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Author | : Howard Rodman |
Publisher | : Melville House |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161219785X |
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"My favorite read of the year..."—Keegan-Michael Key, Top Ten Picks, New York Times A dazzling, inventive literary adventure story in which Captain Ahab confronts Captain Nemo and the dark cultural stories represented by both characters are revealed in cliffhanger fashion. A sprawling adventure pitting two of literature's most iconic anti-heroes against each other: Captain Nemo and Captain Ahab. Caught between them: real-life British engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, builder of the century's greatest ship, The Great Eastern. But when he's kidnapped by Nemo to help design a submarine with which to fight the laying of the Translatlantic cable - linking the two colonialist forces Nemo hates, England and the US - Brunel finds himself going up against his own ship, and the strange man hired to protect it, Captain Ahab, in a battle for the soul of the 19th century.
Author | : Chogyam Trungpa |
Publisher | : Shambhala Publications |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2001-07-17 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0834821354 |
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"In Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior Chögyam Trungpa offers an inspiring and practical guide to enlightened living based on the Shambhala journey of warriorship, a secular path taught internationally through the Shambhala Training program. Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala is a continuation of that path. Shambhala was an exploration of human goodness and its potential to create an enlightened society—a state that the author calls "nowness." And in that spirit of nowness, Great Eastern Sun—which is accessible to meditators and nonmeditators alike—centers on the question, "Since we're here, how are we going to live from now on?"
Author | : George S. Emmerson |
Publisher | : Newton Abbot, Devon : David & Charles |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tara Zahra |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2016-03-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393285596 |
Download The Great Departure: Mass Migration from Eastern Europe and the Making of the Free World Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
"Zahra handles this immensely complicated and multidimensional history with remarkable clarity and feeling." —Robert Levgold, Foreign Affairs Between 1846 and 1940, more than 50 million Europeans moved to the Americas in one of the largest migrations of human history, emptying out villages and irrevocably changing both their new homes and the ones they left behind. With a keen historical perspective on the most consequential social phenomenon of the twentieth century, Tara Zahra shows how the policies that gave shape to this migration provided the precedent for future events such as the Holocaust, the closing of the Iron Curtain, and the tragedies of ethnic cleansing. In the epilogue, she places the current refugee crisis within the longer history of migration.
Author | : Eli Valley |
Publisher | : Jason Aronson |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780765760005 |
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The Great Jewish Cities of Central and Eastern Europe: A Travel Guide and Resource Book to Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest is the most comprehensive guidebook covering all aspects of Jewish history and contemporary life in Prague, Warsaw, Cracow, and Budapest. This remarkable book includes detailed histories of the Jews in these cities, walking tours of Jewish districts past and present, intensive descriptions of Jewish sites, fascinating accounts of local Jewish legend and lore, and practical information for Jewish travelers to the region.
Author | : Bertil Lintner |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2015-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300195672 |
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Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic access to the Indian Ocean have given rise to tense gamesmanship, political intrigue, and rivalry between the two Asian giants. FormerFar Eastern Economic Review correspondent Bertil Lintner has drawn from his extensive personal interviews with insurgency leaders and civilians in remote tribal areas in northeastern India, newly declassified intelligence reports, and his many years of firsthand experience in Asia to chronicle this ongoing struggle. His history of the “Great Game East” is the first significant account of a regional conflict which has led to open warfare on several occasions, most notably the Sino-India border war of 1962, and will have a major impact on global affairs in the decades ahead.
Author | : Genny Smith |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520086890 |
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Written with few technical terms, Sierra East is a source book for the layperson and students on university field trips."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : JaHyun Kim Haboush |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0231540981 |
Download The Great East Asian War and the Birth of the Korean Nation Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Imjin War (1592–1598) was a grueling conflict that wreaked havoc on the towns and villages of the Korean Peninsula. The involvement of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean forces, not to mention the regional scope of the war, was the largest the world had seen, and the memory dominated East Asian memory until World War II. Despite massive regional realignments, Korea's Chosôn Dynasty endured, but within its polity a new, national discourse began to emerge. Meant to inspire civilians to rise up against the Japanese army, this potent rhetoric conjured a unified Korea and intensified after the Manchu invasions of 1627 and 1636. By documenting this phenomenon, JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of modern colonialism. She instead elevates the formative role of the conflicts that defined the second half of the Chosôn Dynasty, which had transfigured the geopolitics of East Asia and introduced a national narrative key to Korea's survival. Re-creating the cultural and political passions that bound Chosôn society together during this period, Haboush reclaims the root story of solidarity that helped Korea thrive well into the modern era.
Author | : Adam Head |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Railroads |
ISBN | : 9781445692678 |
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A photographic journey along this famous stretch of Britain's railways, including all the stations as well as all the different variations of locomotives and multiple units that operate over it.
Author | : Jonathan Eagles |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2013-10-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 085773458X |
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The defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans in 1475 at the Battle of Vaslui heralded the beginnings of a historic legacy. The victor became known as Stephen the Great or Athleta Christi, Champion of Christ. Perceived as the founder of a Balkan identity, Stephen the Great maintained Moldova's independence during periods of fierce Ottoman attack between 1457 and 1504. His Christian religious stance meant that, in the eyes of Europe, he had not only defeated a significant territorial threat but had elevated Christianity to a superior level as victors over its Muslim opponents. Here, Jonathan Eagles seeks to unveil the mechanisms behind this legacy, reviewing the state formations that allowed this national hero to emerge, and explaining the methods that preserve his memory in the region today. By combining the latest historical studies of the anti-Ottoman resistance with new archaeological findings, Stephen the Great and Balkan Nationalism engages with a fresh approach to the history of the Balkans, and reinvigorates the study of the Ottoman Empire's impact in Europe. This is an important book for those with an interest in medieval history, Balkan history and the Ottomans.