Georgian And Victorian Gibraltar Incredible Eyewitness Accounts

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Georgian And Victorian Gibraltar Incredible Eyewitness Accounts

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Author : M. G. Sanchez
language : en
Publisher: M G Sanchez
Release Date :

Georgian And Victorian Gibraltar Incredible Eyewitness Accounts written by M. G. Sanchez and has been published by M G Sanchez this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.

Drunken sailors, dandified British officers, hard-bitten Gibraltarian boatmen, polyglot Jewish rabbis, winsome Moroccan traders, moustachioed Spanish smugglers, cigar-smoking American adventurers, irascible Catholic priests, hoity-toity British military governors -- these and other emblematically colonial figures are to be found in Georgian and Victorian Gibraltar, a new collection of curious and surprising writings about eighteenth– and nineteenth-century Gibraltar compiled by M. G. Sanchez.

Georgian And Victorian Gibraltar

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Author : M.G. Sanchez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-11

Georgian And Victorian Gibraltar written by M.G. Sanchez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11 with categories.

Drunken sailors, dandified British officers, hard-bitten Gibraltarian boatmen, polyglot Jewish rabbis, winsome Moroccan traders, moustachioed Spanish smugglers, cigar-smoking American adventurers, irascible Catholic priests, hoity-toity British military Governors -- these and other emblematically colonial figures are to be found in GEORGIAN AND VICTORIAN GIBRALTAR, a new collection of curious and surprising writings about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gibraltar compiled by M. G. Sanchez.

The Lady With The Dark Hair

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Author : Erin Bartels
language : en
Publisher: Baker Books
Release Date : 2024-03-26

The Lady With The Dark Hair written by Erin Bartels and has been published by Baker Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-26 with Fiction categories.

Esther Markstrom and her artist mother have always been proud of their ancestor, painter Francisco Vella. They even run a small museum and gallery dedicated to raising awareness of his scandalously underappreciated work. But when Esther reconnects with her former art history professor, she finds her once-solid family history on shaky ground as questions arise about Vella's greatest work--a portrait entitled The Lady with the Dark Hair. In 1879, Catalan orphan-turned-fugitive Viviana Torrens has found sanctuary serving in the home of an aging artist in Southern France. It is in his studio that she meets Francisco Vella, a Gibraltarian merchant who sells artists' pigments. When her past catches up to her, she is compelled to pose as Vella's sister and join him on his travels or be deported back to Spain to stand trial. Along the way she will discover that the many parts she has been playing in order to hide her identity have far-reaching implications she never could have foreseen. This dual-timeline story from award-winning author Erin Bartels takes readers from the sleepy Midwest to the sultry Mediterranean on a relentless search for truth, identity, and the freedom to follow one's dreams.

Post Colonial Passages

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Author : Silvia Albertazzi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2019-01-15

Post Colonial Passages written by Silvia Albertazzi and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.

While entailing a subversive re-vision of colonial histories, geographies, and subjectivities, the (post)colonial condition has unleashed a chain of movements, relocations, and re-writings that interrogate the globalized and neoliberal society. Ethnic, “racial”, religious, gendered, and sexual identities have been called into question, and requested to (re)define, name, and re-name themselves, to find new ways to tell their stories/histories. The very term “postcolonial” has triggered well-known controversial debates: its adoption is significant of a cultural politics involving the colonial past, controversial crisis in the present, and an open perspective toward alternative futures. Confronting literature and the arts from a postcolonial perspective is a critical and political task involving theories and cultural productions crossing barriers amongst fields of knowledge. The essays gathered here discuss postcolonialism as a transdisciplinary field of passages that negotiate among diverse yet interrelated cultural fields.

The Crimean War And Its Afterlife

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Author : Lara Kriegel
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-17

The Crimean War And Its Afterlife written by Lara Kriegel and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-17 with History categories.

Rescuing the Crimean War from the shadows, Lara Kriegel demonstrates the centrality of a Victorian war to the making of modern Britain.

Diary Of A Victorian Colonial And Other Tales

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Author : M.G. Sanchez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-08

Diary Of A Victorian Colonial And Other Tales written by M.G. Sanchez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08 with categories.

