of change while others muse
about the 'return of a Cold War'. The reality is inevitably more
complex. The physical geography of the Arctic is highly varied and
variable. Environmental change brings opportunities for indigenous
and non-indigenous life-forms to survive and even thrive. The
Arctic's four million people are not helpless pawns in a game of
global geopolitics. The Arctic is not only a resource hotspot but
also a place where sustainable energy systems are being introduced.
A warming Arctic with less ice and permafrost is not unique in the
longer history of the Earth either. The Arctic is a complex space.
In this Very Short Introduction, Klaus Dodds and Jamie Woodward
consider the major dimensions of the region and the linkages beyond
- from the geopolitical to the environmental. They examine the
causes, drivers, and effects of cultural, physical, political, and
economic change, and ponder the future of the Arctic. As they show,
it is a future which will affect us all. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very
Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains
hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized
books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.
Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas,
and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world.
While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their
own (warfare, revolution, murder, theft, piracy), there has been
little effort so far to study violence as a unified field and
explore its role in community formation. This volume aims to
construct such an agenda by exploring the historiography of the
study of violence in antiquity, and highlighting a number of
important paradoxes of ancient violence. It explores the forceful
nexus between wealth, power and the passions by focusing on three
major aspects that link violence and community: the attempts of
communities to regulate and canalise violence through law, the
constitutive role of violence in communal identities, and the ways
in which communities dealt with violence in regards to private and
public space, landscapes and territories. The contributions to this
volume range widely in both time and space: temporally, they cover
the full span from the archaic to the Roman imperial period, while
spatially they extend from Athens and Sparta through Crete, Arcadia
and Macedonia to Egypt and Israel.
Its Past, Present and People. This timeline will appeal to a wide
audience - Inhabitants, tourists, visitors and anyone who has an
interest in the city and capital of the United Kingdom. The
timeline explores the fascinating history since its earliest
beginnings, how it has developed from a small town on a riverbank
to the vast city of today. This unique work reveals an amazing
amount of information about a city that has so many facets to
reveal. London is a city of contrasts where authors, film makers,
painters, playwrights and poets have all been inspired by the city
and used as a setting.
In 1921 Blair Mountain in southern West Virginia was the site of
the country's bloodiest armed insurrection since the Civil War, a
battle pitting miners led by Frank Keeney against agents of the
coal barons intent on quashing organized labor. It was the largest
labor uprising in US history. Ninety years later, the site became
embroiled in a second struggle, as activists came together to fight
the coal industry, state government, and the military- industrial
complex in a successful effort to save the battlefield-sometimes
dubbed 'labor's Gettysburg'-from destruction by mountaintop removal
mining. The Road to Blair Mountain is the moving and sometimes
harrowing story of Charles Keeney's fight to save this
irreplaceable landscape. Beginning in 2011, Keeney-a historian and
great-grandson of Frank Keeney-led a nine-year legal battle to
secure the site's placement on the National Register of Historic
Places. His book tells a David-and-Goliath tale worthy of its own
place in West Virginia history. A success story for historic
preservation and environmentalism, it serves as an example of how
rural, grassroots organizations can defeat the fossil fuel
industry.
Just as the new technology of photography was emerging throughout
the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, it quickly caught
hold in the scenic Adirondack region of upstate New York. Young men
and a few women began to experiment with cameras as a way to earn
their livings with local portrait work. From photographing
individuals, some expanded their subject matter to include families
and groups, homes, streetscapes, landmarks, workplaces, and
important events: from town celebrations to presidential visits,
train wrecks, floods, and fires. These photographers from within
and just beyond the Park borders, as well as many who immigrated
from other countries, have been central in defining the
Adirondacks. Adirondack Photographers, 1850–1950 is a
comprehensive look at the first one hundred years of photography
through the lives of those who captured this unique rural region of
New York State. Svenson’s fascinating biographical dictionary of
over two hundred photographers is enriched with over seventy
illustrations. While the popularity of some of these
photographers’ images is reflected in public collections such as
the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, and the Getty
Center, little is known about the diverse backgrounds of the men
and women behind their work. A compilation of captivating stories,
Adirondack Photographers provides a vivid, intimate account of the
evolution of photography, as well as an unusual perspective on
Adirondack history.
This long-overdue popular history explores the cultural heritage
and identity of Lancashire. Paul Salveson traces to the thirteenth
century the origins of a distinct county stretching from the Mersey
to the Lake District--'Lancashire North of the Sands'. From a
relatively backward place in terms of industry and learning,
Lancashire would become the powerhouse of the Industrial
Revolution: the creation of a self- confident bourgeoisie drove
economic growth, and industrialists had a strong commitment to the
arts, endowing galleries and museums and producing a diverse
culture encompassing science, technology, music and literature.
Lancashire developed a distinct business culture, its shrine being
the Manchester Cotton Exchange, but this was also the birthplace of
the world co-operative movement, and the heart of campaigns for
democracy including Chartism and women's suffrage. Lancashire has
generally welcomed incomers, who have long helped to inform its
distinctive identity: fourteenth-century Flemish weavers;
nineteenth-century Irish immigrants and Jewish refugees; and, more
recently, New Lancastrians from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.
