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New Zealand English

Its Origins and Evolution

By: Elizabeth Gordon,Lyle Campbell,Jennifer Hay,Margaret Maclagan,Andrea Sudbury,Peter Trudgill

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New Zealand English

Its Origins and Evolution

By: Elizabeth Gordon,Lyle Campbell,Jennifer Hay,Margaret Maclagan,Andrea Sudbury,Peter Trudgill

New Zealand English - at just 150 years old - is one of the newest varieties of English, and is unique in that its full history and development are documented in extensive audio-recordings. The rich corpus of spoken language provided by New Zealand's 'mobile disk unit' has provided insight into how the earliest New Zealand-born settlers spoke, and consequently, how this new variety of English developed. On the basis of these recordings, this book examines and analyses the extensive linguistic changes New Zealand English has undergone since it was first spoken in the 1850s. The authors, all experts in phonetics and sociolinguistics, use the data to test previous explanations for new dialect formation, and to challenge current claims about the nature of language change. The first ever corpus-based study of the evolution of New Zealand English, this book will be welcomed by all those interested in phonetics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics and dialectology.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139451286

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South Asian History, 1750-1950

A Guide to Periodicals, Dissertations and Newspapers

By: Margaret Case

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South Asian History, 1750-1950

A Guide to Periodicals, Dissertations and Newspapers

By: Margaret Case

This is a major bibliographic research guide designed to assist scholars of South Asian history (India, Pakistan, and Nepal) in finding materials relevant to their research. It offers an annotated and indexed list of over 5,000 articles from 351 periodicals and 26 books of collected essays and encyclopedias. It lists 341 English and bilingual English-vernacular newspapers, and 251 vernacular papers published in South Asia, all with pertinent information. It also provides an extensive unified list of dissertations for degrees in modern South Asian history from South Asian, European, and American universities. About 3,100 of the entries are annotated. Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400874866

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Scottish Customs

From the Cradle to the Grave

By: Margaret Bennett

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Scottish Customs

From the Cradle to the Grave

By: Margaret Bennett

A highly readable and absorbing anthology of traditional Scottish customs and rites of passage, Scottish Customs from the Cradle to the Grave draws upon a broad range of literary and oral sources. Scotland has been fortunate to have written accounts of intrepid early travellers such as Martin Martin, Edward Burt and John Lane Buchanan, and extracts from their writing are found alongside modern interviews made by Margaret Bennett and researchers from the School of Scottish Studies at Edinburgh University. This expanded edition includes a large amount of new material. The result is a detailed and comprehensive picture of social behaviour in Scotland over the last 400 years. The book is divided into three sections, each covering a stage in the cycle of life: Childbirth and infancy; Love, courtship and marriage; Death The first edition was originally published by Polygon and was joint runner-up of the 1993 Katharine Briggs Folklore Award.

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Birlinn

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0857905449

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9780857905444

An Introduction To Scottish Ethnology

A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology Volume 1

By: Alexander Fenton,Margaret A. Mackay

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An Introduction To Scottish Ethnology

A Compendium of Scottish Ethnology Volume 1

By: Alexander Fenton,Margaret A. Mackay

The publication of An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor Alexander Fenton. The series explores the many elements in Scottish history, language and culture which have shaped the identity of Scotland and Scots at local, regional and national level, placing these in an international context. Each of the thirteen volumes already published focuses on a particular theme or institution within Scottish society. This introduction provides an overview of the discipline of ethnology as it has developed in Scotland and more widely, the sources and methods for its study, and practical guidance on the means by which it can be examined within its constituent genres, based on the experience of those currently working with ethnological materials. Theory and practice are presented in an accessible fashion, making it an ideal companion for the student, the scholar and the interested amateur alike.

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1907909214

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The Home Life of Sir David Brewster

By: Margaret Maria Gordon

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The Home Life of Sir David Brewster

By: Margaret Maria Gordon

An absorbing biography of the inventor of the kaleidoscope, Sir David Brewster, originally published in 1869.

