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Fictions of America
Narratives of Global Empire
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2007
The Internet has had a huge impact on channels of communication and information, reaching across time and space to connect the world through globalisation. In this Internet-led world, story links to story, windows open on new stories and no overall authority establishes priority. This sense of globalisation...
The Tories and Television, 1951-1964
Broadcasting an Elite
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book explores the role of television in the 1950s and early 1960s, with a focus on the relationship between Tories and TV. The early 1950s were characterized by recovery from war and high politics. Television was a new medium that eventually came to dominate mass media and political culture....
The Transformation of American Abolitionism
Fighting Slavery in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Most accounts date the birth of American abolitionism to 1831, when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his radical antislavery newspaper, The Liberator. In fact, however, the abolition movement had been born with the American Republic. In the decades following the Revolution, abolitionists worked...
We Also Served
The Forgotten Women of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
A social history of British women’s brave yet forgotten service during WWI from a historian of female wartime experiences—includes photos.
At the outbreak of World War I, women looking to contribute to the Allied effort were told by the war office to “go home and sit still.” Thankfully,...
by Ernest Newman
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
The foremost authority on Wagner presents in this comprehensive volume all that the opera-goer, radio listener, music-love, and confirmed Wagnerite will wish to know about:
The Flying Dutchman
Tannhäuser
Lohengrin
Tristan and Isolde
The Mastersingers of Nuremberg
The Nibelung’s Ring
The...
by Ernest Newman
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
In the vast literature on Richard Wagner, Ernest Newman's classic four-volume Life remains unsurpassed.
Volume III covers the years 1859-66 including the Tannhäuser debacle in Paris, the crisis with Minna, the first production of Tristan und Isolde and the flight from Munich.
by David Newman
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
David Newman’s gifts as a musician and a teacher carried him through years of brutality during the war. Torn from his family in Poland and deported for forced labour at Skarżysko- Kamienna, David battled desperation and the mounting death toll by writing songs, poems and satires about life in the...
Legitimating Television
Media Convergence and Cultural Status
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creative...
by Christopher Newman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Acclaimed for his authentic Precinct novels, author Christopher Newman presents another thriller starring Detective Lieutenant Joe Dante and his partner, Jumbo Richardson, of the NYPD.
As powerful as a nine-millimeter and as dramatic as the New York skyline, Dead End Game is a hard-hitting...
Over the Wire
A POW's Escape Story from the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Philip Newman, a British army doctor left behind after the evacuation from Dunkirk, spent his time as a prisoner of war in France, then Germany, treating the wounded and sick – and planning to escape.
After several failed attempts he got out over the wire and journeyed for weeks as a fugitive...
Diamonds at Dinner
My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A fascinating memoir of life as a lady's maid in a big house in the 1930s, covering the beauty of the house, the housing of royals escaping the Nazis, the hard work of staff, and the experience of joining the army to serve a Countess
Hilda Newman was a maid to Lady Coventry at the Worcestershire...
Firefight
Inside the Battle to Save the Pentagon on 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue friends and co-workers, save the nation’s military headquarters, and defend their country.
Pentagon...
Against Their Will
The Secret History of Medical Experimentation on Children in Cold War America
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
During the Cold War, an alliance between American scientists, pharmaceutical companies, and the US military pushed the medical establishment into ethically fraught territory. Doctors and scientists at prestigious institutions were pressured to produce medical advances to compete with the perceived...
Embodied History
The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Offering a new view into the lives and experiences of plebeian men and women, and a provocative exploration of the history of the body itself, Embodied History approaches the bodies of the poor in early national Philadelphia as texts to be read and interpreted. Through a close examination of accounts...