Sacontalá
Author: Kālidāsa
Publisher:
Published: 1792
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13:
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Forster
Author: Malcolm Bradbury
Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManslaughter, blackmail, violent sex, sudden death: out of materials which might have served a lesser author as the basis for mere melodrama, E. M. Forster created literary vehicles which convey the reader with near-celestial ease to psychological realms as diverse as the London drawing-room and the Indian cave of revelation. The essays collected here range from early commentaries introducing Forster to an American audience, to more recent essays illuminating the subtlety and resourcefulness of his fictional method, the acute modernity of his moral and intellectual concerns. Disputing a long-held view that Forster is intellectually a Victorian, in bondage to the liberal pieties he portrayed so well, these critics point to his capacity for rigorous self-scrutiny and detached observation of those very institutions and ideas so often associated with him. As they reveal new facets of Forster's accomplishment, these essays indicate why the twentieth century now recognizes him as one of its major literary figures. -- From publisher's description.
The Haitian Revolution
Author:
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Published: 2014-09-03
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1624661777
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array of never-before-published primary documents. These treasures from the archives offer a new picture of colonial Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution. The translations are lively and colorful." --Alyssa Sepinwall, California State University San Marcos
Slaves, Subjects, and Subversives
Author: Jane Landers
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780826323972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive study of African slavery in the colonies of Spain and Portugal in the New World.
Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
Author: J. Garrigus
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2006-06-24
Total Pages: 401
ISBN-13: 1403984433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPlease note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book details how France's most profitable plantation colony became Haiti, Latin America's first independent nation, through an uprising by slaves and the largest and wealthiest free population of people of African descent in the New World. Garrigus explains the origins of this free colored class, exposes the ways its members supported and challenged slavery, and examines how they shaped a new 'American' identity.
Haitian Revolutionary Studies
Author: David Patrick Geggus
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002-08-12
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0253109264
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Haitian Revolution of 1789–1803 transformed the Caribbean's wealthiest colony into the first independent state in Latin America, encompassed the largest slave uprising in the Americas, and inflicted a humiliating defeat on three colonial powers. In Haitian Revolutionary Studies, David Patrick Geggus sheds new light on this tremendous upheaval by marshaling an unprecedented range of evidence drawn from archival research in six countries. Geggus's fine-grained essays explore central issues and little-studied aspects of the conflict, including new historiography and sources, the origins of the black rebellion, and relations between slaves and free people of color. The contributions of vodou and marronage to the slave uprising, Toussaint Louverture and the abolition question, the policies of the major powers toward the revolution, and its interaction with the early French Revolution are also addressed. Questions about ethnicity, identity, and historical knowledge inform this essential study of a complex revolution.
The Plantation Machine
Author: Trevor Burnard
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 0812248295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJamaica and Saint-Domingue were especially brutal but conspicuously successful eighteenth-century slave societies and imperial colonies. Trevor Burnard and John Garrigus trace how the plantation machine developed between 1748 and 1788 and was perfected against a backdrop of almost constant external war and imperial competition.
Anniversary Essays on Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'
Author: Don Nichol
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-01-27
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 1442669683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlexander Pope’s heroi-comical, mock-epic poem, The Rape of the Lock, continues to sparkle after three hundred years as a peerless gem in the canon of English literature. In celebration of its tercentenary, this collection brings together ten eminent scholars with new perspectives on the poem. Their approaches reflect the vast range of interpretation of Pope’s text, from discussions of religion, gender, and eighteenth-century biological science to an interview with Sophie Gee about her novelization of the poem in The Scandal of the Season. These stimulating analyses will be essential reading for students and teachers of The Rape of the Lock and a valuable resource for investigating eighteenth-century culture.
Medical Transitions in Twentieth-Century China
Author: Bridie Andrews
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014-08-14
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0253014948
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society: the health and wellbeing of its citizens.” —The Lancet This volume examines important aspects of China’s century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects—disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people’s health—organize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental health, and tobacco and health. Among the book’s significant conclusions are the importance of barefoot doctors in disseminating western medicine; the improvements in medical health and services during the long Sino-Japanese war; and the important role of the Chinese consumer. This is a thought-provoking read for health practitioners, historians, and others interested in the history of medicine and health in China.
Studies in Medieval Literature
Author: MacEdward Leach
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2017-01-30
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1512817503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
