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Languages : en
Pages : 10
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The Antigallican Monitor and Anti-Corsican Chronicle
Author: The Antigallican Monitor and Anti-Corsican Chronicle
Author: Yellow Fever
Author: S.L. KotarPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786479191
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The terror of yellow fever conjures images of mass infection of soldiers during the Spanish-American War and horrific death tolls among workers on the Panama Canal. Medical science has never found a cure and the disease continues to present a threat to the modern world, both as a mosquito-borne epidemic and as a potential biological weapon. Drawing on firsthand accounts and contemporary sources, this book traces the history of the viral infection that has claimed countless victims across the United States, Central America and Africa, and of the global effort to combat this challenging and deadly disease.
The Rise of the American Circus, 1716-1899
Author: S.L. KotarPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786487003
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
To both young and old, the circus remains an icon of American entertainment, a wholesome pastime untouched by the passing years. But the modern circus, with its three rings, ringmaster, animals, and acrobats, is the product of nearly three hundred years of evolution. This intriguing work chronicles the history of the American circus from its roots in England through its importation to America to the end of the nineteenth century. It introduces the early pioneers of the circus, addresses business concerns such as management and training, and discusses the development of the show itself, including the incorporation of menageries, the need for animal training and care, the addition of circus music, the use of the tent, and the unique attractions of side shows and "freaks." Personal stories of those who made their lives under the "big top" are woven throughout the narrative, adding an intimate perspective to one of America's most enduring entertainments.
Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law
Author: Hunter Ian HunterPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474449255
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances.
Writing against Revolution
Author: Kevin GilmartinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139460528
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Conservative culture in the Romantic period should not be understood merely as an effort to preserve the old regime in Britain against the threat of revolution. Instead, conservative thinkers and writers aimed to transform British culture and society to achieve a stable future in contrast to the destructive upheavals taking place in France. Kevin Gilmartin explores the literary forms of counterrevolutionary expression in Britain, showing that while conservative movements were often inclined to treat print culture as a dangerously unstable and even subversive field, a whole range of print forms - ballads, tales, dialogues, novels, critical reviews - became central tools in the counterrevolutionary campaign. Beginning with the pamphlet campaigns of the loyalist Association movement and the Cheap Repository in the 1790s, Gilmartin analyses the role of periodical reviews and anti-Jacobin fiction in the campaign against revolution, and closes with a fresh account of the conservative careers of Robert Southey and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 5, Index
Author: George WatsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521213103
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
More than fifty specialists have contributed to the new edition of volume 5 of the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue
Author: Publisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Avero
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 576
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A Check List of Foreign Newspapers in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Periodicals DivisionPublisher:
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Category : Newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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A Check List of American Newspapers in the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress. Periodicals DivisionPublisher:
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Category : American newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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