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Roots of the New Arab Film

By: Roy Armes

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Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and retained a deep attachment to their homeland. Although these aspiring filmmakers had to seek their training abroad, they witnessed a time of filmic revival in Europe – Fellini and Antonioni in Italy, the French New Wave, and British Free Cinema. Returning home, these filmmakers brought a unique insider/outsider perspective to bear on local developments in society since independence, including the divide between urban and rural communities, the continuing power of traditional values and the status of women in a changing society. As they made their first films back home, the feelings of participation in a worldwide movement of new, independent filmmaking was palpable. Roots of the New Arab Film is a necessary and comprehensive resource for anyone interested in the foundations of Arab cinema.

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0253031737

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Renaissance Colour Symbolism

By: Roy Osborne

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Renaissance Colour Symbolism

By: Roy Osborne

Renaissance Colour Symbolism brings together texts and translations of the four earliest printed books on the meaning of colours: Le Blason de toutes armes et éscutz [The Blazon of All Arms and Escutcheons] (1495) by Jean Courtois, the Sicily Herald; Le Blason des couleurs en armes, livrées et devises [The Blazon of Colours in Arms, Liveries and Devices] (1527) by Gilles Corrozet; Libellus de coloribus [Booklet on Colours] (1528) by Antonio Telesio (Thylesius); and Del significato de' colori [On the Signification of Colours] (1535) by Fulvio Pellegrino Morato. Parts of three other early books are included, from The Accedens of Armory (1562) by Gerard Legh; Trattato dell'arte della pittura, scoltura, et archittetura [Treatise on the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture] (1584) by Giovanni Paolo Lomazzo; and A Tracte Containing the Artes of Curious Paintinge, Carvinge and Buildinge (1598) by Richard Haydocke"--Provided by publisher.

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0244454760

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Dictionary of African Filmmakers

By: Roy Armes

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Dictionary of African Filmmakers

By: Roy Armes

Chiefly short biographies and filmographies.

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Indiana University Press

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0253351162

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9780253351166

Arming the British Police

The Great Debate

By: Roy Ingleton

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Arming the British Police

The Great Debate

By: Roy Ingleton

As the fear of violent crime escalates, there are calls for the police to carry guns. This examination of the history of violent crime and violence against the representatives of law and order looks at the extent to which the "unarmed" British police have had recourse to firearms in the past.

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1000144119

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Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours (Renaissance Colour Symbolism I)

By: Roy Osborne

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Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours (Renaissance Colour Symbolism I)

By: Roy Osborne

Sicily Herald and the Blazon of Colours' brings together the original texts with original English translations of two closely related primary sources on Renaissance colour symbolism. 'Le Blason de toutes armes et scutz' (The blazon of all arms and shields) was completed about 1420 by Jean Courtois (c. 1375-1436), the Sicily Herald, and printed in Paris in 1495. The second, 'Le Blason des couleurs en armes, livr es, et devises' (The blazon of colours in arms, liveries and devices), by Gilles Corrozet (1510-68), was published in Paris in 1527 by Pierre Le Brodeur. They were first two books on colour to be printed in Europe, and are now available in English for the first time in five centuries. Roy Osborne is an artist, educator and historian, and author of books on colour. He was awarded the Turner Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain) in 2003, and the Colour in Art, Design and Environment Medal of the International Colour Association in 2019.

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1326639854

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9781326639853

Cric Crac!

Teaching and Learning French Through Story-telling

By: Roy Dunning

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Cric Crac!

Teaching and Learning French Through Story-telling

By: Roy Dunning

Discussing story-telling in the French classroom, this text consists of 5 texts each for learners with 2/3, 4/5 and 6/7 years experience, respectively. A picture version accompanies the stories of level one. Levels one and two offer an unpunctuated version of the stories for language sequencing purposes. In addition, there is a range of activities for teaching the language and the process of storytelling for each level.

