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Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV Vol 3

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, William Morris and Walter Bagehot by their Contemporaries

By: Nancy LoPatin-Lummis,Michael Partridge,David Martin,William A Hay,Denys P Leighton

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Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV Vol 3

John Stuart Mill, Thomas Hill Green, William Morris and Walter Bagehot by their Contemporaries

By: Nancy LoPatin-Lummis,Michael Partridge,David Martin,William A Hay,Denys P Leighton

First published in 2009, this is a collection of carefully selected extracts from biographies, memoirs, diaries, private letters and other ephemera reveal how these key nineteenth-century figures were viewed by their contemporaries. Volume 3 covers Walter Bagehot.

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1000558924

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The Plot Thickens

Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

By: Mary Elizabeth Leighton,Lisa Surridge

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The Plot Thickens

Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier

By: Mary Elizabeth Leighton,Lisa Surridge

In the early 1800s, books were largely unillustrated. By the 1830s and 1840s, however, innovations in wood- and steel-engraving techniques changed how Victorian readers consumed and conceptualized fiction. A new type of novel was born, often published in serial form, one that melded text and image as partners in meaning-making. These illustrated serial novels offered Victorians a reading experience that was both verbal and visual, based on complex effects of flash-forward and flashback as the placement of illustrations revealed or recalled significant story elements. Victorians’ experience of what are now canonical novels thus differed markedly from that of modern readers, who are accustomed to reading single volumes with minimal illustration. Even if modern editions do reproduce illustrations, these do not appear as originally laid out. Modern readers therefore lose a crucial aspect of how Victorians understood plot—as a story delivered in both words and images, over time, and with illustrations playing a key role. In The Plot Thickens, Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge uncover this overlooked narrative role of illustrations within Victorian serial fiction. They reveal the intricacy and richness of the form and push us to reconsider our notions of illustration, visual culture, narration, and reading practices in nineteenth-century Britain.

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Ohio University Press

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0821446495

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The Scourge of Terrorism from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

Who, What, When, Where, Why?

By: Marian Leighton

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The Scourge of Terrorism from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

Who, What, When, Where, Why?

By: Marian Leighton

terrorism in each phase of its development. It provides an historical journey across the terrorist landscape and offers insights and analyses of the successive challenges that terrorists have posed. The narrative shifts from the Assassins of medieval times to the nihilists of Tsarist Russia to the left-wing, Marxist-oriented terrorist organizations of the Cold War era to the more recent Islamist-based groups, including their respective supporters and enablers: the Palestinians, Russia and the Soviet bloc, and Iran. More than 20 years have elapsed since the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. A new generation has grown up with little or no knowledge of these horrific events and the warning signs that preceded them. Moreover, the Covid-19 pandemic, unprecedented political polarization, the growing focus on climate change and social justice and, most recently, the war in Ukraine have relegated the threat of terrorism to the back burner of U.S. national priorities. But Americans must remain vigilant for danger signs that could portend a new terrorist strike. A valuable resource for both specialists and general readers, The Scourge of Terrorism also posits that counterterrorism in the post-9/11 and post-Afghanistan era requires new strategies to supplant the primarily military approach of the past. WORDS OF PRAISE The Scourge of Terrorism is a timely reminder that politically and religiously motivated acts of violence have deep roots in history and will remain a permanent factor in international affairs. While motives and targets shift over time, innocents who suffer are always the victims. The author makes a valuable contribution by discussing new strategies for understanding and countering terrorist threats in the future. The book is highly recommended for laymen and experts alike. --Benjamin Fischer, former Chief Historian of the CIA Marian Leighton’s new book on terrorism is a must read for the counter-terrorism community. Her book will help this community better understand root causes of terrorism and identify warning signs of political violence. Her book is also a persuasive counterpoint for those ill-advised foreign policymakers who keep telling us all to pivot away from global terrorism and focus instead on China and Russia. --Dr. Leif Rosenberger was a former counterterrorism official at the US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and is currently a governance advisor in the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute (PKSOI) at the US Army War College. Throughout human history, groups of individuals have been subjected to violence from competing forces, whether in war or in more limited, even controlled, assaults, currently termed terrorism. Marian Leighton, with decades of experience as an intelligence community analyst, follows the development of terrorism from its roots as a localized attempt to harass a neighboring tribe or community to its current version as an international force capable of utilizing improvements in weaponry that enhance the effect such ventures have on their victims. While flying airliners into civilian buildings can be more dramatic and take many more lives than would butchering a local tribe, the immediate result of the attack may not always be more effective in striking at the emotional heart of the target group. In examining the progression of terrorism through the ages, Dr. Leighton offers a closer examination of its impact and potential in this more mobile and technologically sophisticated era. --Richard R. Valcourt, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence A remarkably comprehensive study, packed with new information and brimming with the wise insights of an intelligence practitioner. Every national security official should read it. --Toby Harnden, author of First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11

