Morgan was called to Da Silva’s, one of her clients, by its CEO, Luca da Silva, who abruptly told her she would be fired. He suspected her of having an affair with Joseph, his brother-in-law, and ordered her to break up with him immediately. Morgan bristled at his arrogant and high-handed manner, but she couldn’t tell him what her true relationship with Joseph was. They were father and daughter, a fact they must not let anyone know. As she stood there unable to defend herself, Luca unexpectedly kissed her and demanded that she become his mistress!
In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the "color problem." Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic differences are the result of sociological factors and in these volumes he gathered what he called "the bran of history"—the uncollected, unexamined history of black people—in the hope that these neglected parts of history would become part of the mainstream body of Western history. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions. Indeed his belief in one race—humanity—precluded the idea of several different ethnic races. The series marshals the data he had collected as evidence to prove his underlying humanistic thesis: that people were one large family without racial boundaries. Self-trained and self-published, Rogers and his work were immensely popular and influential during his day, even cited by Malcolm X. The books are presented here in their original editions.
In early 1618, Anne Cecil (nee Lake), Lady Roos, accused Frances Cecil, countess of Exeter, of having committed adultery and incest with her husband, the countess's step grandson, William Cecil, Lord Roos. The countess had attempted to poison her twice, first with a poisoned enema, and later with a poisoned syrup of roses. With the help of the countess, Lord Roos secretively fled England for Catholic Italy, leaving his wife and family behind. Now, the murderous countess was again planning to poison Lady Roos, and perhaps also her father, Sir Thomas Lake, the king's Secretary of State. The countess vehemently denied these sensational charges, fell on her knees before the king, and asked for justice and restoration of her damaged honour. The accusations and the countess's defence quickly became a public scandal. The king and council investigated and ordered the matter be solved in the Court of Star Chamber. The Lake and Cecil families promptly sued and counter-sued each other for slander. The trials attracted much attention, not least because Lake's position as Secretary hung in the balance, and because King James decided to emulate the Biblical King Solomon and sit as a judge himself. While the feud and entangled scandals make for sensational reading, they also offer unexplored windows into the culture, society, and politics of Jacobean England. These were events with resounding reverberations and profound impacts on the Jacobean court, involving both its domestic and foreign spheres. Here Johanna Luthman scrutinises the scandals in detail for the first time. Employing a diverse range of methodologies and critical lenses, including those from the history of medicine and gender, and an analysis of several court cases that have not yet been studied, Luthman demonstrates the importance of incorporating the history of these scandals into an understanding of complex and fraught world of the court of King James VI. In so doing, the book offers new perspectives from which to understand the period, and will be necessary reading for all those interested in Jacobean history, as well as the history of gender, family, medicine, and scandal more generally.
Four headstrong mistresses meet their match in four powerful tycoons in the Brides & Tycoons Bundle from Harlequin Presents Extra! Bundle includes: The Millionaire's Rebellious Mistress by Catherine George; Da Silva's Mistress by Tina Duncan; Kyriakis's Innocent Mistress by Diana Hamilton; and The Mediterranean's Wife by Contract by Kathryn Ross.
Mimi is an innocent beauty dealing with tragedy from her past. She meets Tony Da-Silva, the famed King of bad boys in the flesh, taste his kisses and knows that she will do well to avoid him. But there is only so much she can resist of the enigmatic man's kisses. Tony is a millionaire with some serious trust issues. He meets Mimi for the first time and loses his heart to her for sure. But a maniac is on the loose and is making impossible demands that could endanger Mimi's life. Will Tony be ready to sacrifice all he's got to save the one woman he claims to love?
Drawing from a variety of historical sources, theory, and fictional and non-fictional production, this book addresses the cultural imaginary of domestic servants in modern Brazil and demonstrates maids' symbolic centrality to shifting notions of servitude, subordination, femininity, and domesticity.
Merciless Luca da Silva makes it his business to keep his friends close—and his enemies closer. And the next item on the tycoon's agenda is revenge! Believing the da Silva family name is under threat, the powerful Italian goes straight for the source—beautiful Morgan Marshall. Luca doesn't trust innocent Morgan, but her delectable curves have his body working overtime. So what better way to keep an eye on her than to make her his mistress? And where better to seek vengeance than between this billionaire's very own silk sheets…?
Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly detailed transcripts from Inquisition trials, Mello e Souza reconstructs how Iberian, indigenous, and African beliefs fused to create a syncretic and magical religious culture in Brazil. Focusing on sorcery, the author argues that European traditions of witchcraft combined with practices of Indians and African slaves to form a uniquely Brazilian set of beliefs that became central to the lives of the people in the colony. Her work shows how the Inquisition reinforced the view held in Europe (particularly Portugal) that the colony was a purgatory where those who had sinned were exiled, a place where the Devil had a wide range of opportunities. Her focus on the three centuries of the colonial period, the multiple regions in Brazil, and the Indian, African, and Portuguese traditions of magic, witchcraft, and healing, make the book comprehensive in scope. Stuart Schwartz of Yale University says, "It is arguably the best book of this genre about Latin America...all in all, a wonderful book." Alida Metcalf of Trinity University, San Antonio, says, "This book is a major contribution to the field of Brazilian history...the first serious study of popular religion in colonial Brazil...Mello e Souza is a wonderful writer."