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Multilingual Matters

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1853593885

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Forgotten Heroes

The Charge of the Light Brigade

By: Roy Dutton

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Forgotten Heroes

The Charge of the Light Brigade

By: Roy Dutton

First hand accounts of the men who took part in the heroic and tragic Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava on the 25th October 1854. Previously unpublished biographies of the men and photographs bring their stories to life. What became of our heroes? Some died penniless while others found fame and fortune. Set within an unrelenting and cruel military campaign, where many would perish, unravelling the myths to find many of the missing Chargers was a massive undertaking.

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0955655404

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Postcolonial Images

Studies in North African Film

By: Roy Armes

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Postcolonial Images

Studies in North African Film

By: Roy Armes

A comprehensive introduction to North African film.

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Indiana University Press

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025321744X

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The Elizabethan Image

An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558 to 1603

By: Roy Strong

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The Elizabethan Image

An Introduction to English Portraiture, 1558 to 1603

By: Roy Strong

Fifty years after his seminal Tate gallery London exhibition, 'The Elizabethan Image', leading authority Roy Strong returns with fresh eyes to the subject closest to his heart, The Virgin Queen, her court and our first Elizabethan age From celebrated portraits of the Queen and paintings of knights and courtiers, to works depicting an aspiring 'middle class', Strong presents a detailed and authoritative examination of one of the most fascinating periods of British art. Enriching previous perceptions and ways of seeing the Elizabethans in their world, he reveals an age parallel in many ways to our own--a country aspiring professionally and changing socially. The gaze is from the inside, capturing the knights, melancholy lovers, poets (including Sidney, Donne and Sir John Davies), court favourites and their 'Gloriana'--as they mirrored and made themselves. Beginning with the great portrait of the Queen in grand procession with her Garter Knights, Strong pinpoints the characters and key motifs that run through the rest of the book: chivalry, changes to the social order, emblems and imagery - the full richness of the Elizabethan imagination. These pictures were intimate--personal commissions by private individuals, and not necessarily for public view. As such they are a glimpse into private worlds and sentiments and speak eloquently for the people who paid for, painted and lived amongst them, reversing an academic tendency to treat the portraits as if they had a life of their own, not grounded by the real people who commissioned them. Roy Strong concludes this richly illustrated volume with the famous and complex Rainbow Portrait, unpicking the iconography of this final painting of an ageless Elizabeth in her 'Mask of Youth'. Within a year of its completion the queen was dead--her portraits increasingly demoted and replaced by Mary Stuart's--as the splendour of the Elizabethan age and 'the cult of the queen' made way for new monarch James VI, who was to rule over a united England and Scotland.

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Yale University Press

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0300244290

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9780300244298

Don't Quit - Don't Cry

By: Jacques R. Roy

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Don't Quit - Don't Cry

By: Jacques R. Roy

Don't Quit - Don't Cry is a Canadian's gripping life story. 1967: Jacques R. Roy studies African history in Montreal. With a deep sense of justice, freedom, and liberty, Jacques joins CUSO as a teacher and leaves for Tanzania. Jacques meets Dr. Neto, President of the MPLA. Dr. Neto needs radio links. Jacques can solve this problem under complete secrecy. 1968: Neto invites Jacques to the eastern Angolan front. He likes the radio results and sends Roy to mobilize Canadian public opinion. 1970: South Africas ANC external leaders ask Jacques to create a spy unit. Cover: a love story with missions worthy of James Bond and Indiana Jones. 1974: Jacques brings Dr. Neto to Ottawa's parliamentary committee. 1975: Independence. CIA steps in. 1998: Roy goes back to Angola. Mission: Stop the civil war. The plan: Follow the blood diamonds. Results: Canada's UN Ambassador Fowler visits Africa, writes the Fowler Report. The UN imposes sanctions and blood diamond funds dry up.

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110550087X

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Books on Colour 1495-2015: History and Bibliography

By: Roy Osborne

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Books on Colour 1495-2015: History and Bibliography

By: Roy Osborne

Updated to 2020, BOOKS ON COLOUR 1495-2015 offers quick and easy reference to 2,500 authors and editors and over 3,000 titles published by them. Following a concise historical survey of colour literature, authors are listed in an A-Z directory, together with titles, dates and places of publication, and translations for non-English titles. Biographical references are included where known. Chronological indexes of authors precede the bibliographical listing and alphabetical indexes of authors follow it. Publications are categorised under 27 general headings: Architecture, Chemistry, Classification, Colorants, Computing & Television, Decoration, Design, Dress & Cosmetics, Dyeing, Flora & Fauna, Food, Glass, History, Lighting, Metrology, Music, Optics, Painting, Perception, Philosophy, Photography & Cinema, Printing, Psychology, Symbolism, Terminology, Therapy, and Vision.

