Marcus Cowper's Books

Tiger Tank

By: Marcus Cowper

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The most famous tank of World War II, the Tiger was a monster of a machine that dominated the battlefields of Europe and beyond. Originally conceived in response to the German Army's experience fighting British tanks in western Europe and North Africa, the Tiger cemented its reputation of near invincibility during the savage battles of the Eastern Front. This is a complete illustrated guide to one of the world's most famous fighting vehicles, exploring its history, its strengths and weaknesses and its combat performance as it duelled against the best the Allies had to give. Drawing on a wealth of research, detailed illustrations and contemporary photographs, this book reveals how this remarkable tank became an icon of military history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

141

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1472812956

ISBN 13

9781472812957

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

By: Marcus Wood

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

By: Marcus Wood

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography considers the operations of slavery and of abolition propaganda on the thought and literature of English from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Incorporating materials ranging from canonical literatures to the lowest form of street publication, Marcus Wood writes from the conviction that slavery was, and still is, a dilemma for everyone in England, and seeks to explain why English society has constructed Atlantic slavery in the way it has. He takes on the works of canonic eighteenth- and nineteenth-century white authors which claimed, when written, to 'account' for slavery, and asks with some scepticism what kind of 'truth' they hold. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, chapters focus on the writings of the major Romantic poets, English Radicals William Cobbett and John Thelwall, the Surinam writings of John Stedman, the full range of slavery texts generated by Harriet Martineau, John Newton, and the social prophets Carlyle and Ruskin. Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography also contains a radical new critique of the operations of slavery within the work of Austen and Charlotte Brontë.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

480

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published Date

ISBN 10

0191541931

ISBN 13

9780191541933

City of Refuge

Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856

By: Marcus Peyton Nevius

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

City of Refuge

Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856

By: Marcus Peyton Nevius

City of Refuge is a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina. The vast wetland was tough terrain that most white Virginians and North Carolinians considered uninhabitable. Perceived desolation notwithstanding, black slaves fled into the swamp's remote sectors and engaged in petit marronage, a type of escape and fugitivity prevalent throughout the Atlantic world. An alternative to the dangers of flight by way of the Underground Railroad, maroon communities often neighbored slave-labor camps, the latter located on the swamp's periphery and operated by the Dismal Swamp Land Company and other companies that employed slave labor to facilitate the extraction of the Dismal's natural resources. Often with the tacit acceptance of white company agents, company slaves engaged in various exchanges of goods and provisions with maroons-networks that padded company accounts even as they helped to sustain maroon colonies and communities. In his examination of life, commerce, and social activity in the Great Dismal Swamp, Marcus P. Nevius engages the historiographies of slave resistance and abolitionism in the early American republic. City of Refuge uses a wide variety of primary sources-including runaway advertisements; planters' and merchants' records, inventories, letterbooks, and correspondence; abolitionist pamphlets and broadsides; county free black registries; and the records and inventories of private companies-to examine how American maroons, enslaved canal laborers, white company agents, and commission merchants shaped, and were shaped by, race and slavery in an important region in the history of the late Atlantic world.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

169

Publisher

University of Georgia Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0820356425

ISBN 13

9780820356426

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

By: Marcus Tomalin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

By: Marcus Tomalin

From the 1750s to the 1830s, numerous British intellectuals, novelists, essayists, poets, playwrights, translators, educationalists, politicians, businessmen, travel writers, and philosophers brooded about the merits and demerits of the French language. The decades under consideration encompass a particularly tumultuous period in Anglo-French relations that witnessed the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), the American War of Independence (1775-1783), the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792-1802 and 1803-1815, respectively), the Bourbon Restoration (1814-1830), and the July Revolution (1830) - not to mention the gradual expansion of the British Empire, and the complex cultural shifts that led from Neoclassicism to Romanticism. In this book, Marcus Tomalin reassesses the ways in which writers such as Tobias Smollett, Maria Edgeworth, William Wordsworth, John Keats, William Cobbett, and William Hazlitt acquired and deployed French. This intricate topic is examined from a range of critical perspectives, which draw upon recent research into European Romanticism, linguistic historiography, comparative literature, social and cultural history, education theory, and translation studies. This interdisciplinary approach helps to illuminate the deep ambivalences that characterised British appraisals of the French language in the literature of the Romantic period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

265

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

131703130X

ISBN 13

9781317031307

Blind Memory

Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America

By: Marcus Wood

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Blind Memory

Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America

By: Marcus Wood

Throughout this important volume, the author provides an invaluable addition to the limited literature now available on the visual images associated with slavery and abolition, integrated into a sophisticated analysis of their meaning and legacy today. of color images. 150 illustrations.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

380

Publisher

Psychology Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

041592698X

ISBN 13

9780415926980

Delphi Complete Works of Varro (Illustrated)

By: Marcus Terentius Varro

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Delphi Complete Works of Varro (Illustrated)

By: Marcus Terentius Varro

www.delphiclassics.com

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1358

Publisher

Delphi Classics

Published Date

ISBN 10

1786563894

ISBN 13

9781786563897

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

Hours of Folly?

By: Marcus Tomalin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

Hours of Folly?

By: Marcus Tomalin

Although the broad topic of time and literature in the long eighteenth century has received focused attention from successive generations of literary critics, this book adopts a radically new approach to the subject. Taking inspiration from recent revisionist accounts of the horological practices of the age, as well as current trends in ecocriticism, historical prosody, sensory history, social history, and new materialism, it offers a pioneering investigation of themes that have never previously received sustained critical scrutiny. Specifically, it explores how the essayists, poets, playwrights, and novelists of the period meditated deeply upon the physical form, social functions, and philosophical implications of particular time-telling objects. Consequently, each chapter considers a different device – mechanical watches, pendulums, sandglasses, sundials, flowers, and bells – and the literary responses of significant figures such as Alexander Pope, Anne Steele, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Smith, and William Hazlitt are carefully examined.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

215

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000042081

ISBN 13

9781000042085

The Words of War

British Forces' Personal Letters and Diaries During the Second World War

By: Marcus Cowper

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Words of War

British Forces' Personal Letters and Diaries During the Second World War

By: Marcus Cowper

Using the Imperial War Museum's vast archive of personal diaries, this remarkable anthology examines the stories of ordinary men and women who fought, and in some cases died, on the front line and home front during the Second World War. The Words of War features diverse first-hand accounts from individuals who took part in the key campaigns of the war. In the words of the young officer facing defeat and capture at Dunkirk, the pilot officer losing friends and comrades during the Battle of Britain, the Land Girl dealing with a new life in the countryside, the Royal Naval seaman fighting the weather in the Russian convoys, the infantryman about to hit the beaches on D-Day, the bomb aimer aboard an Avro Lancaster as it heads towards another German target, the soldier fighting in the Far East against the Japanese, and many others, this unique publication vividly documents the harsh realities of day-to-day life during the conflict. With each diary entry placed in context within a historical narrative that weaves together the complete story for the reader, The Words of War provides a poignant and emotional insight into the human cost of war, whilst shedding new light on this unforgettable period in history.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

330

Publisher

Random House

Published Date

ISBN 10

1845968417

ISBN 13

9781845968410

Book's by Marcus Cowper

Tiger Tank

Tiger Tank

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

Slavery, Empathy, and Pornography

City of Refuge

City of Refuge

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

Blind Memory

Blind Memory

Delphi Complete Works of Varro (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Varro (Illustrated)

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

Telling the Time in British Literature, 1675-1830

The Words of War

The Words of War

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email