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Shakespeare

Poet and Citizen

By: Victor Kiernan

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This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.' Times Literary Supplement Although Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the continued relevancy of his plays and poetry today, we too often lose sight of the wider historical context which shaped his work. In Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen, Victor Kiernan shows that Shakespeare was profoundly sensitive to the great social and political upheavals of his age. Shakespeare's life coincided with the first challenges to the institution of monarchy, as well as far-reaching transformations in the social hierarchy. By placing the plays within this context of an emerging modernity, Kiernan upends our perception of Shakespeare's writings. He shows that these social transformations, and especially the changing roles of women, are crucial to our understanding of the Comedies, in which the confusion of identity, disguise, and cross-dressing play a central role, while the Histories similarly reflect the demise of feudal allegiances and the development of the modern state. Featuring a new introduction by Michael Wood, Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen provides a rich resource for both students of literature and for the general reader looking for new insight into the life of our greatest dramatist.

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178360672X

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Imperialism and Its Contradictions

By: Victor Gordon Kiernan

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Imperialism and Its Contradictions

By: Victor Gordon Kiernan

V.G. Kiernan is recognised as one of the most remarkable historians of the 20th. Sensitive to the tragic and ironic character of human history, he addresses the origins, consequences and legacies of modern imperialism and colonialism.

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Psychology Press

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0415907977

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Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960

By: Victor Gordon Kiernan

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Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960

By: Victor Gordon Kiernan

Beginning with the post-Napoleonic era, this volume presents all the major episodes of an often dramatic story in which the military agents of European imperialism met the peoples of the rest of the world in armed conflict.

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Shakespeare

Poet and Citizen

By: Victor Gordon Kiernan

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Shakespeare

Poet and Citizen

By: Victor Gordon Kiernan

Shakespeare's phase of dramatic activity coincides with the first challenges to the institution of monarchy. Kiernan analyses the cycle of History plays in the light of the demise of feudal allegiances and the emergence of the modern state apparatus. He shows how the far-reaching transformations in social hierarchy which simultaneously began to take place are crucial to an understanding of the Comedies, in which confusion of identity, disguise and cross-dressing are central.

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Verso

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0860913929

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Imperialism and Its Contradictions

By: Victor Gordon Kiernan

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The Lords of Human Kind

European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

By: Victor Kiernan

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The Lords of Human Kind

European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

By: Victor Kiernan

When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often hostile or contemptuous. Using a stunning array of sources - missionaries' memoirs, the letters of diplomats' wives, explorers' diaries and the work of writers as diverse as Voltaire, Thackeray, Oliver Goldsmith and, of course, Kipling - Victor Kiernan teases out the full range of European attitudes to other peoples. Erudite, ironic and global in its scope, The Lords of Human Kind has been a major influence on a generation of historians and cultural critics and is a landmark in the history of Eurocentrism.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783604301

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9781783604302

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

By: Victor G. Kiernan

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European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

By: Victor G. Kiernan

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse is a vivid anticolonial reckoning with the history of imperial warfare. Global in scope, it deftly surveys the fighting forces and military engagements of the Great Powers, from the British in India to the scramble for Africa. Victor Kiernan lays bare the doctrines and realities of colonial fighting, dispelling official legends. Europe often boasted that coloni- alism was 'civilised', but the facts show it could be barbaric. Kiernan traces how guerrilla insurgency against colonial oppression developed into one of the most sophisticated branches of the art of war. With a foreword by Tariq Ali, author of Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes.

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Verso Books

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1804291080

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The Lords of Human Kind

European Attitudes Towards the Outside World in the Imperial Age

By: Victor Gordon Kiernan

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European Attitudes Towards the Outside World in the Imperial Age

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Erudite, ironic, and global in its scope, this book is a definitive guide to the history of racism and Eurocentrism.

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Penguin Books

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0140215131

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Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960

By: Victor Gordon Kiernan

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Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Imperialism and Its Contradictions

Imperialism and Its Contradictions

Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960

Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960

Shakespeare

Shakespeare

Imperialism and Its Contradictions

Imperialism and Its Contradictions

The Lords of Human Kind

The Lords of Human Kind

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

European Empires from Conquest to Collapse, 1815-1960

The Lords of Human Kind

The Lords of Human Kind

Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960

Colonial Empires and Armies, 1815-1960

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