The Column of Infamy
Author : Alessandro Manzoni
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Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Plague
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Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,85 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Plague
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Author : Alessandro Francesco T.A. Manzoni
Publisher :
Page : 1074 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Alessandro Manzoni
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 1845
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Author : Alessandro Manzoni
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Plague
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Author : Alessandro Manzoni
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Page : 368 pages
File Size : 32,56 MB
Release : 1845
Category : Lombardy (Italy)
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Author : Richard Reeves
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 32,33 MB
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0805099395
A LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITOR'S CHOICE • Bestselling author Richard Reeves provides an authoritative account of the internment of more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese aliens during World War II Less than three months after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and inflamed the nation, President Roosevelt signed an executive order declaring parts of four western states to be a war zone operating under military rule. The U.S. Army immediately began rounding up thousands of Japanese-Americans, sometimes giving them less than 24 hours to vacate their houses and farms. For the rest of the war, these victims of war hysteria were imprisoned in primitive camps. In Infamy, the story of this appalling chapter in American history is told more powerfully than ever before. Acclaimed historian Richard Reeves has interviewed survivors, read numerous private letters and memoirs, and combed through archives to deliver a sweeping narrative of this atrocity. Men we usually consider heroes-FDR, Earl Warren, Edward R. Murrow-were in this case villains, but we also learn of many Americans who took great risks to defend the rights of the internees. Most especially, we hear the poignant stories of those who spent years in "war relocation camps," many of whom suffered this terrible injustice with remarkable grace. Racism, greed, xenophobia, and a thirst for revenge: a dark strand in the American character underlies this story of one of the most shameful episodes in our history. But by recovering the past, Infamy has given voice to those who ultimately helped the nation better understand the true meaning of patriotism.
Author : Riemer A. Faber
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,28 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1487505221
This book traces the roots of modern notions of celebrity, fame, and infamy back to the Hellenistic period of classical antiquity, when sensational personages like Cleopatra of Egypt and Alexander the Great became famous world-wide.
Author : Paul Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199696381
The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism focuses on the period beginning with the French Revolution and extending to the uprisings of 1848 across Europe. It brings together leading scholars in the field to examine the intellectual, literary, philosophical, and political elements of European Romanticism. The volume begins with a series of chapters examining key texts written by major writers in languages including French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Greek, and Polish amongst others. Then follows a second section based on the naturally inter-disciplinary quality of Romanticism, encapsulated by the different discourses with which writers of the time, set up an internal comparative dynamic. These chapters highlight the sense a discourse gives of being written knowledgeably against other pretenders to completeness or comprehensiveness of understanding, and the Enlightenment encyclopaedic project. Discourses typically push their individual claims to resume European culture, collaborating and trying to assimilate each other in the process. The main examples featuring here are history, geography, drama, theology, language, geography, philosophy, political theory, the sciences, and the media. Each chapter offers original and individual interpretation of individual aspects of an inherently comparative world of individual writers and the discursive idioms to which they are historically subject. Together the forty-one chapters provide a comprehensive and unique overview of European Romanticism.
Author : Jonathan White
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0802094589
In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles White offers new ways of perceiving an ancient cultural tradition in the twenty-first century. In doing so, he challenges readers to discern rich poetic seams that bind together his varied subject matter. Italian Cultural Lineages is primarily concerned with factors that unify Italians, however geographically dispersed they may be. Drawing on extensive archival and historical research, White shows how oftentimes Italian cultural traditions that appear to be extinct are, in fact, enduring pushed out of the mainstream or submerged at some given point in history, only to re-surface and take on new meanings at a later date. Other, more marginal currents might disrupt and fragment Italian identity, politically and socially. However, White proposes that the challenge to Italy in these new and difficult lessons in tolerance has the potential to produce a much stronger culture, primed to welcome the marginal into an expanded spirit of all that counts as Italian. Ideally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike.
Author : Newt Gingrich
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312366230
The action-packed first book in the new historical series by acclaimed authors Newt Gingrich and William R.Forstchen