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British Merchants And Chilean Development, 1851-1886

By: John Mayo

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British Merchants And Chilean Development, 1851-1886

By: John Mayo

Nineteenth-century Chile was an exceptional phenomenon in Latin America: Constitutional procedures were observed, the army remained in its barracks, and development proceeded at a perceptible pace, even to contemporary observers. This book examines the enormous contribution British merchants made toward Chilean prosperity and stability during this period. The prospect of trade initially brought the British to Chile in the early 1800s. Great Britain soon provided the largest markets for Chilean produce, and British factories produced the largest share of Chile’s manufactured imports. British merchants organized the trade and provided services and expertise wherever needed. John Mayo documents the economic aspects of the British presence in Chile, but he also surveys the social, diplomatic, and political relations between the two countries. What emerges is a picture of a mutually profitable partnership based on the simplest of all motives—self-interest.

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0429712413

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The American Quarterly

Vol. XXII

By: John M. Leavitt

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The American Quarterly

Vol. XXII

By: John M. Leavitt

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382162148

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9783382162146

Outdoor Recreation Management

By: John Jenkins,John Pigram

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Outdoor Recreation Management

By: John Jenkins,John Pigram

It is now widely recognized that recreation is as important as work. This revealing book analyzes leisure and outdoor recreation in terms of both their management and their wider importance to society. Specifically, it: clarifies the link between leisure, recreation, tourism and resource management reviews contemporary outdoor recreation management and concepts critically examines approaches to outdoor recreation planning and management in diverse recreational settings considers the future of outdoor recreation and the potential influences of economic, social, political and technological developments. Wide-ranging and topical, it considers such issues as motivation and choice, provision for people with special needs, the impact of outdoor recreation on the environment, and outdoor recreation in both urban and rural contexts. This comprehensively revised second edition has many sections rewritten and expanded to reflect contemporary development in leisure and outdoor recreation management in countries such as Australia, Canada, the UK, the US and New Zealand. With an extensive bibliography of more than 500 references and including further reading sections and review questions, it is an essential student purchase and one of the most comprehensive and international accounts of outdoor recreation management available.

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Routledge

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1134215789

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The Olivetti Chronicles

By: John Peel

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The Olivetti Chronicles

By: John Peel

John Peel is best known for his four decades of radio broadcasting. His Radio 1 shows shaped the taste of successive generations of music lovers. His Radio 4 show, Home Truths, became required listening for millions. But all the while, Peel was also tapping away on his beloved Olivetti typewriter, creating copy for an array of patient editors. He wrote articles, columns and reviews for newspapers and magazines as diverse as The Listener, Oz, Gandalf's Garden, Sounds, the Observer, the Independent and Radio Times. Now for the first time, the best of these writings have been brought together - selected by his wife, Sheila, and his four children. Music, of course, is a central and recurring theme, and he writes on music in all its forms, from Tubular Bells to Berlin punk to Madonna. Here you can read John Peel on everything from the perils of shaving to the embarrassments of virginity, and from the strange joy of Eurovision to the horror of being sick in trains. At every stage, the writing is laced with John's brilliantly acute observations on the minutiae of everyday life. This endlessly entertaining book is essential reading for Peel fans and a reminder of just why he remains a truly great Briton.

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Random House

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1446486273

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Outdoor Recreation Management

By: J. J. J. Pigram,John Michael Jenkins

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Outdoor Recreation Management

By: J. J. J. Pigram,John Michael Jenkins

Analysing leisure and outdoor recreation in terms of both their management and their wider importance to society, this volume considers the future of outdoor recreation and potential social, economic, political and technological developments.

