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Something has happened in Europe. Fearing the approach of to
Britain, Terry and Hugh retreat from their home to the remote
highlands of Scotland, prepared to live a simple existence together
whilst the fighting resolves itself far away. Encouraged by Terry,
Hugh begins a journal to note down the highs and lows of this
return to nature, and to process their concerns of the oncoming
danger. But as the sounds of guns by night grow louder, the grim
prospect of encroaching war threatens to invade their cherish
isolation and demolish any hope of future peace. Macpherson's only
science fiction novel is a bleak and truly prescient novel of
future war first published in 1936, just 3 years before the
outbreak of conflict in Europe. A carefully drawn tale of survival
in the wilderness and the value of our connection with others, Wild
Harbour is both beautiful and heart-rending.
A year after John Bradstreet's raid of 1758-the first and largest
British-American riverine raid mounted during the Seven Years' War
(known in North America as the French and Indian War)-Benjamin
Franklin hailed it as one of the great "American" victories of the
war. Bradstreet heartily agreed, and soon enough, his own official
account was adopted by Francis Parkman and other early historians.
In this first comprehensive analysis of Bradstreet's raid, Ian
Macpherson McCulloch uses never-before-seen materials and a new
interpretive approach to dispel many of the myths that have grown
up around the operation. The result is a closely observed, deeply
researched revisionist microhistory-the first unvarnished, balanced
account of a critical moment in early American military history.
Examined within the context of campaign planning and the friction
among commanders in the war's first three years, the raid looks
markedly different than Bradstreet's heroic portrayal. The
operation was carried out principally by American colonial
soldiers, and McCulloch lets many of the provincial participants
give voice to their own experiences. He consults little-known
French documents that give Bradstreet's opponents' side of the
story, as well as supporting material such as orders of battle,
meteorological data, and overviews of captured ships. McCulloch
also examines the riverine operational capability that Bradstreet
put in place, a new water-borne style of combat that the
British-American army would soon successfully deploy in the
campaigns of Niagara (1759) and Montreal (1760). McCulloch's
history is the most detailed, thoroughgoing view of Bradstreet's
raid ever produced.
There is a growing scholarly interest in the historical development
of what has been called a 'consumer society.' In this important
collection of essays, historians from six different countries trace
the history of the consumer cooperative movement in much of western
Europe and North America from its inception to the present. The
consumer cooperative, as the contributors show, bears directly on
the role of socialist parties, the nascent feminist movement, and
conceptions of the worker's role in a changing economy and society
in the 19th and 20th centuries. The first book to explore consumer
cooperation on a comparative, international level, Consumers
Against Capitalism fills a significant gap in the literature of
labor history. It also makes a significant contribution to the
literature on consumerism and capitalist culture. It is essential
reading for students and scholars of labor history, women's
history, and social movements.
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SLOOT (Paperback)
Ian Macpherson
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R272
R222
Discovery Miles 2 220
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A post-postmodern crime novel set on the clean streets of Dublin's
leafiest suburb, Sloot has at its heart an accidental detective
who'd rather write his own Celtic-screwball-noir than solve the
crime, and a narrator who loses the plot. Literally. Sound
complicated? Not so. Thanks to a revolutionary structure, The
Inquisitive Bullet, it's simplicity itself. Detours include proof
that psychoanalysis is the oldest profession, validation of the
dictum `For what is comedy but tragedy with loose trousers', and a
brief aside on the possibility of an Irishman having multiple birth
mothers. While the plot bullet speeds, inquisitively, towards its
target - the final full stop.
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HEWBRIS (Paperback)
Ian Macpherson
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R300
R245
Discovery Miles 2 450
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Life is good for reformed standup Hayden McGlynn. He's living in
rent-free luxury in London's Kentish Town. His soon-to-be new agent
is the hottest in the business. The rights to his autobiographical
screenplay, set in his native Dublin, have been snapped up. The
future is money. The future is success. The future is Hayden
McGlynn. But Hayden has a problem. Screen Hayden is none other than
Wolfe Swift, The Greatest Actor Of This Or Any Other Age. And Wolfe
Swift, as he prepares for the part, becomes Hayden McGlynn! Is the
world ready for two Haydens? He also has a second problem. He's
committed one murder and got away with it. He hasn't committed a
second murder. What if he gets done for that? Which leads to
problem number three. The screenplay is autobiographical. Has
Hayden inadvertently grassed himself up? Hewbris, a post-postmodern
crime anti-thriller in the same vein as cult classic Sloot, posits
five levels of comedy, lands Hayden with six biological mothers,
and proves the existence of God through a joke. Which came as a
shock to the author.
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