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    The last American aristocrat : the brilliant life and improbable education of Henry Adams (2020)
    New York :Scribner,
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    almafu_BV047100119
    Format: xi, 451 Seiten, 8 Seiten Bildtafeln : , Illustrationen ; , 24 cm.
    Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition
    ISBN: 978-1-9821-2823-4
    Content: Illuminates the achievements of the nineteenth-century historian, writer, and intellectual, discussing Adams's relationships with political leaders inside and outside of his family and his witness to the dawn of modern America
    Content: "Henry Adams is perhaps the most eclectic, accomplished, and important American writer of his time. His autobiography and modern classic The Education of Henry Adams was widely considered one of the best English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century. The last member of his distinguished family--after great-grandfather John Adams, and grandfather John Quincy Adams--to gain national attention, he is remembered today as an historian, a political commentator, and a memoirist. Now, historian David Brown sheds light on the brilliant yet under-celebrated life of this major American intellectual. Adams not only lived through the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution but he met Abraham Lincoln, bowed before Queen Victoria, and counted powerful figures, including Secretary of State John Hay, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and President Theodore Roosevelt as friends and neighbors. His observations of these men and their policies in his private letters provide a penetrating assessment of Gilded Age America on the cusp of the modern era." -- Inside front jacket flap
    Note: Introduction -- Preface: Back to Beverly -- Becoming Henry Adams. Inheritance ; Education ; Illusions ; Boston ; Washington -- Performing Henry Adams. Flight ; Fury ; Dynamo ; Resonance
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-9821-2825-8
    Language: English
    Subjects: American Studies
    RVK:
    HT 3005
    Keywords: 1838-1918 Adams, Henry ; Biografie ; Biography ; Biographies ; Biografie ; Biography ; Biographies ; Biografie
    URL: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9781982128234.pdf
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    Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion : The Example of Sargent Shriver (2022)
    Toronto :University of Toronto Press,
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    UID:
    almahu_9949546441802882
    Format: 1 online resource (200 p.)
    ISBN: 9781442694200 , 9783110993899
    Content: The clash of religion and politics has been a steady source of polarization in North America. In order to think wisely and constructively about the spiritual dimension of our political life, there is need for an approach that can both maintain the diversity of belief and foster values founded on the principles of religion. In Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion, James R. Price and Kenneth R. Melchin provide a possible framework, approaching issues in politics via a profile of Sargent Shriver (1915-2011), an American diplomat, politician, and a driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps. Focusing on the speeches Shriver delivered in the course of his work to advance civil rights and build world peace, Price and Melchin highlight the spiritual component of his efforts to improve institutional structures and solve social problems. They contextualize Shriver's approach by contrasting it with contemporary, landmark decisions of the U.S Supreme Court on the role of religion in politics. In doing so, Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion explains that navigating the relationship of religion and politics requires attending to both the religious diversity that politics must guard and the religious involvements that politics needs to do its work.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface -- , Chapter One. Religion and Politics: Doing Things Differently -- , Chapter Two. The Public Faith of Sargent Shriver, 1955-1959 -- , Chapter Three. Shriver on Spirituality and Politics, 1961-1964 -- , Chapter Four. Explaining What Shriver Did -- , Chapter Five. Religion, Politics, and the Peace Corps -- , Chapter Six. The Way Forward -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
    In: University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110767155
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9781442642522
    Language: English
    Keywords: Biografie ; Biography ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biografie
    DOI: 10.3138/9781442694200
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442694200
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442694200
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  • 3
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    Men of invention and industry (199)
    Champaign, Ill : Project Gutenberg
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    UID:
    gbv_097221244
    ISBN: 0585012199 , 9780585012193
    Series Statement: EBSCOhost eBook Collection
    Note: Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries , Phineas Pett : beginnings of English shipbuildingFrancis Pettit Smith, practical introducer of the screw propeller -- John Harrison, inventor of the marine chronometer -- John Lombe, introducer of the silk industry into England -- William Murdock, his life and inventions -- Frederick Koenig, inventor of the steam-printing machine -- The Walters of the "Times" : invention of the Walter press -- William Clowes : book-printing by steam -- Charles Bianconi : a lesson of self-help in Ireland -- Industry in Ireland : through Connaught and Ulster to Belfast -- Ship-building in Belfast / by E.J. Harland, engineer and shipbuilder -- Astronomers and students in humble life : a new chapter in the "Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties". , Mode of access: World Wide Web.
    Additional Edition: ISBN 0585012199
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780585012193
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Biography ; Biography ; Biography. ; Electronic books
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
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  • 4
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    Arctic Madness : The Anthropology of a Delusion (2020)
    [s.l.] :HAU Books,
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    UID:
    almafu_9959748909202883
    Format: 1 online resource (1 p.)
