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The Imagined Life
A Novel
Häftad, 1900
286 kr
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A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE NEW YORKER AND ESQUIRE • ONE OF NPR'S "BOOKS WE LOVE" • LONGLISTED FOR THE JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE AND THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION A taut, elegiac novel about a man trying to uncover the truth about the father who left him behind “Porter has …
Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 1999
554 kr
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The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China …
Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2001
554 kr
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The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China …
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 1999
3045 kr
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The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China …
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 2001
804 kr
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Volume III of The Oxford History of the British Empire covers the long nineteenth century, from the achievement of American independence in the 1780s to the eve of world war in 1914. This was the period of Britain's greatest expansion as both empire-builder and dominant world power. The volume is …
Bibliography of Imperial, Colonial, and Commonwealth History since 1600
Inbunden, 2002
1937 kr
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The twentieth century witnessed an unprecedented growth of research and publication on the history of Britain's empire, the Commonwealth, and British expansion overseas. Historical work by area specialists has transformed the state of knowledge concerning colonial North America, India, the …
British Imperial Policy and Decolonization, 1938-64
Volume 2: 1951-64
Av Andrew Porter, A. J. Stockwell
Inbunden, 1989
1690 kr
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Current interest in Britain's imperial past and the loss of her formal empire since World War II is substantial. This book, the second of a two-part study, brings together a collection of original and hitherto unpublished source material, throwing light on the approaches of those politicians, civil …
European Imperialism, 1860-1914
Häftad, 1994
488 kr
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This study surveys the growth of European intervention outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. It treats its subject, 'imperialism', as a process of increasing contact, influence and control, rather than as the nature and consequences of colonial rule. The problems of defining 'imperialism' are …
Wholeness: A Philosophy for Saving the Earth
E-bok, 2018
84 kr
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Wholeness: A Philosophy for Saving the Earth explores the philosophical and psychological aspects of a new, sustainable paradigm, for individuals and societies. The book outlines the problems and tracks various successes -- individuals, technologies, thinkers, places -- that point the way and …
Wholeness: A Philosophy for Saving the Earth
E-bok, 2020
40 kr
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Wholeness: A Philosophy to Save the Earth is a deft explication of the 'inner environmental crisis.' It seeks to understand and better man's relationship with the planet. Through examining the psychological and philosophical aspects of the current predicament, the book looks at facts and …
Disappeared
Stories
Häftad, 2025
198 kr
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A collection of stories that trace the threads of loss and displacement running through all our lives, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Theory of Light and Matter “What a beautiful book about the profound mystery of ordinary life.” —Alix Ohlin, author of We Want What We Want A husband …
Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot
Reading Characterization in Homer
Häftad, 2019
260 kr
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Agamemnon led a ten-year-long struggle at Troy only to return home and die a pathetic death at his wife’s hands. Yet while Agamemnon’s story exerts an outsize influence—rivalled by few epic personalities—on the poetic narratives of the Iliad and Odyssey, scholars have not adequately considered his …
Theory and Practice in the History of European Expansion Overseas
Essays in Honour of Ronald Robinson
Av R. F. Holland, Andrew Porter m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
785 kr
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First Published in 1988. These essays have been written to mark the retirement of Ronald Robinson as Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Oxford. The contributors have all at various times worked closely with ‘Robbie’ as pupils, colleagues and friends. They …
Theory of Light and Matter
Stories
Inbunden, 2008
589 kr
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These ten short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of (or in spite of) something that has happened in their pasts. In "Hole," a young …
Theory of Light and Matter
Stories
E-bok, 2010
636 kr
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These ten short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of (or in spite of) something that has happened in their pasts. In "Hole," a young …
Theory of Light and Matter
Stories
E-bok, 2010
614 kr
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These ten short stories explore loss and sacrifice in American suburbia. In idyllic suburbs across the country, from Philadelphia to San Francisco, narrators struggle to find meaning or value in their lives because of (or in spite of) something that has happened in their pasts. In "Hole," a young …
Theory and Practice in the History of European Expansion Overseas
Essays in Honour of Ronald Robinson
Av Andrew Porter, R. F. Holland
E-bok, 2005
454 kr
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First Published in 1988. These essays have been written to mark the retirement of Ronald Robinson as Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Oxford. The contributors have all at various times worked closely with ‘Robbie’ as pupils, colleagues and friends. …
Theory and Practice in the History of European Expansion Overseas
Essays in Honour of Ronald Robinson
Av Andrew Porter, R. F. Holland
E-bok, 2005
454 kr
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First Published in 1988. These essays have been written to mark the retirement of Ronald Robinson as Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Oxford. The contributors have all at various times worked closely with ‘Robbie’ as pupils, colleagues and friends. …
Theory and Practice in the History of European Expansion Overseas
Essays in Honour of Ronald Robinson
Av R. F. Holland, Andrew Porter m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
398 kr
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First Published in 1988. These essays have been written to mark the retirement of Ronald Robinson as Beit Professor of the History of the British Commonwealth at the University of Oxford. The contributors have all at various times worked closely with ‘Robbie’ as pupils, colleagues and friends. They …
European Imperialism, 1860-1914
E-bok, 2016
530 kr
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This study surveys the growth of European intervention outside Europe between 1860 and 1914. It treats its subject, ''imperialism'', as a process of increasing contact, influence and control, rather than as the nature and consequences of colonial rule. The problems of defining ''imperialism'' are …
British Imperial Policy and Decolonization, 1938-64
Volume 2: 1951-64
Av A. J. Stockwell, Andrew Porter
E-bok, 1989
2260 kr
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Current interest in Britain''s imperial past and the loss of her formal empire since World War II is substantial. This book, the second of a two-part study, brings together a collection of original and hitherto unpublished source material, throwing light on the approaches of those politicians, …
Theory of Light and Matter
E-bok, 2011
102 kr
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Andrew Porter's stories offer a stunningly astute vision of contemporary American suburbia, full of tension, heartbreak and emotional complexity - the work of an important new voice.These ten stories take us across the country - from rural Pennsylvania to suburban Connecticut - and deep into …
In Between Days
E-bok, 2013
102 kr
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The Hardings are teetering on the brink. Elson – once one of Houston’s most promising architects, who never quite lived up to expectations – is recently divorced from his wife of thirty years, Cadence. Their grown son, Richard, is still living at home: driving his mother’s minivan, working at a …
Imagined Life
Häftad, 2025
187 kr
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A taut, elegiac, and engrossing read, The Imagined Life follows Steven Mills, a man in a struggling marriage who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth about the father who vanished from his life when he was only twelve.Driving up the coast of California, Steven seeks out his father’s friends, …
