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Lost Portland, Oregon (Paperback): Val C. Ballestrem Lost Portland, Oregon (Paperback)
Val C. Ballestrem
R491 R456 Discovery Miles 4 560 Save R35 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Historic Taverns of Rhode Island (Paperback): Robert A. Geake Historic Taverns of Rhode Island (Paperback)
Robert A. Geake
R509 R478 Discovery Miles 4 780 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"This book chronicles a number of Rhode Island's historic taverns and the stories contained within their walls.

Some of the taverns include: The Mowry Tavern, which was the site of political gatherings, protests and religious observances under Roger Williams; The Benedict Arnold Tavern built in 1693; The White Horse Tavern, which soon became the meeting place for Rhode Island legislators; and the Ruff Stone Tavern in North Providence was an establishment with a long history, having served as a pub, a stop on the Underground Railroad and a speakeasy during prohibition.

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How to Catch a Lobster in Down East Maine (Paperback): Christina LeMieux Oragano How to Catch a Lobster in Down East Maine (Paperback)
Christina LeMieux Oragano
R469 R441 Discovery Miles 4 410 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The book will tell the history and story of Down East Maine lobster fishing. Author Christina Lemieux's family has been lobster fishermen for four generations, and the book draws from their personal recollections and documentation. It will then bring to life the experience of Down East Maine lobster fishing and living in a lobster fishing community. The book details how one goes about catching lobster, the seasons of lobster fishing and the perils of such a physically grueling job. It also talks about "lobster culture" some of the unique pastimes of lobster fishermen, such as the sport of Maine lobster boat racing. Finally, the book will give a brief overview of how to properly cook Maine lobster and provide some of the area's favorite lobster recipes.

Making History - The Storytellers Who Shaped The Past (Paperback): Richard Cohen Making History - The Storytellers Who Shaped The Past (Paperback)
Richard Cohen
R591 R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A “supremely entertaining” (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history—from Julius Caesar to William Shakespeare to Ken Burns—and how their biases influence our understanding about the past.

There are many stories we can spin about previous ages, but which accounts get told? And by whom? Is there even such a thing as “objective” history? In this “witty, wise, and elegant” (The Spectator), book, Richard Cohen reveals how professional historians and other equally significant witnesses, such as the writers of the Bible, novelists, and political propagandists, influence what becomes the accepted record. Cohen argues, for example, that some historians are practitioners of “Bad History” and twist reality to glorify themselves or their country.

“Scholarly, lively, quotable, up-to-date, and fun” (Hilary Mantel, author of the bestselling Thomas Cromwell trilogy), Making History investigates the published works and private utterances of our greatest chroniclers to discover the agendas that informed their—and our—views of the world. From the origins of history writing, when such an activity itself seemed revolutionary, through to television and the digital age, Cohen brings captivating figures to vivid light, from Thucydides and Tacitus to Voltaire and Gibbon, Winston Churchill and Henry Louis Gates. Rich in complex truths and surprising anecdotes, the result is a revealing exploration of both the aims and art of history-making, one that will lead us to rethink how we learn about our past and about ourselves.

Materialities - Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Hardcover): Kate Van Orden Materialities - Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Hardcover)
Kate Van Orden
R1,795 Discovery Miles 17 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ephemeral, fragile, often left unbound, sixteenth-century songbooks led fleeting lives in the pockets of singers and on the music desks of instrumentalists. Constantly in action, they were forever being used up, replaced, or abandoned as ways of reading changed. As such they document the acts of early musicians and the practices of everyday life at the unseen margins of elite society. Materialities is a cultural history of song on the page. It addresses a series of central questions concerning the audiences for written music by concentrating on the first genre to be commercialized by music printers: the French chanson. Scholars have long stressed that chansons represent the most broadly disseminated polyphony of the sixteenth century, but Materialities is the first book to account for the cultural reach of the chanson across a considerable cross-section of European society. Musicologist Kate van Orden brings extensive primary research and new analytical models to bear in this remarkable history of songbooks, music literacy, and social transformation during the first century of music printing. By tracking chansons into private libraries and schoolrooms and putting chansonniers into dialogue with catechisms, civility manuals, and chapbooks, Materialities charts the social distribution of songbooks, the gradual moralization of song, and the ways children learned their letters and notes. Its fresh conclusions revise several common assumptions about the value early moderns attributed to printed music, the levels of literacy required to perform polyphony, and the way musicians did or did not "read" their songbooks. With musical perspectives that can invigorate studies of print culture and the history of reading, Materialities is an essential guide for musicologists working with original sources and historians of the book interested in the vocal performances that operated alongside print.

