Author: James Shapiro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571235797
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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"An intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare's most inspired moments: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. 1606, while a very good year for Shakespeare, is a fraught one for England. Plague returns. There is surprising resistance to the new king's desire to turn England and Scotland into a united Britain. And fear and uncertainty sweep the land and expose deep divisions in the aftermath of the failed terrorist attack that came to be known as the Gunpowder Plot. James Shapiro deftly demonstrates how these extraordinary plays responded to the tumultuous events of this year, events that in unexpected ways touched upon Shakespeare's own life ... [and] profoundly changes and enriches our experience of his plays--Publisher's description.
Author: Evan McHugh
Publisher: UNSW Press
ISBN: 9780868408668
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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"Until 1606 the Great South Land was a mystery to Europeans. When Dutchman Willem Janszoon, captain of the Duyfken, landed at Cape York 400 years ago he thought he was in New Guinea. By the time Matthew Flinders' charts were published in 1814 Australia had emerged on the map and in name. This book tells the stories of the seafaring explorers, the shipwrecks, mutinies and daring escapes that came after Janszoon, including the voyages of Torres and La Perouse, Dampier, Cook and D'Entrecasteaux. These are tales of adventure, discovery and navigational triumph in the face of hardship, starvation and disaster at the far end of the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: https://www.chinesestandard.net
Publisher: https://www.chinesestandard.net
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 21
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This Standard specifies the requirements, test methods, inspection rules, marking, labeling, packaging, transportation and storage of sodium bicarbonate for industrial use. This Standard is applicable to sodium bicarbonate for industrial use. The product is mainly used in industries like cosmetics, daily chemicals, printing and dyeing, leather tanning, rubber and metal surface treatment, etc.
Author: Pedro Fernandes de Queirós
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465571671
Category : Cartography
Languages : en
Pages : 555
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Author: Bradley Chapin
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820336912
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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This study analyzes the development of criminal law during the first several generations of American life. Its comparison of the substantive and procedural law among the colonies reveals the similarities and differences between the New England and the Chesapeake colonies. Bradley Chapin addresses the often-debated question of the “reception” of English law and makes estimates of the relative weight of the sources and methods of early American law. A main theme of his book is that colonial legislators and judges achieved a significant reform of the English criminal law at a time when a parallel movement in England failed. The analysis is made specific and concrete by statistics that show patterns of prosecutions and crime rates. In addition to the exciting and convincing theme of a “lost period” of great creativity in American criminal law, Chapin gives a wealth of detail on statutory and common-law rulings, noteworthy criminal cases, and judicial views of how the law was to be administered. He provides social and economic explanations of shifts and peculiarities in the law, using carefully arranged evidence from the records. His treatment of the Quaker cases in Massachusetts and the witchcraft prosecutions in New England throws new light on those frequently misunderstood episodes. Chapin's book will be of interest not only to scholars working in the field but also to anyone curious about early American legal history.
Author: Walter W. Woodward
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807895938
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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In Prospero's America, Walter W. Woodward examines the transfer of alchemical culture to America by John Winthrop, Jr., one of English colonization's early giants. Winthrop participated in a pan-European network of natural philosophers who believed alchemy could improve the human condition and hasten Christ's Second Coming. Woodward demonstrates the influence of Winthrop and his philosophy on New England's cultural formation: its settlement, economy, religious toleration, Indian relations, medical practice, witchcraft prosecution, and imperial diplomacy. Prospero's America reconceptualizes the significance of early modern science in shaping New England hand in hand with Puritanism and politics.
Author: Robert Wallace
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Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Category : Washington (D.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1358
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Author: Warren M. Billings
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Since its original publication in 1975, The Old Dominion in the Seventeenth Century has become an important teaching tool and research volume. Warren Billings brings together more than 200 period documents, organized topically, with each chapter introduced by an interpretive essay. Topics include the settlement of Jamestown, the evolution of government and the structure of society, forced labor, the economy, Indian-Anglo relations, and Bacon's Rebellion. This revised, expanded, and updated edition adds approximately 30 additional documents, extending the chronological reach to 1700. Freshly rethought chapter introductions and suggested readings incorporate the vast scholarship of the past 30 years. New illustrations of seventeenth-century artifacts and buildings enrich the texts with recent archaeological findings. With these enhancements, and a full index, students, scholars, and those interested in early Virginia will find these documents even more enlightening.
Author: Franklin Bache
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Category : Dispensatories
Languages : en
Pages : 2142
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