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Books > History
These 'First Families' of Old Charleston- and others- are
Lowcountry legends in their own right. Margaret Middleton Rivers
Eastman takes readers behind parlor doors on a journey from the
patrician historical area south of Broad Street to the luxurious
Sea Island plantations in an unusual collection of treasured family
traditions that span the colony's founding to the mid-twentieth
century.
The Highlands and Islands of Scotland have charmed visitors for
centuries, and this collection of intricate illustrations is a
celebration of this ancient landscape's unique appeal. Featuring a
range of vistas, from majestic mountains and picturesque lochs to
historic castles and famous battlefields, each stunning scene is
full of intriguing detail sure to fire the imagination and make you
reach for your colouring pencils. There are absolutely no rules -
you can choose any combination of colours you like to bring these
images to life. Suitable for children. If you love this historic
region of Scotland then you will love colouring it in!
**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND
SIENNA MILLER** 'A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling
tale of adventure'JOHN GRISHAM The story of Colonel Percy Harrison
Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British
explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe
that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El
Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of
Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack,
vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next
eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying
to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. Some died from disease
and starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding
true tale of lethal obsession, David Grann retraces the footsteps
of Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest
mysteries of exploration. 'A wonderful story of a lost age of
heroic exploration' Sunday Times 'Marvellous ... An engrossing book
whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones' Daily Telegraph
'The best story in the world, told perfectly' Evening Standard 'A
fascinating and brilliant book' Malcolm Gladwell
For generations, smuggling was a way of life all round the coasts
of Scotland. In its heyday 'merchant-smugglers' found ready markets
for their goods at all levels of society. And none was more
successful than John Nisbet. He built Gunsgreen House, a grand
mansion in Eyemouth on the Berwickshire coast, with the proceeds of
the 'free trade'.
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Every time Churchill took to the
airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage
directly into the British people ... Larson tells the story of how
that feat was accomplished ... Fresh, fast and deeply moving.' New
York Times A STARTLING, GRIPPING PORTRAIT OF WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE
ALIVE IN BRITAIN DURING THE BLITZ, AND WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE
AROUND CHURCHILL. On Winston Churchill's first day as prime
minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and
Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was
just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, the Nazis would
wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons and
destroying two million homes. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik
Larson gives a new and brilliantly cinematic account of how
Britain's most iconic leader set about unifying the nation at its
most vulnerable moment, and teaching 'the art of being fearless.'
Drawing on once-secret intelligence reports and diaries, #1
bestselling author Larson takes readers from the shelled streets of
London to Churchill's own chambers, giving a vivid vision of true
leadership, when - in the face of unrelenting horror - a leader of
eloquence, strategic brilliance and perseverance bound a country,
and a family, together.
In haar 'transformasie-trilogie' bestaande uit Country of My Skull
(1998), A Change of Tongue (2003) en Begging to be Black (2009)
artikuleer Antjie Krog haar kritiek op en weerstand teen bepaalde
opvattings van Westerse moderniteit. Die nagevolge van kolonialisme
in Suid-Afrika in die vorm van apartheid, en die modernistiese
skepping van 'ras' word as problematiese konsepte hanteer en Krog
onderneem soektogte na 'n alternatiewe manier van wees in
Suid-Afrika. Jacomien van Niekerk karteer in 'baie worde':
Identiteit en transformasie by Antjie Krog die argumente wat in die
loop van die trilogie opgebou word rondom die nou-vervlegte
konsepte van kolonialisme/postkolonialisme, 'ras', identiteit, 'n
Afrika-wereldbeeld' en die Suid-Afrikaanse nasie-en maak as sodanig
'n bydrae tot aktuele diskoerse. Lof vir 'baie worde': Identiteit
en transformasie by Antjie Krog
Journeys Through The Twentieth Century, Stories From One Family is
a fascinating study of memory and identity, spanning almost two
centuries, using the unique archive of one extended Jewish family.
Britain and Europe: The Untold History takes a radical new look at
Britain's relationship with her continental neighbours. Starting
with King John and finishing with David Cameron, this book tells
the story of a fragile sovereignty that has been lost, regained and
bargained much more frequently than is generally realised. It also
explains how, far from adopting a policy of splendid isolation,
Britain has often played a positive and determinative role in
European statecraft. These stories involve some of the most pivotal
moments in British history (such as Magna Carta and the Glorious
Revolution) and include some of its richest characters (such as
Bloody Mary and Charles II). They are therefore worth telling in
their own right. They are particularly interesting, however, in
light of the debate about Britain's role in the European Union.
Britain and Europe: The Untold History explains how lessons from
history can help us chart a course for the future. This book was
written in association with Tomorrow's Britain
(www.tomorrowsbritain.org.uk).
Mahmud Modibbo Tukur's work challenges fundamental assumptions and
conclusions about European colonialism in Africa, especially
British colonialism in northern Nigeria. Whereas others have
presented the thesis of a welcome reception of the imposition of
British colonialism by the people, the study has found physical
resistance and tremendous hostility towards that imposition; and,
contrary to the "pacification" and minimal violence argued by some
scholars, the study has exposed the violent and bloody nature of
that occupation. Rather than the single story of "Indirect rule",
or "abolishing slavery" and lifting the burden of precolonial
taxation which others have argued, this book has shown that British
officials were very much in evidence, imposed numerous and heavier
taxes collected with great efficiency and ruthlessness, and ignored
the health and welfare of the people in famines and health
epidemics which ravaged parts of northern Nigeria during the
period. British economic and social policies, such as blocking
access to western education for the masses in most parts of
northern Nigeria, did not bring about development but its
antithesis of retrogression and stagnation during the period under
study. Tukur's analysis of official colonial records and sources
constitutes a significant contribution to the literature on
colonialism in Africa and to understanding the complexity of the
Nigerian situation today.With an Introduction by Prof. Michael J.