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1108014259

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New Zealand English

Its Origins and Evolution

By: Elizabeth Gordon,Lyle Campbell,Jennifer Hay,Margaret Maclagan,Andrea Sudbury,Peter Trudgill

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Its Origins and Evolution

By: Elizabeth Gordon,Lyle Campbell,Jennifer Hay,Margaret Maclagan,Andrea Sudbury,Peter Trudgill

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India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

By: Margaret E. Walker

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India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

By: Margaret E. Walker

Kathak, the classical dance of North India, combines virtuosic footwork and dazzling spins with subtle pantomime and soft gestures. As a global practice and one of India's cultural markers, kathak dance is often presented as heir to an ancient Hindu devotional tradition in which men called Kathakas danced and told stories in temples. The dance's repertoire and movement vocabulary, however, tell a different story of syncretic origins and hybrid history - it is a dance that is both Muslim and Hindu, both devotional and entertaining, and both male and female. Kathak's multiple roots can be found in rural theatre, embodied rhythmic repertoire, and courtesan performance practice, and its history is inextricable from the history of empire, colonialism, and independence in India. Through an analysis both broad and deep of primary and secondary sources, ethnography, iconography and current performance practice, Margaret Walker undertakes a critical approach to the history of kathak dance and presents new data about hereditary performing artists, gendered contexts and practices, and postcolonial cultural reclamation. The account that emerges places kathak and the Kathaks firmly into the living context of North Indian performing arts.

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Routledge

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1317117360

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The Continual Inner Search

The Life of Roy Winn

By: Margaret Winn

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The Continual Inner Search

The Life of Roy Winn

By: Margaret Winn

This book reconstructs the story of Roy Coupland Winn 1890-1963, Australia's first fulltime practising psychoanalyst, of whom it was said that he was 'dedicated to the continual inner search to understand himself and others'. From a background of privilege, he volunteered in 1915 and cut his teeth as a military medic on Gallipoli. On the Western Front he gained a Military Cross, lost his foot and was left wondering if he wasn't losing his mind too. In recuperation, he first encountered psychoanalysis - as a patient. He also wrote Men May Rise, a novel he said was 'rather more biographical than customary'. The author has provided a superb chart of her grandfather's war and early post-war years from it, showing how he had already embarked on the inner search. Back in Sydney, the new psychoanalysis was widely mistrusted in medical circles, but he lived his own life, professional and private, according to his own code, 'seemingly unswayed by the prevailing moral climate or conventional social niceties'. Witty, self-mocking, insightful and inventive, the kindness and tolerance others saw in him is perhaps best expressed in these lines he once wrote: Most satisfying hope of human race Immortal history in a baby's face.

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Kerr Publishing

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1875703284

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Oatmeal and the Catechism

Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec

By: Margaret Bennett

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Oatmeal and the Catechism

Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec

By: Margaret Bennett

Oatmeal and the Catechism is the story of emigrants from the Outer Hebrides to Quebec in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Most were crofting families from Lewis who had suffered the severe effects of the potato famine of 1846-51. As a solution to the increasing pressure on landlords and government relief bodies, they were offered free passage to 'Lower Canada' and given land grants in the Eastern Townships. To this day place-names such as Stornoway, Tolsta, Ness and Dell in Canada testify to the strong links these communities kept with their homeland." "In this updated edition of her book Margaret Bennett traces the historical background of emigration and settlement in this part of Canada. By means of recorded interviews with descendants of the original settlers, she builds up a detailed picture not only of the social and religious aspects of their lives, but also of how they set about building a new community in the wilderness. For more than a century people in the Outer Hebrides have been asking what happened to those who left for the New World. Oatmeal and the Catechism answers that question."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773527753

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9780773527751

Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London

Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners 1550-1640

By: Margaret Pelling,Frances White

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Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London

