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This book demonstrates how contemporary children's texts draw on
utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of possible
futures. The authors explore the ways in which children's texts
respond to social change and global politics. The book argues that
children's texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of
their readers.
"New World Orders" demonstrates how contemporary children's texts
draw on utopian and dystopian tropes in their projections of
possible futures. In examining a diverse range of international
children's literature and film produced between 1988 and 2006, the
authors explore the ways in which children's texts respond to
social change and global politics, giving shape to children's
perceived anxieties and desires. The book argues that children's
texts are crucially implicated in shaping the values of their
readers.
Children's texts are highly responsive to social change and to
global politics, and are implicated in shaping the values of
children and young people. "New World Orders," now in paperback for
the first time, shows how texts for children and young people have
responded to the cultural, economic and political movements of the
last fifteen years. With a focus on international children's texts
produced between 1988 and 2006, the authors discuss how utopian and
dystopian tropes are pressed into service to project possible
futures to child readers. The book considers what these texts have
to say about globalization, neocolonialism, environmental issues,
pressures on families and communities, and the idea of the
posthuman. This fascinating volume is the first thorough study of
how children's books imagine and propose possible worlds and
societies.
With its impressive breadth of coverage - both geographically and
chronologically - the International Encyclopedia of Military
History is the most up-to-date and inclusive A-Z resource on
military history. From uniforms and military insignia worn by
combatants to the brilliant military leaders and tacticians who
commanded them, the campaigns and wars to the weapons and equipment
used in them, this international and multi-cultural two-volume set
is an accessible resource combining the latest scholarship in the
field with a world perspective on military history.
With its impressive breadth of coverage a " both geographically and
chronologically a " the International Encyclopedia of Military
History is the most up-to-date and inclusive A-Z resource on
military history. From uniforms and military insignia worn by
combatants to the brilliant military leaders and tacticians who
commanded them, the campaigns and wars to the weapons and equipment
used in them, this international and multi-cultural two-volume set
is an accessible resource combining the latest scholarship in the
field with a world perspective on military history.
This entertaining collection of essays takes a biographical
approach to early American naval history. The period from 1775 to
1850 was a trying time for the infant navy, a time when much was
demanded of individual officers. New in paperback, this book
focuses not only on battles and ships but on the colourful men,
such as Oliver Hazard Perry and Stephen Decatur, who helped shape
the U.S. Navy in the age of sail. By viewing the era through the
lives of the participants, readers will gain a deeper understanding
of the strengths and weaknesses of America's new navy and the roots
of its traditions.
Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca.
80-20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called "Library of
History, " in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek
and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323
BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I-V
(Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI-XX (Greek
history 480-302 BCE); and fragments of the rest. He was an
uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduced them
faithfully. He is valuable for details unrecorded elsewhere, and as
evidence for works now lost, especially writings of Ephorus,
Apollodorus, Agatharchides, Philistus, and Timaeus.
The Loeb Classical Library edition of Diodorus Siculus is in
twelve volumes.
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