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June 2018The Lady in White
by Donald Willerton
Mogi Franklin is a typical eighth-grader–except for the mysterious things that keep happening in his life. And the adventures they lead to as he and his sister, Jennifer, follow Mogi's unique problem-solving skills–along with dangerous clues from history and the world around them–to unearth a treasure of unexpected secrets.In The Lady in White, Mogi is working as a cowboy over the summer vacation on one of the largest ranches in New Mexico when hundreds of cattle start mysteriously dying there. Trying to understand the cause, he finds himself embroiled in the life of a boy who was kidnapped by Comanche Indians in 1871. In this seventh book of the exciting Mogi Franklin Mysteries, Mogi comes face-to-face with the ghost of the boy's mother, and must face the reality of the past to save the ranch from the enemies of the present.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2017The Arctic in the British imagination 1818–1914
by Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Rob David
The Arctic region has been the subject of much popular writing. This book considers nineteenth-century representations of the Arctic, and draws upon an extensive range of evidence that will allow the 'widest connections' to emerge from a 'cross-disciplinary analysis' using different methodologies and subject matter. It positions the Arctic alongside more thoroughly investigated theatres of Victorian enterprise. In the nineteenth century, most images were in the form of paintings, travel narratives, lectures given by the explorers themselves and photographs. The book explores key themes in Arctic images which impacted on subsequent representations through text, painting and photography. For much of the nineteenth century, national and regional geographical societies promoted exploration, and rewarded heroic endeavor. The book discusses images of the Arctic which originated in the activities of the geographical societies. The Times provided very low-key reporting of Arctic expeditions, as evidenced by its coverage of the missions of Sir John Franklin and James Clark Ross. However, the illustrated weekly became one of the main sources of popular representations of the Arctic. The book looks at the exhibitions of Arctic peoples, Arctic exploration and Arctic fauna in Britain. Late nineteenth-century exhibitions which featured the Arctic were essentially nostalgic in tone. The Golliwogg's Polar Adventures, published in 1900, drew on adult representations of the Arctic and will have confirmed and reinforced children's perceptions of the region. Text books, board games and novels helped to keep the subject alive among the young.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017The souls of white folk
White settlers in Kenya, 1900s–1920s
by Brett Shadle, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
Kenya's white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously - though not uncritically - what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: settlers equated civilisation with a (hard to define) whiteness; they were emotionally enriched through claims to paternalism and trusteeship over Africans; they felt themselves constantly threatened by Africans, by the state, and by the moral failures of other settlers; and they daily enacted their claims to supremacy through rituals of prestige, deference, humiliation and violence. The souls of white folk will appeal to those interested in the histories of Africa, colonialism, and race, and can be appreciated by scholars and students alike.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020A global history of white nationalism
by Daniel Geary, Camilla Schofield, Jennifer Sutton, John Solomos, Satnam Virdee, Aaron Winter
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2024The Legacy of John Polidori
The Romantic Vampire and its Progeny
by Sam George, Bill Hughes
John Polidori's novella The Vampyre (1819) is perhaps 'the most influential horror story of all time' (Frayling). Polidori's story transformed the shambling, mindless monster of folklore into a sophisticated, seductive aristocrat that stalked London society rather than being confined to the hinterlands of Eastern Europe. Polidori's Lord Ruthven was thus the ancestor of the vampire as we know it. This collection explores the genesis of Polidori's vampire. It then tracks his bloodsucking progeny across the centuries and maps his disquieting legacy. Texts discussed range from the Romantic period, including the fascinating and little-known The Black Vampyre (1819), through the melodramatic vampire theatricals in the 1820s, to contemporary vampire film, paranormal romance, and science fiction. They emphasise the background of colonial revolution and racial oppression in the early nineteenth century and the cultural shifts of postmodernity.