Patronage, Physicians, and Irregular Practitioners 1550-1640

By: Margaret Pelling,Frances White

Physicians have had a major role in framing the middle-class values of modern western society, especially those relating to the professions. This book questions the bases of this hegemony, by looking first at the early modern physician's insecurities in terms of status and gender, and then at the wider world of medicine in London which the College of Physicians sought to suppress. The College's proceedings against irregular practitioners constitute a case-study in the regulation of an occupation critical for the well-being of contemporary Londoners. However, the College was, it is argued, an anomalous body, detached from most other forms of male authority in the urban context, and its claims lacked social recognition. It used stereotyping to construct an account designed for higher authority, but at the same time, its regulatory efforts were constantly undermined by the effects of patronage. The so-called irregular practitioners emerge as extremely diverse in country of origin, religious belief, and levels of formal education, yet the full analysis provided here also shows that most were literate, and that a significant number later became members of the College. Many were London artisans, barber-surgeons and apothecaries who can be seen as the 'excluded middle' between the two better-known extremes of the physician and the quack. In suppressing artisan practitioners, the College was also seeking to suppress contractual or 'citizen' medicine, an alternative system of structuring relations between the active patient and the practitioner which was fully integrated in contemporary urban custom and practice, but which has since disappeared. The College's selective account also inadvertently reveals the existence of female artisans who practised medicine outside the household routinely and for payment. Although distorted by the College's proximity to the Crown and to élite patrons, the Annals of the College give access to the rich variety of medical practice in early modern London and to the forms of resistance and self-presentation with which those outside the College justified, or denied, their identity as practitioners.

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Oxford University Press

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0192575503

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The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake

By: Margaret Georgina Todd

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The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake

By: Margaret Georgina Todd

There are several reasons why it has seemed worth while to write the life of Sophia Jex-Blake at some length. 1. She was one of the people who really do live. In the present day a woman is fitted into her profession almost as a man is. Sixty years ago a highly dowered girl was faced by a great venture, a great quest. The life before her was an uncharted sea. She had to find her self, to find her way, to find her work. In many respects youth was incomparably the most interesting period of a life history. 2. S. J.-B. has left behind her (as probably no woman of equal power has done) the record of this quest. She was a born chronicler: almost in her babyhood she struggled laboriously to get on to paper her doings and dreams; and she was truthful to a fault. We have here the kind of thing that is constantly "idealised" in present day fiction,—have it in actual contemporary record,—with the added interest that here the story begins in an old-world conservative medium, and passes through the life of the modern educated working girl into the history of a great movement, of which the chronicler was indeed magna pars. The reader will see how more and more as the years went on S. J.-B.'s motto became "Not me, but us," till one is tempted to say that she was the movement, that she stood, as it were, for women. 3. That, so to speak, was her "job"; but she never grew one-sided; never forgot the man's point of view. viiiNo woman ever took a saner and wider view of human affairs. 4. In spite of the heavy strain thrown by conflicting outlook and ideals on the relation between parents and child, the reader will see in the following pages how that relationship was preserved. This is perhaps the most remarkable thing in the whole history, and it is full of significance and helpful suggestion for us all in these critical days. 5. And lastly, it proved impossible to write the life in any other way. When S. J.-B.

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anboco

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3736420293

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Lollards and Reformers

Images and Literacy in Late Medieval Religion

By: Margaret Aston

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Lollards and Reformers

Images and Literacy in Late Medieval Religion

By: Margaret Aston

While much has been written on the connections between Lollardy and the Reformation, this collection of essays is the first detailed and satisfactory interpretation of many aspects of the problem. Margaret Aston shows how Protestant Reformers derived encouragement from their predecessors, while interpreting Lollards in the light of their own faith. This highly readable book makes an important contribution to the history of the Reformation, bringing to life the men and women of a movement interesting for its own sake and for the light it sheds on the religious and intellectual history of the period.

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A&C Black

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0826431836

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9780826431837

Delphi Collected Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

By: Margaret Oliphant

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Delphi Collected Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

