Publication date: 1989-02
Dewey code: 823
Price: $21.95
Review Thirty Years in Australia / New South Wales Univ Pr Ltd:
Publication date: 1972
Review DICTIONARY OF SCANDINAVIAN BIOGRAPHY / Melrose Press Ltd.:
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 305.42092
List Price: $149.00
Price: $149.00
Review Hiratsuka Raicho and Early Japanese Feminism (Brill's Japanese Studies Library) / Brill Academic Publishers:This work on Hiratsuka Raich? at last fully assesses her key role in the history of the Japanese women's movement. It provides a full and contextual analysis of the life (1886-1971) and work of this leading Japanese feminist, all in the light of the changes affecting women in Japan. At the same time the author compares her working with similar historical shifts and movements in western countries, notably Great Britain and the United States. International comparisons at the level of personal biography and associated ideas are made, to see the influence of Western feminists on Hiratsuka's feminism. Hiratsuka is compared with other Japanese feminists, whereby her pivotal role in the history of the Japanese women's movement becomes clear. With extensive footnotes for further reference - and research -, a number of appendices, a detailed bilingual glossary and bibliography; a true reference on an important subject.
Publication date: 1993-07
List Price: $69.95
Price: $135.04
Review Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness (Modern Revivals in History) / Ashgate Publishing:Lloyd George fell from power in October 1922, "never to hold office again". As a result he has tended to be written out of the politics of the 1920s. But John Campbell argues that he remained the central figure on the political stage until 1931, and that the energies of Baldwin and MacDonald were very largely directed to making sure that he did not come back. Working with Keynes and others to find a remedy for mass unemployment, Lloyd George remains the most fertile and progressive figure in British politics. But the two-party trap was closing on the Liberal party, and all his efforts could not restore it.
Publication date: 1997-05-29
Dewey code: 914.504929
List Price: $150.00
Price: $133.73
Review A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) / Paul Mellon Centre BA:This remarkable dictionary identifies more than 6000 British and Irish travellers who toured in Italy in the eighteenth century. Compiled from the celebrated archive accumulated by Sir Brinsley Ford, this volume provides brief formal biographies of these travellers, their Italian itineraries, and selective accounts of their experiences as described in contemporary sources.
Publication date: 1998-01
Review Who Was Who in Orkney / Bellavista Publications:
Publication date: 2002-02
Dewey code: 355
Price: $25.99
Review The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1665 N.S (Diary of Samuel Pepys) / IndyPublish.com:
Creator: Joanne M. Braxton
Publication date: 1997-06
Dewey code: 975.3004960730092
Price: $30.00
Review Out of the Depths, Or, the Triumph of the Cross (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940) / MacMillan Publishing Company:African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940 seriesHenry Louis Gates, Jr. , General EditorThe past decade has seen the increasing popularity of African-American women writers, from Alice Walker, to the Delany sisters, to Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison. Although African-American women have been publishing their work since at least 1733, when Phyllis Wheatley published her book of poems in London, their writings in the past have been largely neglected and hard to find. This series helps fill that void by reprinting in their original format the works by black women writers who published during the first half of the twentieth century. Born a slave in 1860, Nellie Arnold Plummer was an educator in the schools of Maryland and Washington, D. C. , for forty-five years. Her family narrative and spiritual biography Out of the Depths, or The Triumph of the Cross documents, through excerpts from the diary of her father and letters by family members, the trials, hardships, and triumphs of the Plummers through slavery into freedom.
Publication date: 1999-06
Dewey code: 976.10049607300922
Price: $55.00
Review They Too Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles / Pyramid Pub Inc:"Professional historian and scholar Dr. Richard Bailey offers an examination of the contributions to American life made by more than 300 individuals, all of whom have ties to Alabama. Members of this diverse group influenced education, religion, civil rights, business, sports, entertainment, music, politics and the military. ".
Publication date: 1944
Review Worthies of Thomond;: Being a compendium of short lives of the most famous men and women of Limerick and Clare to the present day / Printed by George McKern & Sons, and published by the author at Pery Square, Limerick:
Publication date: 2000-08-30
Dewey code: 016.941084
List Price: $179.95
Price: $179.95
Review Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965: A Comprehensive Historiography and Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies of World Leaders) / Greenwood Press:Perhaps the most influential figure in 20th century British, imperial, and world history, Winston S. Churchill has been the subject of numerous studies, biographies, and controversies, but not of a recent comprehensive bibliography. The most extensive and up-to-date bibliographic work on Churchill, this book provides a full historiographical survey and over 3,000 annotated entries on all of the important writings by and about Churchill. Reflecting Churchill's versatility, dynamism, and influence, the book emphasizes his background and context, covering, for instance, works on fifteen major controversies associated with Churchill, some thirty biographies ranging from those that glorify to solid, scholarly studies, to extreme revisionist attacks. The final historiographical chapter points to subjects that would benefit from further research. Divided into two parts, the book opens with a historiographical narrative, covering historical and biographical events associated with the life and times of Winston Churchill. In addition to chapters on archival material, reference works, and studies on a wide range of topics pertaining to Churchill's life and multi-faceted career, part I includes a section on Churchill and the Internet. The second half of the book includes 3099 annotated entries on all works cited in part I. The two parts are fully cross-referenced, and the book also includes a short chronology and full indexes. The book will provide a valuable resource for students, scholars, and other researchers interested in Churchill and his era.
