Download or read book A Corner of a Foreign Field written by Ramachandra Guha and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book but so, too, in unexpected ways, do B. R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi, and M. A. Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great British cricketers, Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The remarkable life of India’s first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, provides an arresting new perspective on the struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the destructive passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan. For this new edition, Ramachandra Guha has added a fresh introduction as well as a long new chapter, bringing the story up to date to cover, among other things, the advent of the Indian Premier League and the Indian team’s victory in the World Cup of 2011, these linked to social and economic transformations in contemporary India. A pioneering work, essential for anyone interested in either of those vast themes, cricket and India, A Corner of a Foreign Field is also a beautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large.
Download or read book The Corner That Held Them written by Sylvia Townsend Warner and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique novel about life in a 14th-century convent by one of England's most original authors. Sylvia Townsend Warner’s The Corner That Held Them is a historical novel like no other, one that immerses the reader in the dailiness of history, rather than history as the given sequence of events that, in time, it comes to seem. Time ebbs and flows and characters come and go in this novel, set in the era of the Black Death, about a Benedictine convent of no great note. The nuns do their chores, and seek to maintain and improve the fabric of their house and chapel, and struggle with each other and with themselves. The book that emerges is a picture of a world run by women but also a story—stirring, disturbing, witty, utterly entrancing—of a community. What is the life of a community and how does it support, or constrain, a real humanity? How do we live through it and it through us? These are among the deep questions that lie behind this rare triumph of the novelist’s art.
Download or read book Corner s History of England from the Earliest Period to the Present Time written by Miss Corner (Julia) and published by . This book was released on 1886* with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Social History of England written by Asa Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging widely over time and place, Asa Briggs highlights continuities and changes in society in England from prehistory to the present day. Literature, art and politics are investigated as aspects and gauges of human experience, research in related disciplines is discussed and changes in historical interpretations explained. The author also offers his own, personal, view of social history.
Download or read book The History of England from the earliest period to the present time Adapted for youth schools and families With plates and a map written by Julia CORNER and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First History of England that Should be Placed in the Hands of a Child written by Julia Corner and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nooks and Corners of English Life Past and Present written by John Timbs and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nooks and Corners of English Life, Past and Present by John Timbs is a collection of sketches of events and everyday traditions of early English people. Contents: " I. Early English Life. Aboriginal Britons—British Caves—Bosphrennis Bee-hive Hut and Picts' House—On the Brigantes of Yorkshire; by Prof. Phillips Britain before the Roman Colonization. Lappenberg's Picture of South Britain—War Chariots—Druidism, its Rites, and Customs—Arch-Druid and Mistletoe—Legend of Stonehenge—Charles II. at Stonehenge—Fire Worship—Druidical Serpents' Eggs—Druids' Medicines—Druid Schools and Priests..."
Download or read book A Social History of England written by Asa Briggs and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1985 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book England in the Later Middle Ages written by M.H. Keen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published to wide critical acclaim in 1973, England in the Later Middle Ages has become a seminal text for students studying this diverse, constantly changing period. The second edition of this book, while maintaining the character of the
Download or read book The Child s Pictorial History of England written by Miss Corner and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Child's Pictorial History of England is an essential retelling of the histories of English rule. This authentic and historic novel makes significant events in European history digestible for readers of all ages, from the Norman Conquest to the War of the Roses up through the late 19th century.
Download or read book Nooks and Corners of Old England written by Fea Allan and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The history of France written by Julia Corner and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Every Child s History of England by Miss Julia Corner dition Abr g e Avec Notices Et Notes Par A A Li gaux Wood written by Julia Corner and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foundation written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes the wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life in this history of England through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.
Download or read book Nooks and Corners of Old England written by Allan Fea and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Child s Pictorial History of England From the Earliest Period to the Present Time written by Miss Corner and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A companion to Corner s Every child s England Every child s Scripture history adapted from dr Kitto and miss Corner s Scripture history simplified written by Edward Farr and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