The book explores what has become of Lancastrian culture, following
modern upheavals and Lancashire's fragmentation compared with its
old rival Yorkshire. What is the future for the 6 million people of
this rich historic region?
Complete with actual advertisements from both women seeking
husbands and males seeking brides, New York Times bestselling book
Hearts West includes twelve stories of courageous mail order brides
and their exploits. Some were fortunate enough to marry good men
and live happily ever after; still others found themselves in
desperate situations that robbed them of their youth and sometimes
their lives. Desperate to strike it rich during the Gold Rush, men
sacrificed many creature comforts. Only after they arrived did some
of them realize how much they missed female companionship. One way
for men living on the frontier to meet women was through
subscriptions to heart-and-hand clubs. The men received newspapers
with information, and sometimes photographs, about women, with whom
they corresponded. Eventually, a man might convince a woman to join
him in the West, and in matrimony. Social status, political
connections, money, companionship, or security were often
considered more than love in these arrangements.
Monumental New York! highlights thirty of the most fascinating
statues and memorials found throughout Upstate New York. D'Imperio
leads readers through the state's rich history as he explores some
of the famous and lesser-known monuments of the region. You will
meet the canal diggers who muscled their way across the state
trenching "Clinton's Ditch" and learn about the "Female Paul
Revere." Featuring memorial tributes to such well-known historical
figures as John Brown, FDR, and Carl Sagan, the book also includes
the site of Upstate New York's infamous Civil War prison camp and
the chilling "Jerry Rescue Monument." These monuments are scattered
from cities such as Albany and Buffalo to the many little-known
towns that populate the state. Each chapter offers detailed
information on the history and significance of each monument as
well as useful travel information about the area. D'Imperio's
engaging narrative, detailed research, and infectious enthusiasm
for Upstate New York make this an ideal guidebook, one that
visitors and residents alike will treasure for years to come.
Down the centuries, poets have provided Wales with a window onto
its own distinctive world. This book gives the general reader a
sense of the view to be seen through that special window in twelve
illustrated poems, each bringing very different periods and aspects
of the Welsh past into focus. Together, the poems give the flavour
of a poetic tradition, both ancient and modern, that is
internationally renowned for its distinction, demonstrating how
Wales boast one of the oldest and yet continuing vibrant poetic
traditions, the former in the Welsh language and the latter in
English and bilingually.
In one of the first collections of scholarship at the intersection
of LGBTQ studies and Appalachian studies, voices from the region;s
valleys, hollers, mountains, and campuses blend personal stories
with scholarly and creative examinations of living and surviving as
queers in Appalachia. The essayists collected are academics, social
workers, riot grrrl activists, teachers, students, practitioners,
scholars of divinity, and boundary-crossers, all imagining how to
make legible the unspeakable other of Appalachian queerness.
Focusing especially on disciplinary approaches from rhetoric and
composition, the volume explores sexual identities in rural places,
community and individual meaning-making among the Appalachian
diaspora, the storytelling infrastructure of queer Appalachia, and
the role of the metronormative in discourses of difference.
Storytelling in Queer Appalachia affirms queer people, fights for
visibility over erasure, seeks intersectional understanding, and
imagines radically embodied queer selves through social media.
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Using rare archival material from the Alkazi Collection, together
with supplementary visuals, these essays re-evaluate the official
reading of the Uprising. Linked accounts negotiate Mutiny
landscapes and architecture: the internal dynamic of the rebellion
decoded through topography and monuments. Along with rebels,
British troops and their determined generals, and various
professional and amateur photographers, the dramatic vista of the
Uprising in these essays is also inhabited by a range of
significant characters central to the action, including the warrior
queen Lakshmi Bai, the exiled last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah
Zafar and the poet Mirza Ghalib. Published in association with the
Alkazi Collection of Photography.
This is the first general history of early modern Wales for more
than a generation. The book assimilates new scholarship and deploys
a wealth of original archival research to present a fresh picture
of Wales under the Tudor and Stuart monarchs. It adopts novel
perspectives on concepts of Welsh identity and allegiance to
examine epochal events, such as the union of England and Wales
under Henry VIII; the Reformation and the Break with Rome; and the
British Civil Wars and Glorious Revolution. It argues that Welsh
experiences during this period can best be captured through
widespread attachments to a shared history and language, and to
ideas of Britishness and monarchy. The volume looks beyond high
politics to examine the rich tapestry of early modern Welsh life,
considering concepts of gender and women's experiences; the role of
language and cultural change; and expressions of Welsh identity
beyond the principality's borders.
This book analyses not only Arctic organisation and background but also the way in which current regional development draws upon the extensive history of polar research and exploration. The book defines the discourse of the Arctic as it is manifested in the political region-building of the area, in the boom from the 1970s to the present, and traces this development and related conceptions historically, into polar history and the period of romanticism in the 1800s and earlier.
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