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Providing a much-needed perspective on exclusion and discrimination, this book offers a distinct spatial approach to the topic of hate studies. Of interest to academics and students of human geography, criminology, sociology and beyond, the book highlights enduring, diverse and uneven experiences of hate in contemporary society. The collection explores the intersecting experiences of those targeted on the basis of assumed and historically marg...

Written in 1774, Edward Long's History of Jamaica, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Catherine Hall unpicks the contradictions in Long's thinking, exposing the insidious myths and stereotypes that have allowed reconfigured forms of racial difference and racial capitalism to live on in contemporary societies.

This monograph explores the social constructs surrounding artistic production in early modern Iberia through the lenses of gender and class by examining the rarely-considered contribution of creative women in Spain and Portugal between 1550 and 1700.

At the beginning of World War II, twelve-year-old Nora Lynch is one of thousands of London children sent away to the safety of the English countryside. Her surrogate family, Reverend and Mrs. Rivers and their daughter, Grace, are like no one she has ever met, offering shelter, affection, and the sister she never had. But Nora is too young and too naïve to understand the cracks beneath the surface of her idyllic new life at the rectory or the d...

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At the beginning of World War II, twelve-year-old Nora Lynch is one of thousands of London children sent away to the safety of the English countryside. Her surrogate family, Reverend and Mrs. Rivers and their daughter, Grace, are like no one she has ever met, offering shelter, affection, and the sister she never had. But Nora is too young and too naïve to understand the cracks beneath the surface of her idyllic new life at the rectory or the d...

Jo, eine freiberufliche Kriegsfotografin, kehrt 2013 aus Afghanistan zurück nach England. In der Wohnung ihrer kürzlich verstorbenen Großtante spürt sie den psychischen Auswirkungen ihrer Erlebnisse nach und versucht, wieder in der "normalen" Welt anzukommen. In der Hinterlassenschaft ihrer Großtante findet Jo das Tagebuch ihrer Urgroßmutter Elizabeth, das diese 1914/15 verfasst hat, während sie als Krankenschwester in Brighton indische Soldat...

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This beautifully illustrated monograph presents the first overview in English of the life and work of Luisa Roldán (1652‿1706), a prolific and celebrated sculptor of the Spanish Golden Age. The daughter of Pedro Roldán, a well-known sculptor from Seville, she developed her talent in her father‿s workshop. Early in her career she produced large polychromed wooden sculptures for churches in Seville, Cádiz, and surrounding towns. She spent the se...

If they fail, their world will end…Banished from her kingdom by the evil Queen Morag, Princess Gwyneth, a young sorceress, is forced to undertake an urgent and perilous quest to recover a powerful ring from the bottomless Well of Souls, deep inside the dreaded Spider Forest.But first Gwyneth must rescue Starbright, a unicorn, imprisoned inside The Crystal Mountain. Because only Starbright's horn can neutralize the poisoned water in the Well of...

This fascinating book, The Poisoned Dreamer, will help you overcome the hardest parts of life and encourage you to go after your wildest dreams. Quindon, a young man with a God-given talent, wants to influence the world, promoting change for the better. He shares his many struggles, including watching his mother slowly deteriorate from stage 3 cancer, being a young black man in America, and suffering from depression. While experiencing his low...

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A tautly-plotted and suspenseful debut about an intense war-time friendship, a suppressed passion, a jealous crime, and a corrosive secret kept for decades.

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Die britische Kultur- und Sozialhistorikerin Catherine Hall wurde 2017 für ihr beeindruckendes Lebenswerk mit dem Bochumer Historikerpreis ausgezeichnet. Ihre wegweisenden Arbeiten zur Klassen- und Geschlechtergeschichte wurden international breit rezipiert. Ihre Untersuchungen zur Sklavereigeschichte, in denen sie die große Bedeutung der Sklaverei für den gesellschaftlichen Reichtum Großbritanniens nachwies, lösten eine intensive öffentliche ...

Collects together the best articles by key historians, literary critics, and anthropologists on the cultures of colonialism in the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.. A substantial introduction by the distinguished historian, Professor Catherine Hall, discusses new approaches to the history of empire and establishes a narrative frame through which to read the essays which follow.. The volume is clearly divided into three...

This book on mobile technologies discusses the rapid advances that have been made in the field of mobile devices and cellular hardware. Recent advances have shown that the potential for improvement in the field of mobile technologies is quite vast. Such technology uses sophisticated data transmission protocols for achieving successful communication. This book is a compilation of chapters that discuss the most vital concepts and emerging trends...

The Leading Business Men of Middeltown, Portland, Durham and Middlefield is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1890. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available to...

Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth-century Englishness.

Winner of the Morris D. Forkasch prize for the best book in British history 2002 Civilising Subjects argues that the empire was at the heart of nineteenth--century Englishness.