The Clumsiest People In Europe

Author : Todd Pruzan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596918829
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clumsiest People in Europe written by Todd Pruzan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-13 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious, the bestselling Victorian author Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer rarely left the house-but that didn't stop her from writing several successful travel books. With volumes on Europe, Asia, and Africa and America, Mrs. Mortimer had something nasty to say about your ancestors, no matter where they had the misfortune of living. Todd Pruzan has assembled three of Mrs. Mortimer's very forgotten classics into one volume, The Clumsiest People in Europe, a wild tour through the comically and horrifyingly misinformed prejudices of a unique Victorian eccentric.

Author : Favell Lee Mortimer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780739462119
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clumsiest People in Europe, Or, Mrs. Mortimer's Bad Tempered Guide to the Victorian World written by Favell Lee Mortimer and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Todd Pruzan
Publisher : Bloomsbury USA
ISBN 13 : 9781596911505
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clumsiest People in Europe written by Todd Pruzan and published by Bloomsbury USA. This book was released on 2006-06-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caustic, cranky, and inadvertently hilarious, the bestselling Victorian author Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer rarely left the house-but that didn't stop her from writing several successful travel books. With volumes on Europe, Asia, and Africa and America, Mrs. Mortimer had something nasty to say about your ancestors, no matter where they had the misfortune of living. Todd Pruzan has assembled three of Mrs. Mortimer's very forgotten classics into one volume, The Clumsiest People in Europe, a wild tour through the comically and horrifyingly misinformed prejudices of a unique Victorian eccentric. "Sublime in its peremptory dictate and overweening all-knowingness."-Boston Sunday Globe "To the modern eye, Mortimer's work-by turns unsettling and hilarious-is nothing short of a revolution in guidebook writing: here at last, is the irritable-bowel-syndrome-as-travelogue."-New York Times Book Review "Weirdly appealing...Mrs. Mortimer is, at once, fascinating, hilarious and furious but always maddeningly entertaining."-Chicago Tribune "My favourite summer read this year...endlessly entertaining."-Toronto Globe & Mail Todd Pruzan is an editor at the bimonthly design journal Print and has been an editor and writer at several other magazines. He was born in Washington, D.C., and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Author : Ben Macintyre
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408816849
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Word written by Ben Macintyre and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A sprinkling of delightful nuggets about the uses and abuses of the English Language' Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year '[There are] myriad delights in Ben Macintyre's musings on language' The Times, Books of the Year _____________________ Do you know your geek-speak from your geek-chic? Ever wanted to put Humpty Dumpty together again? Can you distinguish Spanglish from Chinglish? We adapt words from other languages, from slang, from developments in science, literature and art. Learn the advantages of having your own signature word; why the lifts in the House of Commons have posh accents; and discover the discreet art of the loophemism. Witty and utterly delightful, The Last Word will tease, tickle and tantalise those who enjoy all things lexical.

Author : Megan A. Norcia
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821443534
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book X Marks the Spot written by Megan A. Norcia and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain’s ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorical tropes such as the Family of Man or discussions of food and customs in order to plot other cultures along an imperial hierarchy. Cross-disciplinary in nature, X Marks the Spot is an analysis of previously unknown material that examines the interplay between gender, imperial duty, and pedagogy. Megan A. Norcia offers an alternative map for traversing the landscape of nineteenth-century female history by reintroducing the primers into the dominant historical record. This is the first full-length study of the genre as a distinct tradition of writing produced on the fringes of professional geographic discourse before the high imperial period.

Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438474369
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800 written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography. Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500–1800 uses the innovative approach of “connected histories” to address a series of questions regarding the early modern world in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. The period between 1500 and 1800 was one of intense inter-imperial competition involving the Iberians, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the British, and other actors. Rather than understand these imperial entities separately, Sanjay Subrahmanyam reads their archives and texts together to show unexpected connections and refractions. He further proposes, in this set of closely argued studies, that these empires often borrowed from each other, or built their projects with knowledge of other competing visions of empire. The emphasis on connections is also crucial for an understanding of how a variety of genres of imperial and global history writing developed in the early modern world. The book moves creatively between political, economic, intellectual, and cultural themes to suggest a fresh geographical conception for the epoch. Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor and Irving and Jean Stone Chair in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500–1650.

Author : George Walker
Publisher : John Catt
ISBN 13 : 1908095091
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Educating the Global Citizen written by George Walker and published by John Catt. This book was released on 2011-06-26 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization means that no country can afford to ignore what goes on outside its borders. International exchanges are part of everyday life. As a result, international education has been growing at an astonishing rate over the last generation. In "Educating the Global Citizen", George Walker examines in-depth the basic concepts of international education: the apparent tension between human diversity and our common humanity; the importance of intercultural understanding; and, the search for a set of universal values to unite humankind.

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
ISBN 13 : 1570617015
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book Lust to Go written by Nancy Pearl and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, Nancy Pearl's reading recommendations will send you on your way.

Author : Douglas R. Burgess Jr.
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804798982
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engines of Empire written by Douglas R. Burgess Jr. and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859, the S.S. Great Eastern departed from England on her maiden voyage. She was a remarkable wonder of the nineteenth century: an iron city longer than Trafalgar Square, taller than Big Ben's tower, heavier than Westminster Cathedral. Her paddles were the size of Ferris wheels; her decks could hold four thousand passengers bound for America, or ten thousand troops bound for the Raj. Yet she ended her days as a floating carnival before being unceremoniously dismantled in 1889. Steamships like the Great Eastern occupied a singular place in the Victorian mind. Crossing oceans, ferrying tourists and troops alike, they became emblems of nationalism, modernity, and humankind's triumph over the cruel elements. Throughout the nineteenth century, the spectacle of a ship's launch was one of the most recognizable symbols of British social and technological progress. Yet this celebration of the power of the empire masked overconfidence and an almost religious veneration of technology. Equating steam with civilization had catastrophic consequences for subjugated peoples around the world. Engines of Empire tells the story of the complex relationship between Victorians and their wondrous steamships, following famous travelers like Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, and Jules Verne as well as ordinary spectators, tourists, and imperial administrators as they crossed oceans bound for the colonies. Rich with anecdotes and wry humor, it is a fascinating glimpse into a world where an empire felt powerful and anything seemed possible—if there was an engine behind it.

Author : Alma Bennett
Publisher : Clemson University Press
ISBN 13 : 163804113X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thomas Green Clemson written by Alma Bennett and published by Clemson University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Green Clemson (1807-1888), the founder of Clemson University, was a complex man of broad and varied interests. To introduce us to this man, specialists of history, science, agriculture, engineering, music, art, diplomacy, law, and communications come together to address Clemson's multifaceted life and issues that helped shape him.