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Psychology Press

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0415159997

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9780415159999

Marketing the Bard

Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660-1740

By: Don-John Dugas

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Marketing the Bard

Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660-1740

By: Don-John Dugas

Dugas credits the reemergence of Shakespeare's plays and his rise to fame in the 1700s to economic factors surrounding the theater business including the acquisition and adaptation of Shakespeare's plays by the Tonson publishing firm, which marketed collector's editions of his work, spurring a price war and rousing public interest"--Provided by publisher.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826265448

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Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer

Britain and France in the 18th Century

By: John R. Harris

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Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer

Britain and France in the 18th Century

By: John R. Harris

Britain and France were the leading industrial nations in 18th-century Europe. This book examines the rivalry which existed between the two nations and the methods used by France to obtain the skilled manpower and technology which had given Britain the edge - particularly in the new coal-based technologies. Despite the British Act of 1719 which outlawed industrial espionage and technology transfer, France continued to bring key industrial workers from Britain and to acquire British machinery and production methods. Drawing on a mass of unpublished archival material, this book investigates the nature and application of British laws and the involvement of some major British industrialists in these issues, and discusses the extent to which French espionage had any real success. In the process it presents an in-depth understanding of 18th-century economies, and the cultures and bureaucracies which were so important in shaping economic life. Above all, the late John Harris saw the history of industrial espionage as ’one means of restoring the thoughts and activities of human beings to the centre stage of industrial history’. These are the stories of individuals - Holkers, Trudaines, Wilkinsons, or Milnes - and their impact on the world.

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Routledge

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1351927760

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Harlequin Britain

Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690–1760

By: John O'Brien

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Harlequin Britain

Pantomime and Entertainment, 1690–1760

By: John O'Brien

In the fall of 1723, two London theaters staged, almost simultaneously, pantomime performances of the Faust story. Unlike traditional five-act plays, pantomime—a bawdy hybrid of dance, music, spectacle, and commedia dell'arte featuring the familiar figure of the harlequin at its center—was a theatrical experience of unprecedented accessibility. The immediate popularity of this new genre drew theater apprentices to the cities to learn the new style, and pantomime became the subject of lively debate within British society. Alexander Pope and Henry Fielding bitterly opposed the intrusion into legitimate literary culture of what they regarded as fairground amusements that appealed to sensation and passion over reason and judgment. In Harlequin Britain, literary scholar John O'Brien examines this new form of entertainment and the effect it had on British culture. Why did pantomime become so popular so quickly? Why was it perceived as culturally threatening and socially destabilizing? O’Brien finds that pantomime’s socially subversive commentary cut through the dampened spirit of debate created by Robert Walpole's one-party rule. At the same time, pantomime appealed to the abstracted taste of the mass audience. Its extraordinary popularity underscores the continuing centrality of live performance in a culture that is most typically seen as having shifted its attention to the written text—in particular, to the novel. Written in a lively style rich with anecdotes, Harlequin Britain establishes the emergence of eighteenth-century English pantomime, with its promiscuous blending of genres and subjects, as a key moment in the development of modern entertainment culture.

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JHU Press

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0801879108

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9780801879104

English in Urban Classrooms

A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning

By: Jill Bourne,Anton Franks,John Hardcastle,Carey Jewitt,Gunther Kress,Ken Jones,Euan Reid

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English in Urban Classrooms

A Multimodal Perspective on Teaching and Learning

By: Jill Bourne,Anton Franks,John Hardcastle,Carey Jewitt,Gunther Kress,Ken Jones,Euan Reid

This ground-breaking text spans a range of issues central to school English. It extends not only to the spoken and written language of classrooms, but also to other important modes of representation and communication.

