Author: Francesca SimonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781407245409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Haunted House of Buffin Street (ER) *Custom B 2014*
Author: Francesca SimonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781407245409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Annexation of Eupen-Malmedy
Author: Vincent O'ConnellPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137590893
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book examines the history of Belgium’s annexation of the former German territories of Eupen and Malmedy during the interwar period. Focusing on Herman Baltia’s transitory regime and Belgium’s ambivalence about the fate of its new territories, the book charts the strained relations between Baltia’s regime and Brussels, the regime’s path to dissolution, and the failed retrocession of the territory to Germany. Through close analysis of primary source material, Vincent O’Connell investigates the efforts of Baltia’s provisional government to assimilate the region’s inhabitants into Belgium. The ultimate failure of that assimilation, he argues, may be traced back not only to incessant pro-German agitation, but to flawed Belgian policy from the outset. Framed in the context of a post-Versailles Europe, the book offers an interesting case study not only of the ebbs and flows of international politics across the frontier zones of Europe in the interwar years, but of how populations react to changes in national sovereignty.
The Annenbergs
Author: John E. CooneyPublisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
"This is the colorful and dramatic biography of two of America's most controversial entrepreneurs: Moses Louis Annenberg, 'the racing wire king, ' who built his fortune in racketeering, invested it in publishing, and lost much of it in the biggest tax evasion case in United States history; and his son, Walter, launcher of TV Guide and Seventeen magazines and former ambassador to Great Britain."--Jacket.
Scacchia, Ludus
Author: Marco Girolamo VidaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chess
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Hollywood Highbrow
Author: Shyon BaumannPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691187282
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.
Geology of Victoria
Author: John G. DouglasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Questions in Arithmetic
Author: William THROWERThe Forest of Dean
Author: Henry George NichollsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dean, Forest of (England : Forest)
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Louisiana's Old State Capitol
Author: Carol K. HaasePublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589806153
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Louisiana's capitol building began life as a Gothic castle overlooking the Mississippi River. This interesting book examines the constant struggle to save and control that unique state house. The author serves as docent trainer at the old capitol.
Iron Making in the Olden Times
Author: Henry G. NichollsPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3867414661
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Historical overview of the ancient mines, forges, and furnaces of the Forest of Dean. Originally released in 1866.