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The Movie Guide
From The Big Sleep to Babette's Feast, from Lawrence of Arabia to Drugstore Cowboy, The Movie Guide offers the inside word on 3,500 of the best motion pictures ever made. James Monaco is the president and founder of BASELINE, the world's leading supplier of information to the film and television industries. Among his previous books are The Encyclopedia of Film, American Film Now, and How to Read a Film.
Humanitarian Governance and the British Antislavery World System
How the suppression of the slave trade and the “disposal” of liberated Africans shaped the emergence of modern humanitarianism Between 1808 and 1867, the British navy’s Atlantic squadrons seized nearly two thousand slave ships, “re‑capturing” almost two hundred thousand enslaved people and resettling them as liberated Africans across sites from Sierra Leone and Cape Colony to the West Indies, Brazil, Cuba, and beyond. In this wide-ranging study, Maeve Ryan explores the set of imperial experiments that took shape as British authorities sought to order and instrumentalise the liberated Africans, and examines the dual discourses of compassion and control that evolved around a people expected to repay the debt of their salvation. Ryan traces the ideas that shaped “disposal” policies towards liberated Africans, and the forms of resistance and accommodation that characterized their responses. This book demonstrates the impact of interventionist experiments on the lives of the liberated people, on the evolution of a British antislavery “world system,” and on the emergence of modern understandings of refuge, asylum, and humanitarian governance.
Canadian Founding
Convinced that rights are inalienable and that legitimate government requires the consent of the governed, the Fathers of Confederation - whether liberal or conservative - looked to the European enlightenment and John Locke. Janet Ajzenstat analyzes the legislative debates in the colonial parliaments and the Constitution Act (1867) in a provocative reinterpretation of Canadian political history from 1864 to 1873. Ajzenstat contends that the debt to Locke is most evident in the debates on the making of Canada's Parliament: though the anti-confederates maintained that the existing provincial parliaments offered superior protection for individual rights, the confederates insisted that the union's general legislature, the Parliament of Canada, would prove equal to the task and that the promise of "life and liberty" would bring the scattered populations of British North America together as a free nation.
The Oxford History of the British Army
From the Napoleonic Wars to the battle of the Falklands, from the pike and musket to the Challenger tank, The Oxford History of the British Army brings to life the far-reaching history of this long-lived institution. This definitive one-volume reference provides a wealth of historical detail as it takes readers on a lively journey through the annals of the British Army. Here are vivid descriptions of all the famous military campaigns and battles--from Agincourt and Crecy, to Trafalgar, Waterloo, and Yorktown Heights, to Dunkirk and D-Day--as well as insightful portraits of the great commanders, including Edward I, the Duke of Marlborough, Cromwell, the Duke of Wellington, and Field Marshall ...
William S. Burroughs ve Kur'an-ı Kerim
"Dünyanın sonu Kur'an-ı Kerim'in intihar notudur" der, Muhammad Knight -kaldı ki haksız da değildir! Kâbe'nin, İslamiyet'in Disney Land'i olduğunu dile getirirken aslında gerçek Müslümanın içinde hissettiği acıya da dokunur: İnşaat sektörünce parsellenmiş bir Beyt'ullah, Muhammed Resulün zorluklarla sınanmamızı istediği uzun Hac yolculukları ile yan yana gelemez elbet! William Burroughs'un "İslam Anonim Şirketi" ifadesini Knight "İslami Koka Kola" fikriyle genişletir. Öte yandan Hakim Bey'in tradisyonellerden çalıp sitüasyonistçe saptırdığı irfana kattıklarını alır ve sokak punkına bular. Evet karşınızda başka bir kusmuk var, karşı-kültür eklektiği bir İslam! Muhammad Knight öldürülmediğine göre yazdıkları istediği kıvama hala gelememiş. Belki Müslümanlar da biraz deli sayıklaması yerine derinlikli bir saldırıyı tercih ediyorlardır. Ya da sadece Danimarka yahut Fransa'da yaşayan karikatüristlerin Muhammed çizimlerine takıldılar.
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the founding of colonies in North America and the West Indies in the seventeenth century to the reversion of Hong Kong to China at the end of the twentieth, British imperialism was a catalyst for far-reaching change. The Oxford History of the British Empire as a comprehensive study helps us to understand the end of Empire in relation to its beginning, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as for the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. This fifth and final volum...
