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Heligoland P
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Author : Jan Rüger
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-12-22
Heligoland P written by Jan Rüger and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-22 with History categories.
On 18 April 1947, British forces set off the largest non-nuclear explosion in history. The target was a small island in the North Sea, fifty miles off the German coast, which for generations had stood as a symbol of Anglo-German conflict: Heligoland. A long tradition of rivalry was to come to an end here, in the ruins of Hitler's island fortress. Pressed as to why it was not prepared to give Heligoland back, the British government declared that the island represented everything that was wrong with the Germans: 'If any tradition was worth breaking, and if any sentiment was worth changing, then the German sentiment about Heligoland was such a one'. Drawing on a wide range of archival material, Jan Rüger explores how Britain and Germany have collided and collaborated in this North Sea enclave. For much of the nineteenth century, this was Britain's smallest colony, an inconvenient and notoriously discontented outpost at the edge of Europe. Situated at the fault line between imperial and national histories, the island became a metaphor for Anglo-German rivalry once Germany had acquired it in 1890. Turned into a naval stronghold under the Kaiser and again under Hitler, it was fought over in both world wars. Heavy bombardment by the Allies reduced it to ruins, until the Royal Navy re-took it in May 1945. Returned to West Germany in 1952, it became a showpiece of reconciliation, but one that continues to wear the scars of the twentieth century. Tracing this rich history of contact and conflict from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War, Heligoland brings to life a fascinating microcosm of the Anglo-German relationship. For generations this cliff-bound island expressed a German will to bully and battle Britain; and it mirrored a British determination to prevent Germany from establishing hegemony on the Continent. Caught in between were the Heligolanders and those involved with them: spies and smugglers, poets and painters, sailors and soldiers. Far more than just the history of a small island in the North Sea, this is the compelling story of a relationship which has defined modern Europe.
Heligoland
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Author : George Drower
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2011-10-21
Heligoland written by George Drower and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-21 with History categories.
In 1956 sea area Heligoland became German Bight. But why did the North Sea island, which for nearly a century had demonstrated its loyalty to Britain, lose its identity? How had this once peaceful haven become, as Admiral Jacky Fisher exclaimed 'a dagger pointed at England's heart'? Behind the renaming of Heligoland lies a catalogue of deceit, political ambition, blunder and daring. Heligoland came under British rule in the nineteenth century, a 'Gibraltar' of the North Sea. Then, in 1890, despite the islanders' wishes, Lord Salisbury announced his intention to swap it for Germany's presence in Zanzibar. The Prime Minister's decision unleashed a storm of controversy. Queen Victoria telegrammed from Balmoral to register her fury. During both world wars, it was used by Germany to control the North Sea, and RAF planes bombed the once-British territory. The story of Heligoland is more than an obscure footnote to the British Empire - it shows the significance of territory throughout history.
The Zoological Record
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867
The Zoological Record written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with Classification categories.
Indexes the world's zoological and animal science literature, covering all research from biochemistry to veterinary medicine. The database provides a collection of references from over 4,500 international serial publications, plus books, meetings, reviews and other no- serial literature from over 100 countries. It is the oldest continuing database of animal biology, indexing literature published from 1864 to the present. Zoological Record has long been recognized as the "unofficial register" for taxonomy and systematics, but other topics in animal biology are also covered.
Heligoland Past And Present
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Author : Alex Ritsema
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2006-04-13
Heligoland Past And Present written by Alex Ritsema and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-13 with Travel categories.
Heligoland (spelled “Helgoland†in German) consists of two small German islands in the southeast of the North Sea, some 50 kilometres from the German mainland. The main – and the only inhabited - island has a length of less than two kilometres but it is one of the top-tourist destinations of northwest Germany. This book contains the first comprehensive history of Heligoland in the English language, including: its unique geology (with its cliffs and fossils); its seals, birds and plants; its legends of saints and pirates; its wreckers, fishermen, hunters and pilots; its turbulent military history, from the Middle Ages to the Nazis; accounts of eyewitnesses from various centuries; many line drawings, some historic ones and some made by the Dutch artist Anneke de Vries.
The Great War And The British Empire
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Author : Michael J.K. Walsh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-11-25
The Great War And The British Empire written by Michael J.K. Walsh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-25 with History categories.
