American Sanctuary: Mutiny, Martyrdom, and National Identity in the Age of Revolution, Paperback - A. Roger Ekirch

DescriptionIn 1797 the bloodiest mutiny ever suffered by the Royal Navy took place on the British frigate HMS Hermione off the coast of Puerto Rico...

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Offers an interpretation of Blake's art and poetry in the context of the revolutionary period in which he was working.

Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, the book shows that war pervades the pages of the Bible because its auth...

Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of citizenship, nationhood, and belonging. In...

This book presents the remarkable constitutional reforms undertaken by the Blair and Brown governments in the UK. The reforms are remarkable in tha...

This book illuminates the history of popular dance, one of the most influential and widespread leisure practices in early twentieth-century Britain...

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A history of Great Britain and its former colonies and possessions, from Caesar's invasions to the beginning of the First World War.

Mass Media, Consumerism and National Identity in Postwar Japan addresses Japan's evolving nationalism and national identity in relation to its newl...

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This book is the first study of how the BBC, through radio, tried to represent what it meant to be British. The book combines an examination of the...

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Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution - James Epstein

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

Grace C. Huang reconsiders Chiang Kai-shek's leadership and legacy in an intriguing new portrait of this twentieth-century leader. Comparing his re...

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATORPublisher: Orion Publi...

DescriptionAfter emerging victorious from their revolution against the British Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with inde...

Through the lens of his own family's history, Peter Gumbel explores issues of identity, nationality and belonging after Brexit.

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era

A companion volume to Rougemont's "The Individualists in Church and State, " this outline of Christian political action was written by the nineteen...

DescriptionTim Cassedy's fascinating study examines the role that language played at the turn of the nineteenth century as a marker of one's identi...

DescriptionDuring a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long hist...

Reducere. DescriptionThe voices of the children and teenagers who witnessed the colonies' transformation to an independent nation have seldom been heard. Thi...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

The 1916 Revolt was a key event in the history of Central Asia, and of the Russian Empire in the First World War. This volume is the first comprehe...

Reducere. In Liberty and Insanity in the Age of the American Revolution, Sarah L. Swedberg examines how conceptions of mental illness intersected with Americ...

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Atlantic Wars is the first work to comprehensively explore how warfare shaped human experience around the Atlantic from the late Middle Ages until ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Vassilis (University of Tartu, Estonia) PetsinisIllustration(s): 9 bw illusNumber of pages: 288Publi...

Reducere. The Age of Sail has long fascinated readers, writers, and the general public. Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Jack London et al. treated ships at s...

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Wittlinger takes a fresh look at German national identity in the 21st century and shows that it has undergone considerable changes since unificatio...

A leading historian explores the myths that define Spain's view of its own past This book, the latest contribution by eminent historian Henry Kamen...

A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies that radically reshaped th...

Revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. This book explores how this classical idea can be applied to ...

Argentine Cinema and National Identity covers the development of Argentine cinema since the late 1950s to the mid-1970s, concentrating on the histo...

This ground-breaking study provides an authoritative account of the career of this iconic star. It illuminates his early work, his role as James Bo...

A powerful examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. Its focus on the comp...