Author: Michael B. Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Although the invasion had achieved its objectives and placed the Germans in an excellent position for the resumption of warfare in the spring, within three weeks of the operation, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia (November 7, 1917) and Albion faded into obscurity as the war in the East came to a slow end.
Operation Albion
Author: Michael B. Barrett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Although the invasion had achieved its objectives and placed the Germans in an excellent position for the resumption of warfare in the spring, within three weeks of the operation, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia (November 7, 1917) and Albion faded into obscurity as the war in the East came to a slow end.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Although the invasion had achieved its objectives and placed the Germans in an excellent position for the resumption of warfare in the spring, within three weeks of the operation, the Bolsheviks took power in Russia (November 7, 1917) and Albion faded into obscurity as the war in the East came to a slow end.
Albion's Seed
Author: David Hackett Fischer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019974369X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 981
Book Description
This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.
Albion
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307424650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307424650
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 539
Book Description
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.
The Journal of Albion Moonlight
Author: Kenneth Patchen
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A chronicle of violent fury and compassion, written when Surrealism was still vigorous and doing battle with psychotic "reality," The Journal of Albion Moonlight is the American monument to engagement.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811201445
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A chronicle of violent fury and compassion, written when Surrealism was still vigorous and doing battle with psychotic "reality," The Journal of Albion Moonlight is the American monument to engagement.
In Practice
Author: James Epstein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book reflects on popular politics in Britain during the turbulent period of industrialization, focusing on how political meanings were produced and sustained. It is also a spirited series of responses to the changing terrain of historical studies. It takes as its starting point the goal of defining a middle ground between E. P. Thompson’s concept of cultural materialism and the postmodern view of culture as a system of signs and codes (with emphasis on the linguistic grounding of experience). The first part of the book evaluates and critiques the work of two of the most influential proponents of the linguistic turn in British historical writing: Gareth Stedman Jones and Patrick Joyce. The second part contains four case studies: the first two treating British political culture in the age of the French Revolution, the third dealing with the role of space in historical reasoning, and the fourth assessing the role of gentleman leaders within popular movements.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
This book reflects on popular politics in Britain during the turbulent period of industrialization, focusing on how political meanings were produced and sustained. It is also a spirited series of responses to the changing terrain of historical studies. It takes as its starting point the goal of defining a middle ground between E. P. Thompson’s concept of cultural materialism and the postmodern view of culture as a system of signs and codes (with emphasis on the linguistic grounding of experience). The first part of the book evaluates and critiques the work of two of the most influential proponents of the linguistic turn in British historical writing: Gareth Stedman Jones and Patrick Joyce. The second part contains four case studies: the first two treating British political culture in the age of the French Revolution, the third dealing with the role of space in historical reasoning, and the fourth assessing the role of gentleman leaders within popular movements.
The Story of a Thousand
Author: Albion W. Tourgée
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ohio
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
England Is Mine
Author: Michael Bracewell
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 9780007333776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A blistering, brilliant and utterly original explanation of the Englishness of English pop culture in the twentieth century.
Publisher: Flamingo
ISBN: 9780007333776
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A blistering, brilliant and utterly original explanation of the Englishness of English pop culture in the twentieth century.
More Than Money
Author: Mark Albion
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576756564
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This book redefines the meaning of risk, and asks business students to look at risk in a new way. A consciousness-raising book and a how-to, Albion helps MBA students give themselves permission to be who they really want to be in order to create a meaningful life.
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1576756564
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
This book redefines the meaning of risk, and asks business students to look at risk in a new way. A consciousness-raising book and a how-to, Albion helps MBA students give themselves permission to be who they really want to be in order to create a meaningful life.
The Edge of Beyond
Author: Stephen Connock
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995628458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780995628458
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Earthly Necessities
Author: Keith Wrightson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300094121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Wrightson describes the basic institutions and relationships of economic life in Britain, tracing the processes of change, and examines how these changes affect men, women, and children of all ages. Illustrations.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300094121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Wrightson describes the basic institutions and relationships of economic life in Britain, tracing the processes of change, and examines how these changes affect men, women, and children of all ages. Illustrations.