Watts, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.
“What would you do if you grew up seeing your home repeatedly raided? Your parents arrested? Your mother shot? Your uncle killed? Try, for just a moment, to imagine that this was your life. How would you want the world to react?”
Ahed Tamimi is a world-renowned Palestinian activist, born and raised in the small West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, which became a center of the resistance to Israeli occupation when an illegal, Jewish-only settlement blocked off its community spring. Tamimi came of age participating in nonviolent demonstrations against this action and the occupation at large. Her global renown reached an apex in December 2017, when, at sixteen years old, she was filmed slapping an Israeli soldier who refused to leave her front yard. The video went viral, and Tamimi was arrested.
But this is not just a story of activism or imprisonment. It is the human-scale story of an occupation that has riveted the world and shaped global politics, from a girl who grew up in the middle of it . Tamimi’s father was born in 1967, the year that Israel began its occupation of the West Bank and he grew up immersed in the resistance movement. One of Tamimi’s earliest memories is visiting him in prison, poking her toddler fingers through the fence to touch his hand. She herself would spend her seventeenth birthday behind bars. Living through this greatest test and heightened attacks on her village, Tamimi felt her resolve only deepen, in tension with her attempts to live the normal life of a daughter, sibling, friend, and student.
An essential addition to an important conversation, They Called Me a Lioness shows us what is at stake in this struggle and offers a fresh vision for resistance. With their unflinching, riveting storytelling, Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri shine a light on the humanity not just in occupied Palestine but also in the unsung lives of people struggling for freedom around the world.
Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which
defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the
Sixties. We tell ourselves stories in order to live. The princess
is caged in the consulate. The man with the candy will lead the
children into the sea. In this now legendary journey into the
hinterland of the American psyche, Didion searches for stories as
the Sixties implode. She waits for Jim Morrison to show up, visits
the Black Panthers in prison, parties with Janis Joplin and buys
dresses with Charles Manson’s girls. She and her reader emerge,
cauterized, from this devastating tour of that age of self
discovery into the harsh light of the morning after.
On the centenary of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Mike
Makin-Waite surveys the history of the communist movement, tracking
its origins in the Enlightenment, and through nineteenth-century
socialism to the emergence of Marxism and beyond. As we emerge from
the long winter of neoliberalism, and the search is on for ideas
that can help shape a contemporary popular socialism, some of the
questions that have preoccupied socialist thinkers throughout left
history are once more being debated. Should the left press for
reform and work through the state or should it focus on protest and
a critique of the whole system? Is it possible to expand the
liberal idea of democracy to include economic democracy? Which
alliances require too great a compromise and which can help secure
future change? Arguments on questions such as these have been
raging since the mid-nineteenth century, and were the basis of the
split between Social Democrats and Communists in the aftermath of
the First World War. Mike Makin-Waite believes that revisiting
these debates can help us to avoid some of the mistakes made in the
past, and find new solutions to some of these age-old concerns. His
argument is that the democratic and liberal counter-currents that
have always existed within the communist movement have much to
offer the left project today. This unorthodox account therefore
tracks an alternative history that includes nineteenth-century
revisionists such as Karl Kautsky, Menshevik opponents of Bolshevik
oppression in 1917, Popular Front critiques of sectarianism in the
1930s, communist support for 1968's Prague Spring, and the turn to
Gramsci and Eurocommunism in the 1970s. The aim of Communism and
Democracy: history, debates and potentials is to recover some of
the hard-won insights of the critical communist tradition, in the
belief that they can still be of service to the
twenty-first-century left.
Union Pacific Railroad Heritage covers the history of this amazing
railroad that was founded in 1862 and completed the United States
first transcontinental railroad in 1869. With the need to develop
more powerful steam locomotives to handle the railroad's steep
gradients, the Union Pacific Railroad designed the 4-12-2
locomotive, 4-6-6-4 Challenger which influenced development of the
4-8-8-4 Big Boy, followed by the 6,600-horsepower Centennial diesel
locomotive, and 8,500-horsepower gas turbine electric locomotive.
The Union Pacific Railroad operated well-maintained passenger
trains including City of San Francisco, City of Los Angeles, City
of Portland, and City of Denver until May 1, 1971, when AMTRAK took
over United States intercity passenger service.
Minnesota might not seem like an obvious place to look for traces
of Ku Klux Klan parade grounds, but this northern state was once
home to fifty-one chapters of the KKK. Elizabeth Hatle tracks down
the history of the Klan in Minnesota, beginning with the racially
charged atmosphere that produced the tragic 1920 Duluth lynchings.
She measures the influence the organization wielded at the peak of
its prominence within state politics and tenaciously follows the
careers of the Klansmen who continued life in the public sphere
after the Hooded Order lost its foothold in the Land of Ten
Thousand Lakes.
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