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This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new
trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW For
four decades, Michael Hicks has been a figure central to the study
of fifteenth-century England. His scholarly output is remarkable
both for its sheer bulk and for the diversity of the fields it
covers. This extraordinary breadth is reflected by the variety of
subjects covered by the papers in the present volume, offered to
Professor Hicks by friends, colleagues and former students to mark
his retirement from the University of Winchester. Fifteenth-century
royalty, nobility and gentry, long at the heart of his own work,
naturally take centre stage, but his contribution to economic and
regional history, both in the early part of his career as a
research fellow at the Victoria County History and more recently as
director of a succession of major research projects, is also
reflected in the essays presented here. The individual
contributions are populated by some of the major characters of
Yorkist England, many of them made household names by Professor
Hicks's own writings - King Edward IV and his mistresses; the
Neville earls of Warwick and Salisbury; the Stafford, Herbert,
Percy, Tiptoft and de Vere earls of Devon, Pembroke,Northumberland,
Worcester and Oxford - while the themes covered span the full
panoply of medieval life: from treason to trade, warfare to
widowhood and lordship to law enforcement. Equally broad is the
papers' geographical spread,covering regions from Catalonia to
Normandy, from Hampshire to Yorkshire and from Worcestershire and
the Welsh marches to East Anglia. Contributors: Anne Curry,
Christopher Dyer, Peter Fleming, Ralph Griffiths, JohnHare,
Winifred Harwood, Matthew Holford, Hannes Kleineke, Gordon
McKelvie, Mark Page, Simon Payling, A.J. Pollard, James Ross, Karen
Stoeber, Anne F. Sutton
Essays on crucial aspects of late medieval history. The essays
collected here, offered by three generations of his friends and
pupils, celebrate the outstanding career of Professor A.J. Pollard
and pay tribute to his scholarship and enduring influence in
furthering our understanding of late medieval England and France.
Drawing inspiration from his own research interests and writing,
which illuminated military, political and social interactions of
the period, they focus on three main themes. The contrasting styles
of governance adopted by English monarchs from Richard II to Henry
VII; the differing responses to civil conflict revealed in a
variety of localities; and the lives of men recruited to fight
overseas during the Hundred Years' War, and beyond the border with
Scotland in later years, are all explored here. These topics take
us across England from the far north to the Channel, to London, the
south-west and the Welsh lordship of Gower, while on the way also
examining how townsmen resisted taxation, the gentry administered
their estates and the western marches were ruled.
This series [pushes] the boundaries of knowledge and [develops] new
trends in approach and understanding. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
Linda S. Clark is a distinguished scholar of fifteenth-century
England, best known for her important contribution to the study of
the late medieval English parliament. She has served as general
editor of The Fifteenth Century since 2003. This special volume in
the series marks her four decades of work for the History of
Parliament Trust. As is appropriate, its essays focus above all on
Parliament and the personalities that served in its chambers, but
they also illuminate a wider range of themes that have long
concerned students of the later middle ages, including the
lawlessness of the gentry and nobility, the acquisition and
management of their estates, and their self-expression in pageantry
and legend. Other social groups, ranging from the mercantile elite
of the city of London and their Italian trading partners to
England's common soldiers, also make an appearance. Several of the
papers collectedhere have a geographical focus in London and East
Anglia, but other regions are also represented. The collection thus
pays tribute to the breadth of Dr Clark's contribution to the
field, both in her own writing, and in her long-standing commitment
to facilitate the publication of the original research of others.
