The Buildings of Europe

The Buildings of Europe

Author: Derek Fraser

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780719040221

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This informative guide gathers together an essential collection of Berlin's most significant buildings drawn from the widest historical background with a bias towards modern architecture. Each entry has a photograph, name, date, address and architect.


Uncle Tom's Cabins

Uncle Tom's Cabins

Author: Tracy C Davis

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0472037765

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As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom’s journey, explicating the novel’s significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters’ landing points; nineteenth-century French theatergoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals and social reformers; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists in Southeast Asia; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East; Brazilian television audiences; and twentieth-century German holidaymakers. Throughout these encounters, Stowe’s story of American slavery serves as a paradigm for understanding oppression, selectively and strategically refracting the African American slave onto other iconic victims and freedom fighters. The book brings together performance historians, literary critics, and media theorists to demonstrate how the myriad cultural and political effects of Stowe’s enduring story has transformed it into a global metanarrative with national, regional, and local specificity.


Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

Uncle Tom's Cabin on the American Stage and Screen

Author: John W. Frick

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1137566450

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No play in the history of the American Stage has been as ubiquitous and as widely viewed as Uncle Tom's Cabin . This book traces the major dramatizations of Stowe's classic from its inception in 1852 through modern versions on film. Frick introduce the reader to the artists who created the plays and productions that created theatre history.


Onkel Tom`s Hütte

Onkel Tom`s Hütte

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2016-12-14

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 3736833466

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Dieses Buch ist eine flammende Anklage gegen den Rassismus, wo immer er einem begegnet. Die Autorin schreibt dieses Plädoyer für ein freies Amerika im Jahre 1852. Die Sklaverei ist im Süden der USA integraler Bestandteil des Wirtschaftswesens. Die Schrift war wichtige Unterstützung für die Verfechter einer von Sklaverei befreiten Welt im Sezessionskrieg, der letztendlich zur Abschaffung der Sklaverei führte.


Uncle Tom's Cabins

Uncle Tom's Cabins

Author: Tracy C. Davis

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 415

ISBN-13: 0472037080

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As Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin traveled around the world, it was molded by the imaginations and needs of international audiences. For over 150 years it has been coopted for a dazzling array of causes far from what its author envisioned. This book tells thirteen variants of Uncle Tom’s journey, explicating the novel’s significance for Canadian abolitionists and the Liberian political elite that constituted the runaway characters’ landing points; nineteenth-century French theatergoers; liberal Cuban, Romanian, and Spanish intellectuals and social reformers; Dutch colonizers and Filipino nationalists in Southeast Asia; Eastern European Cold War communists; Muslim readers and spectators in the Middle East; Brazilian television audiences; and twentieth-century German holidaymakers. Throughout these encounters, Stowe’s story of American slavery serves as a paradigm for understanding oppression, selectively and strategically refracting the African American slave onto other iconic victims and freedom fighters. The book brings together performance historians, literary critics, and media theorists to demonstrate how the myriad cultural and political effects of Stowe’s enduring story has transformed it into a global metanarrative with national, regional, and local specificity.


The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin

The Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9780393059465

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Presents an annotated version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that describes the lives of slaves and abolitionists in the 1800s, historical discussions of the Underground Railroad, slave trade, and plantation life, and advertisements that were influenced by the novel.


Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-01-06

Total Pages: 410

ISBN-13: 3988289655

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America in the 1840s. This impressive novel is today one of the most important novels in the history of American literature. It is not without reason that Tolstoy and Heine were enthusiastic about Beecher Stowe's storytelling. Gröls Classics - English Edition


Berlin

Berlin

Author: Pierre Frei

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1555848176

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A serial killer stalks the streets of post-World War II Berlin in this international bestselling thriller. Set in a devastated Berlin one month after the close of the Second World War, Berlin has been highly acclaimed. Ben, a German boy retrieving cigarette butts to repackage and sell on the black market, discovers the body of a beautiful young woman in a subway station. Blonde and blue-eyed, she has been sexually assaulted and strangled with a chain. In the scramble to identify the body, the victim is mistaken for an American and a local investigation becomes a matter for the US Military Police. Cpt. John Ashburner and Inspector Klaus Dietrich realize quickly that to solve this apparently motiveless murder they will have to work together. When the bodies of other young women are discovered it becomes clear that this is no isolated act of violence. Pierre Frei has searched the wreckage of Berlin and emerged with an electrifying thriller in the tradition of Joseph Kanon and Alan Furst, in which the voices and stories of the victims themselves provide an intimate portrait of Germany before, during, and after the war. “The historical elements are compelling. . . . [O]nce involved in the story it is difficult to put it down.” —School Library Journal