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Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

Literature, Modernity, and the New World, 1773–1812

By: Thomas C. Neal

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Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

Literature, Modernity, and the New World, 1773–1812

By: Thomas C. Neal

How did literary discourse about empire contribute to discussions about the implications of modernity and progress in eighteenth-century Spain? Writing the Americas seeks to answer this question by examining how novels, plays and short stories imagined and contested core notions about enlightened knowledge. Expanding upon recent transatlantic and postcolonial approaches to Spain's Enlightenment that have focused mostly on historiographical and scientific texts, this book disputes the long-standing perception of the Spanish Enlightenment as an "imitative" movement best defined best by its similarities with French and British contexts. Instead, through readings of major and minor texts by authors such as José Cadalso, Gaspar Melchor Jovellanos, Pedro Montengón and José María Blanco White, Writing the Americas argues that literary texts advanced a unique exploration of the compatibility between supposed universal principles and local histories, one which often diverged noticeably from dominant trends and patterns in Enlightenment thought elsewhere. The authors studied often drew directly from Spain's own imperial experiences to submit prevailing ideas about culture, commerce, education and political organization to scrutiny. Writing the Americas provides a new critical lens through which to reexamine the aesthetic and political content of eighteenth-century Spanish cultural production. While in the past, much of the debate about whether Spanish neoclassicism was "modern" literature has centered on formalistic qualities or romantic notions of "originality" or "subjectivity," ultimately, Writing the Americas locates the modernity of these literary works within the very ideological tensions they display towards the prevailing intellectual trends of the time. The interdisciplinary content and approach of Writing the Americas make it a valuable resource for a broad range of scholars including specialists in eighteenth-century and modern Hispanic literature and culture, colonial Hispanic literature and culture, transatlantic American studies, European Enlightenment studies, and modernity studies.

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Bucknell University Press

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1611488311

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Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and beyond

By: Timothy Darvill,Julian Thomas

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Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and beyond

By: Timothy Darvill,Julian Thomas

A digital reprint which makes available again the first publication of the Neolithic Studies Group, containing papers given to a special colloquium on the `structures' of Neolithic Europe. Contributions include: Neolithic houses in mainland Britain and Ireland - a skeptical view (Julian Thomas); Houses in context: Building as process (Alasdair Whitlle); A Central European Perspective (Jonathon Last); Neolithic houses in Ireland (Eoin Grogan); Neolithic buildings in Scotland (Gordon Barclay); Neolithic buildings in England, Wales and the Isle of Man (Tim Darvill); Mesolithic or later houses at Bowmans Farm, Romsey Extra, Hampshire (Francis Green); Ballygalley houses, co.Antrim (Derek Simpson); Later Neolthic Structires at Trelystan, Powys (Alex Gibson); Life, times and works of House 59, Tell Ovcharovo, Bulgaria (Douglass Bailey); Structure ans ritual in Neolithic houses (Peter Topping); Architecture and Cosmology in the Balinese house: life is not that simple (Colin Richards); Houses in the Neolithic imagination: an Amazonian Example (Christine Hugh-Jones).

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Oxbow Books

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1785701533

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9781785701535

Tidal Wave

From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

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Tidal Wave

From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay

By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

Now publishing in paperback, this is a vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly approach the Japanese Home Islands against fearsome opposition, notably from the suicidal Japanese airmen: the kamikaze. The United States Navy won such overwhelming victories in 1944 that, had the navy faced a different enemy, the war would have been over at the conclusion of the Battle of Leyte Gulf. However, in the moment of victory on 25 October 1944, the US Navy found itself confronting a frightening enemy that had been unimaginable until it appeared. The kamikaze, 'divine wind' in Japanese, was something Americans were totally unprepared for – a shocking violation of every belief held in the West. The attacks were terrifying. Regardless of the damage inflicted on an attacking aeroplane, there was no certainty of safety aboard the ship until that aeroplane was completely destroyed, as the crew of the USS St. Lo tragically learned. From best-selling author Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, Tidal Wave combines expert research and first-person accounts to tell the story of the naval campaigns in the Pacific from Leyte Gulf to the end of the war – a period in which the US Navy would fight harder for survival than ever before.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472825470

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Presbytery and Not Prelacy : the Scriptural and Primitive Polity, Proved from the Testimonies of Scripture, the Fathers, the Schoolmen, the Reformers, and the English and Oriental Churches

By: Thomas Smyth

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Presbytery and Not Prelacy : the Scriptural and Primitive Polity, Proved from the Testimonies of Scripture, the Fathers, the Schoolmen, the Reformers, and the English and Oriental Churches

By: Thomas Smyth

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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3368730649

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Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

Writing the Americas in Enlightenment Spain

Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and beyond

Neolithic Houses in Northwest Europe and beyond

Tidal Wave

Tidal Wave

Presbytery and Not Prelacy : the Scriptural and Primitive Polity, Proved from the Testimonies of Scripture, the Fathers, the Schoolmen, the Reformers, and the English and Oriental Churches

Presbytery and Not Prelacy : the Scriptural and Primitive Polity, Proved from the Testimonies of Scripture, the Fathers, the Schoolmen, the Reformers, and the English and Oriental Churches

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