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The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture (New Cultural Studies) by Wheeler Roxann
azw3 |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Wheeler, Roxann [Wheeler, Roxann]

Figure 12. Chart of Racial Casts. Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (London, 1774). Long includes this chart of racial intermixture to distinguish between the Spanish and the British approaches ...
( Category: Sociology September 18,2018 )
The Ink Trade by Anthony Burgess Will Carr
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Anthony Burgess,Will Carr [Will Carr]

Observer, 11 April 1982 Review of The Rash Act by Ford Madox Ford (Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1982) Medieval Sherlock IT IS November 1327. The Franciscan monk from Oxford, accompanied by ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 18,2018 )
Albert Camus the Algerian by Carroll David;
epub |eng | 2011-12-01 | Author:Carroll, David;

The Madness of Truth—A Tale of Two Suns The land is savage and savagery is in the hearts of the men. The rebels burn farms and crops, cut telephone poles, ...
( Category: Philosophy September 18,2018 )
Unclaimed Experience by Cathy Caruth
epub |eng | 1996-09-16 | Author:Cathy Caruth

A SHADOWY REALITY De Man himself offers an alternative autobiographical reading in his essay, one that is, in contrast to the traditional spiritual biographies, somewhat more difficult to integrate: The ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 17,2018 )
Interrogating Popular Culture: Key Questions by Takacs Stacy
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-03 | Author:Takacs, Stacy [Takacs, Stacy]

Risk Minimization Strategy Four: Maximize Exposure Commercial cultural production revolves as much around marketing and promotion as its does around the production of cultural commodities. The RIAA’s breakdown of a ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 17,2018 )
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thoreau Henry David
azw3 |eng | 2012-02-28 | Author:Thoreau, Henry David [Thoreau, Henry David]

Newspaper editors argue also that it is a proof of his insanity that he thought he was appointed to do this work which he did—that he did not suspect himself ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 16,2018 )
The Culture of the Book in Tibet by Schaeffer Kurtis;
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Schaeffer, Kurtis;

6 THE COST OF A PRICELESS BOOK The studies undertaken here are not primarily a history of the Tibetan book in its material existence. Rather, they constitute a history of ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 16,2018 )
The Dream Of The Red Chamber 2 by Cao Xueqin
epub |eng | 2010-10-08 | Author:Cao Xueqin [Xueqin, Cao]

* * * CHAPTER XLII. The Princess of Heng Wu dispels, with sweet words, some insane suspicions. The inmate of Hsiao Hsiang puts, with excellent repartee, the final touch to ...
( Category: Classics September 16,2018 )
The Dream Of The Red Chamber 1 by Cao Xueqin
epub |eng | 2010-10-08 | Author:Cao Xueqin [Xueqin, Cao]

* * * CHAPTER XIV. Lin Ju-hai dies in the City of Yang Chou. Chia Pao-yü meets the Prince of Pei Ching on the way. When Lai Sheng, be it ...
( Category: Classics September 16,2018 )
The War with Hannibal: Books XXI-XXX of the History of Rome from Its Foundation (Penguin Classics) by Livy
epub |eng | 2004-09-28 | Author:Livy [Livy]

BOOK XXVII 1. This, then, was the state of affairs in Spain. Meanwhile in Italy the consul Marcellus, after Salapia had been betrayed into his hands, stormed and captured from ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 16,2018 )
Lives of the Later Caesars by Anthony Birley
epub |eng | 2008-11-18 | Author:Anthony Birley

SEVERUS* BY AELIUS SPARTIANUS AFTER the murder of Didius Julianus, Severus, a native of Africa, gained the empire. His home town was Leptimagna,1 his father was Geta and his ancestors ...
( Category: Historical September 16,2018 )
The Cambridge Old English Reader by Marsden Richard
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-04-01 | Author:Marsden, Richard

( Category: History & Criticism September 15,2018 )
Shakespeare and the Resistance by Clare Asquith
epub |eng | 2018-08-20 | Author:Clare Asquith

CHAPTER NINE RALLYING THE OPPOSITION: VENUS AND ADONIS IN 1591, LORD Burghley’s secretary, John Clapham, dedicated a condescending and slightly humiliating Latin poem to Southampton entitled Narcissus, a reworking of ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 15,2018 )
Addresses and Lectures by Emerson Ralph Waldo
epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Lecture on The Times Read at the Masonic Temple, Boston, December 2, 1841 The Times, as we say, – or the present aspects of our social state, the Laws, Divinity, ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence September 14,2018 )
A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Sterne Laurence
epub |eng | 2010-02-02 | Author:Sterne, Laurence

The Passport Paris When I got home to my hotel, La Fleur told me I had been enquired after by the Lieutenant de Police – The duce take it! said ...
( Category: History & Criticism September 14,2018 )

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