![The Life and Times of the Late Duke of Wellington; Comprising the Campaigns and Battle-fields of Wellington and His Comrades, the Political Life of the Duke and His Contemporaries [by T. Gaspey] and a Detailed Account of England's Battles by Sea and Land, from the Commencement of the Great French Revolution to the Present Time; [and The History of the War with Russia PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/ai8nkgAACAAJ?fife=w150-h200)
Author: William Freke WilliamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Life and Times of the Late Duke of Wellington; Comprising the Campaigns and Battle-fields of Wellington and His Comrades, the Political Life of the Duke and His Contemporaries [by T. Gaspey] and a Detailed Account of England's Battles by Sea and Land, from the Commencement of the Great French Revolution to the Present Time; [and The History of the War with Russia
![The Life and Times of the Late Duke of Wellington; Comprising the Campaigns and Battle-fields of Wellington and His Comrades, the Political Life of the Duke and His Contemporaries [by T. Gaspey] and a Detailed Account of England's Battles by Sea and Land, from the Commencement of the Great French Revolution to the Present Time; [and The History of the War with Russia PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/ai8nkgAACAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
Author: William Freke WilliamsThe History of England; from the Text of Hume and Smollett, to the Reign of George the Third and Thence Continued ... by T. Gaspey
Author: David HumeThe National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Humanitarianism in the Modern World
Author: Norbert GötzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
A Marxist History of the World
Author: Neil FaulknerPublisher: Pluto Press
ISBN: 9780745332147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This magisterial analysis of human history - from "Lucy," the first hominid, to the Great Recession of 2008 - combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process.Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that what happened in the past was not predetermined. Choices were frequent and numerous. Different outcomes - liberation or barbarism - were often possible. Rejecting the top-down approach of conventional history, Faulkner contends that it is the mass action of ordinary people that drives great events.At the beginning of the 21st century - with economic disaster, war, climate catastrophe and deep class divisions - humans face perhaps the greatest crisis in the long history of our species. The lesson of A Marxist History of the World is that, since we created our past, we can also create a better future.
Hell's Angels
Author: Hunter S. ThompsonPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307826619
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.” Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, “For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.” As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.
Imaginal Machines
Author: Stevphen ShukaitisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Nonfiction. Political Science. Criticism and Theory. Art. "IMAGINAL MACHINES explores with humor and wit the condition of art and politics in contemporary capitalism. It reviews the potentials and limits of liberatory art (from surrealism to Tom Waits) while charting the always-resurgent creations of the collective imagination. Shukaitis exhibits a remarkable theoretical breadth, bringing together the work of Castoriadis, the Situationists, and autonomous Marxism to define a new task for militant research: constructing imaginal machines that escape capitalism. IMAGINAL MACHINES is truly a book that makes a path by walking"--Silvia Federici, author of CALIBAN AND THE WITCH: WOMEN, THE BODY, AND PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION.
Rethinking Time
Author: Hans RuinPublisher:
ISBN: 9789186069322
Category : Collective memory
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Questions about the temporality and historicity of knowledge have gained new urgency in the human sciences in recent decades. New modes of critical theorizing, coupled with a reshaping of the historical space of Western culture following the unification of Europe and intensified political and technological globalization, have highlighted the necessity of understanding the formation of historical consciousness from new angles. The "uses of history," the commodification of the past, the pathologies of memory, the chronological framework of historical narrative, and the technological forms of representing and maintaining tradition all now require cross-disciplinary interpretation. This volume gathers a wide range of researchers from philosophy, history, archeology, and the aesthetic and social sciences in a collaborative effort to critically explore historical consciousness as time, memory, and representation. About the series. Sodertorn Philosophical Studies is a book series published under the direction of the Department of Philosophy at Sodertorn University. The series consists of monographs and anthologies in philosophy, with a special focus on the Continental-European tradition. It seeks to provide a platform for innovative contemporary philosophical research. The volumes are published mainly in English and Swedish. The series is edited by Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback and Hans Ruin.
The Irishman in Canada
Author: Nicholas Flood DavinPublisher: London : S. Low, Marston ; Toronto : Maclear
ISBN:
Category : Art, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
The Moronic Inferno
Author: Martin AmisPublisher: Arrow
ISBN: 9780099461869
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A collection of essays on America by the author of London Fields, Money and Yellow Dog. At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion-makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit. Included in a gallery of Great American Novelists are Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Truman Capote, Joseph Heller, William Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike, Paul Theroux, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow. Amis also takes us to Dallas, where presidential candidate Ronald Reagan is attempting to liaise with born-again Christians. We glimpse the beau monde of Palm Beach, where each couple tries to out-Gatsby the other, and examine the case of Claus von Bulow. Steven Spielberg gets a visit, as does Brian de Palma, whom Amis asks why his films make no sense, and Hugh Hefner's sybaritic fortress and sanitized image are penetrated. There can be little that escapes the eye of Martin Amis when his curiosity leads him to a subject, and America has found in him a superlative chronicler.