A History of the Connecticut River (Paperback): Wick Griswold A History of the Connecticut River (Paperback)
Wick Griswold
R483 R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this book Wick Griswold will focus on the key events, places and people relevant to the Connecticut River. The narrative will begin in the colonial era spanning to the post-industrial age, beginning with Dutch traders and their defeat in a bloodless war by the English agriculturalists. Wick will chronicle the history of this multifaceted river, from canals, to the fishing industry, to transportation.

Enchanted Legends and Lore of New Mexico - Witches, Ghosts and Spirits (Paperback): Ray John De Aragon Enchanted Legends and Lore of New Mexico - Witches, Ghosts and Spirits (Paperback)
Ray John De Aragon
R438 R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Author Ray John de Aragon has collected various folkloric stories from all regions of New Mexico throughout its changing history, most of them foreboding or cautionary tales of witches and specters. Stories rooted in the folklore of Native American culture, the Spanish colonial era, Mexican period, and the Wild West and epic-ranching years of New Mexico's past have been gathered by the author from all corners of the state. He frames them with historical context, old traditions, and other information to explain how they were promulgated among the peoples of specific times and places.

The Potomac River: A History & Guide (Paperback, New): Garrett Peck The Potomac River: A History & Guide (Paperback, New)
Garrett Peck
R496 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The great Potomac River begins in the Alleghenies and flows 383 miles through some of America's most historic lands before emptying into the Chesapeake Bay. The course of the river drove the development of the region and the path of a young republic Maryland's first Catholic settlers came to its banks in 1634 and George Washington helped settle the new capitol on its shores. During the Civil War the river divided North and South, and it witnessed John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry and the bloody Battle of Antietam. Author Garrett Peck leads readers on a journey down the Potomac, from its first fount at Fairfax Stone in West Virginia to its mouth at Point Lookout in Maryland. Combining history with recreation, Peck has written an indispensible guide to the nation's river.

Belair Stud: - The Cradle of Maryland Horse Racing (Paperback, New): Kimberly Gatto Belair Stud: - The Cradle of Maryland Horse Racing (Paperback, New)
Kimberly Gatto
R496 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

From their opening in 1740 through the 1955 closing, Belair Stud Farm became known as one of the most important stables in American racing. Although the high-profile murder of the farms final owner, Billy Woodward, eventually forced the farm to close, it did produce an extraordinary number of winning horses throughout its expansive history. The farm claims three Kentucky Derbies, three Preakness Stakes, and six Belmont Stakes, winning titles in several prestigious English races. It remains one of two stables to have produced more than one Triple Crown winner, and it is also the only stable to have produced father-son Triple Crown winners. Its list of legendary thoroughbreds includes Gallant Fox, Omaha, Johnstown, Granville, and Nashua. However in addition to the history of champion thoroughbreds, there is a second history devoted to the many interesting people whose own stories are part of the Belair Stud farm, including Samuel and Benjamin Ogle, "Sunny" Jim Fitzsimmons, former slave Andrew Jackson, and even George Washington.

Missionaries of Republicanism - A Religious History of the Mexican-American War (Hardcover): John C. Pinheiro Missionaries of Republicanism - A Religious History of the Mexican-American War (Hardcover)
John C. Pinheiro
R1,747 Discovery Miles 17 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The term "Manifest Destiny" has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realize the degree to which "Manifest Destiny" and American republicanism relied on a deeply anti-Catholic civil-religious discourse. John C. Pinheiro traces the rise to prominence of this discourse, beginning in the 1820s and culminating in the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. Pinheiro begins with social reformer and Protestant evangelist Lyman Beecher, who was largely responsible for synthesizing seemingly unrelated strands of religious, patriotic, expansionist, and political sentiment into one universally understood argument about the future of the United States. When the overwhelmingly Protestant United States went to war with Catholic Mexico, this "Beecherite Synthesis" provided Americans with the most important means of defining their own identity, understanding Mexicans, and interpreting the larger meaning of the war. Anti-Catholic rhetoric constituted an integral piece of nearly every major argument for or against the war and was so universally accepted that recruiters, politicians, diplomats, journalists, soldiers, evangelical activists, abolitionists, and pacifists used it. It was also, Pinheiro shows, the primary tool used by American soldiers to interpret Mexico's culture. All this activity in turn reshaped the anti-Catholic movement. Preachers could now use caricatures of Mexicans to illustrate Roman Catholic depravity and nativists could point to Mexico as a warning about what America would be like if dominated by Catholics. Missionaries of Republicanism provides a critical new perspective on ''Manifest Destiny,'' American republicanism, anti-Catholicism, and Mexican-American relations in the nineteenth century.

