Author: William M. ThayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Youth's History of the Rebellion ...
Author: William M. ThayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Youth's History of the Rebellion
Author: William M. ThayerPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752577312
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England Begun in the Year 1641
Author: Edward Hyde Earl of ClarendonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
A Youth's History of the Rebellion, from the Bombardment of Fort Sumter to the capture of Roanoke Island. Sixth thousand
Author: William Makepeace THAYERPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A Youth's History of the Rebellion ...: From the capture of Roanoke Island. to the battle of Murfreeesboro
Author: William Makepeace ThayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A Youth's History of the Rebellion ...: From the massacre at Fort Pillow to the end
Author: William Makepeace ThayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
A Youth's History of the Rebellion ...: From the bombardment of Fort Sumter to the capture of Roanoke Island
Author: William Makepeace ThayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A Youth's History of the Rebellion: From the battle of Murfreesboro' to the massacre at Fort Pillow
Author: William M. ThayerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Gilded Youth
Author: James Brooke-SmithPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789140668
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
The British public school is an iconic institution, a training ground for the ruling elite and a symbol of national identity and tradition. But beyond the elegant architecture and evergreen playing fields is a turbulent history of teenage rebellion, sexual dissidence, and political radicalism. James Brooke-Smith wades into the wilder shores of public-school life over the last three hundred years in Gilded Youth. He uncovers armed mutinies in the late eighteenth century, a Victorian craze for flagellation, dandy-aesthetes of the 1920s, quasi-scientific discourse on masturbation, Communist scares in the 1930s, and the salacious tabloid scandals of the present day. Drawing on personal experience, extensive research, and public school representations in poetry, school slang, spy films, popular novels, and rock music, Brooke-Smith offers a fresh account of upper-class adolescence in Britain and the role of elite private education in shaping youth culture. He shows how this central British institution has inspired a counterculture of artists, intellectuals, and radicals—from Percy Shelley and George Orwell to Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson—who have rebelled against both the schools themselves and the wider society for which they stand. Written with verve and humor in the tradition of Owen Jones’s The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It, this highly original cultural history is an eye-opening leap over the hallowed iron gates of privilege—and perturbation.
Tales from a Revolution
Author: James D. RicePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195386957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In the spring of 1676, Nathaniel Bacon, a hotheaded young newcomer to Virginia, led a revolt against the colony's Indian policies. Bacon's Rebellion turned into a civil war within Virginia--and a war of extermination against the colony's Indian allies--that lasted into the following winter, sending shock waves throughout the British colonies and into England itself. James Rice offers a colorfully detailed account of the rebellion, revealing how Piscataways, English planters, slave traders, Susquehannocks, colonial officials, plunderers and intriguers were all pulled into an escalating conflict whose outcome, month by month, remained uncertain. In Rice's rich narrative, the lead characters come to life: the powerful, charismatic Governor Berkeley, the sorrowful Susquehannock warrior Monges, the wiley Indian trader and tobacco planter William Byrd, the regal Pamunkey chieftain Cockacoeske, and the rebel leader himself, Nathaniel Bacon. The dark, slender Bacon, born into a prominent family, soon earned a reputation in America as imperious, ambitious, and arrogant. But the colonial leaders did not foresee how rash and headstrong Nathaniel Bacon could be, nor how adept he would prove to be at both inciting colonists and alienating Indians. As the tense drama unfolds, it becomes apparent that the struggle between Governor Berkeley and the impetuous Bacon is nothing less than a battle over the soul of America. Bacon died in the midst of the uprising and Governor Berkeley shortly afterwards, but the profoundly important issues at the heart of the rebellion took another generation to resolve. The late seventeenth century was a pivotal moment in American history, full of upheavals and far-flung conspiracies. Tales From a Revolution brilliantly captures the swirling rumors and central events of Bacon's Rebellion and its aftermath, weaving them into a dramatic tale that is part of the founding story of America.