    Content: The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838-1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circle in Canada, publishing numerous works on First Nations languages and practices. Over time, however, he descended into delirium and began to summon imaginary persecutions, pen improbable interpretations of his Indigenous hosts, and burst into schizoid fury. Delving into thousands of pages in letters and memoirs that Petitot left behind, Pierre Déléage has reconstructed the missionary's tragic story. He takes us on a gripping journey into the illogic and hyperlogic of a mind entranced with Indigenous peoples against the backdrop of repressive church policies and the emergent social sciences of the nineteenth century. Apocalyptic visions from the Bible and prophetic movements among First Nations peoples merged in the missionary's deteriorating psyche, triggering paroxysms of violence against his colleagues and himself. Whoever wishes to understand the contradictions of living between radically different societies will find this anthropological novella hard to put down.
    Note: Persecution mania : a missionary among First Nations -- Interpretation delusions : Israelites of the North Pole -- Prophetic frenzy : anticipating the end times. , English
    Additional Edition: ISBN 1-912808-37-4
    Language: English
    Keywords: Biography ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biography ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biography ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biography ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biographies.
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  • 5
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    On Empson / (2017)
    Princeton, New Jersey :Princeton University Press,
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    UID:
    almafu_BV044282005
    Format: 212 Seiten.
    ISBN: 978-0-691-16376-5
    Series Statement: Writers on writers
    Content: Are literary critics writers? As Michael Wood says, "Not all critics are writers--perhaps most of them are not--and some of them are better when they don't try to be." The British critic and poet William Empson (1906-84), one of the most important and influential critics of the twentieth century, was an exception--a critic who was not only a writer but also a great one. In this brief book, Wood, himself one of the most gifted writers among contemporary critics, explores Empson as a writer, a distinguished poet whose criticism is a brilliant literary performance--and proof that the act of reading can be an unforgettable adventure. Drawing out the singularity and strength of Empson's writing, including its unfailing wit, Wood traces the connections between Empson's poetry and criticism from his first and best-known critical works, Seven Types of Ambiguity and Some Versions of Pastoral, to later books such as Milton's God and The Structure of Complex Words. Wood shows why this pioneer of close reading was both more and less than the inventor of New Criticism - more because he was the greatest English critic since Coleridge, and didn't belong to any school; and less because he had severe differences with many contemporary critics, especially those who dismissed the importance of an author's intentions. Beautifully written and rich with insight, On Empson is an elegant introduction to a unique writer for whom literature was a nonstop form of living
    Note: Empson's Intentions -- The Strangeness of the World -- Large Dreams -- The Other Case -- All in Flight -- Sibylline Leaves -- The Smoke of Hell
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HM 2485
    Keywords: 1906-1984 Empson, William ; Biografie ; Biography ; Biografie ; Biography
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    Richard D'Oyly Carte / (2019)
    London :Routledge,
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    UID:
    almahu_9949384206002882
    Format: 1 online resource (1 volume) : , illustrations (black and white)
    ISBN: 9781351045896 , 135104589X , 9781351045919 , 1351045911 , 9781351045889 , 1351045881 , 9781351045902 , 1351045903
    Series Statement: Music in nineteenth-century Britain
    Content: The first biography of Richard D'Oyly Carte, this is a critical survey of the career of the impresario whose ambitions went beyond the famous partnership of Gilbert and Sullivan. Errors and misconceptions in current literature are challenged and corrected to give a truer portrayal of one of the most influential music theatre promoters in the nineteenth century.
    Note: Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Foreword; Chapter 1 Ancestry; Notes; Chapter 2 Apprenticeship; Notes; Chapter 3 The Comedy Opera Company; Notes; Chapter 4 Celebrity lecture tours; Notes; Chapter 5 The first Savoy operas; Notes; Chapter 6 The Savoy Hotel; Notes; Chapter 7 The Royal English Opera House; Notes; Chapter 8 The later Savoy Operas; Notes; Chapter 9 Legacy and posterity; Notes; Appendix 1: a family account; Notes; Appendix 2: the D'Oyly pedigree; Notes; Select bibliography; Archive and manuscript sources , Printed primary sourcesPrinted secondary sources; Index
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Biography ; Electronic books. ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biographies.
    URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351045919
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  • 7
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    The years of anger : the life of Randall Swingler (2020)
    London :Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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    almahu_9949386093102882
    Format: 1 online resource (xxii, 318 pages)
    ISBN: 9780429326066 , 0429326068 , 9781000060195 , 1000060195 , 9781000060232 , 1000060233 , 9781000060157 , 1000060152
    Series Statement: Routledge studies in radical history and politics
    Content: Randall Swingler (1909-67) was arguably the most significant and the best-known radical English poet of his generation. A widely published poet, playwright, novelist, editor and critic, his work was set to music by almost all the major British composers of his time. This new biography draws on extensive sources, including the security services files, to present the most detailed account yet of this influential poet, lyricist and activist. A literary entrepreneur, Swingler was founder of radical paperback publishing company Fore Publications, editor of Left Review and Our Time and literary editor of the Daily Worker; later becoming a staff reporter, until the paper was banned in 1941. In the 1930s, he contributed several plays for Unity Theatre, including the Mass Declamation Spain, the Munich play Crisis and the revues Sandbag Follies and Get Cracking. In 1936, MI5 opened a 20-year-long file on him prompted by a song he co-wrote with Alan Bush for a concert organised to mark the arrival of the 1934 Hunger March into London. During the Second World War, Swingler served in North Africa and Italy and was awarded the Military Medal for his part in the battle of Lake Comacchio. His collections The Years of Anger (1946) and The God in the Cave (1950) contain arguably some of the greatest poems of the Italian campaign. After the war, Swingler was blacklisted by the BBC. Orwell attacked him in Polemic and included him in the list of names he offered the security services in 1949. Stephen Spender vilified him in The God That Failed. The book will challenge the Cold War assumptions that have excluded Swingler's life and work from standard histories of the period and should be of great interest to activists, scholars and those with an interest in the history of the literary and radical left.
    Note: 1. Home 2. School 3. Oxford 4. Entrance to the City 5. 1937 6. 1938 7. 1939 8. Imperialist War 9. Signals 10. Italy 11. Victory 12. London 13. Cold War 14. 1956 15. The People's Republic of Pebmarsh 16. The True Dark
    Additional Edition: Print version: Croft, Andy. Years of anger. London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 ISBN 0367344750
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780367344757
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Biography ; Electronic books. ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Biographies. ; Electronic books ; Biography
    DOI: 10.4324/9780429326066
    URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429326066
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  • 8
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    Anthony Powell : dancing to the music of time (2017)
    London :Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books,
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    UID:
    almafu_BV044686834
    Format: xv, 509 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten : , Illustrationen.
    ISBN: 978-0-241-14383-4 , 0241143837
    Content: ''Acclaimed literary biographer Hilary Spurling turns her attention to Anthony Powell, an iconic figure of English letters. Equally notorious for his literary achievements and his lacerating wit, Powell famously authored the twelve-volume, twenty-five year magnum opus, A Dance to the Music of Time. This enduringly fascinating portrait of mid-20th-century Britain has never been out of print, inspiring TV and radio adaptations and elevating the author to The Times' list of fifty greatest British writers since 1945. Master novelist, well-connected socialite and keen-eyed social observer, Powell comes into focus as never before in this authoritative biography from one of our generation's greatest biographers."--Publisher website
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 9780241256558
    Language: English
    Subjects: English Studies
    RVK:
    HN 6955
    Keywords: 1905-2000 Powell, Anthony ; Biografie ; Biographies ; Biography ; Biografie
    Author information: Spurling, Hilary 1940-
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    Saints of ninth- and tenth-century Greece / (2019)
    Cambridge, Massachusetts :Harvard University Press,
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    UID:
    almafu_BV045678147
    Format: xxix, 353 Seiten.
