Gloriana's Rule
Author : Rui Carvalho Homem
Publisher : Universidade do Porto
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2006
Category : England
ISBN : 9789728025496
Author : Rui Carvalho Homem
Publisher : Universidade do Porto
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 2006
Category : England
ISBN : 9789728025496
Author : Qingyun Wu
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 1995-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815626237
Qingyun Wu's work is a unique discovery in literary studies in the West. Chinese utopian literature paired with its English counterparts form an original and valuable contribution to world literature. In widely varying historical and cultural texts that span the last five centuries, Wu analyzes the theme of female rule, including a critique of patriarchy and emphasizing a vision for women. To date, Chinese utopias have been insufficiently explored and unavailable to Western scholars. Wu's theories of the politics of female rule, as seen in Chinese and English literature since the end of the sixteenth century, are predicated on three significant changes that have taken place during those periods. These include an outright rejection of rule by women to rule by women in the guise of men, from individual to collective female rule, and from an idealized matrilineality to anarchism by the female principle. Works examined include Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen, Luo Maodeng's Sanbao's Expedition to the Western Ocean, Florence Dixie's Gloriana, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Ursula K. LeGuin's The Dispossessed, Chen Duansheng's The Destiny of the Next Life, Li Ruzhen's The Flowers in the Mirror, and Bai Hua's The Remote Country of Women. This critical view of the development of feminist utopias in both the East and West will be of interest to scholars of women's studies, political science, and anthropology as well as to those in literature for both the classical and modern periods.
Author : Steve Killing
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Yachts
ISBN : 039304646X
The first guide to design aimed at every sailor. The authors examine a range of boats, from a 14-foot dinghy to a 40-foot cruiser, a catamaran to an offshore singlehander, to show what makes hulls, keels, ballast, rudders, foils, masts, and sails work. Their explanations include state-of-the-art graphics, dynamic charts, and photographs.
Author : L. Francis Herreshoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 14,36 MB
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1493082043
Nathanael G. Herreshoff was the greatest yacht and marine designer and builder this country has ever produced. He is creditied with the introduction of more new devices in the design of boats than any other man, and the great yachts that he designed for the successful defense of the America's cup caught the imagination of the world.
Author : L. Francis Herreshoff
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574090048
Nathanael G. Herreshoff was the greatest yacht and marine designer and builder this country has ever produced. He is creditied with the introduction of more new devices in the design of boats than any other man, and the great yachts that he designed for the successful defense of the America's cup caught the imagination of the world.
Author : United States. Bureau of Customs
Publisher :
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 16,78 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Merchant marine
ISBN :
Author : Peter Frankopan
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2016-02-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1101946334
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. "A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world.” —The Wall Street Journal From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand what is at stake for the cities and nations built on these intricate trade routes, we must first understand their astounding pasts. Frankopan realigns our understanding of the world, pointing us eastward. It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East. Also available: The New Silk Roads, a timely exploration of the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now—as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East.
Author : Lloyd's Register Foundation
Publisher : Lloyd's Register
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1806-01-01
Category : History
ISBN :
The Lloyd's Register of Shipping records the details of merchant vessels over 100 gross tonnes, which are self propelled and sea-going, regardless of classification. Before the time, only those vessels classed by Lloyd's Register were listed. Vessels are listed alphabetically by their current name.
Author : Julia M. Walker
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780822320746
DISSING ELIZABETH is a collection of essays focusing on criticism of Elizabeth I by her contemporaries, and considering the wide range of forms the dissenters used for their critique.
Author : United States. Coast Guard
Publisher :
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 1913
Category :
ISBN :