William Gifford's Books

Ithuriel's Spear

By: William Henry Fitchett

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William Henry Fitchett (1841-1928) was most a writer of popular history books such as "Deeds That Won the Empire" (1897). His novels include "The Commander of the Hirondelle" (1904); "Ithuriel's Spear" (1906); "A Pawn in the Game" (1907); etc.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434464571

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9781434464576

Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain

By: William C. Lubenow

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Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain

By: William C. Lubenow

Examines the entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state in Britain. "Modern" Britain emerged from the outcome of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. The rather standard Whig account of the long nineteenth century is one of growing stability, progress and improvement. And yet nothing was preordained or inevitable about the period's stability. Ruling elites felt the constant anxieties of revolutionary terrorism. As Lubenow argues, it was a period of disorganization seeking organization. The great nineteenth-century reform acts against religious monopoly were aspects of this process of political organization. While religion did not disappear, these political actions gradually changed the constitutional position of religion. As a result, a political vacuum was created which was then filled by a secular "clerisy". These "fit and proper persons", educated in the reformed universities, qualified by success in competitive examinations, began to fill positions in the Civil Service and in the professions. The effect was to replace the eighteenth-century system of confessional loyalties with a liberal political culture based on merit. Lubenow's latest study examines the work of these intertwining nineteenth-century secular-liberal processes. Steeped deeply in archival research, this book considers biographical characteristics such as education, political connections and social associations, but it is equally conceptually guided by categories such as liberalism and secularism. It fills an important gap in the political history of nineteenth-century British liberalism by taking up the question of entanglement of secularity and liberality in the foundation of the modern state.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783277971

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9781783277971

The Scottish Nation

Vol. 2

By: William Anderson

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The Scottish Nation

Vol. 2

By: William Anderson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382171171

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9783382171179

Arkansas Made, Volume 1

A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas Through 1950

By: Swannee Bennett,William B. Worthen

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Arkansas Made, Volume 1

A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas Through 1950

By: Swannee Bennett,William B. Worthen

Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.

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University of Arkansas Press

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168226131X

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9781682261316

The Baptist Encyclopædia

Part 1

By: William Cathcart

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The Baptist Encyclopædia

Part 1

By: William Cathcart

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3385440807

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9783385440807

Views and Viewmakers of Urban America

Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925

By: John William Reps

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Views and Viewmakers of Urban America

Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of Their Work, 1825-1925

By: John William Reps

Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826204163

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9780826204165

The Tudors on Film and Television

By: Sue Parrill,William B. Robison

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The Tudors on Film and Television

By: Sue Parrill,William B. Robison

With its mix of family drama, sex and violence, Britain's Tudor dynasty (1485-1603) has long excited the interest of filmmakers and moviegoers. Since the birth of movie-making technology, the lives and times of kings Henry VII, Henry VIII, and Edward VI and queens Mary I, Jane Grey and Elizabeth I have remained popular cinematic themes. From 1895's The Execution of Mary Stuart to 2011's Anonymous, this comprehensive filmography chronicles every known movie about the Tudor era, including feature films; made-for-television films, mini-series, and series; documentaries; animated films; and shorts. From royal biographies to period pieces to modern movies with flashbacks or time travel, this work reveals how these films both convey the attitudes of Tudor times and reflect the era in which they were made.

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McFarland

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1476600317

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9781476600314

Long journey with Mr. Jefferson

The Life of Dumas Malone

By: William G. Hyland, Jr.

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Long journey with Mr. Jefferson

The Life of Dumas Malone

By: William G. Hyland, Jr.

The magisterial collaboration over half a lifetime between historian Dumas Malone and his subject, Thomas Jefferson, is the basis for William G. Hyland Jr.'s compelling Long Journey with Mr. Jefferson. Malone, the courtly and genteel historian from Mississippi, spent thirty-eight years researching and writing the definitive biography of the man who invented the United States of America. Hyland provides a surprising portrait of the man many consider America's greatest historian, recording in detail Malone's struggle to finish his towering six-volume work on Jefferson through excruciating pain and then blindness at the age of eighty-three. Hyland includes Malone's previously unpublished correspondence with such notables as John F. Kennedy, Harry S. Truman, George H. W. Bush, Felix Frankfurter, and Fawn Brodie. Readers are treated to an exclusive look at private family documents and Malone's unfinished memoir, which reflects on history, social commentary, and his life's accomplishments. Offering much more than most biographies, this book imparts extensive insight into Malone's earlier years in Mississippi and Georgia, and how they shaped his character. Through interviews with Malone's intimates, family members, rivals, and subordinates, Hyland generates a true portrait of the man behind the intellect and the myth.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1612341977

