Pandaemonium 1660–1886

Author: Humphrey Jennings
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848315864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433

Book Description
Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain. Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, Utopian communities, the desecration of the natural world, ground-breaking scientific experiments, and the coming of the railways. Humphrey Jennings, co-founder of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and acclaimed documentary film-maker, assembled an enthralling narrative of this key period in Britain's national consciousness. The result is a highly original artistic achievement in its own right. Thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Marie-Louise Jennings, Pandæmonium was originally published in 1985, and in 2012 it was the inspiration behind Danny Boyle's electrifying Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition.

Pandæmonium, or the Devil's Cloyster. Being a further blow to modern Sadduceism, proving the existence of witches and spirits, etc

Author: Richard BOVET
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270

Book Description

Pandaemonium

Author: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198279464
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
Ten years before the Soviet Union collapsed, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan stood almost alone in predicting its demise. Focusing on ethnic conflict, he argued that the end was at hand. Now, with such conflict breaking out across the world, he sets forth a general proposition: that far from vanishing, ethnicity will be an elemental force in international politics.

Pandaemonium

Author: Richard Bovet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191

Book Description

Pandæmonium

Author: Abina Manning
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art and motion pictures
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description

Pandaemonium

Author: Humphrey Jennings
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Documents the public reaction to the industrial revolution.

White Freedom

Author: Tyler Stovall
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691205361
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456

Book Description
The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedom The era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of liberty, is also a nation built on African slavery, Native American genocide, and systematic racial discrimination. White Freedom traces the complex relationship between freedom and race from the eighteenth century to today, revealing how being free has meant being white. Tyler Stovall explores the intertwined histories of racism and freedom in France and the United States, the two leading nations that have claimed liberty as the heart of their national identities. He explores how French and American thinkers defined freedom in racial terms and conceived of liberty as an aspect and privilege of whiteness. He discusses how the Statue of Liberty—a gift from France to the United States and perhaps the most famous symbol of freedom on Earth—promised both freedom and whiteness to European immigrants. Taking readers from the Age of Revolution to today, Stovall challenges the notion that racism is somehow a paradox or contradiction within the democratic tradition, demonstrating how white identity is intrinsic to Western ideas about liberty. Throughout the history of modern Western liberal democracy, freedom has long been white freedom. A major work of scholarship that is certain to draw a wide readership and transform contemporary debates, White Freedom provides vital new perspectives on the inherent racism behind our most cherished beliefs about freedom, liberty, and human rights.

John Milton's Paradise Lost

Author: Margaret Kean
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415303255
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Designed for students new to Milton's work, this sourcebook outlines the seventeenth-century contexts of its composition and examines a range of the key critical responses from across literary history. The guide also usefully reprints frequently studied passages of the poem, suggests further reading, and provides cross-references between the textual, contextual and critical material.

Bewitched and Bedeviled

Author: K. Uszkalo
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137498226
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized to create the varied manifestations of demon possession in early modern England.

Darkness in El Dorado

Author: Patrick Tierney
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393322750
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 484

Book Description
What "Guns, Germs, and Steel" did for colonial history, this book will do for modern anthropology, telling the explosive story of how ruthless journalists, self-serving anthropologists, and obsessed scientists placed the Yanomami, one of the Amazon basin's oldest tribes, on the cusp of extinction. A "New York Times" Notable Book. of photos.