Contributors: A.J. Pollard, Simon Payling, Charles Moreton, Colin
Richmond, J.L. Bolton, James Ross, Carole Rawcliffe, Elizabeth
Danbury, Matthew Davies, Hannes Kleineke, David Grummitt, Caroline
M. Barron
First book to deal with de Vere's life and extraordinary career,
during the Wars of the Roses and beyond. Earl of Oxford for fifty
years, and subject of six kings of England during the political
strife of the Wars of the Roses, John de Vere's career included
more changes of fortune than almost any other. He recovered his
earldom afterthe execution of his father and brother for treason,
but his resistance to Edward IV led to a decade in prison. He
escaped in time to lead Henry Tudor's vanguard at Bosworth in 1485
and subsequently enjoyed twenty-five years as perhaps "the foremost
man of the kingdom", virtually ruling East Anglia for the king.
This is the first full-length study of de Vere's life and career.
Through this lens it also tackles a number of broader themes. It
reconsiders the role of the nobility under Henry VII, challenging
the common perception of Henry as an anti-aristocratic king. It
also explores East Anglian political society in the second half of
the fifteenth century, how the earl came to dominate it, how
successfully he exercised his power, and the personnel, including
the Paston family, he used to run the region. JAMES ROSS is Senior
Lecturer in Late Medieval History at the University of Winchester.
It is our pleasure to present these proceedings from the United
Engineering Foundation Conference on The Aerodynamics of Heavy
Vehicles: Trucks, Buses and Trains held December 2-6, 2002, in
Monterey, California. This Department of Energy, United Engineering
Foundation, and industry sponsored conference brought together 90
leading engineering researchers from around the world to discuss
the aerodynamic drag of heavy vehicles. Participants from national
labs, academia, and industry, including truck manufacturers,
discussed how computer simulation and experimental techniques could
be used to design more fuel efficient trucks, buses, and trains.
Conference topics included comparison of computational fluid
dynamics calculations using both steady and unsteady
Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes, large-eddy simulation, and hybrid
turbulence models and experimental data obtained from the
Department of Energy sponsored and other wind tunnel experiments.
Advanced experimental techniques including three-dimensional
particle image velocimetry were presented, along with their use in
evaluating drag reduction devices. We would like to thank the UEF
conference organizers for their dedication and quick response to
sudden deadlines. In addition, we would like to thank all session
chairs, the scientific advisory committee, authors, and reviewers
for their many hours of dedicated effort that contributed to a
successful conference and resulted in this document of the
conference proceedings. We also gratefully acknowledge the support
received from the United Engineering Foundation, the US Department
of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Volvo Trucks
America, International Truck and Engine Corporation, and
Freightliner LLC.
It is our pleasure to present these proceedings for "The
Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles II: Trucks, Buses and Trains"
International Conference held in Lake - hoe, California, August
26-31, 2007 by Engineering Conferences International (ECI). Brought
together were the world's leading scientists and engineers from
industry, universities, and research laboratories, including truck
and high-speed train manufacturers and operators. All were gathered
to discuss computer simu- tion and experimental techniques to be
applied for the design of the more efficient trucks, buses and
high-speed trains required in future years. This was the second
conference in the series. The focus of the first conference in 2002
was the interplay between computations and experiment in minimizing
ae- dynamic drag. The present proceedings, from the 2007
conference, address the development and application of advanced
aerodynamic simulation and experim- tal methods for
state-of-the-art analysis and design, as well as the development of
new ideas and trends holding promise for the coming 10-year time
span. Also - cluded, are studies of heavy vehicle aerodynamic
tractor and trailer add-on - vices, studies of schemes to delay
undesirable flow separation, and studies of - derhood thermal
management.
First book to deal with de Vere's life and extraordinary career,
during the Wars of the Roses and beyond. Earl of Oxford for fifty
years, and subject of six kings of England during the political
strife of the Wars of the Roses, John de Vere's career included
more changes of fortune than almost any other. He recovered his
earldom afterthe execution of his father and brother for treason,
but his resistance to Edward IV led to a decade in prison. He
escaped in time to lead Henry Tudor's vanguard at Bosworth in 1485
and subsequently enjoyed twenty-five years as perhaps "the foremost
man of the kingdom", virtually ruling East Anglia for the king.
This is the first full-length study of de Vere's life and career.