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1134322674

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9781134322671

Oro En Lingotes

By: John Goldsmith,Donald R. Bernard

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Oro En Lingotes

By: John Goldsmith,Donald R. Bernard

Era, sin duda, la mayor acumulación de oro en poder de un solo hombre: dos mil toneladas en lingotes, depositadas en una cámara acorazada de Zurich. Casi el 2% de las reservas existentes en el mundo. El griego propietario del oro había decidido venderlo, pero la aparición de semejante cantidad en el mercado libre provocaría un hundimiento de los precios y la consiguiente crisis financiera mundial. Dos hombres, separadamente, reciben un encargo casi irrealizable: vender el oro a inversores privados en el más absoluto secreto. Se trata de Eddy Polonski, un metalúrgico genial acosado por el omnipresente cartel sudafricano del oro, que necesita su asesoramiento, y de dan Daniels, abogado internacional, brillante pero en la ruina. Ambos comprendían que el oro del griego era su oportunidad para ganar millones. La lógica de las circunstancia hace que pronto se encuentren y decidan colaborar. Pero no sospechaban que había alguien más involucrado en el negocio, y que deberían enfrentarse a una fuerza ponderosa e implacable: un gran banco de la City londinense, controlado por hombres que se

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iUniverse

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1475936257

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVII

Prose, 1668-1691: An essay of Dramatick Poesie and Shorter Works

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVII

Prose, 1668-1691: An essay of Dramatick Poesie and Shorter Works

By: John Dryden

This collection of prose writing from the pen of Dryden dates from 1668 to 1691, and contains work that the editors describe as "a sampler of Dryden as biographer-historian, political commentator, religious controversialist, literary polemicist, literary theorist, and practical critic. Among the works contained here is his "Essay of Dramatick Poesie.

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Univ of California Press

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0520905199

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9780520905191

Bullion

By: Donald R. Bernard,John Goldsmith

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Bullion

By: Donald R. Bernard,John Goldsmith

It was probably the greatest private hoard of gold in the world: two thousand tons of bullion lying in a vault in Zurich, which had to be sold. The Greek who owned the gold believed that he was cursed by it; the American underworld who had accepted it as security for a loan wanted their money back. Yet, its sale on the open market would cause the price of gold to plummet and precipitate a global financial crisis. Two men were separately commissioned to secretly sell the gold to private investors. Eddy Polonski, a metallurgist of genius, was being hounded by the South African gold cartel. Dan Daniels, an international attorney, was brilliant but broke. Both recognized the Greek gold was an opportunity to make millions, but did not realize that there was a ruthless force to contend with: a major international bank, which saw a chance to manipulate the market fix of the century-the Gold Rush of 1979. The price of gold doubled in under three weeks; an event as sensational as the Wall Street Crash. In a blend of fact and fiction, in which the fiction pales in comparison with the fact, Bullion tells the real story.

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1475923813

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Encyclopedia of the Holy Grail

By: Jeffrey John Dixon

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Encyclopedia of the Holy Grail

By: Jeffrey John Dixon

In the twelfth century, a French poet wrote a verse romance about a young knight who witnesses a mysterious procession centered on a radiant vessel, a "grail." Left unfinished, the poem inspired other writers of prose and verse, until the story was completely rewritten into the Arthurian romances, in which the vessel becomes a relic of the Last Supper, the Holy Grail. For hundreds of years, the Grail story has haunted the western imagination. But the original medieval texts are full of inconsistencies, as different writers attempted to complete the story in varied ways. This encyclopedia illuminates a path through the Perilous Forest of literature and legend. Entries summarize the stories of the principal characters, sacred objects and places associated with the Grail. An Afterword shows how mysteries of the grail continue to enchant the scholars and creative writers who have transformed the medieval legend into modern mythology.

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McFarland

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1476687943

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9781476687940

The Works of John Dryden, Volume XI

Plays: The Conquest of Granada, Part I and Part II; Marriage-à-la-Mode and The Assignation: Or, Love in a Nunnery

By: John Dryden

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The Works of John Dryden, Volume XI

Plays: The Conquest of Granada, Part I and Part II; Marriage-à-la-Mode and The Assignation: Or, Love in a Nunnery

By: John Dryden

Volume XI contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: The Conquest of Granada, Marriage A-la-Mode, and The Assignation.

