A Royal Encounter
A Royal Encounter

Author: Natlie B. Bartholomew Pitt

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2018-05-18

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 1683487338

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Natalie Baldwin; the beautiful daughter of Richard Baldwin a Royal Guard is the result of a vacation romance. At age five Natalie, by her own curiosity discovered her unknown father's contact information and phoned him in England. Discovering that he has a daughter, an only child, Richard flew to the Caribbean Island and brought his daughter back to England where she lived like royalty. They were like two peas in a pod and nothing else mattered to Richard than to be the best Father he could be; ensuring that nothing comes between him and his beloved daughter. As Richard's daughter, Natalie has won the heart of friends and strangers alike; bringing joy, humor and charm to everyone who knew her. At age eighteen, upset with her Father for denying her the only thing she thought mattered and finally fed up of living under the spotlight, Natalie returned to Grenada to be near her mother. Still unable to find the freedom she sought; at twenty-one, she flew to California to be with a Cousin. While in California, she met handsome, driven, Phillip Lane and fell madly in love. After Phillip proposed marriage, bound by her British tradition, they flew to England to obtain her stubborn father's approval to marry; just in time to fulfill a long awaited promise she'd made to the Prince of Edinburgh.

Red, White & Royal Blue
Red, White & Royal Blue

Author: Casey McQuiston

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Published: 2019-05-14

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1250316782

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* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic. "I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy—this book had everything I crave. I’m jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners "Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second." - Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six

Encounter
Encounter

Author: Brittany Luby

Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 0316449148

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A powerful imagining by two Native creators of a first encounter between two very different people that celebrates our ability to acknowledge difference and find common ground. Based on the real journal kept by French explorer Jacques Cartier in 1534, Encounter imagines a first meeting between a French sailor and a Stadaconan fisher. As they navigate their differences, the wise animals around them note their similarities, illuminating common ground. This extraordinary imagining by Brittany Luby, Professor of Indigenous History, is paired with stunning art by Michaela Goade, winner of 2018 American Indian Youth Literature Best Picture Book Award. Encounter is a luminous telling from two Indigenous creators that invites readers to reckon with the past, and to welcome, together, a future that is yet unchartered.

Performing Power
Performing Power

Author: Maria Berlova

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-04-22

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1000378039

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Performing Power explores 18th-century fabrication of the royal image by focusing on the example of King Gustav III (1746–1792) – one of Sweden’s most acclaimed and controversial monarchs – who conspicuously chose theater as the primary media for his image-making and role construction. The text postulates that Gustav III was motivated by theater’s ability to aid him in fulfilling Enlightenment’s tenet of broadly educating the populace and inculcating it with royal ideology. That he was an amateur actor, stage director, and playwright were other engines driving his choice. The project challenges and expands the commonly accepted perception of Gustav III’s contribution to Swedish theater, which has generally been limited to founding its National Opera, developing its national drama, and forming its national dramatic repertoire. Maria Berlova presents Gustav III as a performing King who strategically used political events as a framework through which he could embody the image of the ideal or enlightened monarch as presented by Voltaire. Through this, Performing Power explores the tight relationship and complex bond between theatrical arts and politics. This unique study will be of great interest to students and scholars in theater studies, 18th-century culture, and politics.

Exploring Cultural History
Exploring Cultural History

Author: Melissa Calaresu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 543

ISBN-13: 1351937634

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Over the past 30 years, cultural history has moved from the periphery to the centre of historical studies, profoundly influencing the way we look at and analyze all aspects of the past. In this volume, a distinguished group of international historians has come together to consider the rise of cultural history in general, and to highlight the particular role played in this rise by Peter Burke, the first professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and one of the most prolific and influential authors in the field. Reflecting the many and varied interests of Peter Burke, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of topics, geographies and chronologies. Grouped into four sections, 'Historical Anthropology', 'Politics and Communication', 'Images' and 'Cultural Encounters', the collection explores the boundaries and possibilities of cultural history; each essay presenting an opportunity to engage with the wider issues of the methods and problems of cultural history, and with Peter Burke's contributions to each chosen theme. Taken as a whole the collection shows how cultural history has enriched the ways in which we understand the traditional fields of political, economic, literary and military history, and permeates much of what we now understand as social history. It also demonstrates how cultural history is now at the heart of the coming together of traditional disciplines, providing a meeting ground for a variety of interests and methodologies. Offering a wide international perspective, this volume complements another Ashgate publication, Popular Culture in Early Modern England, which focuses on Peter Burke's influence on the study of popular culture in English history.