In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable. It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as art, music, photography, propaganda, education, pacifism, gender, class, race and diplomacy at the end of the pax Britannica.
Postmodern Fiction And The Break Up Of Britain
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Author : Hywel Dix
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-05-04
Postmodern Fiction And The Break Up Of Britain written by Hywel Dix and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
A monograph analysing the symbolic role played by contemporary fiction in the break-up of political and cultural consensus in British public life.
Catalogue Of The Birds In The British Museum Platale Ibises And Spoonbills And Herodiones Herons And Storks By R B Sharpe Steganopodes Cormorants Gannets Frigate Birds Tropic Birds And Pelicans Pygopodes Divers And Grebes Alc Auks And Impennes Penguins By W R Ogilvie Grant 1898
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Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Catalogue Of The Birds In The British Museum Platale Ibises And Spoonbills And Herodiones Herons And Storks By R B Sharpe Steganopodes Cormorants Gannets Frigate Birds Tropic Birds And Pelicans Pygopodes Divers And Grebes Alc Auks And Impennes Penguins By W R Ogilvie Grant 1898 written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Birds categories.
This enormous undertaking, which, according to one of the prefaces, professes to be a complete list of every bird known at the time of publication, kept growing even as it was being written. The Museum added eagerly to their already vast collections during the decades of publication, acquiring by gift the great collections of A.O. Hume on Asian birds, and those of Sclater and Salvin and Godwin on Neotropical birds, so that the size of the collection nearly tripled between 1874 and 1888. Sharpe originally intended to do all the work himself, but others were called in when this became clearly impossible. The plates are all of birds not previously illustrated. In the decades following its publication this catalogue was universally acclaimed as the most important work on systematic ornithology that has ever been published. (Zimmer, p. 96). And even after one hundred years it remains an essential reference for the serious ornithologist, as it underpins a great deal of modern bird classification. With 387 plates, most hand-coloured lithographs, some chromolithographs, by William Hart, J.G. Keulemans, Joseph and Peter Smit.
Catalogue Of The Fulicariae Rallidae And Heliornithidae And Alectorides Aramidae Eurypygidae Mesitidae Rhinocheridae Gruidae Psophiidae Otitidae
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Author : Sharpe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Catalogue Of The Fulicariae Rallidae And Heliornithidae And Alectorides Aramidae Eurypygidae Mesitidae Rhinocheridae Gruidae Psophiidae Otitidae written by Sharpe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
Catalogue Of The Birds In The British Museum Fulicar Rallid And Heliornithid And Alectorides Aramid Eurypygid Mesitid Rhinochetid Gruid Psophiid And Otidid By R B Sharpe 1894
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Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Catalogue Of The Birds In The British Museum Fulicar Rallid And Heliornithid And Alectorides Aramid Eurypygid Mesitid Rhinochetid Gruid Psophiid And Otidid By R B Sharpe 1894 written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Birds categories.
This enormous undertaking, which, according to one of the prefaces, professes to be a complete list of every bird known at the time of publication, kept growing even as it was being written. The Museum added eagerly to their already vast collections during the decades of publication, acquiring by gift the great collections of A.O. Hume on Asian birds, and those of Sclater and Salvin and Godwin on Neotropical birds, so that the size of the collection nearly tripled between 1874 and 1888. Sharpe originally intended to do all the work himself, but others were called in when this became clearly impossible. The plates are all of birds not previously illustrated. In the decades following its publication this catalogue was universally acclaimed as the most important work on systematic ornithology that has ever been published. (Zimmer, p. 96). And even after one hundred years it remains an essential reference for the serious ornithologist, as it underpins a great deal of modern bird classification. With 387 plates, most hand-coloured lithographs, some chromolithographs, by William Hart, J.G. Keulemans, Joseph and Peter Smit.
Catalogue Of The Birds In The British Museum Fulicari Rallid And Heliornithid And Alectorides Aramid Eurypygid Mesitid Rhinochetid Gruid Psophiid And Otidid By R B Sharpe
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Author : British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Catalogue Of The Birds In The British Museum Fulicari Rallid And Heliornithid And Alectorides Aramid Eurypygid Mesitid Rhinochetid Gruid Psophiid And Otidid By R B Sharpe written by British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Birds categories.