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The history of black people in Britain is frequently reduced to the story of recent black settlement. But that is not where this extraordinary cross-continental relationship begins. Africa and Britain: A Forgotten History re-tells the story of black people in the UK and - to do so - travels to the United States, Jamaica, South Africa, and Sierra Leone. Forgotten art vaults are unlocked, artefacts re-examined and 20 Black History plaques unveiled to...
3) The forties
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"A decade of violent contrasts and violent change--in writing, photographs, drawings, and paintings." --
6) The thirties
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"The Thirties presents a number of different and often contradictory social facets with photograhs and dialogue."--
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The Edwardian age stands in a pivotal position between the ninetheenth century and the twentieth. Professor Hynes sees the brief stretch of history between the death of Quen Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War not as a golden age but as a time of waiting, a time of anxieties, a time of conflict between the old and new. A growing awareness of social problems resulted not in action but in worry, not in solutions but in feelings and in...
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"In this book David Cannadine reconnects the inhabitants of Britain with just what an odd and interesting a place they really live in. It brings together some of this most brilliant writing on Britain's past, and on the obsession with that past, which continues despite all efforts to shake it off." "Church dominates these pages. As modern Britain's savior, but also as a self consciously Victorian figure from another age, he sums up the strange cross...
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Luisa Passerini explores the emotional basis of the idea of a united Europe between the world wars, uncovering the meanings of European identity and European unity. She investigates the idea of a united Europe in connection with a discourse on love which had been developing in the West since the seventeenth century. These ideas were debated by literary scholars, novelists and poets, who focused on the theme of courtly love and its connections with...
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Celebrated films by Francis Ford Coppola, Jane Campion, and Ang Lee; best-selling novels by A.S.Byatt and William Gibson; revivals of Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll's Alice, and nostalgic photography, computer graphics and cyberpunk performances: contemporary culture, high and low, has fallen in love with the nineteenth century. Major critical thinkers have found in the period the origins of contemporary consumerism, sexual science, gay culture, and feminism....
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