A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado - Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains (Paperback): Jolie... A Wild West History of Frontier Colorado - Pioneers, Gunslingers & Cattle Kings on the Eastern Plains (Paperback)
Jolie Anderson Gallagher
R524 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Sympathetic Puritans - Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England (Hardcover): Abram Van Engen Sympathetic Puritans - Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England (Hardcover)
Abram Van Engen
R2,735 Discovery Miles 27 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism as a direct challenge to stern and stoic Puritan forebears: the standard history traces a cult of sensibility back to moral sense philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment, not Puritan New England. In contrast, Van Engen's work unearths the pervasive presence of sympathy in a large archive of Puritan sermons, treatises, tracts, poems, journals, histories, and captivity narratives. Sympathetic Puritans also demonstrates how two types of sympathy - the active command to fellow-feel (a duty), as well as the passive sign that could indicate salvation (a discovery) - pervaded Puritan society and came to define the very boundaries of English culture, affecting conceptions of community, relations with Native Americans, and the development of American literature. By analyzing Puritan theology, preaching, prose, and poetry, Van Engen re-examines the Antinomian Controversy, conversion narratives, transatlantic relations, Puritan missions, Mary Rowlandson's captivity narrative - and Puritan culture more generally - through the lens of sympathy. Demonstrating and explicating a Calvinist theology of sympathy in seventeenth-century New England, the book reveals the religious history of a concept that has largely been associated with more secular roots.

Ghosts of the Blackstone Valley (Paperback): Thomas D'Agostino, Arlene Nicholson Ghosts of the Blackstone Valley (Paperback)
Thomas D'Agostino, Arlene Nicholson
R501 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Murder of Deveney Nel (Paperback): Julian Jansen The Murder of Deveney Nel (Paperback)
Julian Jansen
R280 R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Save R30 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Julian Jansen, author of bestselling true crime books like The De Salze Murders, tells the Devené Nel story.

As Rapport’s crime reporter, Julian Jansen has written about the case from the start. He draws on his extensive contacts in the police and interviews with friends and family to reconstruct the events leading to the tragedy, and to honour the murdered young girl. He also investigates the failures of the state and draws lessons on how it can be prevented from happening again.

Bush Brothers - Life And Death Across The Border (Paperback): Steve De Witt Bush Brothers - Life And Death Across The Border (Paperback)
Steve De Witt
R340 R304 Discovery Miles 3 040 Save R36 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bush Brothers is not about special forces or heroic, secret missions. Instead, it is an intimate look at the daily life of ordinary soldiers – and the unbreakable bonds they formed under fire.

This is the story of thousands of infantry men who were deployed in the SADF, on or across the Border.

Colourful characters and wild partying are interspersed with the life-and-death choices troops were forced to make as they sacrificed life and limb, not so much for their country, but for each other.

The Life & Times of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague - "I Am the Law" (Paperback): Leonard F. Vernon The Life & Times of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague - "I Am the Law" (Paperback)
Leonard F. Vernon
R486 R450 Discovery Miles 4 500 Save R36 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Necessary Noise - Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo (Hardcover): Cherie Rivers Ndaliko Necessary Noise - Music, Film, and Charitable Imperialism in the East of Congo (Hardcover)
Cherie Rivers Ndaliko
R3,757 Discovery Miles 37 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Since 1997, the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo has taken more than 6 million lives and shapes the daily existence of the nation's residents. While the DRC is often portrayed in international media as an unproductive failed state, the Congolese have turned increasingly to art-making to express their experience to external eyes. Author Cherie Rivers Ndaliko argues that cultural activism and the enthusiasm to produce art exists in Congo as a remedy for the social ills of war and as a way to communicate a positive vision of the country. Ndaliko introduces a memorable cast of artists, activists, and ordinary people from the North-Kivu province, whose artistic and cultural interventions are routinely excluded from global debates that prioritize economics, politics, and development as the basis of policy decision about Congo. Rivers also shows how art has been mobilized by external humanitarian and charitable organizations, becoming the vehicle through which to inflict new kinds of imperial domination. Written by a scholar and activist in the center of the current public policy debate, Necessary Noise examines the uneasy balance of accomplishing change through art against the unsteady background of civil war. At the heart of this book is the Yole!Africa cultural center, which is the oldest independent cultural center in the east of Congo. Established in the aftermath of volcano Nyiragongo's 2002 eruption and sustained through a series of armed conflicts, the cultural activities organized by Yole!Africa have shaped a generation of Congolese youth into socially and politically engaged citizens. By juxtaposing intimate ethnographic, aesthetic, and theoretical analyses of this thriving local initiative with case studies that expose the often destructive underbelly of charitable action, Necessary Noise introduces into heated international debates on aid and sustainable development a compelling case for the necessity of arts and culture in negotiating sustained peace. Through vivid descriptions of a community of young people transforming their lives through art, Ndaliko humanizes a dire humanitarian disaster. In so doing, she invites readers to reflect on the urgent choices we must navigate as globally responsible citizens. The only study of music or film culture in the east of Congo, Necessary Noise raises an impassioned and vibrantly interdisciplinary voice that speaks to the theory and practice of socially engaged scholarship.

