Author: Alex Grecian
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 0425267733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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When members of a prominent coal-mining family go missing, Scotland Yard's Murder Squad teammates Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith investigate dark secrets and realize that the family's village is slowly sinking into underground mines.
Author: Nikhil Pal Singh
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674267389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Nikhil Pal Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, a long civil rights era, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle. It is through the words and thought of key black intellectuals, like Du Bois, Ralph Bunche, C. L. R. James, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and others, as well as movement activists like Malcolm X and Black Panthers, that vital new ideas emerged and circulated. Their most important achievement was to create and sustain a vibrant, black public sphere broadly critical of U.S. social, political, and civic inequality. Finding racism hidden within the universalizing tones of reform-minded liberalism at home and global democratic imperatives abroad, race radicals alienated many who saw them as dangerous and separatist. Few wanted to hear their message then, or even now, and yet, as Singh argues, their passionate skepticism about the limits of U.S. democracy remains as indispensable to a meaningful reconstruction of racial equality and universal political ideals today as it ever was.
Author: Liz Berry
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448182891
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE BEST FIRST COLLECTION 2014 *PBS Recommendation 2014* ‘When I became a bird, Lord, nothing could not stop me...’ In Black Country, Liz Berry takes flight: to Wrens Nest, Gosty Hill, Tipton-on-Cut; to the places of home. The poems move from the magic of childhood – bostin fittle at Nanny’s, summers before school – into deeper, darker territory: sensual love, enchanted weddings, and the promise of new life. In Berry’s hands, the ordinary is transformed: her characters shift shapes, her eye is unusual, her ear attuned to the sounds of the Black Country, with ‘vowels ferrous as nails, consonants / you could lick the coal from.’ Ablaze with energy and full of the rich dialect of the West Midlands, this is an incandescent debut from a poet of dazzling talent and verve.
Author: Al DeFilippo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780986236709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
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Black Country is the opening book of The Asbury Triptych Series, a trilogy about the life of British preacher, Francis Asbury. Black Country details Asbury's life in England and the culture-changing movement started by the brothers, John Wesley and Charles Wesley. The story is told from the West-Midlands of England, the iron-working capital of 18th-Century Great Britain. Black Country also features the key individuals who will eventually launch this religious movement to the American colonies. People like George Whitefield, Lord Dartmouth (Founder of Dartmouth College), Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Benjamin Rush and Lady Selina, The Countess of Huntingdon (also a founder of Dartmouth when she gave funds to the Mohegan preacher from the American colony of Connecticut, Samson Occum), contribute to this rich story abounding with England's essential history. Black Country uniquely delivers a portion of Francis Asbury's life never written about before. In the nearly two centuries since the death of Francis Asbury, Black Country details the early preaching circuits of this young itinerant. Through the beautiful English countryside, Francis Asbury seeks to spread the good news. However, his efforts are met with opposition from the state-sanctioned church, King George's Anglican Church, from those who view the Wesleyan movement as seditious and those who seek to harm the young preacher. On horseback, Francis Asbury braves mobs seeking to drown him and his horse, smugglers aiming to end his ministerial career and irreligious individuals who harass the young preacher.Despite his love for his country, the attraction of leaving his homeland and crossing the Atlantic Ocean for the American colonies is too much to resist. For Francis Asbury, his timing couldn't be worse. On the eve of the American Revolutionary War between the colonies and his beloved England, Asbury sails for America. The remaining books of the Asbury Triptych Series are full of action and drama. In a virgin American wilderness, Francis Asbury risks his life to establish what will become at the time of his death, the largest church in America. The Asbury Triptych Series also establishes the opinion that Francis Asbury is the George Washington of American Christianity.
Author: Carl Chinn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781858584119
Category : West Midlands (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Author: Andy Foster
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300223910
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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The latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black Country This fully revised account of the buildings of the City of Birmingham, its suburbs and outskirts, and the adjacent Black Country explores an area rich in Victorian and Edwardian architecture. Even the small towns of the Black Country supported local architects with their own distinctive styles, such as C. W. D. Joynson in Darlaston and A. T. Butler in Cradley Heath. Much West Midlands industry was organized in small to medium-sized firms, resulting in a rich and diverse streetscape and canalscape. The Arts and Crafts tradition also established deep roots in the area, resulting in masterpieces such as Lethaby's Eagle Insurance in Birmingham and Wolverhampton's Wightwick Manor, as well as a host of fine villas and churches. Older buildings of national significance include the grand Jacobean mansion of Aston Hall, Thomas Archer's Birmingham Cathedral, and such unexpected delights as the neoclassical barn in Solihull by Sir John Soane. Featuring new color photography and numerous maps and text illustrations, this volume will transform understanding and enjoyment of the architecture of this key English region.
Author: Alice Randall
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062968653
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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An enthralling literary tour-de-force that pays tribute to Detroit's legendary neighborhood, a mecca for jazz, sports, and politics, Black Bottom Saints is a powerful blend of fact and imagination reminiscent of E.L. Doctorow's classic novel Ragtime and Marlon James' Man Booker Award-winning masterpiece, A Brief History of Seven Killings. From the Great Depression through the post-World War II years, Joseph “Ziggy” Johnson, has been the pulse of Detroit’s famous Black Bottom. A celebrated gossip columnist for the city’s African-American newspaper, the Michigan Chronicle, he is also the emcee of one of the hottest night clubs, where he’s rubbed elbows with the legendary black artists of the era, including Ethel Waters, Billy Eckstein, and Count Basie. Ziggy is also the founder and dean of the Ziggy Johnson School of Theater. But now the doyen of Black Bottom is ready to hang up his many dapper hats. As he lays dying in the black-owned-and-operated Kirkwood Hospital, Ziggy reflects on his life, the community that was the center of his world, and the remarkable people who helped shape it. Inspired by the Catholic Saints Day Books, Ziggy curates his own list of Black Bottom’s venerable "52 Saints." Among them are a vulnerable Dinah Washington, a defiant Joe Louis, and a raucous Bricktop. Randall balances the stories of these larger-than-life "Saints" with local heroes who became household names, enthralling men and women whose unstoppable ambition, love of style, and faith in community made this black Midwestern neighborhood the rival of New York City’s Harlem. Accompanying these “tributes” are thoughtfully paired cocktails—special drinks that capture the essence of each of Ziggy’s saints—libations as strong and satisfying as Alice Randall’s wholly original view of a place and time unlike any other.
Author: Michael Pearson
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750951788
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Did You Know? Butcher Keith Boxley of Wombourne made the longest continuous sausage in 1988. It was 21.12km in length! The first general strike in the Black Country took place in 1842. The widespread public unrest was regarded nationally as the first ever general strike. Hell Lane in Sedgley was described as the 'most unruly place' in the Black Country. A woman who lived in the lane was said to have been a witch and could turn herself into a white rabbit to spy on her neighbours. The Little Book of the Black Country is a funny, fact-packed compendium of frivolous, fantastic, and simply strange information. Here we find out about the region's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, quirky history, famous figures and literally hundreds of wacky facts. From royal visits and local celebrities, to the riotous Wednesbury protests and a particularly notorious reverend, this is a myriad of data on the Black Country, gathered together by author and local historian Michael Pearson. A handy reference and quirky guide, this engaging little book can be dipped into time and again to reveal something you never knew, making it essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
Author: Kerry Hadley-Pryce
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781784630348
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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The tension of Gone Girl crossed with the weird darkness of The Cement Garden
Author: Steve Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993530166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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A list of words and phrases used by Black Country Folk.