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0520905288

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9780520905283

Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

By: John Dryden

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Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)

By: John Dryden

Dominating the literary life of Restoration England, Dryden produced a large oeuvre of poetry, plays, essays and translations that were without their equal, inspiring later critics to refer to his era simply as the 'Age of Dryden'. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works and plays of John Dryden for the first time in digital publishing history, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Dryden's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Excellent formatting of the poems, with line numbers, ideal for students * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Dryden's complete 28 plays and operas - spend hours exploring the poet's dramatic works * Features no less than four biographies, including Sir Walter Scott's seminal study - discover Dryden's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections EARLY POEMS ANNUS MIRABILIS MAC FLECKNOE ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL THE MEDALL RELIGIO LAICI THE HIND AND THE PANTHER EPISTLES AND COMPLIMENTARY ADDRESSES ELEGIES AND EPITAPHS SONGS, ODES AND LYRICAL PIECES FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN POETRY FROM THE PLAYS TRANSLATIONS The Poems LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER The Plays THE WILD GALLANT THE RIVAL LADIES THE INDIAN QUEEN THE INDIAN EMPEROR SECRET-LOVE SIR MARTIN MAR-ALL THE TEMPEST TYRANNICK LOVE AN EVENING'S LOVE ALMANZOR AND ALMAHIDE MARRIAGE ¿ LA MODE THE ASSIGNATION AMBOYNA AURENG-ZEBE THE STATE OF INNOCENCE AND FALL OF MAN ALL FOR LOVE OEDIPUS TROILUS AND CRESSIDA LIMBERHAM THE SPANISH FRYAR THE DUKE OF GUISE ALBION AND ALBANIUS DON SEBASTIAN, KING OF PORTUGAL AMPHITRYON KING ARTHUR CLEOMENES, THE SPARTAN HERO LOVE TRIUMPHANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO VANBRUGH'S ADAPTATION OF FLETCHER'S THE PILGRIM The Non-Fiction ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY HIS MAJESTIES DECLARATION DEFENDED PLUTARCH'S LIVES The Biographies THE LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN by Sir Walter Scott LIVES OF THE POETS: DRYDEN by Samuel Johnson THE AGE OF DRYDEN by Richard Garnett BRIEF LIFE OF JOHN DRYDEN by George Gilfillan Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles

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Delphi Classics

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1909496685

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London’s Waterfront and its World, 1666–1800

By: John Schofield,Stephen Freeth

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London’s Waterfront and its World, 1666–1800

By: John Schofield,Stephen Freeth

This volume, covering the period 1666–1800, considers the archaeology of the port of London on a wide scale, from the City down the Thames to Deptford. During this period, with the waterfront at its centre, London became the hub of the new British empire, contributing to the exploitation of people from other lands known as slavery.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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180327655X

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9781803276557

The Seance

By: John Harwood

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The Seance

By: John Harwood

“An electrifying Victorian ghost story” from the International Horror Guild Award-winning author of The Asylum (The Seattle Times). “Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plow the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there . . .” Constance Langton grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother in perpetual mourning for Constance’s sister, the child she lost. Desperate to coax her mother back to health, Constance takes her to a séance: perhaps she will find comfort from beyond the grave. But the meeting has tragic consequences. Constance is left alone, her only legacy a mysterious bequest that will blight her life. So begins The Séance, John Harwood’s brilliant second novel, a gripping, dark mystery set in late-Victorian England. It is a world of apparitions, of disappearances and unnatural phenomena, of betrayal and blackmail and black-hearted villains—and murder. For Constance’s bequest comes in two parts: a house and a mystery. Years before, a family disappeared at Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside with a sinister reputation. Now the Hall belongs to Constance. And she must descend into the darkness at the heart of the Wraxford Mystery to find the truth, even at the cost of her life. “Harwood has written a true gothic, and invented a supremely creepy house to stage it in.”—Salon “Wilkie Collins would be proud: this is a Victorian world of mesmerism and spirits, vapours and delirium, doomed inheritances, shivery maids and spooky visitations in the night.”—Times (UK) “Perfect fare for a standard dark and stormy night.”

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547496974

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9780547496979

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