    ISBN: 978-0-674-23736-0
    Series Statement: Dumbarton Oaks medieval library 54
    Content: "Saints of Ninth- and Tenth-Century Greece collects funeral orations, encomia, and narrative hagiography. Together, these works illuminate one of the most obscure periods of Greek history--when holy men played central roles as the Byzantine administration reimposed control on southern and central Greece in the wake of Avar, Slavic, and Arab attacks and the collapse of the late Roman Empire. The bishops of the region provided much-needed leadership and institutional stability, while ascetics established hermitages and faced invaders. The Lives gathered here include accounts of Peter of Argos, which offers insight into episcopal authority in medieval Greece, and Theodore of Kythera, an important source for the history of piracy in the Aegean Sea.This volume, which illustrates the literary variety of saints' Lives, presents Byzantine Greek texts written by locals in the provinces and translated here into English for the first time.".--
    Note: Martyrdom of Nicholas the Younger -- Encomium of Nicholas the Younger / by the Presbyter Achaikos -- Funeral oration for Athanasios, Bishop of Methone / by Peter, Bishop of Argos -- Life of Peter, Bishop of Argos / by Theodore, Bishop of Nicaea -- Life and miracles of Theokletos, Bishop of Lakedaimon -- Life of Theodore of Kythera / by Leo -- Commemoration of Arsenios, Archbishop of Kerkyra , Text griechisch mit englischer Übersetzung
    Language: English
    Subjects: Theology
    RVK:
    BO 2060
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    BO 1825
    Keywords: Heiliger ; Biografie ; Biography ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Early works ; Biografie ; Anthologie ; Quelle ; Kommentar
    URL: http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=031061670&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA
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    URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis
    URL: Klappentext
    Author information: Polemēs, Iōannēs D. 1966-
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    Maecenas / (2019)
    New York :Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group,
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    almahu_9949384208302882
    Format: 1 online resource
    ISBN: 9780429650352 , 0429650353 , 9780429645075 , 0429645074 , 9780429647710 , 0429647719 , 9780429028441 , 042902844X
    Content: While much has been written of the importance of Agrippa in Augustus' rise to power as the first emperor of Rome, Maecenas remains a shadowy figure despite being a vital part in the success of Augustus. After the assassination of Julius Caesar, Maecenas was a vital negotiator between Octavian and Mark Antony in the years leading up to the battle of Actium, and a wise political advisor to Augustus during the early years of the new regime. This is the first biography of Maecenas in English and gives due credit to the stature of Maecenas both as a confidant of the emperor and as patron of the poets Virgil, Horace and Propertius. The book devotes a chapter to each poet's relationship with Maecenas and the Augustan regime: the chapter on Virgil, while considering his relationship to Maecenas and Augustus, argues that the origins of his choice of Aeneas may lie in Etruria rather than elsewhere, while the chapter on Horace assesses one of the closest documented relationships of Roman history. The chapter on Propertius wrestles with the disparate views of scholars on the question of his relationship with the Augustan regime and argues that, at heart, he remains an Umbrian/Etruscan rather than a Roman. A crucial feature of the book is the provision of 161 texts from ancient Roman and Greek authors which mention Maecenas. Based on sustainable evidence this study of the importance of Maecenas takes scholarship in new and important directions.
    Note: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Artistic representations; Textual evidence for Maecenas; The anonymity of the Consolatioad Liviam; The anonymity of the Elegiae in Maecenatem; Asolution to the question of anonymity; An overview of scholarship on Maecenas; Notes; 1. Maecenas; Origins; The early relationship with Octavian; From the death of Julius Caesar (44 BC) to the battle of Actium (31 BC); From the battle of Actium 31 BC to the beginning of his withdrawal to the background in 23 BC; The conspiracy of Caepio 22 BC , Maecenas' relations with AgrippaMaecenas as patron of poets; Maecenas' literary style; Maecenas' lifestyle; The last years and his death; A summary of what we do know of his life from the ancient texts; How modern scholars have responded to the information given by ancient authors about the way in which Maecenas led his life; Conclusion; Notes; 2. Publius Vergilius Maro; His early life; His meeting with Maecenas; The Aeneas myth in the classical sources; The origin of the Etruscans; Etruscan interest in the stories of the Trojan War; Vases which show the story of Aeneas' escape from Troy , The iconography of the vasesOther artistic evidence; The transmission of the Aeneas myth as explained by scholars; Links to the Julian family; Virgil's portrayal of the Etruscans in the Aeneid; The importance of the Trojan Dardanus in the second half of the Aeneid; Conclusions; Notes; 3. Quintus Horatius Flaccus; The life of Horace from his own poetry and from other sources; Horace's poetry as a source of information about the life of Maecenas; The nature of the relationship of Horace and Maecenas; Poetic independence; The relationship of Horace to Augustus and his regime; Conclusion; Notes , 4. Sextus PropertiusA summary of his life; The last two elegies of the Monobiblos; The move to the patronage of Maecenas; The patronage of Maecenas and its consequences; A consideration of 2.1 as recusatio; Propertius under the direct patronage of Augustus; The Etruscan element in Propertius' poetry; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Appendix A: Latin and Greek texts which mentionMaecenas, together with translations; Appendix B: Table of Greek vases withrepresentations of Aeneas and Anchises; Appendix C: A response to the Bittarello case; Appendix D: Consolatio ad Liviam; Bibliography
    Additional Edition: Print version: Mountford, Peter, author. Maecenas New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 ISBN 9780367137472
    Language: English
    Keywords: Electronic books. ; Biography ; Electronic books. ; Biographies. ; History. ; Biographies. ; Biographies.
    DOI: 10.4324/9780429028441
    URL: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429028441
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