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1326459716

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An Ordinary Family - Extra-Ordinary Times

A Look at the Beebe/Bebee Family History 1535-2015

By: Roy L. Bebee

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An Ordinary Family - Extra-Ordinary Times

A Look at the Beebe/Bebee Family History 1535-2015

By: Roy L. Bebee

Bound for the New World, an English father of seven dies at sea in 1650. Only the children fulfill their fathers dream in the beginning of the New London colonial settlement. While one descendant goes west to a settlement in Pennsylvania, the Revolutionary War further divides the family. One frontiersman becomes a Loyalist serving with the Butlers Rangers while most cousins fight for the Patriot cause. This narrative follows the Beebe family who survive the vortex of the Wyoming Valley Massacre (Pennsylvania) and its aftermath at the cost of the breadwinners own life. Mary Secord Beebe, mother of seven, escapes the oncoming reprisals of the Continental forces by fleeing to Fort Niagara, NY, British Headquarters. Starting over in a remote village within the Province of Quebec, Canada, one descendant returns to Pennsylvania and eventually homesteads in the Sandhills of Nebraska. Follow this intriguing story of an ordinary family living in extra-ordinary times.

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1514473399

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Europe Travelbook

The Guide to Premier Destinations

By: Des Hannigan,Sally Roy,Nia Williams

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Europe Travelbook

The Guide to Premier Destinations

By: Des Hannigan,Sally Roy,Nia Williams

The health care reform debate in the United States raises many complex issues including those of coverage, accessibility, cost, accountability, and quality of health care. Underlying these policy considerations are issues regarding the status of health care as a constitutional or legal right. This book series analyses the constitutional and legal issues pertaining to the right of health care and the power of Congress to enact and fund health care programs. Other topics discussed in this volume include health care price transparency; private health insurance and estimates of individuals with pre-existing conditions which range from 36 million to 122 million; expiration of the health coverage tax credit and how it will affect participants' costs and coverage choices as health reform provisions are implemented; trends, vulnerabilities and recommendations in personal care services; and traditional versus benchmark benefits under medicaid.

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1595083626

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The Art of French Piano Music

Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier

By: Roy Howat

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The Art of French Piano Music

Debussy, Ravel, Fauré, Chabrier

By: Roy Howat

An essential resource for scholars and performers, this study by a world-renowned specialist illuminates the piano music of four major French composers, in comparative and reciprocal context. Howat explores the musical language and artistic ethos of this repertoire, juxtaposing structural analysis with editorial and performing issues. He also relates his four composers historically and stylistically to such predecessors as Chopin, Schumann, Liszt, the French harpsichord school, and Russian and Spanish music. Challenging long-held assumptions about performance practice, Howat elucidates the rhythmic vitality and invention inherent in French music. In granting Faur� and Chabrier equal consideration with Debussy and Ravel, he redresses a historic imbalance and reshapes our perceptions of this entire musical tradition. Outstanding historical documentation and analysis are supported by Howat’s direct references to performing traditions shaped by the composers themselves. The book balances accessibility with scholarly and analytic rigor, combining a lifetime’s scholarship with practical experience of teaching and the concert platform

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Yale University Press

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0300145470

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9780300145472

Mariana Castillo Deball & Roy Wagner

Kojotenanthropologie. Ein Gespräch in Worten und Zeichnungen(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 024)

By: Mariana Castillo Deball,Roy Wagner

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Mariana Castillo Deball & Roy Wagner

Kojotenanthropologie. Ein Gespräch in Worten und Zeichnungen(dOCUMENTA (13): 100 Notes - 100 Thoughts, 100 Notizen - 100 Gedanken # 024)

