Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Raymond Williams Now : Knowledge, Limits and the Future (9780333627648)



The work of Raymond Williams continues to exercise a powerful hold over the minds of contemporary cultural analysts and social commentators. This collection responds to the challenge of Williams's thinking in discussions of topics of current interest and concern. The essays embrace a widely-divergent field of enquiry, from the study of language, dramaturgical theory, the theory of human needs and approaches to sociology, cultural studies and television, to issues of history, temporality and the future in relation to modernity and the postmodern.


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  • Hardback | 183 pages
  • 152 x 229 x 14.22mm | 455g
  • Basingstoke, United Kingdom
  • English
  • 1997 ed.
  • VIII, 183 p.
  • 0333627644
  • 9780333627648


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Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Reel History : In Defense of Hollywood (9780700612000)



History has been fodder for cinema from the silent era to the blockbuster present, a fact that has seldom pleased historians themselves. As pundits increasingly ponder ""how Hollywood fails history"", Robert Toplin counters with a provocative alternative approach to this enduring debate over the portrayal of history in film. Toplin focuses on movies released since 1985 - during which 12 historical films won the Oscar for Best Picture - and argues that critics often fail to recognize the unique ways in which fictional films communicate important ideas about the past. His work establishes commonsense ground rules for improving critical analysis in this area. Citing films like ""Gladiator"" and ""Braveheart"", ""Gandhi"" and ""Nixon"", he underscores the pressures placed on filmmakers to simplify and alter historical fact to conform to the demands of an extraordinarily expensive mass medium. Toplin demonstrates how a historical epic like ""Glory"" may contain ""creative adjustments"" that worry historians but shows how its distortions communicate broader and deeper truths about the Civil War experiences of African Americans - just as ""Saving Private Ryan"" presented little factual detail about World War II and yet effectively conveyed the experience of combat. He also shows how other films - such as ""Mississippi Burning"", ""Amistad"" and ""The Hurricane"" - contain so many elements of fictional excess and oversimplification that they deserve the criticism they receive. Toplin draws upon his own experiences in film production and takes direct aim at writing about film dominated by jargonistic theory and empty rhetoric. He urges film studies scholars to move beyond their preoccupation with formal aesthetics and recognize that, in historical films, content does matter.


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  • Paperback | 256 pages
  • 156.97 x 224.03 x 13.21mm | 344.73g
  • Kansas, United States
  • English
  • 0700612009
  • 9780700612000
  • 722,242


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Uncle Tom's Children (9780061450204)



"A formidable and lasting contribution to American literature." --Chicago Tribune

"A great American writer." -- New York Times Book Review

Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of the lives of black people in the post-slavery era, exploring their resistance to white racism and oppression. Originally published in 1938, Uncle Tom's Children was the first book from Richard Wright, who would continue on to worldwide fame as the author of numerous works, most notably the acclaimed novel Native Son and his autobiography, Black Boy.


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  • Paperback | 269 pages
  • 135 x 204 x 22mm | 259g
  • HarperCollins Publishers
  • New York, NY, United States
  • English
  • Reprint
  • 0061450200
  • 9780061450204
  • 107,518


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The Mountain Meadows Massacre (9780806123189)



In the Fall of 1857, some 120 California-bound emigrants were killed in lonely Mountain Meadows in southern Utah; only eighteen young children were spared. The men on the ground after the bloody deed took an oath that they would never mention the event again, either in public or in private. The leaders of the Mormon church also counseled silence. The first report, soon after the massacre, described it as an Indian onslaught at which a few white men were present, only one of whom, John D. Lee, was actually named.

With admirable scholarship, Mrs. Brooks has traced the background of conflict, analyzed the emotional climate at the time, pointed up the social and military organization in Utah, and revealed the forces which culminated in the great tragedy at Mountain Meadows. The result is a near-classic treatment which neither smears nor clears the participants as individuals. It portrays an atmosphere of war hysteria, whipped up by recitals of past persecutions and the vision of an approaching "army" coming to drive the Mormons from their homes.


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  • Paperback | 352 pages
  • 150.88 x 230 x 19.05mm | 453.59g
  • Oklahoma, United States
  • English
  • 1991 Reprint of 2nd Edition
  • 8ill.3M.
  • 0806123184
  • 9780806123189
  • 1,288,009


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The Table-Talk of a Mesopotamian Judge, Being the First Part of the Nishwa-r Al-Muh?a-d?arah, or Ja-mi? Al-Tawa-ri-kh of Abu 'ali- Al-Muh?assin Al-Tanu-khi- (9781313498524)



Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.


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  • Paperback | 322 pages
  • 152 x 229 x 17mm | 431g
  • English
  • Illustrations, black and white
  • 1313498521
  • 9781313498524


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Monday, 21 October 2019

Telling the Truth about History (9780393312867)



This text examines the problem of historical truth. Seeking the roots of contemporary historical study in the Enlightenment, the authors argue that a model of historical research, based on neutrality and objectivity, served historians well until World War II. After that post-modernism suggested history could not reveal the truth about the past and the rise of social history produced a great amount of statistics which effectively swamped the search for historical truth. Accepting that much of history teaching has been flawed, the authors nevertheless argue for an affirmation of historical knowledge against the doubts of the sceptics and the relativists, guiding the reader through the complex areas of political correctness and multiculturalism.


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  • Paperback | 336 pages
  • 140 x 211 x 25mm | 340g
  • New York, United States
  • English
  • 0393312860
  • 9780393312867
  • 371,141


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Anthony and Cleopatra. Edited by George Wyllys Benedict (9781360358840)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This...