Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians, Paperback - Patrick Brantlinger

DescriptionIn Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperialist ideology of the British Empire. ...

Reducere. As one of our most accomplished biographers and novelists, A. N. Wilson has a keen eye for a good story, and in this spectacular work he singles ou...

DescriptionThere is an old adage that says, "Truth is stranger than fiction." This is the way it was told in the fascinating stories about the famo...

Disability and the Victorians investigates the attitudes of Victorians towards people with impairments, illustrates how these influenced the interv...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: K. Patrick DonoghueIn this thrilling archaeological mystery, scientist Anlon Cully hunts for evidence of a long-forgotten c...

Sparks abound in this sizzling new Legendary Lovers tale from New York Times bestselling author Nicole Jordan, in which a seductive rakehell must w...

London Zoo examined in its nineteenth-century context, looking at its effect on cultural and social life.Publisher: Boydell & Brewer LtdAuthor(s): ...

Ed Gein was convicted of killing only two women. It is not his number of murders that have made this damaged man the prototype for a number of the ...

Reducere. There exists a race of cannibals who are made out of candy. They live in an underground world filled with lollipop forests and gumdrop goblins. Dur...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of ...

Continuing Patrick Wolfe's work on settler colonialismPublisher: Verso BooksNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 209 x 15Cov...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: K. Patrick DonoghueIn this thrilling archaeological mystery, scientist Anlon Cully hunts for evidence of a long-forgotten c...

Reducere. Never trust a bear.In a stroke of bad luck, Hollie gets stuck with the biggest, most annoying man of all. Andrei might think he's the most amazing ...

An annotated collection of three early modern English plays that allows readers to explore the relationship between Shakespeare's "Shrew" and two c...

When this book begins, in the reign of Edward VII, Great Britain commands the mightiest empire the world has ever seen. By the time it ends, with t...

True-life stories of seafarers facing danger and death in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Reducere. This fascinating history book covers everything from slums to steelworks, to the British Empire and the Great Exhibition. Full of facts, images, ma...

Compilation of the most horrific butchers and cannibals the world has seen.

Reducere. At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost--who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees ...

This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian English context, using the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambi...

Cannibals with Forks passionately demonstrates how all businesses can and must help society achieve the three inter--linked goals of economic prosp...

50, 000 copies sold in hardback. An Arrow superlead title to be published alongside Wilson's biography of Iris Murdoch. Was selected by many critic...

'Victorians' covers literacy, drama and history of this subject to fit in with trends towards project-based work. Detailed activities inspire child...

Reducere. Love and marriage are the concerns of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. Lucentio's marriage to Bianca is prompted by his idealized love of an ...

Reducere. As a newcomer to the alien tribe, I've struggled to find my place. It might be because I'm a tad headstrong at times. And yes, I might have thrown ...

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentleme...

Reducere. This spellbinding historical romance from USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick pits one spirited lass against her biggest challenge yet: a H...

This history title from Ladybird is the ideal homework help book for primary school children who are learning about the Victorians at school. Packe...

The Victorian era saw huge technological advances in civil engineering and transport, mass urbanisation and social change, as well as still-treasur...

Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high art. It replaced reverence with scepticism and ...

Subtitled, }The Story Of Mathematics - From The First Numbers To Chaos Theory{. The definitive history of maths, looking at how it has affected soc...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of The Taming of the Shrew on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translati...

Reducere. DescriptionCannibals. Conquistadors. Buccaneers. Pirates. Visions of cartoon characters dancing around a cauldron with an explorer tied inside. Bal...

DescriptionThis book makes use of a privately held archive of Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre, and uncanny episodes from the V...

All the foul facts about the VILE VICTORIANS are ready to uncover, including the murderers who wouldn't hang, when the first public loo was flushed...

Primary History: Victorians encourages the study of written sources, images and key figures to understand the influence of Victorian society on tod...

Reducere. Many stories involved fearsome creatures with supernatural powers. One of these creatures, now known as Bigfoot, passed beyond the realm of native ...