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Three Hundred Years of Decadence

New Orleans Literature and the Transatlantic World

By: Robert Azzarello

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Three Hundred Years of Decadence

New Orleans Literature and the Transatlantic World

By: Robert Azzarello

New Orleans’s reputation as a decadent city stems in part from its environmental precariousness, its Francophilia, its Afro-Caribbean connections, its Catholicism, and its litany of alleged “vices,” encompassing prostitution, miscegenation, homosexuality, and any number of the seven deadly sins. An evocative work of cultural criticism, Robert Azzarello’s Three Hundred Years of Decadence argues that decadence can convey a more nuanced meaning than simple decay or decline conceived in physical, social, or moral terms. Instead, within New Orleans literature, decadence possesses a complex, even paradoxical relationship with concepts like beauty and health, progress, and technological advance. Azzarello presents the concept of decadence, along with its perception and the uneasy social relations that result, as a suggestive avenue for decoding the long, shifting story of New Orleans and its position in the transatlantic world. By analyzing literary works that span from the late seventeenth century to contemporary speculations about the city’s future, Azzarello uncovers how decadence often names a transfiguration of values, in which ideas about supposed good and bad cannot maintain their stability and end up morphing into one another. These evolving representations of a decadent New Orleans, which Azzarello traces with attention to both details of local history and insights from critical theory, reveal the extent to which the city functions as a contact zone for peoples and cultures from Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Drawing on a deep and understudied archive of New Orleans literature, Azzarello considers texts from multiple genres (fiction, poetry, drama, song, and travel writing), including many written in languages other than English. His analysis includes such works of transcription and translation as George Washington Cable’s “Creole Slave Songs” and Mary Haas’s Tunica Texts, which he places in dialogue with canonical and recent works about the city, as well as with neglected texts like Ludwig von Reizenstein’s German-language serial The Mysteries of New Orleans and Charles Chesnutt’s novel Paul Marchand, F.M.C. With its careful analysis and focused scope, Three Hundred Years of Decadence uncovers the immense significance—historically, politically, and aesthetically—that literary imaginings of a decadent New Orleans hold for understanding the city’s position as a multicultural, transatlantic contact zone.

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256

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LSU Press

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0807170887

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9780807170885

A Social History of Tennis in Britain

By: Robert J. Lake

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A Social History of Tennis in Britain

By: Robert J. Lake

Winner of the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2015- from the British Society for Sports History. From its advent in the mid-late nineteenth century as a garden-party pastime to its development into a highly commercialised and professionalised high-performance sport, the history of tennis in Britain reflects important themes in Britain’s social history. In the first comprehensive and critical account of the history of tennis in Britain, Robert Lake explains how the game’s historical roots have shaped its contemporary structure, and how the history of tennis can tell us much about the history of wider British society. Since its emergence as a spare-time diversion for landed elites, the dominant culture in British tennis has been one of amateurism and exclusion, with tennis sitting alongside cricket and golf as a vehicle for the reproduction of middle-class values throughout wider British society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Consequently, the Lawn Tennis Association has been accused of a failure to promote inclusion or widen participation, despite steadfast efforts to develop talent and improve coaching practices and structures. Robert Lake examines these themes in the context of the global development of tennis and important processes of commercialisation and professional and social development that have shaped both tennis and wider society. The social history of tennis in Britain is a microcosm of late-nineteenth and twentieth-century British social history: sustained class power and class conflict; struggles for female emancipation and racial integration; the decline of empire; and, Britain’s shifting relationship with America, continental Europe, and Commonwealth nations. This book is important and fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the history of sport or British social history.

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319

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Routledge

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1134445571

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9781134445578

Kensington to St Valery en Caux

Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, France and England, Summer 1940

By: Robert Gardner

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Kensington to St Valery en Caux

Princess Louise's Kensington Regiment, France and England, Summer 1940

By: Robert Gardner

This is a story of summer 1940, of a little known territorial battalion and an almost forgotten British military disaster. In April 1940 the Princess Louise’s Kensington Regiment left England to join the British Expeditionary Force in France. It was attached to the 51st (Highland) Division which was moving to the Saar region to defend the Maginot Line. From May until mid-June the Kensingtons were in continuous action, first on the Saar, then on the Somme, and finally in a fighting withdrawal along the channel coast in an attempt to reach Le Havre. Outnumbered four to one the division was cornered at the little seaside town of St Valery en Caux and forced to surrender on 13 June. Three companies of the Kensingtons launched a daring escape through Le Havre to return to England and take part in the invasion defences on the Kent coast.

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171

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The History Press

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0752483617

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9780752483610

Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations

By: R. C. S. Trahair,Robert L. Miller

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Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations

By: R. C. S. Trahair,Robert L. Miller

The only updated Cold War spy encyclopedia in print.

