Book Description
Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.
Author : Mayke de Jong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 110701431X
Challenges the divide between political and literary history, in an analysis of a major polemical text from mid-ninth century Europe.
Author : Eric Ambler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 12,68 MB
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307484343
When Josef Vadassy arrives at the Hotel de la Reserve at the end of his Riviera holiday, he is simply looking forward to a few more days of relaxation before returning to Paris. But in St. Gatien, on the eve of World War II, everyone is suspect–the American brother and sister, the expatriate Brits, and the German gentleman traveling under at least one assumed name. When the film he drops off at the chemist reveals photographs he has not taken, Vadassy finds himself the object of intense suspicion. The result is anything but the rest he had been hoping for.
Author : Douglas DeVeny Martin
Publisher :
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 12,91 MB
Release : 1958
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806129822
The news stories collected in this book are on-the-spot accounts & running news bulletins (including verbatim testimony) of the trial that followed the most famous gunfight in western history. "A Southwestern classic."--LOS ANGELES TIMES.
Author : Mary Doria Russell
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 36,59 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062198785
Mary Doria Russell, the bestselling, award-winning author of The Sparrow, returns with Epitaph. An American Iliad, this richly detailed and meticulously researched historical novel continues the story she began in Doc, following Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday to Tombstone, Arizona, and to the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. A deeply divided nation. Vicious politics. A shamelessly partisan media. A president loathed by half the populace. Smuggling and gang warfare along the Mexican border. Armed citizens willing to stand their ground and take law into their own hands. . . . That was America in 1881. All those forces came to bear on the afternoon of October 26 when Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers faced off against the Clantons and the McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona. It should have been a simple misdemeanor arrest. Thirty seconds and thirty bullets later, three officers were wounded and three citizens lay dead in the dirt. Wyatt Earp was the last man standing, the only one unscathed. The lies began before the smoke cleared, but the gunfight at the O.K. Corral would soon become central to American beliefs about the Old West. Epitaph tells Wyatt’s real story, unearthing the Homeric tragedy buried under 130 years of mythology, misrepresentation, and sheer indifference to fact. Epic and intimate, this novel gives voice to the real men and women whose lives were changed forever by those fatal thirty seconds in Tombstone. At its heart is the woman behind the myth: Josephine Sarah Marcus, who loved Wyatt Earp for forty-nine years and who carefully chipped away at the truth until she had crafted the heroic legend that would become the epitaph her husband deserved.
Author : S. Newstok
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 25,30 MB
Release : 2008-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0230594786
An innovative study of the Renaissance practice of making epitaphic gestures within other English genres. A poetics of quotation uncovers the ways in which writers including Shakespeare, Marlowe, Holinshed, Sidney, Jonson, Donne, and Elizabeth I have recited these texts within new contexts.
Author : Timothy M. Davis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 24,21 MB
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9004306420
In Entombed Epigraphy and Commemorative Culture Timothy M. Davis presents a history of early muzhiming—the most versatile and persistent commemorative form employed in the elite burials of pre-modern China. While previous scholars have largely overlooked the contemporary religious, social, and cultural functions of these epigraphic objects, this study directly addresses these areas of concern, answering such basic questions as: Why were muzhiming buried in tombs? What distinguishes commemorative biography from dynastic history biography? And why did muzhiming develop into an essential commemorative genre esteemed by the upper classes? Furthermore, this study reveals how aspiring families used muzhiming to satisfy their obligations to deceased ancestors, establish a multi-generational sense of corporate identity, and strengthen their claims to elite status.
Author : Irene van Renswoude
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107038138
Analyses the rhetoric of dissidents, outsiders and truth-tellers to challenge preconceptions about free speech and political criticism in the early Middle Ages.
Author : William Andrews
Publisher :
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Epitaphs
ISBN :
Author : Hannah Nordhaus
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2011-05-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0062079425
“You’llnever think of bees, their keepers, or the fruits (and nuts) of their laborsthe same way again.” —Trevor Corson, author of The Secret Life of Lobsters Award-winning journalist Hannah Nordhaus tells the remarkable story of John Miller, one of America’s foremost migratory beekeepers, and the myriad and mysterious epidemics threatening American honeybee populations. In luminous, razor-sharp prose, Nordhaus explores the vital role that honeybees play in American agribusiness, the maintenance of our food chain, and the very future of the nation. With an intimate focus and incisive reporting, in a book perfect for fans of Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation, Michael Pollan’s The Botany of Desire,and John McPhee’s Oranges, Nordhaus’s stunning exposé illuminates one the most critical issues facing the world today,offering insight, information, and, ultimately, hope.
Author : Adam Łajtar
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,38 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042912526
It shall also be of interest among scholars researching Oriental Christianity and Greek epigraphy."--BOOK JACKET.