Historical Phonology of English
Historical Phonology of English

Author: Donka Minkova

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2013-12-10

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 0748677550

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This book covers the historical development of the English phonological system from its earliest reconstructed and recorded forms to its most recent variations.

It's a Hill, Get Over It
It's a Hill, Get Over It

Author: Steve Chilton

Publisher: Sandstone PressLtd

Published: 2014-09-18

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9781910124178

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A new paperback edition of Steve Chilton's illuminating and entertaining history of hill running, one of athletics' most demanding sports, as well as the most demandingly amateur.

The British Industrial Revolution
The British Industrial Revolution

Author: Joel Mokyr

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 0429974191

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The Industrial Revolution remains a defining moment in the economic history of the modern world. But what kind and how much of a revolution was it? And what kind of ?moment? could it have been? These are just some of the larger questions among the many that economic historians continue to debate. Addressing the various interpretations and assumptions that have been attached to the concept of the Industrial Revolution, Joel Mokyr and his four distinguished contributors present and defend their views on essential aspects of the Industrial Revolution. In this revised edition, all chapters?including Mokyr's extensive introductory survey and evaluation of research in this field?are updated to consider arguments and findings advanced since the volume's initial 1993 publication. Like its predecessor, the revised edition of The British Industrial Revolution is an essential book for economic historians and, indeed, for any historian of Great Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Western Grit
Western Grit

Author: Chris Craggs

Publisher: Rockfax

Published: 2009-03

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781873341223

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This is a climbing guidebook for those interested in the huge variety of cliffs that are scattered up the western side of the Peak District and the Pennines.

The Lost World of British Communism
The Lost World of British Communism

Author: Raphael Samuel

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2017-01-31

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1784786381

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A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the 1940s. Samuel conjures up the era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power, brilliantly bringing to life an age in which the Communist Party enjoyed huge prestige as a bulwark for the struggles against fascism and colonialism.

Why Do We Quote?
Why Do We Quote?

Author: Ruth Finnegan

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 1906924333

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Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near.Drawing from anthropology, cultural history, folklore, cultural studies, sociolinguistics, literary studies and the ethnography of speaking, Ruth Finnegan 's fascinating study sets our present conventions into crosscultural and historical perspective. She traces the curious history of quotation marks, examines the long tradition of quotation collections with their remarkable recycling across the centuries, and explores the uses of quotation in literary, visual and oral traditions. The book tracks the changing defi nitions and control of quoting over the millennia and in doing so throws new light on ideas such as imitation, allusion, authorship, originality and plagiarism .