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This is the sixth volume to be published in the major ten volume
new history of the county of Kent, and the first detailed study of
the development of Kent during the past hundred years. The sixth
volume to be published in the major ten-volume new history of the
county of Kent, and the first detailed study of the development of
Kent over the past hundred years. Each of the ten chapters begins
by evokinga picture of Kent on the eve of the First World War and
looking at the changes that have taken place between then and the
present day in the area under discussion. Particular attention is
paid to the impact of the two World Warson Kent; to the influence
of national events on local institutions and people; to the role of
the county council in the development of many aspects of life in
Kent; and to the major economic and social changes of the last
thirty years, many of them associated with Britain's entry into the
European economic community and Kent's strategic importance as a
corridor linking London and Britain to Europe. NIGEL YATES is
senior research fellow in church history, University of Wales,
Lampeter.
Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects
significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The
conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, brings
together scholars, actors, directors, dramaturges, and students to
share important new work on the staging practices used by William
Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The volume's contributors range
from renowned scholars and editors to acclaimed directors,
highly-trained actors, and budding researchers. The topics cover a
similarly wide range: a close reading of an often-cut scene from
Henry V meets an account of staging pregnancy; a meticulous review
of early modern contract law collides with an analysis of an actor
in a bear costume; an account of printed punctuation from the 1600s
encounters a study of audience interaction and empowerment in King
Lear; the identification of candid doubling in A Comedy of Errors
meets the troubling of gender categories in The Roaring Girl. The
essays focus on the practical applications of theory, scholarship,
and editing to performance of early modern plays.
Shakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of
scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of renowned
Shakespearean and founder of the American Shakespeare Center, Ralph
Alan Cohen. Each contributor pivots off a production at the ASC’s
Blackfriars Playhouse to explore Cohen’s abiding passion, the
performance of the plays of William Shakespeare under their
original theatrical conditions. Whether interested in early modern
theatre history, the teaching of Shakespeare to high school
students, or the performance of Shakespeare in twenty-first century
America, each essay sheds light on the professing of Shakespeare
today, whether on the page, on the stage, or in the classroom.
Guided by the spirit of “universal lighting” – so central to
the aesthetic of the American Shakespeare Center – Shakespeare in
the Light illuminates the impact that the ASC and its founder have
made upon the teaching, editing, scholarship, and performance of
Shakespeare today.
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Alan Armstrong; Illustrated by Tim Jessell
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ANDREW HAS grown up near the Plymouth docks hearing the sailors
talk about America. Knowing that Andrew's heart is set on going to
the new world, his father sends him up to London to serve as page
in the house of Walter Raleigh. In Queen Elizabeth's court,
Raleigh's the strongest voice in favor of fighting with Spain for a
position in the New World, and everyone knows that it's just a
matter of time before Her Majesty agrees to an expedition. Can
Andrew prove himself fit to go on an expedition to the New World?
Meticulously researched and brilliantly crafted, combining
fictional characters with historical, Andrew's tale offers up a
vivid look at the cloakand- dagger politics of the time and a
genuine feel for what it must have been like for the first
Europeans to set foot on the beautiful, bountiful, savage shores of
America.
"From the Hardcover edition."
Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that
there is no such thing as society historians have had no difficulty
in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that the
advance has occurred through such an outpouring of research and
writing that it is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up
with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three
volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of
specialists has assembled the jigsaw of recent monographic research
and presented an interpretation of the development of modern
British society since 1750, from three complementary perspectives:
those of regional communities, of the working and living
environment, and of social institutions. Each volume is
self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined,
contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a
whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the
manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of
unprecedented demographic and economic change.
Whittington is a roughneck Tom who arrives one day at a barn full
of rescued animals and asks for a place there. He spins for the
animals--as well as for Ben and Abby, the kids whose grandfather
does the rescuing--a yarn about his ancestor, the nameless cat who
brought Dick Whittington to the heights of wealth and power in
16th-century England. This is an unforgettable tale about the
healing, transcendent power of storytelling, and how learning to
read saves one little boy.
During the Industrial Revolution the attention of contemporaries
was drawn inevitably towards conditions in the great manufacturing
towns, a bias which most historical writing continues to
perpetuate. By contrast, only scant attention has been paid to the
development of older-established communities, although their
stimulation during this period of transition is of compelling
interest. County towns were by no means insulated from the broad
currents of economic and social change at work in society, but in a
large measure the forces of continuity and stability continued to
shape their character. This detailed study of one of Britain's most
notable historic towns concentrates on population growth by
migration and natural increase, explores the course of marriage,
birth and death rates, and concludes with an examination of
household and family structure, based on the mid-nineteenth century
census enumerators' returns.
The untold story of a secret planthat would have prevented Pearl
Harbor--and maybe even World War II.
Could a plan to bomb Japan and destroy Japanese supply lines,
communications, and staging areas in China have averted the
horrendous and devastating attack on Pearl Harbor? On July 23,
1941--some five months before Pearl Harbor--President Franklin
Delano Roosevelt endorsed a plan calling for the United States to
provide China with 150 manned bombers and 350 fighter planes to
wreak havoc on Japan's growing presence in China. "Joint Board Plan
335" had been proposed to Roosevelt and his cabinet by
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek; Dr. T. V. Soong, China's special
envoy to the United States; and Captain Claire Lee Chennault, a
retired Air Corps pilot now in the employ of Chiang. Such a
preemptive strike on Japanese interests had been under discussion
for several months. Although initially blocked by General George C.
Marshall, the plan was resurrected in the spring of 1941. So why,
then, was it never employed?
First, there were the practical reasons: Not yet fully recovered
from the Great Depression, millions of Americans were more
concerned about domestic issues than foreign policy. Roosevelt and
his cabinet feared political fallout from Chiang's proposed
international intrigue, to say nothing of facing Winston
Churchill's wrath by diverting airplanes from Britain. Then there
were also ethical concerns over the definite civilian casualties
the air strike would inflict. Could Roosevelt justify bombing raids
when the U.S. and Japan were officially at peace? Chiang and
Chennault argued that their plan would serve as a moral quid pro
quo to an adversary that had been bombing and slaughtering millions
of Chinese civilians for three years. The raids, Chennault
insisted, would forestall Japanese expansion into Malaya,
Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, and the Philippines.
Painstakingly researched and colorfully written, Preemptive Strike
offers a seldom-seen glimpse of the political and moral pressures
brought to bear on Roosevelt's prewar cabinet. It is sure to prompt
debate, as much as the decision to use this wartime strategy does
today.
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