By: Mariana Castillo Deball,Roy Wagner

In Roy Wagners anthropologischem Ansatz ist das Unausgesprochene, Ungehörte, Unbekannte genauso wichtig wie das Vorhandene. Das Nicht-Anwesende, von Wagner als »Anti-Zwilling« bezeichnet, ist wesentlich für die Entstehung von Kultur und ihre Erforschung. In diesem Notizbuch schafft Mariana Castillo Deball eine Kommunikation auf doppelter Ebene mit einem Auszug aus Wagners Texten. Auf der einen Ebene entfaltet sich die Konversation zwischen Wagner und Kojote, seinem Anti-Zwilling, der das Abwesende ausspricht und den Äußerungen Wagners entgegenhält. Auf der anderen begleiten und kommentieren die filigranen Zeichnungen der Künstlerin – der mexikanischen Folklore nahestehende Fantasiefiguren und -gebilde, die sie eigens für dieses Notizbuch angefertigt hat – Wagners Text. Mariana Castillo Deball (*1975) ist Künstlerin und lebt in Berlin und Amsterdam. Roy Wagner (*1938) ist Professor am Department of Anthropology der University of Virginia. Sprache: Deutsch/Englisch

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3775730532

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The Cult of Elizabeth

Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry

By: Roy C. Strong

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The Cult of Elizabeth

Elizabethan Portraiture and Pageantry

By: Roy C. Strong

No other woman in world history has been of such compulsive interest as Elizabeth Tudor. While the rest of the 16th-century Europe was subject to the bloodshed of religious war, Tudor peace brought England its great flowering of the arts. Central to that flowering was the enigmatic legend of the Queen herself, a myth deliberately created and sustained over four decades by public spectacle and courtly chivalry, by private sonnet and official oration.

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0520058410

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Telesio and Morato on the Meaning of Colours (Renaissance Colour Symbolism II)

By: Roy Osborne

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Telesio and Morato on the Meaning of Colours (Renaissance Colour Symbolism II)

By: Roy Osborne

Telesio and Morato on the Meaning of Colours' brings together the original texts with original English translations of two closely related primary sources on Renaissance colour symbolism. The first is the 'Libellus de coloribus' (Booklet on colours), the most extensive lexicon of Latin colour terminology of its time, published in Venice in 1528 by Antonio Telesio (1482-1534), who latinised his name as Antonius Thylesius. The second is 'Del significato de' colori' (On the signification of colours), the most extensive digest of current and classical colour meanings of its time, published in Venice in 1535 by Fulvio Pellegrino Morato (c. 1483-1548). They were the third and fourth books on colour to be printed in Europe. Roy Osborne is an artist, educator and historian, and author of books on colour. He was awarded the Turner Medal of the Colour Group (Great Britain) in 2003, and the Colour in Art, Design and Environment Medal of the International Colour Association in 2019.

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1326646370

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The Perilous Trade

"Book Publishing in Canada, 1946-2006"

By: Roy Macskimming

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The Perilous Trade

"Book Publishing in Canada, 1946-2006"

By: Roy Macskimming

A book that will fascinate and inform readers who love Canadian writing Part cultural history, part personal memoir, this accomplished, sweeping, yet intimate book demonstrates that the story of Canadian publishing is one of the cornerstones of our literary history. In The Perilous Trade, former publisher, literary journalist, and industry insider Roy MacSkimming chronicles the extraordinary journey of English-language publishing from the Second World War to the present. During a period of unparalleled transformation, Canada grew from a cultural colony fed on the literary offerings of London and New York to a mature nation whose writers are celebrated around the world. Crucial to that evolution were three generations of book publishers–mavericks, gamblers, entrepreneurs, political activists, and true believers–sharing a conviction that Canadians need books of their own. Canadian publishing has long made headlines—be it Jack McClelland’ s outrageous publicity stunts, American takeovers, the collapse of venerable imprints, or bold political moves to ensure the industry’s survival. Roy MacSkimming takes us behind the headlines to draw memorable portraits of the men and women who built Canada’s literary renaissance. With a novelist’s eye for character and incident, he weaves their tangled relationships with authors, agents, booksellers and each other into a lively narrative rich in anecdote and revealing personal recollection. Canadian publishers large and small have nurtured a literature of extraordinary diversity and breadth, MacSkimming argues, giving us English Canada’s greatest cultural achievement.

