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1. Australia: A New History of the Great Southern Land by Frank Welsh | |
Paperback: 768
Pages
(2008-07-29)
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Editorial Review Product Description This engaging account places Australia's history in a global context, drawing on sources from the United States, Britain, South Africa, and Canada. Acclaimed historian Frank Welsh traces the history of the land from scattered convict settlements to the formation of the Commonwealth of Australia in 1901 and on to today's thriving independent nation, exposing many national myths in the process. Australia is one of the world's most quickly developed modern nations, leaping to prosperous independence from its English colonizers in the span of a generation. This book also explores the dark side of Australia's history: the long-continued "White Australia" policy, which bedeviled foreign policy for more than a century, reflected in Australia's enthusiastic support for the Vietnam War; the still-tortured official relationship with the Aboriginal peoples; the subordination of women; and the flaws in the constitution. Welsh also examines Australia's uneasy relationship with its Asian neighbors, and its isolation from traditional allies Britain and the United States. Original, provocative, and witty, Australia is the most comprehensive single-volume history of Australia yet published. It makes a strong claim to becoming the standard work on this fascinating and often misunderstood country. Customer Reviews (4)
History of the Land Down Under
A Solid And Thorough History
A Major, Balanced, Historical Work
Way Down Under |
2. Union Pacific Railroad (MBI Railroad Color History) by Joe Welsh, Kevin J Holland | |
Hardcover: 160
Pages
(2010-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Created by an act of Congress in 1862 and surviving intact as one of only seven Class I railroads in North America today, the Union Pacific is rightly considered by many to be the quintessential U.S. railroad. Its history has featured key figures and events in the annals of railroading and affected all quarters of the American Midwest and Southwest. This illustrated history follows the Union Pacific from its formation and through such landmark events as the completion of the transcontinental railroad, right up to the railroad’s current role in the continent’s current transportation infrastructure. The book recaptures the drama of the railroad’s perilous formative years, its weathering of economic disasters like the Great Depression, its boom times in the mid-twentieth century, the subsequent decline of passenger services, and the UP’s role in the rail industry’s merger-mania from the 1970s through the 1990s. From engineering lore to a look at the UP’s crack passenger services, this account is illustrated throughout with historical images in color and black-and-white, as well as modern photographs and fascinating print ephemera. |
3. Literature, Religion and Society in Wales, 1660-1730 (University of Wales Press - Studies in Welsh History) by Geraint H. Jenkins | |
Hardcover: 351
Pages
(1980-01-01)
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4. Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields by Ronald L. Lewis | |
Hardcover: 408
Pages
(2008-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Lewis describes how Welsh immigrants brought their national churches, fraternal orders and societies, love of literature and music, and, most important, their own language. Yet unlike eastern and southern Europeans and the Irish, the Welsh—even with their "foreign" ways—encountered no apparent hostility from the Americans. Often within a single generation, Welsh cultural institutions would begin to fade and a new "Welsh American" identity developed. True to the perspective of the Welsh themselves, Lewis's analysis adopts a transnational view of immigration, examining the maintenance of Welsh coal-mining culture in the United States and in Wales. By focusing on Welsh coal miners, Welsh Americans illuminates how Americanization occurred among a distinct group of skilled immigrants and demonstrates the diversity of the labor migrations to a rapidly industrializing America. |
5. The Welsh Name in History by Ancestry.com | |
Paperback: 98
Pages
(2007-06-13)
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6. A History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh | |
Paperback: 690
Pages
(1997-04-21)
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7. The Welsh Language and Social Domains (University of Wales Press - Social History of the Welsh Language) | |
Paperback: 629
Pages
(2000-05-10)
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8. The Welsh Language and the 1891 Census (University of Wales Press - Social History of the Welsh Language) | |
Paperback: 488
Pages
(1999-09-15)
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9. A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong by Frank Welsh | |
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(1996-07)
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Scholarly
Great Read but Traditional Outlook
One with Nineveh and Tyre Redux
A spirited history
Definitely Worth the Time |
10. Language and Community in the Nineteenth Century (University of Wales Press - Social History of the Welsh Language) | |
Paperback: 437
Pages
(1998-09-21)
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11. Welsh History in the Early Middle Ages (Variorum Collected Studies) by Wendy Davies | |
Hardcover: 362
Pages
(2009-08-01)
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12. The Rise and Fall of Apartheid (Reconsiderations in Southern African History) by David Welsh | |
Paperback: 660
Pages