India and Iran in the Long Durée
India and Iran in the Long Durée

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 9004460632

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This book is the result of a conference held at the University of California, Irvine, covering the contacts between Iran and India from antiquity to the modern period.

The Brotherhood
The Brotherhood

Author: Charles Savona-Ventura

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2015-09-22

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 1329574192

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The novel is based on the events occurring in the Outremer and in Christian Europe at the turn of the 13th century centering around the knight Thomas de Sainville who served as Master to the Brethren of the Order of Saint Lazarus.

To the Ends of the Earth
To the Ends of the Earth

Author: Peter O. Koch

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-09-15

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 0786483806

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The European explorers who dared to face the perils of the unknown have in recent times become shrouded in controversy. No longer esteemed as heroes, except in their homelands, these bold explorers are now seen as purveyors of disease, destruction and slavery whose only interests were finding gold, becoming famous, and spreading their religious beliefs. But, as the author of this work points out, these explorers broke down long-standing myths and broadened the world's horizons. Beginning with Prince Henry the Navigator's worldly vision of finding a direct sea route to India and concluding with Ferdinand Magellan's quest to be the first man to sail around the world, this work tells the collective story of the numerous explorers who sought to find a path to the exotic spices and other treasures of the Far East. Most of the explorers included in this work were of the same generation and several of them even sailed together. The book also examines the political, social and economic factors that ushered in the age of exploration and had such an impact upon the explorers.

An Unexpected Quorum
An Unexpected Quorum

Author: Jeremy Kamper

Publisher: WestBowPress

Published: 2014-01-31

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1490820531

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When Jair is awakened from a bizarre dream by a familiar but chilling sound, it begins a series of unusual events that threaten the planning of his upcoming wedding to Terah. Refusing to let these strange occurrences alter their plans, Jair chooses to overlook them. But when Terah is kidnapped on their wedding night, the young husband can no longer ignore what is happening. With the help of his brothers and some new acquaintances, Jair sets out to recover his stolen bride. Each day brings greater adventure and mystery, as the band of men travel farther from home. They will encounter Cloaks and Sapients, large cities and ruthless rulers, and rare stones with curious markings. Each of these encounters will bring greater questions and few answers. Who took Terah, why, and where is he going? What are the markings on the stones, and how are they connected? Why would a Cloak attack a group of undistinguished travelers like them? To Jair, these questions are important, but not as important as the one he continues to ask himself. Will he ever see his wife again?

Voices from Vilcabamba
Voices from Vilcabamba

Author: Brian S. Bauer

Publisher: University Press of Colorado

Published: 2015-03-01

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1607324261

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A rich new source of important archival information, Voices from Vilcabamba examines the fall of the Inca Empire in unprecedented detail. Containing English translations of seven major documents from the Vilcabamba era (1536–1572), this volume presents an overview of the major events that occurred in the Vilcabamba region of Peru during the final decades of Inca rule. Brian S. Bauer, Madeleine Halac-Higashimori, and Gabriel E. Cantarutti have translated and analyzed seven documents, most notably Description of Vilcabamba by Baltasar de Ocampo Conejeros and a selection from Martín de Murúa’s General History of Peru, which focuses on the fall of Vilcabamba. Additional documents from a range of sources that include Augustinian investigations, battlefield reports, and critical eyewitness accounts are translated into English for the first time. With a critical introduction on the history of the region during the Spanish Conquest and introductions to each of the translated documents, the volume provides an enhanced narrative on the nature of European-American relations during this time of important cultural transformation.