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The History on the Page
This ground-breaking collection of short fictitious stories is all about the adventures of two children who learn about fascinating aspects of British history and culture through chance encounters with people who actually lived and worked in Britain.
Andrew Watson
Today, seeing Black footballers playing the game at the very highest level is considered very normal. This, certainly, was not the case one hundred and forty years ago, and this is what makes the story of Andrew Watson so remarkable. It seems hard to imagine that a Guyanese-born Black man could head the Scottish national football team in 1881 in a game against England. Not only was he captain, but he also led them to a 6-1 victory in London - an achievement that still ranks as England's heaviest ever defeat on home soil.
Fight for Freedom
Although there have been a number of studies on Black resistance, very few of these have focused exclusively on such a wide range of resistance campaigns and strategies within a single volume. One of the central arguments of this study is that from as early as the sixteenth century, when Europeans attempted to systematically exploit Africans, Black people have engaged in a variety of organised and sustained resistance campaigns to assert their independence and identity. This book examines some of the different strategies employed by Black people in Africa and the Diaspora in response to European domination and exploitation. Drawing upon research from scholars based at the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, this collection of original essays, covers the academic disciplines of African and Caribbean history, literature, politics and psychology. Despite these different approaches, the consistent theme throughout, centres on the strategies employed by Black people to resist European domination and oppression, by fighting for their freedom at every possible opportunity, whether they were in Africa, Britain or the Caribbean.
Jim Talbert Whistling in Chicago
Jim Talbert lives on the seedy side of Chicago, working at Mr. Wallace's butcher shop. Jim sees Mr. Wallace as an honorable man who not only is his boss but also a friend. After the brutal murder of Mr. Wallace, Jim feels the need to avenge his death. He identifies the responsible gang and with surgical-like precision, plans the downfall of the people responsible. Old friends, as well as new, intertwined with each other, provide unsolicited support to his cause. The climax is explosive and leads to the beginning of "The Creation," Timothy's sequel to "The Birth."
Twelve Englishmen of Mystery
There are hundreds of satisfactory and satisfying British mystery writers whose works should be studied both for their own individual accomplishments and for their comments on the society in which they were published, in the last 150 years, but who have not received any critical comment lately. This volume is designed to correct that fault in a dozen of those unjustifiably neglected British authors: Wilkie Collins, A.E.W. Mason, G.K. Chesterton, H.C. Bailey, Anthony Berkeley Cox, Nicholas Blake, Michael Gilbert, Julian Symons, Dick Francis, Edmund Crispin, H.R.F. Keating, and Simon Brett.
Challengers From Camp Hope
What is the relationship between termites and sin? Cookies and religious denominations? A hidden canoe paddle and strengthening one's faith? Sean, Jerry, Lonnie, and Benjamin are challenged to find these answers and more as they become - Challengers From Camp Hope.
The Hungry Empire
'A wholly pleasing book, which offers a tasty side dish to anyone exploring the narrative history of the British Empire' Max Hastings, Sunday Times WINNER OF THE GUILD OF FOOD WRITERS BOOK AWARD 2018 The glamorous daughter of an African chief shares a pineapple with a slave trader... Surveyors in British Columbia eat tinned Australian rabbit... Diamond prospectors in Guyana prepare an iguana curry... In twenty meals The Hungry Empire tells the story of how the British created a global network of commerce and trade in foodstuffs that moved people and plants from one continent to another, reshaping landscapes and culinary tastes. The Empire allowed Britain to harness the globe’s edible resources from cod fish and salt beef to spices, tea and sugar. Lizzie Collingham takes us on a wide-ranging culinary journey, revealing how virtually every meal we eat still contains a taste of empire.
Dark Clouds on the Horizon:
This book brings to the fore some critical and fundamental issues plaguing the continent of Africa. It is a symbolic microcosm of challenging issues that Africa has and must address. Can Africa reverse the dark odds and can it move towards a united and integrated whole? The book explores the untold events and negative trends on the economic, social, political, humanitarian and environmental scene in Africa which leaves the international community perceiving Africa through darkened lenses. It tells the dark tragedy of a people ? the economy of alienation and disempowerment as it also injects an encouraging metaphor that the key to the solution of Africas perennial socio-economic-politico tran...
帝國的滋味：從探索海洋到殖民擴張，英國如何以全球食物網絡建構現代世界
《衛報》、《紐約時報》、《經濟學人》好評推薦 二○一八年飲食作家公會大獎 十六世紀英國為尋找食物開始探索海洋、同時建立帝國。在此過程中，英國人消滅原住民人口，改變地景與農業系統；殖民地的精英餐桌上，擺滿宣揚國族威信的工具；植物的遷移，促成新舊大陸農作物的哥倫布大交換，這些發展所交織的食物網創造出真正的跨全球系統，連結五個洲，塑造出現代世界的飲食樣貌。 本書每章開頭會先提到一頓膳食，之後探索是什麼樣的歷史讓這膳食得以成真。比方說，為什麼在一六九八年，一名法國男子會與一...
