Book Description
Examines the British influences on American culture between 1964 and 1969, discussing rock bands such as The Beatles, the Yardbirds, supermodel Twiggy and Mary Quant minidresses, James Bond films, and more.
Author : Barry Miles
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781402769764
Examines the British influences on American culture between 1964 and 1969, discussing rock bands such as The Beatles, the Yardbirds, supermodel Twiggy and Mary Quant minidresses, James Bond films, and more.
Author : Greg Carpenter
Publisher :
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2016-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781940589077
Moore. Gaiman. Morrison. They came from Northampton, West Sussex, and Glasgow, and even though they spoke with different dialects, they gave American comics a new voice - one loud and clear enough to speak to the Postmodern world. Like a triple-helix strand of some advanced form of DNA, their careers have remained irrevocably intertwined. They go together, like Diz, Bird, and Monk... or like Kerouac, Burroughs, and Ginsberg... or like the Beatles, the Stones, and the Who. Taken individually, their professional histories provide an incomplete picture of the British Invasion, but together they redefined the concept of what it means to be a comic book writer. Collectively, their story becomes the story of mainstream comics in the modern era. It's the story you're about to read. From Sequart Organization. More info at http: //sequart.org
Author : William Matthew Marine
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Bladensburg, Battle of, Bladensburg, Md., 1814
ISBN :
"This volume is an attempt to present in permanent form the history of the British invasion of Maryland during the War of 1812. The story has not heretofore been fully told; the record is deplorably incomplete, and the following pages are intended to be an adequate chronicle of the events of that period in Maryland, and to that end even trifling circumstances have been interwoven in the narrative"--Preface.
Author : Bill Harry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Bands (Music)
ISBN : 9781842402474
This lavish book, featuring many previously unseen photographs, reproductions of newspaper front pages and other visuals, covers the events leading up to moment when British music exploded on to the American scene and Beatlemania went Transatlantic. The first book of its kind to look in depth at the phenomenon of the British Invasion, it also covers all the bands subsequent to the Beatles that have made it big in the States. While much has been made of the influence American rock'n'roll had on UK bands, until now little has been said on the way British music influenced American culture.
Author : Ben Hughes
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1473829925
In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards were humbled on the battlefield and Montevideo was taken by storm, but the campaign ended in disaster when 6000 redcoats and riflemen surrendered following a bloody battle in the streets of the Argentine capital. So ended one of the most humiliating and neglected episodes of the entire Napoleonic Wars.In The British Invasion of the River Plate Ben Hughes tells the story of this forgotten campaign in graphic detail. His account is based on research carried out across two continents. It draws on contemporary newspaper reports, official documents and the memoirs, letters and journals of the men who were there.He describes the initially successful British invasion, which was stopped when their troops were surrounded in Buenos Aires main square and forced to surrender, and the second British attack which was eventually defeated too. His narrative covers the course of the entire campaign and its aftermath. While focusing on the military and political aspects of the campaign, his book gives an insight into the actions of the main protagonists William Carr Beresford, Sir Home Popham, Santiago de Liniers and Black Bob Craufurd and into the experiences of the forgotten rank and file.He also considers the long-term impact of the campaign on the fortunes of the opposing sides. Many of the British survivors went on to win glory in the Peninsular War. For the Uruguayans and Argentines, their victory gave them a sense of national pride that would eventually encourage them to wrest their independence from Spain.
Author : Tim Hannigan
Publisher : Monsoon Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 19,48 MB
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 981435886X
In 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (now Jakarta) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five turbulent years. Drawing on both British and Javanese archival sources, this narrative history-cum-biography explores the bloody battles and furious controversies that marked British rule in Java, and reveals the future founder of Singapore, Thomas Stamford Raffles in a shocking new light.
Author : Clifford Kinvig
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 38,19 MB
Release : 2007-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1847250211
The first complete account of a unique military operation - and of why it ended in failure.
Author : James E. Perone
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release :
Category : Rock music
ISBN :
Author : Charles Townshend
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN :
Modern Iraq was created deliberately by the British over the seven years following their first invasion in 1914. Charles Townshend provides an informative and compelling explanation of that conquest and examines how an initially cautious strategic invasion by British forces led to imperial expansion on a vast scale.
Author : Diane Dakers
Publisher : Crabtree Groundbreaker Biograp
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778710455
Chronicles the story of the British band through its sensational successes of the 1960s and the four solo careers its breakup spawned in 1970, looking at the band's formation and how its music defined a generation.