Through this lens it also tackles a number of broader themes. It
reconsiders the role of the nobility under Henry VII, challenging
the common perception of Henry as an anti-aristocratic king. It
also explores East Anglian political society in the second half of
the fifteenth century, how the earl came to dominate it, how
successfully he exercised his power, and the personnel, including
the Paston family, he used to run the region. James Ross holds his
doctorate from the University of Oxford.
A range of important issues in current research are debated in the
latest volume in the series, with a special focus on warfare. The
theme of conflict is central to the essays gathered in this volume.
Apart from the renewed armed struggle with France in the final
stages of the Hundred Years War, subjects covered include the
theoretical foundations of the Wars of the Roses, the impact of
this conflict in the provinces, the frequently strained
relationship between the English, the Irish and the Welsh, and the
effects of intermittent warfare between England and Scotland. Other
themesthat emerge include the evolution of the English
constitution, clerical practice at the centre and in the regions,
and the competence (or otherwise) of Italian bankers when dealing
with men at war. Contributors: JIM BOLTON, LUCY BROWN, MICHAEL
BROWN, CHRISTINE CARPENTER, ANNE CURRY, GILLIAN DRAPER, PETER
FLEMING, ANTHONY GOODMAN, HANNES KLEINEKE, CATHERINE NALL AND JAMES
ROSS
Henry James Ross, identified by local officials as `a native, a
West Indian' and as `an English barrister', was an Anglo-West
Indian, a white Creole. He was born in St Vincent in 1795 or 1797
but spent all of his early adult life in Britain as a barrister. He
arrived in Grenada in 1838 to oversee the transition to wage labour
on Plaisance, a 650-acre cocoa and coffee plantation with which he
had been connected for nearly 20 years. He later took up extended
residence in Grenada initially as an absentee proprietor but
quickly converted himself into a planter, active professional man
and public figure. In this pamphlet - originally published in 1842,
here introduced by Woodville K. Marshall - Ross's report serves as
the only extant report on a sharecropping experiment on a British
Caribbean plantation and thereby supplies pertinent details of how
the scheme worked (and was expected to work) on the ground. The
pamphlet is an argument for the total replacement of wage labour by
sharecropping and identifies the advantages that such a
substitution could bring to all parties and to agricultural
practices. The pamphlet is also important as it may well have
influences British colonial policymakers as well as some planters
and therefore provides a window through which the sharecropping
option and associated land/labour issues, can be examined.
It is our pleasure to present these proceedings from the United
Engineering Foundation Conference on The Aerodynamics of Heavy
Vehicles: Trucks, Buses and Trains held December 2-6, 2002, in
Monterey, California. This Department of Energy, United Engineering
Foundation, and industry sponsored conference brought together 90
leading engineering researchers from around the world to discuss
the aerodynamic drag of heavy vehicles. Participants from national
labs, academia, and industry, including truck manufacturers,
discussed how computer simulation and experimental techniques could
be used to design more fuel efficient trucks, buses, and trains.
Conference topics included comparison of computational fluid
dynamics calculations using both steady and unsteady
Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes, large-eddy simulation, and hybrid
turbulence models and experimental data obtained from the
Department of Energy sponsored and other wind tunnel experiments.
Advanced experimental techniques including three-dimensional
particle image velocimetry were presented, along with their use in
evaluating drag reduction devices. We would like to thank the UEF
conference organizers for their dedication and quick response to
sudden deadlines. In addition, we would like to thank all session
chairs, the scientific advisory committee, authors, and reviewers
for their many hours of dedicated effort that contributed to a
successful conference and resulted in this document of the
conference proceedings. We also gratefully acknowledge the support
received from the United Engineering Foundation, the US Department
of Energy, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Volvo Trucks
America, International Truck and Engine Corporation, and
Freightliner LLC.
