Heroic Failure and the British
Heroic Failure and the British

Author: Stephanie Barczewski

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-03-22

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0300186819

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From the Charge of the Light Brigade to Scott of the Antarctic and beyond, it seems as if glorious disaster and valiant defeat have been essential aspects of the British national character for the past two centuries. In this fascinating book, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain’s embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humorous stories from history, Barczewski’s survey offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing legacy of empire in British culture today.

Heroic Failure and the British
Heroic Failure and the British

Author: Stephanie L. Barczewski

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 0300180063

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Aan de hand van heroïsche mislukkingen zoals de Charge van de Lichte Brigade en Captain Scott wordt licht geworpen op het Brits zijn.

Tracing the Connected Narrative
Tracing the Connected Narrative

Author: Janice Cavell

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0802092802

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Through extensive research and reference to new archival material, Cavell recaptures and examines the experience of nineteenth-century readers.

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Author: Anderson Galleries, Inc

Publisher:

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13:

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The Voyages and Travels of Captains Ross, Parry, Franklin, and Mr. Belzoni
The Voyages and Travels of Captains Ross, Parry, Franklin, and Mr. Belzoni

Author: John Frederick Dennett

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-07-21

Total Pages: 1026

ISBN-13: 9780282472849

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Excerpt from The Voyages and Travels of Captains Ross, Parry, Franklin, and Mr. Belzoni: Forming an Interesting History of the Manners, Customs, and Characters of Various Nations Parry have excited in the public mind, cannot but render a narrative of the occurrences valuable to all classes of read ers. The journals already published embrace a volu minous account, interesting to nautical and scientific men, but of little importance to the general reader. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.