Working Lives details a cross section of Rhode Island's labor history from 1890 to the present. Unusual insight is provided through a collection of oral interviews of individuals who actually make up this history. The quality of work, life and social attitudes of the times are revealed through their eyes and in their own words. The book probes the lives of the interviewees and places their activities in the context of the wide social changes that have occurred in Rhode Island.
Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Art
This book presents an interdisciplinary and inclusive view of nineteenth-century art, observed from the vantage point of the new twenty-first century. The areas of expertise represented by the thirty essays herein span the full range of nineteenth-century studies, and include discussions of such artistic styles as realism, impressionism, romanticism, and art nouveau, as well as early twentieth-century movements that owe their formative influence to the nineteenth century. Topics span the histori...
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Classics in Education) (Dover Philosophical Classics)
by John Locke
One of the major works of John Locke (1632-1704), this detailed and comprehensive guide is mainly concerned with moral education. While concentrating on its role in creating a responsible adult and on the importance of virtue as a transmitter of culture, it also ranges over such practical topics as the effectiveness of physical punishment, how best to teach foreign languages, table manners, and varieties of crying. This critical edition is based on the third (1695) edition, and includes variant...
Die Kirche ALS Problem Der sed (Studien Des Forschungsverbundes sed-Staat An der Freien Univ)
by Martin Georg Goerner
Jean Durantin presents the long-awaited history of the French Naval Special Forces unit Commando de Penfentenyo enlisted in the Algerian battles from 1954 to 1962. Richly documented with over 1,000 colour photographs and original documents, Durantin provides the entire history of the marine commando during this campaign and makes reference to specific commandos such as"Yatagan." The Algerian War was a fiercely fought conflict between French and Algerians forces that resulted in the creation o...
Bestselling author Simon Cox takes us on a spellbinding journey through some of the most fascinating and mysterious aspects of ancient Egyptian life. He answers questions that have intrigued people for centuries, including: How were the pyramids built and what do they mean? Was there a curse of Tutankhamun? Are the biblical stories about the land of Egypt true? Did the Egyptians make human sacrifices? and, Is there a secret Hall of Records buried beneath the sands at Giza? Discover the truth abo...
What Mr. Darwin Saw in His Voyage Round the World in the Ship Beagle.
by Charles Darwin
Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge for map makers. In this essay, Ernesto Capello surveys the broad history of relief representation in cartography with an emphasis on the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains. After an initial overview and critique of the traditional historiography and development of techniques of relief representation, the essay features four clusters of mountain mapping emph...
Fowler of Rahinston Hamilton of Hamwood (Landed Gentry & Aristocracy Meath, #1)
by Art Kavanagh
The focus of this work is on the basic writings of radical reformer and religious revolutionary Thomas Muntzer (before 1490-1525). Also included are materials written just before Muntzer's execution-his confession, retraction, and last letter.
Food in the Ancient World from A to Z (The Ancient World from A to Z)
by Andrew Dalby
Sensual yet pre-eminently functional, food is of intrinsic interest to us all. This exciting new work by a leading authority explores food and related concepts in the Greek and Roman worlds. In entries ranging from a few lines to a couple of pages, Andrew Dalby describes individual foodstuffs (such as catfish, gazelle, peaches and parsley), utensils, ancient writers on food, and a vast range of other topics, drawn from classical literature, history and archaeology, as well as looking at the app...
Today's Arab-Israeli conflict, ever-present in the news, is merely the latest episode in an unending history of violence in the Holyland, a region that is unsurpassed as witness to a kaleidoscopic military history involving forces from across the world and throughout the millennia. Holy Wars describes 3,000 years of war in the Holyland with the unique approach of focusing on pivotal battles or campaigns, beginning with the Israelites' capture of Jericho and ending with Israel's last full-fledge...
This comprehensive encyclopedia provides a complete guide to world naval history. Over 1,000 alphabetically arranged entries provide in-depth coverage of major sea battles, principal commanders, the evolution of the warship, weapons and strategy, tactics, and organization. International in scope, with a focus on the United States and Britain, the core of the book features descriptions of every notable naval engagement from 1571 onward. Brief, factual accounts and bibliographic sources on the bac...
Japanese Heavy Cruiser Takao, 1937-1946 (Super Drawings in 3D)
by Janusz Skulski
Takao was the first of four Takao-class heavy cruisers designed to be an improvement over the previous Myoko-class design. The Myoko had proved to be unstable and required modifications, which were incorporated into the Takao design. The Takao-class ships were approved under the 1927 fiscal year budget as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's strategy of the Decisive Battle, forming the backbone of a multipurpose long-range strike force. Takao was built by the Yokosuka Naval shipyards, and like...
Command and Leadership 1721-1815 (Reason to Revolution)
The inaugural `From Reason to Revolution Conference' took as its theme `Command and Leadership', which was explored in a variety of different ways by eight speakers whose papers took in the armies of France, Austria, Portugal, and Britain (and touched in passing on those of Prussia and the Netherlands too), and whose geographical remit encompassed North America, Europe, and Africa. This volume presents the proceedings of that conference. The first three chapters consider lower-level leadership,...
'Nothing to touch the glory of the great cartoonists!...they teach the historians their trade' said the former Labour Party leader Michael Foot, a view also held by Winston Churchill. However, though many of the cartoons of international conflicts from the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars until the end of the Second World War have become iconic, very little is known about their creators. This book puts the record straight by assembling, for the first time in a single volume, brief biographies of...
First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Edmund Hartmann arrived in Hollywood as a contract screenwriter in the early 1930s, and by the next decade had become producer of his own screenplays for Universal. He oversaw feature films for such diverse talents as John Carradine, Eve Arden, Jane Russell, Basil Rathbone, Hedy Lamarr, Victor McLaglen, Bob Cummings, Don Ameche, Ann Miller, Jackie Cooper, and Joan Fontaine. He could handle almost all types of cinema: mysteries, social dramas, fantasies, and westerns. But it was his facility for...
Balkan Propaganda Wars provides an historical, political, and propagandistic perspective of the volatile situation that exists in the Balkans. The book reviews the historical background of the Balkan people-especially those belonging to the former Yugoslavia-from Antiquity through the troubled centuries of the Middle Ages, and continuing with the birth of the modern Balkan states in the 19th century and the more recent political and military evolutions during the 20th century. For each period, t...