Author: Elizabeth (Cartwright) Penrose
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Mrs Markham
Publisher: Hansebooks
ISBN: 9783337063009
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A History of France, from the Conquest of Gaul by Julius Cæsar - Continued to the Year 1878 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author: French principia
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Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1440

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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Author: Mark D. Larabee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Fiction has power to portray historical truth. This book presents Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to students and general readers as an insightful guide to the history of Europe and Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The phrase "heart of darkness" has become a term commonly used to conjure an ominous sense of hidden or deeply rooted evil. How did these words become so evocative? The answer lies in the richness and acute insight of Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's story based on his 1890 journey on the Congo River. Conrad's novella illustrates many crucial themes of European and world history through the last two centuries: civilization; exploration; colonialism and imperialism; race and conflict based on race; trade and globalization; commercial exploitation; and the impact of changing technology, especially for communication and transport. Heart of Darkness deserves to be studied today for its value as social and cultural history. In this edition, Conrad's story is shown to reveal important truths not only about Europe and Africa a century ago, but also about the historical forces that shape the world we live in now. Featuring the texts of both Heart of Darkness and Conrad's autobiographical Congo Diary along with more than 200 annotations, this book enables readers to appreciate the connections between Conrad's writing and its historical context. Introductory essays explain how Conrad was uniquely positioned to chronicle history, provide critical background information on how Europeans partitioned Africa and created the Congo Free State, and describe how the ivory and rubber trades brutalized the natives. Readers will learn how Conrad contributed to European awareness of the atrocities committed and understand how the story's literary qualities form an essential part of its historical meaning. The numerous illustrations and maps depicting the historical Congo Free State provide a visual element to the story of Heart of Darkness—a fictionalized tale that can be interpreted as history and that can help us interpret today's postcolonial, globalized world.

Author: Julius Caesar
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Category : Gaul
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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