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June 1992Der Zeitgenosse Walter Benjamin
by Hans Mayer
Hans Mayer hat Benjamin nicht gekannt, die Zeitgenossenschaft ist dennoch ablesbar. Hier werden geistige Entwicklungen, Übereinstimmungen und Konfrontationen aufgezeigt in einer von Schrecken gezeichneten Epoche. Aufgezeigt von Hans Mayer, einem Zeugen des Jahrhunderts, einem Mit-Denker, der imstande ist, Jahrhunderterfahrungen zu überliefern und den Blick zurückzuwerfen, auf der Suche nach der »Hoffnung im Vergangenen«.
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December 2009Walter Benjamin
Lumpensammler, Engel und bucklicht Männlein Ästhetik und Politik bei Walter Benjamin
by Jean-Michel Palmier, Florent Perrier, Horst Brühmann
Jean-Michel Palmiers monumentale Studie über Walter Benjamin ist das Lebenswerk eines Gelehrten, der den zahlreichen Benjamin-Interpretationen nicht eine neue hinzufügt, sondern schlicht den Schlüssel zum Verständnis dieses enigmatischen Autors liefert. Minutiös zeichnet Palmier den philosophischen, politischen und ästhetischen Denkweg Benjamins nach und beseitigt zahlreiche Mißverständnisse und Klischees, etwa das des »marxistischen Rabbiners«, der die Alternative zwischen historischem Materialismus und Theologie in ein unauflösliches Dilemma verwandelt. Vor allem aber schließt Palmier die Lücken einer oft simplifizierenden und immer wieder um dieselben Themen kreisenden Rezeption. Der Lumpensammler, der Engel und das »bucklicht Männlein« werden so zu Grundfiguren einer philosophischen Erzählung, die nicht hagiographisch, sondern systematisch die Komplexität von Benjamins Denken erschließt. Ein Standardwerk.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2020Knowledge, mediation and empire
James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs
by Florence D'Souza, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2015The souls of white folk
by Brett Shadle, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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March 2005Walter Benjamin
by Momme Brodersen
Walter Benjamin gehört zu den meistdiskutierten Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts – in Wissenschaft, Literatur und Kunst. Seine eigenwilligen und unkonventionellen Schriften sind ein unablässiges Nachdenken über seine großstädtische, seine Berliner Herkunft: darüber, wie man sich im Labyrinth ständig wechselnder Eindrücke zurechtfinden kann.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2015The souls of white folk
by Brett Shadle, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Rebecca Mortimer
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Literature & Literary StudiesDecember 2023Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 99/2
by Stephen Mossman, Cordelia Warr
The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.
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Literature: history & criticismJuly 2000Writing Black Britain, 1948–98
An interdisciplinary anthology
by Edited by James Procter
The first anthology of its kind, this timely collection brings together a diverse range of black British literatures, essays and documents from across the post-war period within a single volume.. Spanning half a century, this rich archive of representations includes South Asian, African and Caribbean cultural production by both leading and lesser-known artists, critics and commentators:. Sam Selvon Salman Rushdie George Lamming Hanif Kureishi Stuart Hall Linton Kwesi Johnson Caryl Phillips Paul Gilroy Meera Syal Kobena Mercer James Berry E. R. Braithwaite Wilson Harris Farrukh Dhondy V. S. Naipaul Ben Okri Wole Soyinka Hazel Carby Kamau Braithwaite Isaac Julien C. L. R. James Dick Hebdige A. Sivanandan Buchi Emecheta Louise Bennett Grace Nichols Jackie Kay. Directed at a truly interdisciplinary market, accommodating popular and 'high' cultural materials from across the disciplines of literature, film, photography, history, sociology, politics, Marxism, feminism, cultural and communications studies.. Situated and contextualised within accessible historical and cultural frameworks and incorporating lucid introductions, a detailed chronology and extensive bibliography.
