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  • Royalists and Royalism in 17th-Century Literature

    Exploring Abraham Cowley

    de Philip Major ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    Author of plays, love-lyrics, essays and, among other works, The Civil War, the Davideis and the Pindarique Odes, Abraham Cowley made a deep impression on seventeenth-century letters, attested by his extravagant funeral and his burial next to Chaucer and Spenser in Westminster Abbey. Ejected from Cambridge for his politics, he found refuge in royalist Oxford before seeing long service as secretary ... Leer más

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  • Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration

    de Philip Major ...
    Writings of Exile in the English Revolution and Restoration opens a window onto exile in the years 1640-1680, as it is experienced across a broad spectrum of political and religious allegiances, and communicated through a rich variety of genres. Examining previously undiscovered and understudied as well as canonical writings, it challenges conventional paradigms which assume a neat demarcation of ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Thomas Killigrew and the Seventeenth-Century English Stage

    New Perspectives

    de Philip Major ...
    Series series Studies in Performance and Early Modern Drama
    Despite his significant influence as a courtier, diplomat, playwright and theatre manager, Thomas Killigrew (1612-1683) remains a comparatively elusive and neglected figure. The original essays in this interdisciplinary volume shine new light on a singular, contradictory Englishman 400 years after his birth. They increase our knowledge and deepen our understanding not only of Killigrew himself, ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • England's Fortress

    New Perspectives on Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax

    Overshadowed in the popular imagination by the figure of Oliver Cromwell, historians are increasingly coming to recognize the importance of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, in shaping the momentous events of mid-seventeenth-century Britain. As both a military and political figure he played a central role in first defeating Charles I and then later supporting the restoration of his son ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Global Film Color

    The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury

    Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury explores color filmmaking in a variety of countries and regions including India, China, Japan, and Russia, and across Europe and Africa. Most previous accounts of color film have concentrated on early 20th century color processes and Technicolor. Far less is known about the introduction and application of color technologies in the period ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Soviet Air Force And Strategic Bombing

    It is the purpose of this project to show why the Soviet Air Force did not embrace the revolutionary Douhetian concept of strategic bombing as did other world powers during the 1920's, 30's and World War II. It is also to explain that in addition to technological shortcomings, there was a combination of theoretical and doctrinal reasons, taken to rigidity, that was responsible for this. Moreover, ... Leer más

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  • Made to Measure

    New Materials for the 21st Century

    Made to Measure introduces a general audience to one of today's most exciting areas of scientific research: materials science. Philip Ball describes how scientists are currently inventing thousands of new materials, ranging from synthetic skin, blood, and bone to substances that repair themselves and adapt to their environment, that swell and flex like muscles, that repel any ink or paint, and ... Leer más

    $41.09 USD

  • Major General Philip Kearny

    A Soldier and His Time in the American Civil War

    Union General Philip Kearny began his career as a lieutenant with the 1st U.S. Dragoons. He studied cavalry tactics in France and fought with the Chasseurs d'Afrique in Algeria, where his fearlessness earned him the nickname "Kearny le Magnifique." Returning to America, he wrote a cavalry manual for the U.S. Army and later raised a troop of dragoons--using his own money to buy 120 matching dapple ... Leer más

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  • Philip Roth Considered

    The Concentrationary Universe of the American Writer

    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    This book comprehensively surveys Philip Roth's published and unpublished works, focusing on the thematic unity which binds them together: the memory of the Holocaust and the altered universe born of that memory. The Holocaust is understood as the orienting event for Roth's fiction and non-fiction, the force that surrounds the characters and the narratives at all times. Roth's obsession with ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Churchill to Major: The British Prime Ministership since 1945

    The British Prime Ministership since 1945

    This text summarizes the research on, and experiences of, democratic legislatures around the world. It focuses on what legislatures are and what they do - as both consequence of and contributor to democratic self-government. ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Philip K. Dick

    Canonical Writer of the Digital Age

    Series series Studies in Major Literary Authors
    Kucukalic looks beyond the received criticism and stereotypes attached to Philip K. Dick and his work and shows, using a wealth of primary documents including previously unpublished letters and interviews, that Philip K. Dick is a serious and relevant philosophical and cultural thinker whose writing offer us important insights into contemporary digital culture. Evaluating five novels that span ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Conquest Of Okinawa: An Account Of The Sixth Marine Division

    Contains numerous maps.One of a series of monographs prepared by the Historical Division that deals with the activities of Marine Corps units in World War II, this monograph is the work of Captain Carleton. While on Okinawa he lived with the men of the Sixth Marine Division, watched them fight and listened to their accounts of the action. He was with the Twenty Ninth Marines on Motobu Peninsula, ... Leer más

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