(2010-04-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description On his way into Parliament on February 2, 1990, F. W. de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: "South Africa will never be the same again after this." Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying gloomy predictions of race war in which the white minority circled the wagons and fought to the last drop of blood. Why did it happen? InThe Rise and Fall of Apartheid, David Welsh views the topic against the backdrop of a long history of conflict spanning apartheid's rise and demise, and the liberation movement's suppression and subsequent resurrection. His view is that the movement away from apartheid to majority rule would have taken far longer and been much bloodier were it not for the changes undergone by Afrikaner nationalism itself. There were turning points, such as the Soweto Uprising of 1976, but few believed that the transition from white domination to inclusive democracy would occur as soon -- and as relatively peacefully -- as it did. In effect, however, a multitude of different factors led the African National Congress and the National Party to see that neither side could win the conflict on its own terms. Utterly dissimilar in background, culture, beliefs, and political style, Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Klerk were an unlikely pair of liberators. But both soon recognized that they were dependent on each other to steer the transformation process through to its conclusion. Reconsiderations in Southern African History |
13. Local History on the Ground by Tom Welsh | |
Paperback: 160
Pages
(2009-05-01)
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14. Medical Histories of Confederate Generals by Jack D. Welsh | |
Paperback: 448
Pages
(1999-07)
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Unique and informative |
15. Military Institutions on the Welsh Marches: Shropshire, AD 1066-1300 (Studies in Celtic History) by Frederick C. Suppe | |
Hardcover: 203
Pages
(1994-03-10)
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16. History Of The Welsh Guards by C.H. Dudley Ward | |
Paperback: 570
Pages
(2009-02-13)
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17. Leaders and Teachers: Adult Eduaction and the Challenge of Labour in South Wales, 1906-1940 (University of Wales Press - Studies in Welsh History) by Richard Lewis | |
Hardcover: 271
Pages
(1993-07-22)
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18. A History of Modern Poetry, Volume II: Modernism and After by David Perkins | |
Paperback: 694
Pages
(1987-07-06)
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Editorial Review Product Description There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry since World War II. Until now there has been no single comprehensive history of British and American poetry throughout the half century from the mid-1920s to the recent past. This David Perkins is uniquely equipped to provide; only a critic as well informed as he in the whole range of twentieth-century poetry could offer a lucid, coherent, and structured account of so diverse a body of work. Perkins devotes major discussions to the later careers of the first Modernist poets, such as Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams, and to their immediate followers in the United States, E. E. Cummings, Archibald MacLeish, and Hart Crane; to W. H. Auden, Dylan Thomas, and the period style of the 1930s; to the emergence of the New Criticism and of a poetry reflecting its tenets in William Empson, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell, and to the reaction against this style; to postwar Great Britain from Philip Larkin and the "Movement" in the 1950s to Ted Hughes, Charles Tomlinson, and Geoffrey Hill; to the theory and style of "open form" in Charles Olson and Robert Duncan; to Allen Ginsberg and the Beat poetry of the 1960s; to the poetry of women's experience in Sylvia Plath and Adrienne Rich; to the work of Black poets from Robert Hayden and Gwendolyn Brooks to Amiri Baraka; and to Elizabeth Bishop, W. S. Merwin, A. R. Ammons, John Ashbery, and James Merrill. Perkins discusses some 160 poets, mentioning many others more briefly, and does not hesitate to explain, to criticize, to admire, to render judgments. He clarifies the complex interrelations of individuals, groups, and movements and the contexts in which the poets worked: not only the predecessors and contemporaries they responded to but the journals that published them, the expectations of the audience, changing premises about poetry, the writings of critics, developments in other arts, and the momentous events of political and social history. Readers seeking guidance through the maze of postwar poetry will find the second half of the book especially illuminating. Customer Reviews (4)
Accessible to NonPoets What David Perkins has done is explain the basic chronology of poets periods. This is neither an encyclopedia of terms nor an anthology of great poems. Instead, Perkins takes a period, affiliates the poets major within that period and explains their context and importance. He keeps it simple without talking down to the reader. Essentially, it is a collection of intelligent essays. Some are topical, like "The Postwar Period" while others are poet-specific, like "W. H. Auden." Perkins writes clearly. It isn't trying to impress you, but he is trying to help you understand Eliot and onward. I read it for personal growth, but it would make a solid textbook, in tandem with Perkins' other volume covering the previous eras. I fully recommend "History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After" by David Perkins. Anthony Trendl
A Must Have for Serious Readers of Poetry
excellent introduction to modern poetry
excellent introduction to modern poetry |
19. Christmas in America: A History by Penne L. Restad | |
Paperback: 240
Pages
(1996-12-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description Christmas in America presents us with a fascinating reflection of our changing society by displaying how we have celebrated this holiday from colonial times to the present. While the early Puritans in New England primly denounced any festivities, city dwellers flooded the streets in raucous demonstrations, and Virginians hunted, danced, and feasted. Unwrapping the hidden messages in such time-honored traditions as the Christmas tree, gift-giving, and family dinners, Restad brilliantly reveals how Christmas has evolved into an unescapable presence in contemporary culture. Brimming with insight and colorful detail, Christmas in America shows what our celebrations tell us about our culture and ourselves. From Clement Clarke Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to the box-office smash Home Alone, Restad's marvelous book offers much to delight and consider. Customer Reviews (6)
Christmas USA
Great Resource, but a Little Bit of a Dry Read
Nothing new
Serious students of the Holidays phenomenon take note:
America's values and conflicts as seen through Christmas. |
20. Welsh Castles at War (Revealing History) by John Norris | |
Paperback: 208
Pages
(2004-06-01)
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