This book contains good tenets of the great game of backgammon. How
does a winning backgammon player think as each individual game
develops? Opening rolls are described, with strategy lessons in
mind. Basics of probability and estimation, as they apply to
backgammon, are reviewed. The power of the doubling cube - as a
weapon - is discussed. The goal is not to merely list a few
backgammon tips, but to teach a way of thinking about the game so
that readers develop a sense of vision for how backgammon games
evolve. We want you to strive for constant improvement in your
game. And we want to maximize your backgammon improvement while
minimizing your studying and reading time. This book is designed
for the serious beginner to the advanced backgammon player.
The themes of authority and subversion explored in relation to
royal power, orthodox religion, and violence and disorder. The
essays in this volume explore themes long seen as central to the
history of late medieval England and Europe. They examine the
strength of opposition to Henry IV's usurpation, the nature and
extent of the lollards' resistanceto orthodox religion, and the
contrasting causes of violence and disorder in the remote border
regions at opposite ends of the country, in Cornwall and in the
north-west. Subversion of its authority might be counteracted by a
regime which recognized the importance of pageantry to bolster its
public profile, while a complex weave of patronage, private
interest and dedicated service enabled the Exchequer to function
through periods of financial crisis. Relations between the Crown
and urban centres, potentially a cause of tension, were eased by an
emerging body of professional urban law-officers prepared to act as
intermediaries. Contributors: PETER BOOTH, CLIVE BURGESS, KEITH
DOCKRAY, ALASTAIR DUNN, PETER W. FLEMING, IAN FORREST, DAVID
GRUMMITT, HANNES KLEINEKE, J.L. LAYNSMITH, JAMES LEE, FRANK D.
MILLARD, JAMES ROSS, SIMON WALKER.
It is our pleasure to present these proceedings for "The
Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles II: Trucks, Buses and Trains"
International Conference held in Lake - hoe, California, August
26-31, 2007 by Engineering Conferences International (ECI). Brought
together were the world's leading scientists and engineers from
industry, universities, and research laboratories, including truck
and high-speed train manufacturers and operators. All were gathered
to discuss computer simu- tion and experimental techniques to be
applied for the design of the more efficient trucks, buses and
high-speed trains required in future years. This was the second
conference in the series. The focus of the first conference in 2002
was the interplay between computations and experiment in minimizing
ae- dynamic drag. The present proceedings, from the 2007
conference, address the development and application of advanced
aerodynamic simulation and experim- tal methods for
state-of-the-art analysis and design, as well as the development of
new ideas and trends holding promise for the coming 10-year time
span. Also - cluded, are studies of heavy vehicle aerodynamic
tractor and trailer add-on - vices, studies of schemes to delay
undesirable flow separation, and studies of - derhood thermal
management.
New, insightful essays from musicologists, historians, art
historians, and literary scholars reconsider the relationship of
Debussy, Gauguin, Zola, and other great French creative artists to
cultural and political trends during the Third Republic. This
collection of new essays examines the relationships between
discourses of French national and regional identity, political
alignment, and creative practice during one of France's most
fascinating eras: the Third Republic. The authors, from a variety
of disciplinary backgrounds, explore the ways in which the
architects of the Third Republic [re]constructed France culturally
and artistically, in part through artful use of the press and [at
the 1889Paris World's Fair] new technologies. The chapters also
investigate changing attitudes toward Debussy's opera Pelleas et
Melisande, attempts by composers and critics to define a musical
canon, and the impact of religious education, spirituality, and
exoticism for Gauguin and Jolivet. Tensions between the center and
region are seen in celebrations for the national musical
figurehead, Rameau, and in the cultural regionalism that flourished
in the annexed territories of Alsace and Lorraine. Contributors:
Edward Berenson, Katharine Ellis, Annegret Fauser, Didier
Francfort, Brian Hart, Steven Huebner, Barbara L. Kelly, Detmar
Klein, Deborah Mawer, James Ross, Marion Schmid, and Debora
Silverman. Barbara L. Kelly is Professor of Musicology at Keele
University.
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