The Black Douglas
Author : Samuel Rutherford Crockett
Publisher : Morang
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 16,19 MB
Release : 1899
Category : France
ISBN :
The Return of Black Douglas
Author : Elaine Coffman
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402250746
Book Description
After Isobella Douglas is pulled back in time by the ghost of her infamous ancestor, The Black Douglas, she encounters a Highland laird who's completely captivated by the modern lass. Original.
Black Douglas
Author : Nigel Tranter
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1444741055
Book Description
It was almost inevitable that in the 15th century the new Scots royal house of Stewart would have to come to a reckoning with the great house of Douglas. Young Will Douglas, the eight earl, was born to vast power, influence - and trouble. And with the boy-king James II on an uneasy throne, and scoundrels ruling Scotland, the death of Will's father plunged him suddenly into a world where might prevailed and the end justified the means. 'Through his imaginative dialogue, he provides a voice for Scotland's heroes' Scotland on Sunday 'He has an amazingly broad grip of Scottish history' Daily Telegraph
A Kingdom's Cost
Author : J. R. Tomlin
Publisher : Albannach Publishing
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
Eighteen-year-old James Douglas can only watch, helpless, as the Scottish freedom fighter, William Wallace, is hanged, drawn, and quartered. Even under the heel of a brutal English conqueror, James's blood-drenched homeland may still have one hope for freedom, the rightful king of the Scots, Robert the Bruce. James swears fealty to the man he believes can lead the fight against English tyranny. The Bruce is soon a fugitive, king in name and nothing more. Scotland is occupied, the Scottish resistance crushed. The woman James loves is captured and imprisoned. Yet James believes their cause is not lost. With driving determination, he blazes a path in blood and violence, in cunning and ruthlessness as he wages a guerrilla war to restore Scotland's freedom. James knows he risks sharing Wallace's fate, but what he truly fears is that he has become as merciless as the conqueror he fights. Keywords: Scotland, Historical Fiction, Black Douglas, Robert the Bruce, William Wallace, Military Fiction, Medieval Historical Fiction, General Fiction
The True Chronicles of Jean Le Bel, 1290-1360
Author : Jehan Le Bel
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 1843836947
Book Description
Even as a canon, he lived in princely style, with a retinue of two knights and forty squires, and he wrote at the request of John of Hainault, the uncle of queen Philippa. He was thus able to draw directly on the verbal accounts of the Crécy campaign given to him by soldiers from Hainault who had fought on both sides; and his description of warfare in Scotland is the most realistic account of what it was like to be on campaign that survives from this period.
Black Panther
Author : Emory Douglas
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 0847841898
Book Description
A reformatted and reduced price edition—including a revised and updated introduction by Sam Durant and new text on the artist today by Colette Gaiter--of the first book to show the provocative posters and groundbreaking graphics of the Black Panther Party. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, formed in the aftermath of the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, sounded a defiant cry for an end to the institutionalized subjugation of African Americans. The Black Panther newspaper was founded to articulate the party’s message, and artist Emory Douglas became the paper’s art director and later the party’s minister of culture. Douglas’s artistic talents and experience proved a powerful combination: his striking collages of photographs and his own drawings combined to create some of the era’s most iconic images. This landmark book brings together a remarkable lineup of party insiders who detail the crafting of the party’s visual identity.
Slavery by Another Name
Author : Douglas A. Blackmon
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848314132
Book Description
A Pulitzer Prize-winning history of the mistreatment of black Americans. In this 'precise and eloquent work' - as described in its Pulitzer Prize citation - Douglas A. Blackmon brings to light one of the most shameful chapters in American history - an 'Age of Neoslavery' that thrived in the aftermath of the Civil War through the dawn of World War II. Using a vast record of original documents and personal narratives, Blackmon unearths the lost stories of slaves and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude thereafter. By turns moving, sobering and shocking, this unprecedented account reveals these stories, the companies that profited the most from neoslavery, and the insidious legacy of racism that reverberates today.
Not for Glory
Author : J R Tomlin
Publisher : Albannach Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
James, Lord of Douglas, known to his foes as the Black Douglas, leads a flank of the Scottish army in crushing a vast invading English force at the waters of the Bannockburn. Fresh from battle, James revels in honors heaped on him by the Scots and in the hatred of the enemy. When King Robert the Bruce orders him to push their advantage and force the English to the peace table, they both know the only way James can do so is by fire and the sword — the only language King Edward of England understands.
The Bride of Black Douglas
Author : Elaine Coffman
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,68 MB
Release : 2002
Category : British
ISBN : 9781587241758
Book Description
Set in 1785 Scotland, a young English woman and a Scot agree to get married for convenience sake, never bargaining on love entering the picture.
Making The Black Jacobins
Author : Rachel Douglas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1478005300
Book Description
C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins remains one of the great works of the twentieth century and the cornerstone of Haitian revolutionary studies. In Making The Black Jacobins, Rachel Douglas traces the genesis, transformation, and afterlives of James's landmark work across the decades from the 1930s on. Examining the 1938 and 1963 editions of The Black Jacobins, the 1967 play of the same name, and James's 1936 play, Toussaint Louverture—as well as manuscripts, notes, interviews, and other texts—Douglas shows how James continuously rewrote and revised his history of the Haitian Revolution as his politics and engagement with Marxism evolved. She also points to the vital significance theater played in James's work and how it influenced his views of history. Douglas shows The Black Jacobins to be a palimpsest, its successive layers of rewriting renewing its call to new generations.