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603

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Enigma Books

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1936274256

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9781936274253

The Environmental Humanities

A Critical Introduction

By: Robert S. Emmett,David E. Nye

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The Environmental Humanities

A Critical Introduction

By: Robert S. Emmett,David E. Nye

A concise overview of this multidisciplinary field, presenting key concepts, central issues, and current research, along with concrete examples and case studies. The emergence of the environmental humanities as an academic discipline early in the twenty-first century reflects the growing conviction that environmental problems cannot be solved by science and technology alone. This book offers a concise overview of this new multidisciplinary field, presenting concepts, issues, current research, concrete examples, and case studies. Robert Emmett and David Nye show how humanists, by offering constructive knowledge as well as negative critique, can improve our understanding of such environmental problems as global warming, species extinction, and over-consumption of the earth's resources. They trace the genealogy of environmental humanities from European, Australian, and American initiatives, also showing its cross-pollination by postcolonial and feminist theories. Emmett and Nye consider a concept of place not synonymous with localism, the risks of ecotourism, and the cultivation of wild areas. They discuss the decoupling of energy use and progress, and point to OECD countries for examples of sustainable development. They explain the potential for science to do both good and harm, examine dark visions of planetary collapse, and describe more positive possibilities—alternative practices, including localization and degrowth. Finally, they examine the theoretical impact of new materialism, feminism, postcolonial criticism, animal studies, and queer ecology on the environmental humanities.

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MIT Press

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0262036762

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9780262036764

Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

By: Stuart Pearson & Robert G Mitchell

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Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

By: Stuart Pearson & Robert G Mitchell

Blood on the Thistle is an examination of the life and times of a remarkable Scottish family, the Cranstons of Haddington, East Lothian. It focuses on a period from about 1880, when the young, hard-working parents, Alec and Lizzie Cranston, arrived in Haddington, through to 1920, when the family they had produced, torn apart by the effects of the Great War, broke up as its surviving members pursued separate lives around the globe.Out of seven sons who served in the First World War, four died and two more were horrifically wounded; only one, the youngest, returned home physically unscathed. This book explores the effects of this extreme sacrifice on the sons themselves as well as the loved ones they left behind, particularly their mother, Lizzie, who mourned them for the rest of her days.This is the tale of how a once proud and aspirational Scottish family was devastated by war, and how the effects continued to ripple through time and generations. Until, a century later, the threads of this remarkable family finally begin to be drawn together again, in a book that is at once a superb documentary account and a moving tribute to a generation.

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308

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Kings Road Publishing

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1784180750

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9781784180751

Shake Loose the Border

By: Robert Low

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Shake Loose the Border

By: Robert Low

The war is coming to an end... Now the fighting can really start. The thrilling conclusion to Robert Low’s epic and savage Border Reivers Trilogy It is 1548, and the war with the English is winding down. But in the savage heart of the Borders, peace is far from secured. One-armed Batty Coalhouse, bounty hunter, explosives specialist, border wanderer, is doing what he usually does: ripping the enemy apart. But then he’s sent on an unusual errand. An old friend has been taken to Berwick, England’s northernmost point. Batty needs to get him back. Nothing is ever simple on the Border, and soon Batty is fighting enemies old and new. But in this blood-soaked world, it’s not just your enemies you need to worry about... Hold tight for a last, wild ride. An unforgettable novel from a unique historical imagination, Shake Loose The Border will blow you away.

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Canelo

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1800322135

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9781800322134

Domestic Annals of Scotland

By: Robert Chambers

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Domestic Annals of Scotland

By: Robert Chambers

Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

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654

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3375056656

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9783375056650

Pediatric Allergy, An Issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

By: Robert A Wood

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Pediatric Allergy, An Issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

By: Robert A Wood

This issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America, guest edited by Drs. Robert Wood, Pamela Guerrerio, and Corinne Keet, is devoted to Pediatric Allergy. Articles in this issue include: Role of the Environment in the Development of Allergic Disease; Genetics of Allergic Diseases; Optimizing the Diagnosis of Allergic Disorders; Anaphylaxis and Urticaria; Food Allergy: Epidemiology and Natural History; Inner City Asthma; Potential Treatments for Food Allergy; Eosinophilic Esophagitis; Atopic Dermatitis; Pediatric Asthma - Guidelines-based Care; Asthma - The Interplay Between Viral Infections and Allergic Diseases; Allergic Rhinitis; and Drug and Vaccine Allergy.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323354602

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9780323354608

Book's by Robert Sandilands

Three Hundred Years of Decadence

Three Hundred Years of Decadence

A Social History of Tennis in Britain

A Social History of Tennis in Britain

Kensington to St Valery en Caux

Kensington to St Valery en Caux

Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations

Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies, and Secret Operations

The Environmental Humanities

The Environmental Humanities

Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

Blood on the Thistle - The heartbreaking story of the Cranston family and their remarkable sacrifice

Shake Loose the Border

Shake Loose the Border

Domestic Annals of Scotland

Domestic Annals of Scotland

Pediatric Allergy, An Issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

Pediatric Allergy, An Issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

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