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    The Destruction of...

    The Destruction of Lord Raglan

    Engelstalige paperback, in nieuwstaat

    In March 1854 England declared war on Russia, launching one of the most unnecessary campaigns in history. A few weeks later, the finest army that had ever left these shores sailed from Portsmouth, gloriously clothed, splendidly confident - fated for destruction in the Crimea. Commander-in-chief of this army was Lord Raglan, a courageous and inspiring leader who, nevertheless, was soon to be pilloried by the press and abandoned by his government. With Lord Raglan as its central character, the book tells the curious story of the Crimean War as a whole with its mismanagement, rivalries, and horrors. The camp life in Turkey and Bulgaria, the landing of the Crimean shores, the charge of the Heavy and Light Brigades at Balaclava, the frantic, nightmarish battle in the mist at Inkerman, the long and desperate winter, the final assaults - all are described with the clarity, perception, and dramatic power for which Christopher Hibbert is rightly well known. In the words of Lord Birkenhead in his review in The Bookman of London, It is the great merit of THE DESTRUCTION OF LORD RAGLAN that the author, while observing impeccable scholarship throughout, has given us a work as gripping and terrible as the chapters on Borodino in WAR AND PEACE from which one rises charged with torturing emotions. Such is the vivid power of the narrative and so keen the author's visual sense that the reader feels he is present as the terrible battle of Alma is fought, and hears the screams on the scaling ladders at Sebastopol. Wonderful too, is his evocation of the scents and scenery of this strange land, excruciating his description of the suffering o the troops. Extensive research from masses of family and official papers, diaries, letters and reports from England, France and Russia result in a book of remarkable power and subtlety - exciting and thorough, authoritative and vivid. -- from dust jacket.

    Christopher Hibbert ;

    € 7,50

    Sowing Empire

    Sowing Empire

    Softcover in goede staat. Snedes 2 butsjes. Geillustreerd. Engelstalig.

    Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping--the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century--are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the "nabobs" to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford's estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette's ornamented farm, "Sowing Empire considers imperial relandscaping--its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery--and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque landscapes and sugar plantations contained within them the seeds of resistance--how, for instance, slave gardens and the Afro-Caribbean practice of vodou threatened authority and created new possibilities for once again transforming the landscape. In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H. Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the "heartlands" of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system--as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities--Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as "European." Utilizing a wide range of both visual and written sources--maps, literature, and travel writing--this book is interdisciplinary in its methodology and in its scope. "Sowing Empire explores how postcolonial and queer studies can alter art history andvisual studies and, in turn, what close attention to the visual may offer to both postcolonial thcorizing and historically and materially based colonial cultural sudies.

    Jill H. Casid;

    € 15,00

    De eeuw van mijn vader

    De eeuw van mijn vader

    Dikke paperback in goede staat. Lichte gebruikssporen.

    Wat verbindt ons met al diegenen die in de voorbije eeuw geleefd hebben? Is het niet hun menselijkheid, hun blindheid soms, meer nog dan hun grote en kleine heldendom? Geert Mak schreef een biografie van het Nederland van de twintigste eeuw in de vorm van een familiegeschiedenis. Aan de hand van interviews, oude krantenberichten en vele honderden bewaard gebleven brieven vertelt hij over het landelijke Nederland aan het begin van de eeuw, over de opkomst van de katholieke, protestantse en rode zuilen, over de crisis en het antisemitisme in de jaren dertig, de andere wereld van 'ons Indië', de oorlog in Europa en Azië, de mentaliteit van de wederopbouw, de dromerijen van de jaren zestig, de zakelijkheid daarna. Het is een geschiedenis door de achterdeur, verteld vanuit de keuken van een doorsnee Nederlandse familie - zijn eigen. Hoe ging men om met ziekte, seks en dood in 1910? Wat bezielde die merkwaardige emancipatiebeweging van de gereformeerde mannenbroeders? Hoe dachten de Nederlanders in hun tijd over grote historische gebeurtenissen als de Eerste Wereldoorlog, de machtsgreep van Hitler, de Duitse bezetting, de politionele acties? En hoe ging het daarna verder, met de rock-'n-roll, de televisie, de neergang van de zuilen, de auto, het geld? In De eeuw van mijn vader zijn ze voortdurend aanwezig, de gewone Nederlanders van deze eeuw, met hun eigen geschiedenis, hun beperktheden, hun wanhoop en geloof.

    Geert Mak;

    € 6,00

    Cities in Civilization

    Cities in Civilization

    Dikke softcover in redelijk goede staat. Rug wat scheef gelezen. Vouw in cover. Engelstalig.

    Ranging over 2,500 years, Cities in Civilization is a tribute to the city as the birthplace of Western civilization. Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and outlines the precise combinations of forces -- both universal and local -- that led to each city's belle epoque.

    Hall identifies four distinct expressions of civic innovation: artistic growth, technological progress, the marriage of culture and technology, and solutions to evolving problems. Descriptions of Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan London, and nineteenth-century Vienna bring to life those seedbeds of artistic and intellectual creativity. Explorations of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, of Henry Ford's Detroit, and of Palo Alto at the dawn of the computer age highlight centers of technological advances. Tales of the creation of Los Angeles' movie industry and the birth of the blues and rock 'n' roll in Memphis depict the marriage of culture and technology.

    Finally, Hall celebrates cities that have been forced to solve problems created by their very size. With Imperial Rome came the apartment block and aqueduct; nineteenth-century London introduced policing, prisons, and sewers; twentieth-century New York developed the skyscraper; and Los Angeles became the first city without a center, a city ruled instead by the car. And in a fascinating conclusion, Hall speculates on urban creativity in the twenty-first century.

    This penetrating study reveals not only the lives of cities but also the lives of the people who built them and created the civilizations within them. A decade in the making,Cities in Civilization is the definitive account of the culture of cities.

    Peter Hall;

    € 9,00
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