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Universal-Publishers

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1627344470

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The Wind that Swept Mexico

The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942

By: Anita Brenner,George R. Leighton

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The Wind that Swept Mexico

The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942

By: Anita Brenner,George R. Leighton

Numerous photographs complement this classic history of the dramatic events following the overflow of Porfirio Diaz

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University of Texas Press

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0292790244

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9780292790247

Mynydd Du and Fforest Fawr The Evolution of an Upland Landscape in South Wales

From the end of the last glaciation to the present day

By: David K. Leighton

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Mynydd Du and Fforest Fawr The Evolution of an Upland Landscape in South Wales

From the end of the last glaciation to the present day

By: David K. Leighton

Wales is essentially an upland country where mountains and moorlands are the dominant components of the rural scene. The form and character of these landscapes are the consequence of a long history of change. Their distinctiveness is the result of complex interaction between the natural environment and human intervention. Based on the results of an archaeological field survey, this book attempts to unravel the many strands in the evolution of one particular upland area of South Wales, Mynydd Du and Fforest Fawr, part of the Brecon Beacons National Park. The history of human activity in this area can be traced back to the earliest stages of climatic warming after the end of the last Ice Age when Mesolithic hunters followed migrating herds onto the less densely wooded high ground. Seasonal visiting was continued by early farmers until, from the beginning of the Bronze Age, more intensive patterns of land use emerged. After the end of the Roman military presence evidence for mainly seasonal occupation once again becomes widespread, during the Medieval and Post-Medieval periods. This was followed by the intensive exploitation of the area's mineral wealth during the Industrial Revolution and after, giving rise to some of the most dramatic features of the present-day landscape.

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RCAHMW

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1871184126

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War Stories

A GI Reporter in Vietnam, 1970-1971

By: Conrad M. Leighton

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War Stories

A GI Reporter in Vietnam, 1970-1971

By: Conrad M. Leighton

As a GI reporter for the 1st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam, the author--"an enlisted man writing primarily for enlisted men"--chronicled the experiences of combat soldiers in newspaper and magazine articles. His stories gave the Army's version of events, sprinkled with human interest and humor. They include his observations and photographs of jungle missions, life on firebases, struggles in the rear and his own survival as a harried frontline journalist. He also wrote almost daily letters home to his parents--personal dispatches filled with frank commentary and poignant, at times disturbing, anecdotes. His stories and letters are combined here in chronological order, providing a richly detailed narrative of combat in Vietnam.

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McFarland

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1476623449

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A Bridge Between Two Worlds

By: Leighton Buzzard Writers

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A Bridge Between Two Worlds

By: Leighton Buzzard Writers

This anthology, the third published by Leighton Buzzard Writers, was inspired by the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I in August 1914. Taking this theme as inspiration, local writers, both members of our group and the wider public, have produced works of both fiction and non-fiction, along with illustrations by local artists to form a fitting commemoration of life, loss and love in Leighton-Linslade, Beds, Bucks and Herts in the years 1914-1918 and after

