Publication date: 1978-09-14
Price: $55.00
Review John Foster: The Politics of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy / Oxford University Press, USA:
Publication date: 1992-08-28
Dewey code: 828.609
Price: $36.95
Review James Boswell: The Life of Johnson (Landmarks of World Literature) / Cambridge University Press:This is a radical introduction to the Life of Johnson. It discusses the main structural, dramatic, historical and imaginative aspects of the work, and establishes its intellectual contexts: Hume's philosophy, earlier biographical writings by Boswell, and the French and German Enlightenment and romantic traditions. Professor Clingham offers an account of the Life based upon reassessment of the nature of biography, of Boswell's style and thought, and of Johnson's own works. As he examines the Life's complex psychological, emotional and artistic facets, a fresh picture of Boswell as biographer emerges. The book also provides a table of the principal scenes and conversations in the Life, as well as a chronological table of Boswell's life and times and a guide to further reading.
Publication date: 1998-10-31
Review Big Fellow, Long Fellow / Gill & Macmillan Ltd:This is the only comparative biography of Eamon de Valera and Michael Collins, and as such has established itself as a standard work. Prolific historian Dwyer provides a fair and dispassionate comparison between the backgrounds of the two historical figures, and offers a well-rounded picture of the relationship between them.
Creator: Peter Garside
Publication date: 2007-09-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $110.00
Price: $110.00
Review Journal of a Slave-Dealer: A Living History of the Slave Trade (Kegan Paul Africa Library) / Kegan Paul:This is a classic early account of the slave trade, taken from a journal kept by a young Irishman who crewed on the trans-Atlantic slave ships and became a trader on the West African coast. Covering the years 1746-1757, it was written before humanitarian feeling turned public opinion turned against slavery, and is notable for its matter-of-fact approach to what was then seen simply as another form of commerce. Its particular value lies in the light it throws on the Europeans involved in the slave trade - how they became involved in it, their role in the trading process, and their way of life at trading posts on the treacherous African coast. Owen provides valuable early descriptions of local African tribes such as the Mandingos, and detailed accounts of trade goods and how they were obtained and exchanged. The journal provides important insights into the European connection with the West African coast, and the vigorous, simple style in which this living history is written is reminiscent of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
Publication date: 1966
Review The Autobiography of a Chinese Historian / ch'eng-wen publishing company:199 pages
Publication date: 1997-08
Dewey code: 947.085092
List Price: $129.95
Price: $129.95
Review A Survivor of a Labor Camp Remembers: Expendable Children of Mother Russia / Mellen Press:
Creator: Roger Turvey
Publication date: 2002-09
Dewey code: 941.505
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review A Critical Edition of Sir James Perrot's the Life, Deedes and Death of Sir John Perrott, Knight (Mellen Critical Editions and Translations, V. 8) / Edwin Mellen Press:Although this book is purported to be biographical in nature it focuses almost exclusively on Sir James Perrot's activities in dealing with Queen Elizabeth's most hazardous and protracted problem, namely Ireland.
Creator: David Evans
Publication date: 2004-03
Dewey code: 782.4216431599
List Price: $130.00
Price: $110.17
Review The Truman and Eisenhower Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs, 1945-1960 (Underground/Overground) / Continuum International Publishing Group:In the sequel to "Roosevelt's Blues", Guido van Rijn presents an account of the gospel and blues music of the immediate post-war period, concentrating on songs that comment on contemporary political events and issues during a crucial time in the shaping of black consciousness in America. In doing so he uncovers a hidden black history of the eve of the emergence of the civil rights movement - a deep insight into the lives and opinions of people who had few other outlets of expression. Van Rijn's exhaustive survey sheds light on the civil rights situation of the time and the experience of segregation as well as events such as the Atom Bomb, the Cold War, Korea and the Republican victory in 1956. A CD is included, featuring songs discussed in the book.
