Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Stephen Fry In America Stephen Fry In America Stephen Fry Britain's best-loved comic genius, Stephen Fry, turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continent in his chariot of Englishness, a black London ca… OL13647745W
Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities Polly Alison Morrice A guide to reading "A Tale of Two Cities" with a critical and appreciative mind. Includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. OL2632755W
Don't Mention the War Don't Mention the War John Ramsden xiv, 444 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 20 cm OL2911280W
Gran Bretaña y la Guerra de la Triple Alianza Gran Bretaña y la Guerra de la Triple Alianza Herken Krauer, Juan Carlos A key book on the underlying causes of the War of the Triple Alliance(1864-1870), which opposed Paraguay to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, and roughly re-defined most of the national border in the h… OL3096419W
Habsburg Peru Habsburg Peru Peter T. Bradley,David Cahill This book presents two case studies which represent two distinct types of imagining by two diametrically different groups - 1) literate and in some cases erudite Europeans, 2) a vanquished native nob… OL3185333W
Our American Brethren Our American Brethren Alfred Grant ix, 212 p. ; 24 cm OL3739737W
Venice transfigured Venice transfigured John Eglin "While there are many political, economic, and historical factors that contribute to the development and expression of nationalism, the tenacity and viciousness of nationalist conflicts, and the dedi… OL5880137W
Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War Anglo-American Hispanists and the Spanish Civil War Sebastiaan Faber What do you do when a beloved foreign country plunges into civil war? And how do you square your political views on that war with the demands of scholarly objectivity? In this book, Sebastiaan Faber … OL5954666W
Romantics and Renegades Romantics and Renegades Charles W. Mahoney "Romantics and Renegades examines an abiding crux of romantic criticism: the political apostasies of the Lake poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey) as they renounced the revolutionary Jacobinism … OL9431578W