'Diary of a Victorian Colonial and other Tales', M. G. Sanchez's second book of fiction, consists of three pieces centred on the themes of emotional and geographical displacement. The first and longest of these is set in late nineteenth-century Gibraltar, a British outpost known throughout Christendom for the intemperance of its military men and the contrabanding conducted by its civilian classes. Into this fin-de-siecle world enters Charles Bestman, an Anglo-Gibraltarian returning home after twenty-five years of exile in mainland Britain. What is the infamous criminal stain that follows Bestman's name and why is he so reluctant to let anyone know about his past? The exilic connection continues in 'Intermission' and 'Roman Ruins', two modern-day tales which explore the problems faced by individuals when trying to recreate themselves outside their home environment."

Authentic Narrative Of The Death Of Lord Nelson

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Author : sir William Beatty
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1807

Authentic Narrative Of The Death Of Lord Nelson written by sir William Beatty and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1807 with categories.

Gibraltar

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Author : Lesley Adkins
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-09-07

Gibraltar written by Lesley Adkins and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-07 with History categories.

For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea, by the overwhelming forces of Spain and France. It became the longest siege in British history, and the obsession with saving Gibraltar was blamed for the loss of the American colonies in the War of Independence. Located between the Mediterranean and Atlantic, on the very edge of Europe, Gibraltar was a place of varied nationalities, languages, religions and social classes. During the siege, thousands of soldiers, civilians and their families withstood terrifying bombardments, starvation and diseases. Very ordinary people lived through extraordinary events, from shipwrecks and naval battles to an attempted invasion of England and a daring sortie out of Gibraltar into Spain. Deadly innovations included red-hot shot, shrapnel shells and a barrage from immense floating batteries. This is military and social history at its best, a story of soldiers, sailors and civilians, with royalty and rank-and-file, workmen and engineers, priests, prisoners-of-war, spies and surgeons, all caught up in a struggle for a fortress located on little more than two square miles of awe-inspiring rock. Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History is an epic page-turner, rich in dramatic human detail - a tale of courage, endurance, intrigue, desperation, greed and humanity. The everyday experiences of all those involved are brought vividly to life with eyewitness accounts and expert research.

The Great Explosion

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Author : Brian Dillon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-05-07

The Great Explosion written by Brian Dillon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-07 with History categories.

The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more. In a brilliant piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and their effects on the earth, on buildings, and on human and animal bodies. And he evokes with vivid clarity one of Britain's strangest and most remarkable landscapes - where he has been a habitual explorer for many years. The Great Explosion is a profound work of narrative, exploration and inquiry from one of our most brilliant writers. 'The Great Explosion is exhilarating and moving and lyrical. It is a quiet evisceration of a landscape through the discovery of a lost history of destructiveness, a meditation on Englishness, an autobiography, a mapping of absences. I loved it.' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes ''What a fascinating, unclassifiable, brilliant book, confirming Brian Dillon's reputation as one of our most innovative and elegant non-fictioneers. No one else could have written it.' Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways 'Forensic, fascinating, endlessly interesting' Philip Hoare, Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Leviathan andThe Sea Inside 'A subtle, human history of the early twentieth century ... Explosions are a fruitful subject in Dillon's hands, one that enables him to reflect movingly on the instant between life and death, on the frailty of human endeavour, and on the readiness of nations to tear one another apart. The Great Explosion deftly covers a tumultuous period of history while centring on the tiniest moments - just punctuation marks in time' Financial Times '[Dillon's] account of the Faversham explosion is as bold as it is dramatic, while his descriptive passages about the marshlands of Kent are so evocative that you can practically feel the mud sticking at your feet' Evening Standard 'A brilliant evocation of place grasped in its modernity' Guardian 'Dillon ... has a WG Sebald-like gift for interrogating the landscape ... a work of real elegiac seriousness that goes to the heart of a case of human loss and destruction in England's sinister pastures green' Ian Thomson, Irish Times 'Exhilarating ... utterly beguiling' Literary Review

Grand Strategy And Military Alliances

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Author : Peter R. Mansoor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-02-09

Grand Strategy And Military Alliances written by Peter R. Mansoor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-09 with History categories.

A broad-ranging study of the relationship between alliances and the conduct of grand strategy, examined through historical case studies.