Publication date: 1999-10
Dewey code: 813.54
Price: $22.45
Review The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven / Rebound by Sagebrush:In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. These twenty-two interlinked tales are narrated by characters raised on humiliation and government-issue cheese, and yet are filled with passion and affection, myth and dream. There is Victor, who as a nine-year-old crawled between his unconscious parents hoping that the alcohol seeping through their skins might help him sleep, Thomas Builds-the-Fire, who tells his stories long after people stop listening, and Jimmy Many Horses, dying of cancer, who writes letters on stationary that reads "From the Death Bed of Jimmy Many Horses III," even though he actually writes then on his kitchen table. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
Publication date: 2000-01
Review Ine, the First King of Wessex / Llanerch Press:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1997-11
Dewey code: 903
List Price: $16.95
Price: $110.98
Review Daniel and Lorena Gardner, History and Genealogy, 1773-1997 / Ye Galleon Pr:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1993-08-01
Dewey code: 895.61508
Price: $75.00
Review ANTHOLOGY CONTEMP JAPAN POETRY (World Literature in Translation) / Scholarly Title:
Publication date: 2003-02
Dewey code: 818.30809896073
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review Voice in the Slave Narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Solomon Northrup (Black Studies, V. 9) / Edwin Mellen Press:It is quite appropriate for Dr. Waters to examine "voice" in these three important narratives on the African-American experience in slavery, By analyzing how Equiano, Douglass, and Northrup used language, symbolism, experiences and events in their lives as slaves to describe, critique, and attack slavery, Dr. Waters provides us with the subtextual meaning of the narratives. The most important contribution is that it provides scholars and studnets with a new way to analyze and understand American slave narratives. One of the most fascinating phenomena of American history is how the slave experience of Africans in America has been documented to balance the myth of the "Old South" with the brutal realities of racial oppression. Indeed, the United States is quite unique in having a body of narratives by former slaves to balance and challenge the myths and lies of the "master" or slaveholding class about the nature of American slavery. In the Atlantic World, at least, no other people who were formerly enslaved have written and produced as extensive a body of literature to document, expose, and chronicle their experience in slavery. Thus, these narratives are very valuable because they enable us to understand the slave experience of African Americans and to capture its impact on the lives of those Africans who endured it. The narratives by Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Solomon Northrup are three of the best of the slave narrative genre. For over 150 years, these three narratives have provided students, scholars, and the general reading public firsthand accounts of the slave experience of Africans in America. [+]They provide us a broad picture of slavery in America for a time span of over 100 years. In addition, they provide three similar but very different perspectives on slavery in the Americas. Equiano's narrative, which was published in the eighteenth century, takes readers on a journey from West Africa through the Middle Passage to the Caribbean to England, and to the American mainland. Douglass' nineteenth century narrative provides readers a view of his enslavement from childhood to adulthood in the border state of Maryland and documents how his personal experience with and escape from the institution made him a formidable opponent of oppression and racism for the remainder of his life. In contrast to Equiano and Douglass, Northrup came of age as a free black man in the northern state of New York. But his narrative about his kidnapping and twelve-year enslavement in Louisiana provides readers ample evidence that American slavery even jeopardized the lives of nominally free blacks throughout the United States. It is quite appropriate for Carver Waters to examine "voice" in these three important narratives on the African-American experience in slavery. By analyzing how Equiano, Douglass, and Northrup used language, symbolism, experiences, and events in their lives as slaves to describe, critique, and attack slavery, Waters provides us the subtextual meaning of the narratives. His interpretation and analysis of the narratives takes us beyond our usual surface reading of the narratives and shows us how each author used simulation, dissimulation, and exteriorization to give voice to their feelings about and experiences with American slavery. He compares and contrasts the language and expository styles of each of the authors and uses textual analyses of each narrative to show how they used emotion, faith, pathos, and other literary devices to convey their overall message about the evil and inhumanity of slavery. He also provides us a much needed historical background for each of the narratives and compares the "voice" devices that each author employs to tell his story with the literary trends of the era in which the author lived. Finally, he shows us that the basic message of each author's narrative was human freedom and human salvation. Carver Waters' study of voice in these narratives is well done. His most important contribution is that he has provided scholars and students a new way to analyze and understand American slave narratives. He has also placed the narratives within the context of American literature by showing how each of the authors used the literary devices of their time to present their narratives and to appeal to the audiences of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Using impeccable research and an impressive of the scholarly literature (both historical and literary) written on the American slave narratives, he has established a new standard for both historians and literature scholars for evaluating and using the slave narratives.
