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Memorandoms by James Martin : An Astonishing Escape from Early New South Wales
Among the vast body of manuscripts composed and collected by the philosopher and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748 - 1832), held by UCL Library's Special Collections, is the earliest Australian convict narrative, Memorandoms by James Martin. This document also happens to be the only extant first-hand account of the most well-known, and most mythologized, escape from Australia by transported convict…
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- 9781911576839
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- 920 MEM
The Life and Letters of William Sharp and “Fiona Macleod”
"William Sharp (1855-1905) conducted one of the most audacious literary deceptions of his or any time. Sharp was a Scottish poet, novelist, biographer and editor who in 1893 began to write critically and commercially successful books under the name Fiona Macleod. This was far more than just a pseudonym: he corresponded as Macleod, enlisting his sister to provide the handwriting and address, and…
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- 9781783745029
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- 920 HAL l
Capitalism and Cloves : An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Centu…
This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in global historical archaeology. Broadening plantation archaeology beyond the Atlantic World, this work addresses plantations run by Omani Arab colonial rulers of Zanzibar. Drawing on archaeological and historical data, this book argues for the need to examine non-Western contexts of co…
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- 978-1-4419-8471-5
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- XIII, 256
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- 900
Fragmenting Modernism : Ford Madox Ford, the Novel and the Great War
Fragmenting Modernism is about Ford Madox Ford, a hero of the modernist literary revolution. Ford is a fascinating and fundamental figure of the time; not only because as a friend and critic of Ezra Pound and Joseph Conrad, editor of the English Review and author of The Good Soldier, he shaped the development of literary modernism. But as the grandson of Ford Madox Brown, and son of a German mu…
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- 9780719060557
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- 920 HAS f
Digital Scholarly Editing : Theories and Practices
This volume presents the state of the art in digital scholarly editing. Drawing together the work of established and emerging researchers, it gives pause at a crucial moment in the history of technology in order to offer a sustained reflection on the practices involved in producing, editing and reading digital scholarly editions—and the theories that underpin them.
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- 9781783742400
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- 290 halaman
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- Digital Humanities Series
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- 370 DRI d
On the daimonion of Socrates : Plutarch
Plutarch's dialogue On the daimonion of Socrates is a unique combination of exciting historical romance and serious philosophical and religious discussion. The volume offers a range of essays on themes providing further insights into this masterly literary piece: on the historical, religious and philosophical background and on thematic connections with other works by Plutarch
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- 9783161501388
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- SAPERE
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- 900 DAI
State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It offers detailed knowledge of shipbuilding and printing. Moreover, it contributes to the research …
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- 9789048537938
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- 402 pages
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- Social Histories of Work in Asia
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- 900
Handbook Global History of Work
What is the day-to-day reality for workers in various parts of the world, and how was it in the past? How do they work today, and how did they work in the past? Did workers ever protest? If so, how? These and many other questions comprise the field of the global history of work – a young discipline that is introduced with this handbook.
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- 9783110424584,
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- 604 pages
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- De Gruyter Reference
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- 900
Dionysos in Archaic Greece : An Understanding Through Images
For the Greek, Dionysos was a very important god: for individuals as well as for the community as a whole. As there are only a few written sources dating from before the 5th Century BC the many images of Dionysos on Greek vases may well offer a genuine approach to the meaning given by the ancient viewer. This book explores the earliest images followed by those on small vases for private use, o…
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- 9789004144453
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- xx, 292 halaman
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- 200 ISL d
Roars from the Mountain Colonial Management of the 1951 Volcanic disaster at …
"Mount Lamington broke out in violent eruption on 21 January 1951, killing thousands of Orokaiva people, devastating villages and destroying infrastructure. Generations of Orokaiva people had lived on the rich volcanic soils of Mount Lamington, apparently unaware of the deadly volcanic threat that lay dormant beneath them. Also unaware were the Europeans who administered the Territory of Papua …
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- 382 pages
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- 94
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