Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 17,91 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 0226287025
Elucidates and argues for the author's concept of human history from the past to the present.
Author : Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 1932
Category : Jewish women
ISBN :
"The Plough Woman reveals a fascinating chapter in the history of pioneer Palestine. First published in 1932 ... this ... edition throws light on the complex arena of Palestine and Zionism as well as the intersection between the early Jewish nationalist movement and radical feminists at the turn of the 19th and 20h centuries. The voices, prose, memoirs, and literature of young Zionist women who emigrated to Palestine in these decades offer an intimate look at life on a veritable frontier. Memoirists discuss tensions in communal living, unsentimentally disclosing the hardships of working and raising families in underserved and isolated agricultural colonies. But as their narratives indicate, these pioneer women were keenly motivated by the vision of a creating a future Jewish homeland, an egalitarian society that would foster and celebrate individual growth, sustain family life, and provide a secure future for all"--From publisher's description (a later edition).
Author : George Ewart Evans
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0571286879
Following his two classics, Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay and The Horse in the Furrow, renowned oral historian George Ewart Evans continues his study of the vanishing customs, working habits and rich language of the farming communities of East Anglia with The Pattern Under the Plough (Faber, 1966). Although based on East Anglia, this book was and remains of wider interest, for - as the author pointed out at the time - similar changes were occurring in North America, and also happening with remarkable speed in Africa. In chronicling the old culture George Ewart Evans has taken its two chief aspects, the home and the farm. He describes the house with its fascinating constructional details, the magic invoked for its protection, the mystique of the hearth, the link of the bees with the people of the house, and some of their fears and pre-occupations. Among the chapters on the farm is one of Evans's most original pieces of research: the description of the secret horse societies. Beautifully illustrated by David Gentleman, this book is important not only for the material it reveals about the past but for the implications for present-day society. 'As real (and as valuable) as the evidence unearthed by the spadework of archaeology.' Observer
Author : Alexander Baron
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 1948
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780709058236
A fictional re-creation of how it was to taste the blood, sweat and tears of France in 1944.
Author : Justin Isherwood
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,84 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
A farmer with an extraordinary gift for language and a writer with the field still fresh on his boots, Justin Isherwood is irresistibly compelling. His writing is possessed by a poetry. As he moves effortlessly from the profound to the practical, he turns the ordinary experiences of farm life into a feast for your senses. Distributed for Martin Communications and Marketing
Author : Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 15,97 MB
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525541357
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE "A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune "Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes the dark winter days to studying astrology, translating the poetry of William Blake, and taking care of the summer homes of wealthy Warsaw residents. Her reputation as a crank and a recluse is amplified by her not-so-secret preference for the company of animals over humans. Then a neighbor, Big Foot, turns up dead. Soon other bodies are discovered, in increasingly strange circumstances. As suspicions mount, Janina inserts herself into the investigation, certain that she knows whodunit. If only anyone would pay her mind . . . A deeply satisfying thriller cum fairy tale, Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead is a provocative exploration of the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate. Whom do we deem sane? it asks. Who is worthy of a voice?
Author : David Mamet
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 15,98 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573690815
Charlie Fox has a terrific vehicle for a hot male movie star, and he has brought it to his friend Bobby Gould, head of production for a major film company. Both see the script as a ticket to the really big table where the power is. The star wants to do it; all they have to do is pitch it to their boss in the morning. Meanwhile, Bobby bets Charlie that he can seduce the secretary temp. As a ruse, he has given her a novel "by some Eastern sissy writer" that he is supposed to read before saying "thanks but no thanks." She is determined that the novel, not the trite vehicle, should be the company's next project. When she does sleep with Bobby, he finds the experience is so transmogrifying that Charlie must plead with Bobby not to pitch the sissy film. - Publisher's note.
Author : David Moon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 20,69 MB
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0199556431
This is the first environmental history of Russia's steppes. David Moon focuses on the settlement of migrants from central Russia, Ukraine, and central Europe, and analyses how naturalists and scientists came to understand the steppe environment, including the origins of the fertile black earth.
Author : Matthew Innes
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415215077
This comprehensive survey synthesises a quarter of a century of pathbreaking research in an accessible manner for undergraduate students. Matthew Innes combines an account of the historical background of the period with discussion of the social, economic, cultural and political structures within it.
Author : Andrew McRae
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,17 MB
Release : 2002-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521524667
An interdisciplinary analysis of the history and literature of the land in early modern England.