Publication date: 1972
Review THE RISE OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, 1928-1938: VOLUME TWO OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHANG KUO-T'AO. / Univ. Press of Kansas,:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1998-01-16
Dewey code: 940
List Price: $125.00
Price: $110.55
Review Belsen: The Liberation of a Concentration Camp (Routledge Twentieth Century European History) / Routledge:Belsen is a superbly researched account of Bergen Belsen in its last days as a concentration camp and its liberation by the British.
Publication date: 1990-02
Dewey code: 388.092
Price: $59.95
Review Sir Eric Geddes: Business and Government in War and Peace (Business and Society) / Manchester Univ Pr:
Publication date: 1892
Review Tel Sono, the Japanese Reformer; An Autobiography / see notes for publisher info:
Publication date: 1998-12
Dewey code: 823.912
List Price: $109.95
Price: $109.95
Review Social Discontinuity in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen: The Conservative Quest (Studies in British Literature , Vol 38) / Edwin Mellen Press:
Publication date: 1998-03-30
Dewey code: 940.3092
List Price: $119.95
Price: $121.17
Review Field Marshal Sir William Robertson: Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the Great War / Praeger Publishers:Sir William Robertson served as the professional head of the British army and as the constitutional military adviser to both Asquith and Lloyd George from December 1915 to February 1918. This account, based on many new sources, critically examines his leadership of the general staff as the burden of fighting the main body of the German army shifted to the British. This study sheds light on the origins and conduct of the Somme and Passchendaele offensives, and the efforts to coordinate the Allied war effort, especially the controversial effort to subordinate Haig to General Nivelle and the creation of the Supreme War Council with its inter-allied staff. The civil-military conflict over the conduct of the war, especially the growing divide between Robertson and Lloyd George, receives special attention. The previously unexplored tension between Robertson and Haig who formed the most important military partnership in British history is also examined. This account represents the untold story of the higher direction of the war in Britain.
Authors
- Sasha Grihin
- Sasha Grishin
Dewey code: 769.99409049
Price: $70.00
Review Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: Artist Printmakers : 1990-1995 / Craftsman House (AU):
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John Foster: The Politics of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy, James Boswell: The Life of Johnson (Landmarks of World Literature), Big Fellow, Long Fellow, Journal of a Slave-Dealer: A Living History of the Slave Trade (Kegan Paul Africa Library), The Autobiography of a Chinese Historian, A Survivor of a Labor Camp Remembers: Expendable Children of Mother Russia, A Critical Edition of Sir James Perrot's the Life, Deedes and Death of Sir John Perrott, Knight (Mellen Critical Editions and Translations, V. 8), The Truman and Eisenhower Blues: African-American Blues and Gospel Songs, 1945-1960 (Underground/Overground), The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Ine, the First King of Wessex, Daniel and Lorena Gardner, History and Genealogy, 1773-1997, ANTHOLOGY CONTEMP JAPAN POETRY (World Literature in Translation), Voice in the Slave Narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Solomon Northrup (Black Studies, V. 9), THE RISE OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, 1928-1938: VOLUME TWO OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CHANG KUO-T'AO., Belsen: The Liberation of a Concentration Camp (Routledge Twentieth Century European History), Sir Eric Geddes: Business and Government in War and Peace (Business and Society), Tel Sono, the Japanese Reformer; An Autobiography, Social Discontinuity in the Novels of Elizabeth Bowen: The Conservative Quest (Studies in British Literature , Vol 38), Field Marshal Sir William Robertson: Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the Great War, Australian Printmaking in the 1990s: Artist Printmakers : 1990-1995Top headlines: Celebrities take aim at elephant exhibit: The Los Angeles Zoo has been working for years on its new "Pachyderm Forest," a $42 million exhibit designed to give elephants the space they need to beat the blues of captivity. ›21:40 3 Dec, Wed Cool Cars We Miss: Gone but not forgotten—a shortlist of cars we loved and still miss. ›07:00 18 Oct, Thu White House rejects impeachment ornament: The White House won't display a Christmas tree ornament that calls for President Bush's impeachment. ›03:13 3 Dec, Wed Star-studded Web video protests Prop 8: Since Proposition 8 passed in California, much of Hollywood has been up in arms. 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