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The Maurice Burton Way

Britain’s first Black Cycling Champion

By: Maurice Burton,Paul Jones

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The Maurice Burton Way

Britain’s first Black Cycling Champion

By: Maurice Burton,Paul Jones

Maurice has lived a hell of a life. The world needs to hear about it' Ned Boulting 'This book is an inspiration to those who want to achieve in both sport and life' Phil Liggett MBE Maurice Burton rose above racism in British society and sport to triumph over adversity. This is the long-awaited, authorised biography of a ground-breaking British cyclist. On a still summer's evening at Leicester's Saffron Lane Velodrome in June 1974, Maurice Burton defeated an elite field to become Britain's first ever Black cycling champion. For his father, it was a moment of intense pride; Rennal arrived in 1948 from Jamaica and made his home in South London. As his 18-year-old son climbed onto the podium, boos rang out around the stadium. The crowd's response that day was typical of the racism and exclusion experienced by Burton. After being overlooked for Olympic selection despite beating those selected, he moved to Belgium to race professionally on the 'six-day' circuit across the continent, becoming the first Black six-day rider for over 75 years. This authorised biography traces Maurice's experiences as the child of a Windrush-generation father and an English mother growing up in London, before moving across to Europe and his eventual return to South London in 1984, where he became a successful business owner and community leader. It rightly places Maurice Burton at the forefront of the British sporting narrative as a pioneer in our collective cultural history.

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273

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1399407376

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9781399407373

Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Cromwellian Protectorate

By: Maurice Ashley

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Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Cromwellian Protectorate

By: Maurice Ashley

First Published in 1972. A reprinting of the original volume on Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Cromwellian Protectorate from its first edition in 1934, this is includes an updated preface by the author addressing comments from the first editions and new studies and laws that have come to light.

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164

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Routledge

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1136233679

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9781136233678

Uncertain Chances

Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: Maurice S. Lee

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Uncertain Chances

Science, Skepticism, and Belief in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: Maurice S. Lee

Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.

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250

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Oxford University Press

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0199985812

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9780199985814

Bartok's Viola Concerto

The Remarkable Story of His Swansong

By: Donald Maurice

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Bartok's Viola Concerto

The Remarkable Story of His Swansong

By: Donald Maurice

When Bela Bartók died in September of 1945, he left a partially completed viola concerto commissioned by the virtuoso violist William Primrose. Yet, while no definitive version of the work exists, this concerto has become arguably the most-performed viola concerto in the world. The story of how the concerto came to be, from its commissioning by Primrose to its first performance to the several completions that are performed today is told here in Bartók's Viola Concerto:The Remarkable Story of His Swansong. After Bartók's death, his family asked the composer's friend Tibor Serly to look over the sketches of the concerto and to prepare it for publication. While a draft was ready, it took Serly years to assemble the sketches into a complete piece. In 1949, Primrose finally unveiled it, at a premiere performance with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. For almost half a century, the Serly version enjoyed great popularity among the viola community, even while it faced charges of inauthenticity. In the 1990s, several revisions appeared and, in 1995, the composer's son, Peter Bartók, released a revision, opening the way or an intensified debate on the authenticity of the multiple versions. This debate continues as violists and Bartók scholars seek the definitive version of this final work of Hungary's greatest composer. Bartók's Viola Concerto tells the story of the genesis and completion of Bartók's viola concerto, its reception over the second half of the twentieth century, its revisions, and future possibilities.

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246

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Oxford University Press

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0195348117

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9780195348118

James Hunt

By: Maurice Hamilton

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James Hunt

By: Maurice Hamilton

Fast, aggressive and wonderfully magnetic, James Hunt electrified Formula One during one the most exciting period in the sport's history. The charismatic Englishman won the Championship in 1976 following the most intense and controversial season on record. The classic 'play boy' racing driver, Hunt was renowned for his love of women, parties and, of course, fast cars. In this wonderful authorised biography, motor sport journalist Maurice Hamilton celebrates forty years since Hunt's World Championship win and recalls the legendary life, endless carouses and career milestones of a true legend of Formula One.

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352

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Bonnier Publishing Ltd.

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1910536776

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9781910536773

The Winter Army

The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors

By: Maurice Isserman

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The Winter Army

The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors

By: Maurice Isserman

The epic story of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy's mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory.

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341

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Mariner Books

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1328871436

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9781328871435

These People Have Always Been a Republic

Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912

By: Maurice S. Crandall

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These People Have Always Been a Republic

Indigenous Electorates in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1598–1912

By: Maurice S. Crandall

Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power. Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern Arizona, and Tohono O'odhams and Yaquis in Arizona/Sonora--Crandall reveals the ways Indigenous peoples absorbed and adapted colonially imposed forms of politics to exercise sovereignty based on localized political, economic, and social needs. Using sources that include oral histories and multinational archives, this book allows us to compare Spanish, Mexican, and American conceptions of Indian citizenship, and adds to our understanding of the centuries-long struggle of Indigenous groups to assert their sovereignty in the face of settler colonial rule.

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385

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UNC Press Books

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1469652676

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9781469652672

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The Maurice Burton Way

The Maurice Burton Way

Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Cromwellian Protectorate

Financial and Commercial Policy Under the Cromwellian Protectorate

Uncertain Chances

Uncertain Chances

Bartok's Viola Concerto

Bartok's Viola Concerto

James Hunt

James Hunt

The Winter Army

The Winter Army

These People Have Always Been a Republic

These People Have Always Been a Republic

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