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Lulu.com

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1326028855

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The Greenian Moment

T.H. Green, Religion and Political Argument in Victorian Britain

By: Denys Leighton

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The Greenian Moment

T.H. Green, Religion and Political Argument in Victorian Britain

By: Denys Leighton

This study of T.H. Green views his philosophical opus through his public life and political commitments, and it uses biography as a lens through which to examine Victorian political culture and its moral climate. The book deals with the political and religious history of Victorian Britain in examining the basis of Green's Liberal partisanship. It demonstrates how his main ethical and political conceptions--his idea of "self-realisation" and his theory of individuality within community--were informed by evangelical theology, popular Protestantism and an idea of the English national consciousness as formed by religious conflict. While the significance of Kantian and Hegelian elements in Green's thought is acknowledged, it is argued that "indigenous" qualities of Green's teachings resonated with values shared alike by elite and rank-and-file Liberals during the mid and late Victorian era. In examining Green's beliefs about the historical evolution of English liberty, his championing of (Liberal) Nonconformity and Nonconformist causes and his approval of religious bases of community, this study analyzes the ripening of a Greenian moment and traces Green's influence on Liberal, quasi-socialist and Conservative social reform down to the 1920s. The lasting impact of Green's teachings on British and Western political philosophy, apparent in the current vogue for communitarianism in liberal theory, indicates limitations of the "secularization thesis" still tacitly accepted by historians of Western political thought.

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Imprint Academic

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0907845541

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9780907845546

Sicily Before History

An Archaeological Survey from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age

By: Robert Leighton

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Sicily Before History

An Archaeological Survey from the Palaeolithic to the Iron Age

By: Robert Leighton

Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, one of the most varied in appearance, and least insular in terms of cultural development. It has often been described as a meeting place of cultures, where East meets West.

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Cornell University Press

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0801485851

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On Form

Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word

By: Angela Leighton

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On Form

Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word

By: Angela Leighton

What is form? Why does form matter? In this imaginative and ambitious study, Angela Leighton assesses not only the legacy of Victorian aestheticism, and its richly resourceful keyword, 'form', but also the very nature of the literary. She shows how writers, for two centuries and more, have returned to the idea of form as something which contains the secret of art itself. She tracks the development of the word from the Romantics to contemporary poets, and offers close readings of, among others, Tennyson, Pater, Woolf, Yeats, Stevens, and Plath, to show how form has provided the single most important way of accounting for the movements of literary language itself. She investigates, for instance, the old debate of form and content, of form as music or sound-shape, as the ghostly dynamic and dynamics of a text, as well as its long association with the aestheticist principle of being 'for nothing'. In a wide-ranging and inventive argument, she suggests that form is the key to the pleasure of the literary text, and that that pleasure is part of what literary criticism itself needs to answer and convey.

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OUP Oxford

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019156432X

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Class, Race, Gender, and Crime

The Social Realities of Justice in America

By: Gregg Barak,Paul Leighton,Allison Cotton

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Class, Race, Gender, and Crime

The Social Realities of Justice in America

By: Gregg Barak,Paul Leighton,Allison Cotton

Class, Race, Gender, and Crime is a popular, and provocative, introduction to crime and the criminal justice system through the lens of class, race, gender, and their intersections. The book systematically explores how the main sites of power and privilege in the United States consciously or unconsciously shape our understanding of crime and justice in society today. The fifth edition maintains the overall structure of the fourth edition—including consistent headings in chapters for class, race, gender, and intersections—with updated examples, current data, and recent theoretical developments throughout. This new edition includes expanded discussions of police violence and the Black Lives Matter movement, immigration, and queer criminology. This book is accompanied by instructor ancillaries. See the Resources tab for more information. Instructor’s Manual. For each chapter in the text, this valuable resource provides a chapter outline, chapter summary, and suggestions for additional projects and activities related to the chapter. Test Bank. The Test Bank includes multiple choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, and essay questions for each chapter. The Test Bank is available as a Word document, PDF, or through the test management system Respondus.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442268891

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Frayed Lifelines

A Siege Survivor's Story

By: Frank Leighton

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Frayed Lifelines

A Siege Survivor's Story

By: Frank Leighton

Through dangerous seas to life on besieged Malta, from war-torn Sicily to a love affair in post-war France, FRAYED LIFELINES grippingly relives pivotal WWII events and heartwarming episodes.

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1553958411

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Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV Vol 3

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The Plot Thickens

The Scourge of Terrorism from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

The Scourge of Terrorism from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century

The Wind that Swept Mexico

The Wind that Swept Mexico

Mynydd Du and Fforest Fawr The Evolution of an Upland Landscape in South Wales

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A Bridge Between Two Worlds

A Bridge Between Two Worlds

The Greenian Moment

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Sicily Before History

Sicily Before History

On Form

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Class, Race, Gender, and Crime

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