By: Margaret Oliphant

Margaret Oliphant achieved fame during the Victorian era for her masterpieces of domestic realism, historical novels and spellbinding tales of the supernatural. This eBook presents a comprehensive range of Oliphant’s works, with the complete Chronicles of Carlingford, the complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen, numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Oliphant’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 79 novels, with individual contents tables * Rare novels available in no other collection, including Oliphant’s first novels MARGARET MAITLAND and CHRISTIAN MELVILLE * Rare supernatural novels appearing in digital publishing for the first time: DIES IRAE and THE LADY’S WALK * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * The complete ‘Chronicles of Carlingford’ series, inspired by Trollope’s Barsetshire books, with special index and links – includes the very rare short story ‘The Executor’ * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Features the complete Stories and Novels of the Seen and Unseen – first time in digital print * Includes a selection of Oliphant’s non-fiction * Features a bonus biography * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with 60 more books – including 56 novels, 2 short story collections, 1 non-fiction work and an autobiography CONTENTS: The Chronicles of Carlingford Stories of the Seen and Unseen The Novels Passages in the Life of Mrs. Margaret Maitland (1849) Merkland (1850) The Quiet Heart (1854) Christian Melville (1855) The Athelings (1857) The Days of My Life (1857) The Laird of Norlaw (1858) The House on the Moor (1861) The Doctor’s Family (1861) The Last of the Mortimers (1862) Salem Chapel (1862) Heart and Cross (1863) The Perpetual Curate (1863) A Son of the Soil (1865) Miss Marjoribanks (1865) Madonna Mary (1867) Brownlows (1868) The Minister’s Wife (1869) The Three Brothers (1870) John (1870) Squire Arden (1871) Ombra (1872) At His Gates (1872) May (1873) A Rose in June (1874) For Love and Life (1874) Whiteladies (1875) The Story of Valentine and His Brother (1875) The Curate in Charge (1876) Phoebe, Junior (1876) Mrs. Arthur (1877) Young Musgrave (1877) The Primrose Path (1878) A Beleaguered City (1879) Within the Precincts (1879) He That Will Not When He May (1880) The Greatest Heiress in England (1880) Harry Joscelyn (1881) In Trust (1881) The Ladies Lindores (1883) The Lady’s Walk (1883) Sir Tom (1883) Hester (1883) It was a Lover and His Lass (1883) Madam (1884) The Wizard’s Son (1884) Old Lady Mary (1884) The Prodigals and Their Inheritance (1885) Oliver’s Bride (1886) Effie Ogilvie (1886) The Son of His Father (1886) A Poor Gentleman (1886) A House Divided Against Itself (1886) A Country Gentleman and His Family (1886) Joyce (1888) Cousin Mary (1888) Lady Car (1889) The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow (1890) Sons and Daughters (1890) The Duke’s Daughter (1890) Kirsteen (1890) The Fugitives (1890) The Railway Man and His Children (1891) The Story of a Governess (1891) The Heir Presumptive and the Heir (1891) The Marriage of Elinor (1891) The Cuckoo in the Nest (1892) Diana Trelawny (1892) The Sorceress (1893) A House in Bloomsbury (1894) Lady William (1894) Who Was Lost and Is Found (1894) Sir Robert’s Fortune (1894) Old Mr. Tredgold (1895) Two Strangers (1895) Dies Irae (1895) The Unjust Steward (1896) The Two Marys (1896) The Ways of Life (1897) The Shorter Fiction The Executor (1861) The Rector (1861) The Land of Darkness (1888) Neighbours on the Green (1889) A Widow’s Tale and Other Stories (1898) Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Royal Edinburgh (1890) Historical Characters in the Reign of Queen Anne (1894) The Makers of Modern Rome (1895) Jeanne d’Arc (1896) The Sisters Brontë (1897) The Autobiography The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M. O. W. Oliphant (1899) The Biography Margaret Oliphant (1901) by Richard Garnett

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1910630829

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New Zealand English

New Zealand English

South Asian History, 1750-1950

South Asian History, 1750-1950

Scottish Customs

Scottish Customs

An Introduction To Scottish Ethnology

An Introduction To Scottish Ethnology

The Home Life of Sir David Brewster

The Home Life of Sir David Brewster

New Zealand English

New Zealand English

India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

India's Kathak Dance in Historical Perspective

The Continual Inner Search

The Continual Inner Search

Oatmeal and the Catechism

Oatmeal and the Catechism

Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London

Medical Conflicts in Early Modern London

The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake

The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake

Lollards and Reformers

Lollards and Reformers

Delphi Collected Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Delphi Collected Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

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