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Exploitation and Misrule in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa by Kenneth Kalu & Toyin Falola
epub |eng | | Author:Kenneth Kalu & Toyin Falola

Oxherding Tale Charles Johnson’s Oxherding Tale23 is a neo-slave narrative set in the antebellum South, on Jonathan Polkinghorne’s plantation called Cripplegate, and details the adventures of Andrew Hawkins, born of ...
( Category: Regional & Cultural March 11,2020 )
The European Avant-Gardes, 1905-1935 by Sascha Bru
epub |eng | | Author:Sascha Bru

Figure 51 Cover of the brochure for the 1937 Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibition showing Otto Freundlich’s sculpture Der neue Mensch (The New Man, 1912). Freundlich’s work recalls ‘primitive’ Easter ...
( Category: European March 11,2020 )
The Mysterious World of Sherlock Holmes by Bruce Wexler
epub |eng | 2020-01-08 | Author:Bruce Wexler

In 1813, Mathiau Bonaventure Orfila was the first pathologist to use a microscope to examine blood and semen at crime scenes. In 1835, Henry Goddard (one of Scotland Yard’s original ...
( Category: European March 11,2020 )
The Ultimate Guide for the Avid Indoorsman by John Driver
epub |eng | | Author:John Driver

1. Cats are not the pet of choice for the Avid Indoorsman. See chapter 8. 2. Dirt dirt dirt…just seemed like a great chance to say dirt a few more ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
The Last of the Mohicans, The Pathfinder & The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper
epub |eng | 2017-10-14 | Author:James Fenimore Cooper [Cooper, James Fenimore]

“And what the devil is to be done in that case? Six men and two women would make but a poor job in defending such a place as this, should ...
( Category: United States March 11,2020 )
The Essence of SUFISM by John Baldock
epub |eng | 2017-10-11 | Author:John Baldock

Junayd was asked about the nature of love. He answered: ‘Some say it is a state of harmony, and some say that it is altruism, and some say that it ...
( Category: Middle Eastern March 11,2020 )
Guantánamo and American Empire by Don E. Walicek & Jessica Adams
epub |eng | | Author:Don E. Walicek & Jessica Adams

( Category: Modern March 11,2020 )
Joyce in Court by Adrian Hardiman
epub |eng | | Author:Adrian Hardiman [Hardiman, Adrian]

The demon drink It is clear that everyone who knew Dignam was aware of his propensity to drink far too much. This was how he came to lose his job ...
( Category: European March 10,2020 )
Dante in Love by Harriet Rubin
epub |eng | 2004-07-15 | Author:Harriet Rubin

Part III Purgatorio (1308-12) …e tanto d’uno in altro vaneggiai, che li occhi per vaghezza ricopersi, e ’l pensamento in sogno trasmutati. …E come questa imagine rompeo sé per sé ...
( Category: Medieval March 10,2020 )
Repositioning Shakespeare by Cartelli Thomas
epub |eng | | Author:Cartelli, Thomas.

2. Some eighty years stretch between Shakespeare's composition of Othello and Behn's Oroonoko, a span of time bridged most prominently by the English Civil War and its aftermath, events that ...
( Category: European March 10,2020 )
March 1917 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
epub |eng | 2019-09-26 | Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He went into a telephone booth and tried to call a captain he knew at District headquarters who was on duty there that evening—to learn the latest news. The captain ...
( Category: Russian March 10,2020 )
Multidirectional Memory by Rothberg Michael
epub |eng | 2009-03-09 | Author:Rothberg, Michael

The Counterpublic Witness: Charlotte Delbo’s Les belles lettres Nineteen sixty-one, the year of Chronicle of a Summer’s release, was a year in which Les Temps modernes published excerpts from Primo ...
( Category: European March 10,2020 )
THE ART OF BIOGRAPHY by Virginia Woolf
epub |eng | 2017-12-08 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

Money and Love. Table of Contents Steep though the ascent may be, the reward is ours when we stand on the top of the hill; stout though the biography undoubtedly ...
( Category: European March 10,2020 )
A Primer for Cadavers by Ed Atkins
epub |eng | 2016-03-09 | Author:Ed Atkins [Ed Atkins]

SILT The sensational presence of a pair of plump wormlings lying in spastic twists either side of my brain. Dumb, molluscan aerials picking up the occasional low, static whip through ...
( Category: European March 10,2020 )
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies by Cassander L. Smith & Nicholas R. Jones & Miles P. Grier
epub |eng | | Author:Cassander L. Smith & Nicholas R. Jones & Miles P. Grier

Candy, the Naïve Witness Tituba manipulated the Salem Witch Trials through her knowledge or eye-witness accounts. Candy survived the trials through dissimulation, adopting a persona of ignorance. Although we do ...
( Category: Modern March 10,2020 )

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