Название: Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900
Автор: Una McIlvenna
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 35 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Across Europe, from the dawn of print until the early twentieth century, the news of crime and criminals' public executions was printed in song form on cheap broadsides and pamphlets to be sold in streets and marketplaces by ballad-singers. Singing the News of Death: Execution Ballads in Europe 1500-1900 looks at how and why song was employed across Europe for centuries as a vehicle for broadcasting news about crime and executions, exploring how this performative medium could frame and mediate the message of punishment and repentance. Examining ballads in English, French, Dutch, German, and Italian across four centuries, author Una McIlvenna offers the first multilingual and longue durée study of the complex and fascinating phenomenon of popular songs about brutal public death.

Название: Craft: An American History
Автор: Glenn Adamson
Издательство: Bloomsbury Publishing
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 57 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A groundbreaking and endlessly surprising history of how artisans created America, from the nation's origins to the present day. At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology-while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that narrative on its head in this innovative account, revealing makers' central role in shaping America's identity. Examine any phase of the nation's struggle to define itself, and artisans are there-from the silversmith Paul Revere and the revolutionary carpenters and blacksmiths who hurled tea into Boston Harbor, to today's "maker movement." From Mother Jones to Rosie the Riveter. From Betsy Ross to Rosa Parks. From suffrage banners to the AIDS Quilt.

Название: Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World
Автор: Simon Winchester
Издательство: Harper
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 44 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property—bought, earned, or received; in Europe, Africa, North America, or the South Pacific—through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future. Land—whether meadow or mountainside, desert or peat bog, parkland or pasture, suburb or city—is central to our existence. It quite literally underlies and underpins everything. Employing the keen intellect, insatiable curiosity, and narrative verve that are the foundations of his previous bestselling works, Simon Winchester examines what we human beings are doing—and have done—with the billions of acres that together make up the solid surface of our planet. Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World examines in depth how we acquire land, how we steward it, how and why we fight over it, and finally, how we can, and on occasion do, come to share it. Ultimately, Winchester confronts the essential question: who actually owns the world’s land—and why does it matter?

Название: The Romanesque Abbey of St Peter at Gloucester
Автор: Carolyn Heighway, Richard Bryant
Издательство: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789254140
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 130
Размер: 15,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

This book was inspired by the records made by Carolyn Heighway during the thirty years when she was archaeological consultant at Gloucester Cathedral. The survival of so much of the abbey of 1089 is remarkable, and often not appreciated by the casual visitor since it is ingeniously overlaid by Gothic alterations.

Название: The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos
Автор: Judy Batalion
Издательство: William Morrow
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 22 Мб
Язык: английский / English

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Also on the USA Today, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Globe and Mail, Publishers Weekly, and Indie bestseller lists. One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters—a group of unknown heroes whose exploits have never been chronicled in full, until now. Witnesses to the brutal murder of their families and neighbors and the violent destruction of their communities, a cadre of Jewish women in Poland—some still in their teens—helped transform the Jewish youth groups into resistance cells to fight the Nazis.

Название: Catullus' Bedspread: The Life of Rome's Most Erotic Poet
Автор: Daisy Dunn
Издательство: Harper
Год: 2016
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 14 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A vivid narrative that recreates the life of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern” poet, and follows a young man’s journey through a world filled with all the indulgences and sexual excesses of the time, from doomed love affairs to shrewd political maneuvering and backstabbing—an accessible, appealing look at one of history’s greatest poets. Born to one of Verona’s leading families, Catullus spent most of his young adulthood in Rome, mingling with the likes of Caesar and Cicero and chronicling his life through his poetry. Famed for his lyrical and subversive voice, his poems about his friends were jocular, often obscenely funny, while those who crossed him found themselves skewered in raunchy verse, sudden objects of hilarity and ridicule. These bawdy poems were disseminated widely throughout Rome. Many of his poems recall his secret longstanding affair with the seductive Clodia, an older woman who would eventually be plunged into scandal following the suspicious death of her aristocratic husband.

Название: All About History: Byzantine Empire - 3rd Edition 2022
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 68,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

Known for its beautiful buildings, glittering jewellery and fervent religiosity, the Byzantine Empire actually viewed itself as Roman. They believed the city of Constantinople (or Byzantium) was the new capital of the mighty Roman Empire, after its Western portion had fallen to barbarians.

Название: All About History: Book of Pharaohs - 3rd Edition 2022
Автор: Коллектив
Издательство: Future
Год: 2022
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 132
Размер: 69,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

When we think of Ancient Egypt, an array of images spring to mind: pyramids, mummies, hieroglyphics, sacred animals, the Nile and much more. But at the centre of this iconic civilisation were its people; in particular its monarchs. Ancient Egypt spanned more than 2,000 years and was ruled by approximately 170 pharaohs.

Название: Making the World Safe for Capitalism: How Iraq Threatened the US Economic Empire and had to be Destroyed
Автор: Christopher Doran
Издательство: Pluto Press
ISBN: 0745332226
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 216
Размер: 5,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Iraq war defined the first decade of the twenty-first century – leading to mass protests and raising profound questions about domestic politics and the use of military force. Yet most explanations of the war have a narrow focus either on political personalities or oil.

Название: The Traveller's Tree: A Journey Through the Caribbean Islands
Автор: Patrick Leigh Fermor
Издательство: NYRB Classics
Год: 2011
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 15 Мб
Язык: английский / English

In the late 1940s Patrick Leigh Fermor, now widely regarded as one of the twentieth century’s greatest travel writers, set out to explore the then relatively little-visited islands of the Caribbean. Rather than a comprehensive political or historical study of the region, The Traveller’s Tree, Leigh Fermor’s first book, gives us his own vivid, idiosyncratic impressions of Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica, Barbados, Trinidad, and Haiti, among other islands. Here we watch Leigh Fermor walk the dusty roads of the countryside and the broad avenues of former colonial capitals, equally at home among the peasant and the elite, the laborer and the artist. He listens to steel drum bands, delights in the Congo dancing that closes out Havana’s Carnival, and observes vodou and Rastafarian rites, all with the generous curiosity and easy erudition that readers will recognize from his subsequent classic accounts A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water.