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Author: David Crystal Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 372
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"Penguin Pocket Kings and Queens is essential for anyone wanting to check dates, facts or popular tales about international royalty from the earliest times to the present day. With kings, queens, tsars, emperors and pharaohs from all over the world, this is the ultimate one-stop guide to the royal figures who have influenced the modern age. This book includes: comprehensive ready reference listing of world monarchs from Assyria to Zambia; family trees of all British monarchs; and a glossary of monarch-related words and advice on pronouncing difficult names."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: David Crystal Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 372
Book Description
"Penguin Pocket Kings and Queens is essential for anyone wanting to check dates, facts or popular tales about international royalty from the earliest times to the present day. With kings, queens, tsars, emperors and pharaohs from all over the world, this is the ultimate one-stop guide to the royal figures who have influenced the modern age. This book includes: comprehensive ready reference listing of world monarchs from Assyria to Zambia; family trees of all British monarchs; and a glossary of monarch-related words and advice on pronouncing difficult names."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Kenneth John Panton Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1538175770 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 705
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Historical Dictionary of the British Monarchy, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 800 cross-referenced entries that cover significant events, places, institutions, and other aspects of British culture, economics, politics, and society.
Author: Plantagenet Somerset Fry Publisher: ISBN: 9780241639641 Category : England Languages : en Pages : 0
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Discover the vivid stories of Britain's iconic rulers, from 600 CE to the present day. From the Saxons to the Windsors, Britain's royal lineage is brought to life in the pages of this visual guide. Confused about which Henry had six wives and which was crowned at the age of eight? Kings and Queens of England and Scotland documents the public and private lives of the royal dynasties. Year-by-year chronologies reveal the major events of each monarch's reign, while family trees trace the royal lineage and claim to the throne of each royal house. This new edition features recent royal events, including the passing of Queen Elizabeth II, and a biography of King Charles III. With crisp biographies of each sovereign, illustrated with contemporary portraits, painting, or statues. Kings and Queens of England and Scotland is an essential handy reference for all history buffs, and includes the following: - Accessible guide to the monarchs of both England and Scotland with extensive royal history distilled into a handy, compact format. - Concise summaries of every English sovereign from Alfred the Great and his Saxon ancestors to King Charles III. - Family tree for each of the royal houses. - Contemporary portraits, paintings, or photographs with each monarch's profile. - Concise bullet-point summaries of key events in each monarch's reign. The ideal history book for history buffs of all ages, whether you are or know of a fan of royal history, or looking for the perfect gift book for history students - Kings and Queens of England and Scotland is your go-to guide for a complete history of the monarchy.
Author: Barbara Burman Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300253745 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 266
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A New York Times Best Art Book of 2019 “A riveting book . . . few stones are left unturned.”—Roberta Smith’s “Top Art Books of 2019,” The New York Times This fascinating and enlightening study of the tie-on pocket combines materiality and gender to provide new insight into the social history of women’s everyday lives—from duchesses and country gentry to prostitutes and washerwomen—and to explore their consumption practices, sociability, mobility, privacy, and identity. A wealth of evidence reveals unexpected facets of the past, bringing women’s stories into intimate focus. “What particularly interests Burman and Fennetaux is the way in which women of all classes have historically used these tie-on pockets as a supplementary body part to help them negotiate their way through a world that was not built to suit them.”—Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian “A brilliant book.”—Ulinka Rublack, Times Literary Supplement
Author: Jacqueline Hamrit Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443873020 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 160
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Whereas literary criticism has mainly oscillated between “the death of the author” (Barthes) and “the return of the author” (Couturier), this work suggests another perspective on authorship through an analysis of Nabokov’s prefaces. It is here argued that the author, being neither dead nor tyrannical, alternates between authoritative apparitions and receding disappearances in the double gesture of mastery without mastery which Derrida calls ‘exappropriation’, that is, a simultaneous attempt to appropriate one’s work, control it, have it under one’s power and expropriate it, losing control by loosening one’s grip. The intention of this is to approach, through one’s experience of reading and interpreting, the experience of self-effacement and impersonality pertaining to writing (cf. Blanchot). Prefaces are considered to be suitable places for the deconstruction of the classical image of Nabokov’s arrogance through the unearthing of his reserve and vulnerability. This work provides an account of the mere intuition (which, therefore, does not pretend to be a conclusive and definitive interpretation) of another image of Nabokov whose undeniable talent for deception seems in accordance with a need for discretion and secrecy.
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