Poirot
Poirot

Author: Agatha Christie

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780007190669

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A brand new Poirot omnibus, featuring four of the world-renowned detectiveâe(tm)s most challenging cases from the 50s and 60s: After the Funeral, Hickory Dickory Dock, Cat Among the Pigeons and The Clocks As the bleak years of the 1940s and early 50s give way to optimism and the swinging sixties, Hercule Poirot finds himself in a world which bemuses him. But human nature remains the same whatever the decade, and Poirot can console himself in the knowledge that he is still an expert of human nature, of greed, jealousy âe" and murder. After the Funeral The Master of a Victorian mansion dies suddenly âe" and his sister thinks it was murderâe¦ Hickory Dickory Dock Odd things are happening in a London youth hostelâe¦ Cat Among the Pigeons Unpleasant things are going on in an exclusive school for girlsâe¦ The Clocks A typist discovers a manâe(tm)s body behind a sofaâe¦

1930s Omnibus
1930s Omnibus

Author: Agatha Christie

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 0007208634

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A collection of five omnibuses that gathers together Agatha Christie's 20 stand-alone novels, presenting them chronologically and providing a fascinating window on a changing world through six decades of investigation.

A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930
A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930

Author: Matthew D. Esposito

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-29

Total Pages: 2985

ISBN-13: 1351211838

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A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Its dual purpose is to promote understanding of complex historical processes leading to globalization and generate interest in transnational and global comparative research on railways. In four volumes, organized by historical geography, this scholarly collection gathers rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. It adopts a capsule approach that focuses on short selections of significant primary source content instead of redundant and irrelevant materials found in online data collections. The current collection draws attention to railway cultures through railroad reports, parliamentary papers, government documents, police reports, public health records, engineering reports, technical papers, medical surveys, memoirs, diaries, travel narratives, ethnographies, newspaper articles, editorials, pamphlets, broadsides, paintings, cartoons, engravings, photographs, art, ephemera, and passages from novels and poetry collections that shed light on the cultural history of railways. The editor’s original essays and headnotes on the cultural politics of railways introduce over 200 carefully selected primary sources. Students and researchers come to understand railways not as applied technological impositions of industrial capitalism but powerful, fluid, and idiosyncratic historical constructs.

Fear and Clothing
Fear and Clothing

Author: Jane Custance Baker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2023-01-26

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 135024032X

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Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth analysis of interwar publications by a comprehensive range of writers reveals readers' anxieties and fears about class, gender and race and how these changed over the period. Although read and written by both men and women, detective fiction was deemed at the time to be a masculine and high-status entertainment. However the literature demonstrates an admiration and acceptance of the woman's identity, performed during the Great War and continuing throughout the interwar period, as girl pal and female gentleman. In chapters that explore age, character, class, masculinity, performative womanhood and race, Jane Custance Baker exposes how dress was a status marker to both male and female readers, made anxious by social change brought about by war. Dress in detective fiction reveals a set of signs to be read, digested, and possibly employed to model the individual reader's personal dress choices. Fear and Clothing sheds new light on dress of the period, the social and cultural environment as depicted in the popular fiction genre in the early 20th century, and is of interest to researchers and scholars within dress history, literary and historical studies, as well as anyone who enjoys the history of detective fiction.

Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930
Hindu Mahasabha in Colonial North India, 1915-1930

Author: Prabhu Bapu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-12-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1136254994

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Hindu nationalism has emerged as a political ideology represented by the Hindu Mahasabha. This book explores the campaign for Hindu unity and organisation in the context of the Hindu-Muslim conflict in colonial north India in the early twentieth century. It argues that India's partition in 1947 was a result of the campaign and politics of the Hindu rightwing rather than the Islamist politics of the Muslim League alone. The book explains that the Mahasabha articulated Hindu nationalist ideology as a means of constructing a distinct Hindu political identity and unity among the Hindus in conflict with the Muslims in the country. It looks at the Mahasabha’s ambivalence with the Indian National Congress due to an extreme ideological opposition, and goes on to argue that the Mahasabha had its ideological focus on an anti-Muslim antagonism rather than the anti-British struggle for India’s independence, adding to the difficulties in the negotiations on Hindu-Muslim representation in the country. The book suggests that the Mahasabha had a limited class and regional base and was unable to generate much in the way of a mass movement of its own, but developed a quasi-military wing, besides its involvement in a number of popular campaigns. Bridging the gap in Indian historiography by focusing on the development and evolution of Hindu nationalism in its formative period, this book is a useful study for students and scholars of Asian Studies and Political History.