The Heroes of England. Stories of the Lives of England's Warriors ...
Author : John George Edgar
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : John George Edgar
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 1858
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Stephen Basdeo
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526749424
From the sixteenth until the twentieth century, British power and influence gradually expanded to cover one quarter of the world’s surface. The common saying was that “the sun never sets on the British Empire”. What began as a largely entrepreneurial enterprise in the early modern period, with privately run joint stock trading companies such as the East India Company driving British commercial expansion, by the nineteenth century had become, especially after 1857, a state-run endeavor, supported by a powerful military and navy. By the Victorian era, Britannia really did rule the waves. Heroes of the British Empire is the story of how British Empire builders such as Robert Clive, General Gordon, and Lord Roberts of Kandahar were represented and idealized in popular culture. The men who built the empire were often portrayed as possessing certain unique abilities which enabled them to serve their country in often inhospitable territories, and spread what imperial ideologues saw as the benefits of the British Empire to supposedly uncivilized peoples in far flung corners of the world. These qualities and abilities were athleticism, a sense of fair play, devotion to God, and a fervent sense of duty and loyalty to the nation and the empire. Through the example of these heroes, people in Britain, and children in particular, were encouraged to sign up and serve the empire or, in the words of Henry Newbolt, “Play up! Play up! And Play the Game!” Yet this was not the whole story: while some writers were paid up imperial propagandists, other writers in England detested the very idea of the British Empire. And in the twentieth century, those who were once considered as heroic military men were condemned as racist rulers and exploitative empire builders.
Author : Suzanne Enoch
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 32,94 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 006174171X
Lucinda Barrett's best friends ended up married to the men to whom they delivered their 'lessons in love'. So Lucinda decides to choose someone who definitely needs lessons, but someone who will not complicate her life. And that person is definitely not Robert Carroway. Robert is nothing if not complicated, and though he is the brother of a viscount, he rarely goes about society, and finds the weather and hat fashions ludicrous subjects for discussion. Robert is attracted to Lucinda's unpretentious ways, her serenity and her kindness. When she chooses someone for her love lessons, Robert offers to help her deliver her lessons, but sets out to convince the woman he has fallen for to take a chance on love ... and on him.
Author : Christopher R. Fee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2004-03-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780198038788
The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.
Author : George Rose Emerson
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 188?
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Matt & Tom Oldfield
Publisher : Dino Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1789464773
The No.1 football series - over 1 million copies sold! 'Super, Super Jack, Super, Super Jack, Super, Super Jack, Super Jacky Grealish!' Born and bred Brummie, Jack Grealish became captain of his boyhood club Aston Villa at just 23 years old. In this gripping story, discover how Jack battled through many ups and downs, like suffering relegation, and overcame these obstacles at each turn. Through his dribbling prowess and ability to get back up when knocked down, Jack became not only the most expensive English player ever when he signed for Man City, but England's poster boy at Euro 2020. Ultimate Football Heroes is a series of biographies telling the life stories of the biggest and best footballers in the world and their incredible journeys from childhood fan to superstar professional player. Written in fast-paced, action-packed style these books are perfect for all the family to collect and share.
Author : McClurg, Firm, Booksellers, Chicago
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 1913
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Michael Owen
Publisher : HarperSport
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Soccer players
ISBN : 9780007123308
The most talked about striker in British football has already broken goalscoring records for club and country at all levels. But behind the scenes, away from the training ground, what do we know about the real Michael Owen?
Author : William Isaac Fletcher
Publisher :
Page : 706 pages
File Size : 12,65 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Indexes
ISBN :
Author : Edwin Hodder
Publisher :
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Heroes
ISBN :