Creator: Orville Vernon Burton
Publication date: 2007-12-07
Dewey code: 973.71
List Price: $211.00
Price: $132.95
Review Slavery and America (Gale Library of Daily Life) / Gale Cengage:
Edition: 3rd
Publication date: 1832
Review The life and death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald / Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman:
Publication date: 1978-01-27
Dewey code: 929.20941
Price: $44.50
Review The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham: 1394-1521 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series) / Cambridge University Press:As one of the richest and most powerful land-owning families in later medieval England, the Staffords played their leading part in the politics of their time. This book traces the often complex relations between the three Stafford Dukes of Buckingham and the Crown. In doing so it casts light upon the attitude of successive English kings towards the nobility as a whole, and reassessed the political and military strength of the ruling class. The Staffords derived most of their influence from the ownership of land. Because of the survival of a widely scattered but unique family archive, Dr Rawcliffe has been able to study in unusually close detail the management of their estates and the deployment of their finances, as well as the reorganization of their household, which changed over the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries from a large peripatetic body to a smaller resident establishment where the third Duke of Buckingham could indulge his taste for cultural pursuits.
Publication date: 2000-09-30
Review Just in Time / Aurum Press Ltd:
Creator: Sarah Bendall
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1997-12-16
Dewey code: 910
List Price: $150.00
Price: $135.00
Review Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Map-Makers of Great Britain and Ireland 1530-1850 (2 Volume Set) / The British Library:This work, in two volumes, provides details of all persons who measured and made large-scale local maps in Great Britain or Ireland between 1530 and 1850. The first volume discusses the history of the surveying profession based on an analysis of the mapmakers in the dictionary, together with lists of sources and comprehensive indexes. The second volume contains the biographical entries for each surveyor. This revised edition increases the number of surveyors by almost 50% to nearly 14,000, with the starting date two decades earlier to incorporate local military surveyors who practised in the 1530s and whose importance is being recognized by scholars. Bibliographical references have been added, and organizational and stylistic changes made.
Publication date: 1999-01
Review Guinness Times: My Days in the World's Most Famous Brewery / Town House:
Publication date: 2000-09-30
Dewey code: 791.08996073
List Price: $133.95
Price: $133.93
Review Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960 / Greenwood Press:This directory includes over 500 African American performers and theater people who have made a significant contribution to the American stage from the early 19th century to the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Entries provide succinct biographical and theatrical information gathered from a variety of sources including library theater and drama collections, dissertations and theses, newspaper and magazine reviews and criticism, theater programs, theatrical memoirs, and earlier performing arts directories. Among the professional artists included in this volume are performers, librettists, lyricists, directors, producers, choreographers, stage managers, and musicians. The individuals profiled represent almost every major category and genre of the professional, semiprofessional, regional, and academic stage including minstrelsy, vaudeville, musical theater, and drama. Persons of historical significance are included as well as those stars and theatrical personalities that were well known during their time but who are relatively forgotten today. This comprehensive volume will appeal to theater and musical theater, Black studies, and American studies scholars. Cross-referenced throughout, this reference also includes an extensive bibliography and appendices of other theater personalities excluded from the main text. Separate indexes list the personalities, teams and partnerships, and performing groups, organizations, and companies.
Publication date: 2007-12-03
Dewey code: 709
List Price: $190.00
Price: $133.00
Review Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists (Hesperia Supplements) / Macmillan Art Publishers:The Melbourne-based photgrapher, Sonia Payes, has spent two years travelling to 60 contemporary artists' studios and homes - with one notable living as far away as Tuscany! Each of the sixty artists is captured in a large portrait and then receives a further six pages for an essay by a selected author and exciting photographs of them at work in their studios - or simply walking the dog, cooking dinner or climbing a tree! This spectacular large format, 400 page, highly sophisticated publication contains 60 short essays contributed by leading Australian arts writers, critis, and acedemics drawn from across the nation. Intended to showcase the work and studio conditions of leading Australian artists at the 2007 Venice Biennale in June this year, the publication is Macmillan's most ambitious to date.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2001
Review The end of an era / Brown Enterprises, Inc:
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Thirty Years in Australia, DICTIONARY OF SCANDINAVIAN BIOGRAPHY, Hiratsuka Raicho and Early Japanese Feminism (Brill's Japanese Studies Library), Lloyd George: The Goat in the Wilderness (Modern Revivals in History), A Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800 (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis), Who Was Who in Orkney, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1665 N.S (Diary of Samuel Pepys), Out of the Depths, Or, the Triumph of the Cross (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940), They Too Call Alabama Home: African American Profiles, Worthies of Thomond;: Being a compendium of short lives of the most famous men and women of Limerick and Clare to the present day, Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965: A Comprehensive Historiography and Annotated Bibliography (Bibliographies of World Leaders), Slavery and America (Gale Library of Daily Life), The life and death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald, The Staffords, Earls of Stafford and Dukes of Buckingham: 1394-1521 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series), Just in Time, Dictionary of Land Surveyors and Local Map-Makers of Great Britain and Ireland 1530-1850 (2 Volume Set), Guinness Times: My Days in the World's Most Famous Brewery, Profiles of African American Stage Performers and Theatre People, 1816-1960, Untitled: Portraits of Australian Artists (Hesperia Supplements), The end of an eraTop headlines: Police chief, club indicted in boy's Uzi death: A police chief and a gun club in western Massachusetts were indicted on charges of involuntary manslaughter in the death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself. ›17:22 Just a number: Elderly feel 13 years younger: Older people tend to feel about 13 years younger than their chronological age, a new study finds. ›19:43 Gross: Banks Claim the Credit Crisis is Over. 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