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Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1909
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore City and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empires of Print

Download or read book Empires of Print written by Patrick Scott Belk and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in Britain and the United States underwent dramatic expansions and reorganization that brought about an increased traffic in books and periodicals around the world. Focusing on adventure fiction published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and John Buchan to explore how writers of popular fiction engaged with foreign markets and readers through periodical publishing. Belk argues that popular fiction, particularly the adventure genre, developed in ways that directly correlate with authors’ experiences, and shows that popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emerged as one way of marketing their literary works to expanding audiences of readers worldwide. Despite an over-determined print space altered by the rise of new kinds of consumers and transformations of accepted habits of reading, publishing, and writing, the changes in British and American publishing at the turn of the twentieth century inspired an exciting new period of literary invention and experimentation in the adventure genre, and the greater part of that invention and experimentation was happening in the magazines. ​

Book Sport

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  • Author : C. M. van Stockum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Sport written by C. M. van Stockum and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa

Download or read book The Incredible Band of John Philip Sousa written by Paul E. Bierley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most famous for his military marches, John Philip Sousa led a group of devoted musicians around the world and shaped a new cultural landscape. This book documents almost every aspect of the "March King's" band: its history, its star performers, its appearances on recordings, and the problems the group faced on their 1911 trip around the world.

Book Book Bulletin

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  • Author : Chicago Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 638 pages

Download or read book Book Bulletin written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It

Download or read book A Reliable Car and a Woman Who Knows It written by Curt McConnell and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000-09-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The audacity of driving a horseless carriage from coast to coast in the early years of the 20th century is hard to imagine in an age of superhighways and global positioning systems. Roads might be nothing more than muddy ruts made by wagon wheels; sources of gasoline or replacement parts were few and agonizingly far between; frequent repairs and tire changes were necessary; and the traveler was subject to the whole range of nature's perils and discomforts. For a woman to attempt the trip was, at the time, a jaw-dropping event. Yet in 1909, 22-year-old Alice Ramsey and three female companions piled into a Maxwell in New York City, and 59 days later they triumphantly rolled into San Francisco. A few years later silent film star Anita King would become the first woman to make the transcontinental drive solo. These and other early coast-to-coast drives proved women's growing independence, as well as the automobile's long-distance viability. Detailed accounts of five coast-to-coast drives make up this lively history. Drawing from plentiful contemporary newspaper reports and the women's own words, author Curt McConnell recounts the bold adventurers' experiences day by day and mile by mile.

Book Books of 1912

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  • Author : Chicago Public Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 446 pages

Download or read book Books of 1912 written by Chicago Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes from Oxford  1910   1911

Download or read book Notes from Oxford 1910 1911 written by R'D O'Leary and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the span of forty years, Professor Raphael Dorman OLeary passionately imparted to his students his love of writing and English literature at the University of Kansas. When he died after a short illness in 1936, his personal effects were passed to several relatives until Dennis OLeary, and his wife, Margaret, discovered his papers while restoring a family house. Amid Professor OLearys papers were two slim and battered booklets containing the colorful journal that he kept during his sabbatical in Oxford, England, from 1910 to 1911. The journal paints a vibrant picture of OLearys academic, social, political, and religious encounters in Oxford, England, as he and his family attempted to adjust to an alien world. Professor OLeary portrays with humor and pathos his myriad encounters with professors, politicians, Rhodes scholars, shopkeepers, nurses, street urchins, and mummers while vividly describing the dreary climate, tea and dinner parties, football games, the marketplace, musty bookstores, Oxfords slums, and the birth of his son in a rooming house bedroom. Notes from Oxford, 19101911 reveals a fascinating glimpse into the experiences of a revered English professor during his one-year sabbatical in Oxford, England.

Book Official Digest of the World  1912

Download or read book Official Digest of the World 1912 written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Engagement with Japan  1854   1922

Download or read book British Engagement with Japan 1854 1922 written by Antony Best and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation. Based on extensive original research the book goes beyond existing accounts which concentrate on high politics, strategy and simple assertions about the two countries’ similarities as island empires. It brings into the picture cultural factors, particularly the ways in which Japan was portrayed in Britain, and ambivalent British attitudes to race and supposed European superiority which were overcome but remained difficulties. It charts how the relationship developed as events unfolded, including Japan’s wars against China and Russia, and in addition looks at royal diplomacy, where the Japanese Court came eventually to be treated as a respected equal. Overall, the book provides a major reassessment of this important subject.

Book Mapping Our World

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  • Author : Peter Barber
  • Publisher : National Library of Australia
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 0642278091
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Mapping Our World written by Peter Barber and published by National Library of Australia. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cover image, World Map by Fra Mauro c. 1450, is one of the most important and famous maps of all time. This monumental map of the world was created by the monk Fra Mauro in his monastery on the island of San Michele in the Venetian lagoon. Now the centrepiece of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana in St Marc’s Square in Venice, the map in its nearly 600-year history has never left Venice – until now. Renowned for its sheer size - over 2.3 metres square - and stunning colours, the map was made at a time of transition between the medieval world view and new knowledge uncovered by the great voyages of discovery. Brilliantly painted and illuminated on sheets of oxhide, the sphere of the Earth is surrounded by the sphere of the Ocean in the ancient way. Yet Fra Mauro included the latest information on exploration by Portuguese and Arab navigators. Commissioned by King Afonso V of Portugal, it is the last of the great medieval world maps to inspire navigators in the Age of Discovery to explore beyond the Indian Ocean.

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1198 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Library Bulletin

Download or read book Library Bulletin written by Fitchburg Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Opera at the Bandstand

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  • Author : George W. Martin
  • Publisher : Scarecrow Press
  • Release : 2013-12-05
  • ISBN : 0810888548
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book Opera at the Bandstand written by George W. Martin and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Opera at the Bandstand: Then and Now, George W. Martin surveys the role of concert bands during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in making contemporary opera popular. He also chronicles how in part they lost their audience in the second half of the twentieth century by abandoning operatic repertory. Martin begins with the Dodworth bands in New York City from the 1850s and moves to the American tour of French conductor and composer Louis Antoine Jullien, bandmaster Patrick S. Gilmore’s jubilee festivals, the era of John Philip Sousa from 1892 to 1932, performances of the Goldman Band of New York City from 1920 to 2005, and finally the wind ensembles sparked by Frederick Fennell. He illustrates the degree to which operatic material comprised these bands’ overall repertory and provides detailed programs in the appendixes. Opera at the Bandstand describes how the technological advancements sweeping the country, such as radio, automobiles, recordings, television, and air conditioning, along with changes in demographics, affected the country’s musical life. It will appeal to bandmasters and their players, as well as those with an interest in American history, music, popular culture, and opera.

Book Who s who in the Theatre

Download or read book Who s who in the Theatre written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues for 1914-67 include "Notable productions and important revivals of the London stage from the earliest times."