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May 1994
Der Engel der Geschichte
Franz Rosenzweig - Walter Benjamin - Gershom Scholem
by Stéphane Mosès, Thomas Wiemer, Andreas B. Kilcher, Eva-Maria Thimme, Ursula Sarrazin, Dafna Mach
Stéphane Mosès, geboren 1931 in Berlin, floh 1937 nach Marokko, begann 1951 sein Studium in Paris. Er studierte, lehrte, kommentierte und übersetzte Schriften von Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem und Paul Celan. Mosès starb 2007 in Paris. Andreas B. Kilcher, geboren 1963 in Basel, studierte Germanistik, Geschichte und Philosophie an den Universitäten Basel und München. 1996 wurde Kilcher mit einer Dissertation zur Kabbala promoviert. Seit 2008 ist er Professor für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft an der ETH Zürich.
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July 2016Walter Benjamin – die Geschichte einer Freundschaft
by Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholems Bericht ist mehr als eine Biographie. Mit teilweise unbekannten Dokumenten belegt, leuchtet der intimste Kenner des Lebens und des Werkes von Walter Benjamin dieses Leben und Werke aus. Die Geschichte der Freundschaft beginnt mit den ersten Berührungen im Jahre 1913 und 1915, sie schildert die Jahre in der Schweiz von 1918 bis 1919, sie schildert Scholems nimmermüde Bemühungen, den Freund nach Jerusalem zu holen, und sie liefert einen bedeutenden Kommentar zu Benjamins marxistischen wie metaphysisch-jüdischen Vorstellungen.
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The ArtsOctober 20174 saints in 3 acts
A snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s
by Patricia Allmer, John Sears
Four Saints in Three Acts by Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson was a major avant-garde phenomenon of the 1930s, an experimental opera that nonetheless achieved remarkable popular success. Photography was a key element of that success, but its complex roles in the construction, representation and dissemination of the opera have hitherto received little critical attention. The photographic recording of the all-African American cast in particular affords a unique insight into the complexities of Four Saints in relation to the Harlem Renaissance and the New York avant-gardes of the time. This book, published in collaboration with The Photographers' Gallery, London, presents a wide selection of photographs of the cast, performances, and other material - many images reproduced for the first time - alongside essays by an international range of scholars exploring different aspects of the opera, including dance, fashion, music, and avant-garde writing, as well as photography.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2008Silk and empire
by Brenda King, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
In this book, Brenda M. King challenges the notion that Britain always exploited its empire. Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship were all part of the Anglo-Indian silk trade and were nurtured in the era of empire through mutually beneficial collaboration. The trade operated within and without the empire, according to its own dictates and prospered in the face of increasing competition from China and Japan. King presents a new picture of the trade, where the strong links between Indian designs, the English silk industry and prominent members of the English the arts and crafts movement led to the production of beautiful and luxurious textiles. Lavishly illustrated, this book will be of interest to those interested in the relationship between the British Empire and the Indian subcontinent, as well as by historians of textiles and fashion. ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesApril 2021John Derricke's The Image of Irelande: with a Discoverie of Woodkarne
by Thomas Herron, Denna Iammarino, Maryclaire Moroney, Joshua Samuel Reid
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July 2019The King of Trash
by Donald Willerton
The plague of homelessness runs through it like a pulsing vein. There is murder―and bodies galore. There is unhesitating genocide. There is an escape from certain death that will haunt you.And yet The King of Trash is a story of tenderness, of ethical struggle, and of deeply bonded humanity.In his latest novel―and his first to move beyond the highly successful Mogi Franklin middle-reader mysteries―author Don Willerton intertwines modern-day themes of transcendent importance through a unique and intriguing tale of mystery, adventure, and courage.Early readers have sometimes had nightmares, but yet The King of Trash is ultimately redeemed by its heart. It begins with a newspaper reporter setting out to interview a former school mate who's now become one of the world greatest scientists―and one of its richest men. Before long, though, we are enmeshed in a web of awful and expedient “facts” building to a twenty-first-century morality tale in which no one can escape the hard and bitter decisions of the “real” world. And yet at the end, we learn, is the one central truth, the only remnant left to sustain Willerton's fascinating and vivid characters―and all the rest of us alive on Earth as well.