Denholms - The Story of Worcester's Premier Department Store (Paperback): Christopher Sawyer, Patricia A Wolf Denholms - The Story of Worcester's Premier Department Store (Paperback)
Christopher Sawyer, Patricia A Wolf
R492 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Staging the French Revolution - Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 (Hardcover, New): Mark Darlow Staging the French Revolution - Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 (Hardcover, New)
Mark Darlow
R2,601 Discovery Miles 26 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Over the last decade, the theatre and opera of the French Revolution have been the subject of intense scholarly reassessment, both in terms of the relationship between theatrical works and politics or ideology in this period and on the question of longer-scale structures of continuity or rupture in aesthetics. Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera, 1789-1794 moves these discussions boldly forward, focusing on the Paris Opera (Academie Royale de Musique) in the cultural and political context of the early French Revolution. Both institutional history and cultural study, this is the first ever full-scale study of the Revolution and lyric theatre. The book concentrates on three aspects of how a royally-protected theatre negotiates the transition to national theatre: the external dimension, such as questions of ownership and governance and the institution's relationship with State institutions and popular assemblies; the internal management, finances, selection and preparation of works; and the cultural and aesthetic study of the works themselves and of their reception.
In Staging the French Revolution, author Mark Darlow offers an unprecedented view of the material context of opera production, combining in-depth archival research with a study of the works themselves. He argues that a mixture of popular and State interventions created a repressive system in which cultural institutions retained agency, compelling individuals to follow and contribute to a shifting culture. Theatre thereby emerged as a locus for competing discourses on patriotism, society, the role of the arts in the Republic, and the articulation of the Revolution's relation with the 'Old Regime', and is thus an essential key to the understanding of public opinion and publicity at this crucial historical moment. Combining recent approaches to institutions, sociability, and authors' rights with cultural studies of opera, Staging the French Revolution takes a historically grounded and methodologically innovative cross-disciplinary approach to opera and persuasively re-evaluates the long-standing, but rather sterile, concept of propaganda."

A History of Dog Sledding in New England (Paperback): Bruce D. Heald A History of Dog Sledding in New England (Paperback)
Bruce D. Heald
R480 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R37 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Brief History of Memphis (Paperback): G. Wayne Dowdy A Brief History of Memphis (Paperback)
G. Wayne Dowdy
R484 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R36 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Bill Miller's Riviera: - America's Showplace in Fort Lee, New Jersey (Paperback): Tom Austin, Ron Kase Bill Miller's Riviera: - America's Showplace in Fort Lee, New Jersey (Paperback)
Tom Austin, Ron Kase
R484 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R36 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
The Origin of God (Hardcover): Laurence Gardner The Origin of God (Hardcover)
Laurence Gardner
R986 Discovery Miles 9 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley (Paperback): Jonathan Kruk Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley (Paperback)
Jonathan Kruk
R535 R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is one of the best-known works of American literature. But what other myths lie hidden behind the landscape of New York's Hudson Valley? Imps cause mischief on the Hudson River; a white lady haunts Raven Rock; Major Andre's ghost seeks redemption; and real headless hessians search for their severed skulls. Local folklorist Jonathan Kruk tells these and other tales of the lore of the Hudson Valley the stories that have created an atmosphere of mystery that helped inspire Irving's legend.

Room for Diplomacy - The History of Britain's Diplomatic Buildings 1800-2000 (Hardcover): Mark Bertram Room for Diplomacy - The History of Britain's Diplomatic Buildings 1800-2000 (Hardcover)
Mark Bertram
R1,592 Discovery Miles 15 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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