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McClelland & Stewart

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1551992612

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9781551992617

The Global Film Book

By: Roy Stafford

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The Global Film Book

By: Roy Stafford

The Global Film Book is an accessible and entertaining exploration of the development of film as global industry and art form, written especially for students and introducing readers to the rich and varied cinematic landscape beyond Hollywood. Highlighting areas of difference and similarity in film economies and audiences, as well as form, genre and narrative, this textbook considers a broad range of examples and up to date industry data from Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia and Latin America. Author Roy Stafford combines detailed studies of indigenous film and television cultures with cross border, global and online entertainment operations, including examples from Nollywood to Korean Cinema, via telenovelas and Nordic crime drama. The Global Film Book demonstrates a number of contrasting models of contemporary production, distribution and consumption of film worldwide, charting and analysing the past, present and potential futures for film throughout the world. The book also provides students with: a series of exploratory pathways into film culture worldwide illuminating analyses and suggestions for further readings and viewing, alongside explanatory margin notes and case studies a user friendly text design, featuring over 120 colour images a dynamic and comprehensive blog, online at www.globalfilmstudies.com, providing updates and extensions of case studies in the book and analysis of the latest developments in global film issues.

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1136474587

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Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Cartoonists' Vision

By: Dr Roy Douglas,Roy Douglas

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Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Cartoonists' Vision

By: Dr Roy Douglas,Roy Douglas

First Published in 1992. `Between the wars' was the great age of the cartoon character. The adventures of Mickey Mouse, Popeye, and Donald Duck were followed avidly by millions. Even the political leaders of the grim world of the 1920s and 1930s were known to millions as cartoon characters - gawky, bespectacled Woodrow Wilson, the balloon-like Mussolini, and the moustache men Hitler, Stalin, Neville Chamberlain and Ramsay MacDonald. Comic, mordant, and irreverent, political cartoons reveal more about popular concerns in the world of the slump, of rising nationalism and aggression, than either official documents or the work of most journalists. Published in newspapers or magazines with a wide circulation, they `made sense' to the ordinary reader. More than half a century on, that sense of immediate identification has been lost, and political cartoons of the period now need detailed explanation. Roy Douglas, author of the acclaimed The World War: The Cartoonist's Vision, now applies the same skills to the interwar period. His scope is international, and he has selected his cartoons from many different countries. Douglas covers all the great political and social issues of the period as they revealed themselves through the cartoonist's eyes. His greatest gift is for concise, clear explanation, setting each cartoon into its historical context. Throughout this book it is easy to trace the decay of hope in the 1920s, through the fear of war in the 1930s, to the determination at its end that fascism `must be stopped'. These cartoons, intended for the man and woman `in the street', in Europe, North America, in the Soviet Union and in Asia mirror their changing attitudes and beliefs, as their nations shaped up for war.

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1136108440

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Solovki

The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands

By: Roy R. Robson

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The Story of Russia Told Through Its Most Remarkable Islands

By: Roy R. Robson

div Located in the northernmost reaches of Russia, the islands of Solovki are among the most remote in the world. And yet from the Bronze Age through the twentieth century, the islands have attracted an astonishing cast of saints and scoundrels, soldiers and politicians. The site of a beautiful medieval monastery—once home to one of the greatest libraries of eastern Europe—Solovki became in the twentieth century a notorious labor camp. Roy Robson recounts the history of Solovki from its first settlers through the present day, as the history of Russia plays out on this miniature stage. In the 1600s, the piety and prosperity of Solovki turned to religious rebellion, siege, and massacre. Peter the Great then used it as a prison. But Solovki’s glory was renewed in the nineteenth century as it became a major pilgrimage site—only to descend again into horror when the islands became, in the words of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the “mother of the Gulag” system. From its first intrepid visitors through the blood-soaked twentieth century, Solovki—like Russia itself—has been a site of both glorious achievement and profound misery. /DIV

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