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9781612341972

Murderers' Row Volume Two

Bogeyman, Murder in the Family, Targeted

By: Steve Jackson,Burl Barer,M. William Phelps

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Murderers' Row Volume Two

Bogeyman, Murder in the Family, Targeted

By: Steve Jackson,Burl Barer,M. William Phelps

Three true-crime books in one volume, featuring cases ranging from Texas to Georgia to Alaska, from New York Times–bestselling and award-winning authors. Included in this three-in-one volume are: Bogeyman by New York Times–bestselling author Steve Jackson For years he stalked elementary schools and playgrounds looking for young girls from low-income neighborhoods to abduct, rape and murder. They were “throwaway kids” to him, hardly missed, soon forgotten, except by those who loved them. He was every parent’s worst nightmare—and it took a decades-long fight by Texas lawmen to bring him to justice. “A fascinating, well-paced read about the lows and highs of cold case investigations.” —Katherine Ramsland, in Psychology Today Murder In The Familyby Edgar Award–winning author Burl Barer A New York Times Bestseller: In 1987, Anchorage police arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman’s brutally beaten corpse and the bodies of her two young daughters. After an intense investigation, they identified the principal suspect: Kirby Anthoney—a troubled drifter who’d turned to his uncle, Nancy’s husband, for help and a place to stay. Little did he know that the nephew he took in was a murderous sociopath . . . “Barer writes true crime at its best.” —Jack Olsen Targetedby New York Times–bestselling author M. William Phelps When her missing boyfriend is found dead, his body encased in cement inside a watering trough and dumped in a cattle field, a Georgia sheriff’s deputy is arrested and charged with his murder. But as an investigative journalist digs in, the truth leads to questions about her guilt . . . “Phelps is one of America’s finest true-crime writers.” —Vincent Bugliosi

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WildBlue Press

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1948239477

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9781948239479

Crowded Out o’ Crofield

By: William O. Stoddard

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Crowded Out o’ Crofield

By: William O. Stoddard

Reproduction of the original: Crowded Out o’ Crofield by William O. Stoddard

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3752422599

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9783752422597

The Epistolary Moment

The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle

By: William C. Dowling

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The Epistolary Moment

The Poetics of the Eighteenth-Century Verse Epistle

By: William C. Dowling

The eighteenth-century verse epistle, argues William Dowling, was an attempt to solve in literary terms the dilemma of solipsism as raised by Locke and Hume. The focus of The Epistolary Moment is on internal audience in poetry--the audience "inside" the poem, created by its discourse and belonging to its world--as this divides in epistolary poetry into a double or simultaneous register of address: the audience directly addressed by the letter-writer, and an epistolary audience listening in on the exchange from a point external to the discourse of the speaker but internal to the discourse of the poem. Epistolary audience lies, contends The Epistolary Moment, at the heart of an Augustan theory of poetry as ideological intervention, poems as symbolic acts with enormous consequences in the domain of the real. The emergence of the verse epistle as the dominant form in eighteenth-century poetry thus takes as its ultimate context the origins of eighteenth-century solipsism in a degraded modernity symbolized by Sir Robert Walpole and his Robinocracy, the demonic representatives of a new money or market society arising from the ruins of organic or traditional community. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400862205

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9781400862207

SOUTH FLORIDA ELECTION LAW HANDBOOK

By: William J. Skinner

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SOUTH FLORIDA ELECTION LAW HANDBOOK

By: William J. Skinner

TWO QUOTATIONS ABOUT the BOOK This book puts truth to the lie that voter fraud is rare and insignificant. A must read for understanding the battle space of the modern political campaign. J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS, election lawyer and author of the New York Times bestseller INJUSTICE Election fraud is alive and well in Florida. This book is a must read for anyone who believes in election integrity and wants the tools to oppose corruption. PETER M. FEAMAN, national committeeman, Florida

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Xlibris Corporation

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149319982X

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9781493199822

Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Journalists

By: William H. Taft

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Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Journalists

By: William H. Taft

Originally published in 1986. This book is a unique compilation of biographical sketches which covers editors, publishers, photographers, bureau chiefs, columnists, commentators, cartoonists, and artists. Alphabetical entries provide overviews of the lives and personalities of a good cross-section of important people. There is also a short essay on awards and prize winners. Everything is efficiently indexed. This is a supremely useful reference tool for those in mass media and popular culture fields.

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Routledge

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1317403258

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9781317403258

Witch Hunts in Europe and America

An Encyclopedia

By: William E. Burns

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Witch Hunts in Europe and America

An Encyclopedia

By: William E. Burns

From early sorcery trials of the 14th century—associated primarily with French and Papal courts—to the witch executions of the late 18th century, this book's entries cover witch-hunting in individual countries, major witch trials from Chelmsford, England, to Salem, Massachusetts, and significant individuals from famous witches to the devout persecutors. Entries such as the evil eye, familiars, and witch-finders cover specific aspects of the witch-hunting process, while entries on writers and modern interpretations provide insight into the current thinking on early modern witch hunts. From the wicked witch of children's stories to Halloween and present-day Wiccan groups, witches and witchcraft still fascinate observers of Western culture. Witches were believed to affect climatological catastrophes, put spells on their neighbors, and cavort with the devil. In early modern Europe and the Americas, witches and witch-hunting were an integral part of everyday life, touching major events such as the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution, as well as politics, law, medicine, and culture.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313093822

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9780313093821

Book's by William Gifford

Ithuriel's Spear

Ithuriel's Spear

Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain

Secular Foundations of the Liberal State in Victorian Britain

The Scottish Nation

The Scottish Nation

Arkansas Made, Volume 1

Arkansas Made, Volume 1

The Baptist Encyclopædia

The Baptist Encyclopædia

Views and Viewmakers of Urban America

Views and Viewmakers of Urban America

The Tudors on Film and Television

The Tudors on Film and Television

Long journey with Mr. Jefferson

Long journey with Mr. Jefferson

Murderers' Row Volume Two

Murderers' Row Volume Two

Crowded Out o’ Crofield

Crowded Out o’ Crofield

The Epistolary Moment

The Epistolary Moment

SOUTH FLORIDA ELECTION LAW HANDBOOK

SOUTH FLORIDA ELECTION LAW HANDBOOK

Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Journalists

Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Journalists

Witch Hunts in Europe and America

Witch Hunts in Europe and America

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