Author : Christopher Tyerman
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780198227960
This is the first modern history of one of the most famous schools in the English-speaking world. It takes an even-handed approach, covering the schools failings as well as its successes. It includes frank discussions of Harrow's financial, educational, and sexual scandals along with a survey of its many great moments as the school of Byron, Churchill (and six other prime ministers), and Nehru.
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
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Author : Paul Elledge
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 29,65 MB
Release : 2000-06-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801863431
"Elledge carefully examines the historical and biographical contexts to Byron's Harrow performances, showing their relevance to Byron's physical and psychic landscapes at the time - his connections to his mother and half-sister, his headmasters and tutors, his Harrow intimates and rivals, his lameness, his London theatrical spectatorship. Byron's performances in the characters of King Latinus from the Aeneid, Zanga the Moor from Edward Young's The Revenge, and King Lear provide an opportunity to examine his early experiments with self-presentation: as Elledge argues, these performances are "auditions or trials of performative and autotherapeutic strategies, subsequently refined and polished in the mature verse." Throughout, Elledge reads the boy for the sake of reading the poet; he shows how young Byron's introduction to theatricality at Harrow School prepared him to make a confident and spectacular debut on Europe's cultural stage."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Edmund Whytehead Howson
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Schools
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Author : Edward Dalrymple Laborde
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Page : 266 pages
File Size : 32,17 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : Osbourne McConathy
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Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 1909
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Page : 836 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Education
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Author : Selwyn R. Cudjoe
Publisher : UMass + ORM
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 2019-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1613766173
William Hardin Burnley (1780–1850) was the largest slave owner in Trinidad during the nineteenth century. Born in the United States to English parents, he settled on the island in 1802 and became one of its most influential citizens and a prominent agent of the British Empire. A central figure among elite and moneyed transnational slave owners, Burnley moved easily through the Atlantic world of the Caribbean, the United States, Great Britain, and Europe, and counted among his friends Alexis de Tocqueville, British politician Joseph Hume, and prime minister William Gladstone. In this first full-length biography of Burnley, Selwyn R. Cudjoe chronicles the life of Trinidad's "founding father" and sketches the social and cultural milieu in which he lived. Reexamining the decades of transition from slavery to freedom through the lens of Burnley's life, The Slave Master of Trinidad demonstrates that the legacies of slavery persisted in the new post-emancipation society.
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,98 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Music
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Author : J. A. Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 15,38 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1136347992
Games obsessed the Victorian and Edwardian public schools. The obsession has become widely known as athleticism. When it appeared in 1981, this book was the first major study of the games ethos which dominated the lives of many Victorian and Edwardian public schoolboys. Written with Professor Mangan's customary panache, it has become a classic, the seminal work on the social and cultural history of modern sport.
