English Climate: Wartime Stories
Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910263273 |
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Author | : Sylvia Townsend Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-03-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910263273 |
Author | : Mollie Panter-Downes |
Publisher | : Persephone Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : 9781906462017 |
Originally published in The New Yorker, Mollie Panter-Downes was the voice of England during the Second World War.
Author | : Geoffrey Parker |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 2013-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300189192 |
The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.
Author | : Harald Welzer |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-02-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509501614 |
Struggles over drinking water, new outbreaks of mass violence, ethnic cleansing, civil wars in the earth's poorest countries, endless flows of refugees: these are the new conflicts and forces shaping the world of the 21st century. They no longer hinge on ideological rivalries between great powers but rather on issues of class, religion and resources. The genocides of the last century have taught us how quickly social problems can spill over into radical and deadly solutions. Rich countries are already developing strategies to garner resources and keep 'climate refugees' at bay. In this major book Harald Welzer shows how climate change and violence go hand in hand. Climate change has far-reaching consequences for the living conditions of peoples around the world: inhabitable spaces shrink, scarce resources become scarcer, injustices grow deeper, not only between North and South but also between generations, storing up material for new social tensions and giving rise to violent conflicts, civil wars and massive refugee flows. Climate change poses major new challenges in terms of security, responsibility and justice, but as Welzer makes disturbingly clear, very little is being done to confront them. The paperback edition includes a new Preface that brings the book up to date and addresses the most recent developments and trends.
Author | : Roy Scranton |
Publisher | : Soho Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2018-07-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1616959363 |
An American Orwell for the age of Trump, Roy Scranton faces the unpleasant facts of our day with fierce insight and honesty. We’re Doomed. Now What? penetrates to the very heart of our time. Our moment is one of alarming and bewildering change—the breakup of the post-1945 global order, a multispecies mass extinction, and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it. Not one of us is innocent, not one of us is safe. Now what? We’re Doomed. Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss, from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation. Whether writing about sailing through the melting Arctic, preparing for Houston’s next big storm, watching Star Wars, or going back to the streets of Baghdad he once patrolled as a soldier, Roy Scranton handles his subjects with the same electric, philosophical, demotic touch that he brought to his groundbreaking New York Times essay, “Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene.”
Author | : Mollie Panter-Downes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 1972-01-01 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 9780582101463 |
Author | : Heather Wiebe |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2024-10-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0197631711 |
Mobilizing Music in Wartime British Film examines the preoccupation with art music and total war that animated British films of the 1940s.
Author | : Eric Pooley |
Publisher | : Hyperion |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2011-06-14 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781401310561 |
Pooley presents the first-ever narrative of the American campaign to save the planet, a gripping story of the most important political battle of this generation--one that has taken place largely out of sight of the public and even the media.
Author | : Ann-Marie Einhaus |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316033597 |
This Companion provides an accessible overview of short fiction by writers from England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and other international sites. A collection of international experts examine the development of the short story in a variety of contexts from the early nineteenth century to the present. They consider how dramatic changes in the publishing landscape during this period - such as the rise of the fiction magazine and the emergence of new opportunities in online and electronic publishing - influenced the form, covering subgenres from detective fiction to flash fiction. Drawing on a wealth of critical scholarship to place the short story in the English literary tradition, this volume will be an invaluable guide for students of the short story in English.
Author | : Walter Ernest Allen |
Publisher | : Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Defines what a short story is and follows the development of this literary form with critical comments about 83 writers and their works.