British and American Festivities

British and American Festivities
Title British and American Festivities PDF eBook
Author Gina D. B. Clemen
Publisher Uitgeverij De Boeck Secundair onderwijs
Pages 128
Release 2013-02-18
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9788853001948

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FESTIVALS Why do we celebrate Halloween? What do people do to celebrate the New Year? Why is the egg a symbol of Easter? Who invented the Christmas card? This unique book explores the origins of our festivities, their historical significance, and how we celebrate them today. The audio-cd contains recordings in both American English and British English.

British and American Festivities

British and American Festivities
Title British and American Festivities PDF eBook
Author Gina D. B. Clemen
Publisher Black Cat-Cideb
Pages 112
Release 1999-01-01
Genre Carnivals
ISBN 9788877547026

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Why do we celebrate Halloween? Who invented the Christmas card? How do Americans celebrate the Fourth of July? Where does Europe's biggest street festival take place? Do you want to surprise someone with a very special Valentine's card from Loveland, USA? This delightful book tells you all about the origins of our festivities and how we celebrate them today. You will also find special recipes for holiday treats. The accompanying cassette includes the text with the listening activities and a selection of traditional songs.

British and American Festivities

British and American Festivities
Title British and American Festivities PDF eBook
Author Gina D. B. Clemen
Publisher
Pages 128
Release 2004
Genre
ISBN 9783526521099

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The Rebelion Reord: A Diary of American Events, with documents, narratives, illustrative incidents, poetry, etc.

The Rebelion Reord: A Diary of American Events, with documents, narratives, illustrative incidents, poetry, etc.
Title The Rebelion Reord: A Diary of American Events, with documents, narratives, illustrative incidents, poetry, etc. PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 854
Release 1864
Genre
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Red, White, and Blue Letter Days

Red, White, and Blue Letter Days
Title Red, White, and Blue Letter Days PDF eBook
Author Matthew Dennis
Publisher Cornell University Press
Pages 352
Release 2018-07-05
Genre History
ISBN 1501723707

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The Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Columbus Day, Labor Day, Martin Luther King's Birthday, and other celebrations matter to Americans and reflect the state of American local and national politics. Commemorations of cataclysmic events and light, apparently trivial observances mirror American political and cultural life. Both reveal much about the material conditions of the United States and its citizens' identities, historical consciousness, and political attitudes. Lying dormant within these festivals is the potential for political consequence, controversy, even transformation. American political fetes remain works in progress, as Americans use historical celebrations as occasions to reinvent themselves and their nation, often with surprising results. In six engaging chapters 'assaying particular political holidays over the course of their histories, Red, White, and Blue Letter Days examines how Americans have shaped and been shaped by their calendar. Matthew Dennis explores this vast political and cultural terrain, charting how Americans defined their identities through celebration. Independence Day invited African Americans to demand the equality promised in the Declaration of Independence, for example, just as Columbus Day—celebrating the Italian, Catholic explorer—helped immigrants proclaim their legitimacy as Americans. Native Americans too could use public holidays, such as Thanksgiving or Veterans Day, to express dissent or demonstrate their claims to citizenship. Merchants and advertisers colonized the American calendar, moving in to sell their products by linking them, often tenuously, with holiday occasions or casting consumption as a patriotic act.

Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States

Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States
Title Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States PDF eBook
Author Mark Bayer
Publisher Routledge
Pages 295
Release 2021-08-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1000416895

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Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare’s appropriation by examining how the plays have been invoked during periods of extreme social, political, and racial turmoil. How do the ways that Shakespeare is adapted, studied, and discussed during periods of civil conflict differ from wars between nations? And how have these conflicts, in turn, affected how Shakespeare has been understood in these two countries that, more than any others, continue to be deeply shaped by Shakespeare’s complex, enduring, and multivalent legacy? The essays in this volume collectively disclose a fascinating genealogy of how Shakespeare became a dynamic presence in factional discourse and explore the "war of words" that has accompanied civil wars and other instances of domestic disturbance. Whether as part of violent confrontations, mutinies, rebellions, or within the universal struggle for civil rights, Shakespeare’s repeated appearance during such turbulent moments is more than mere historical coincidence. Rather, its inflections on the contested meanings of citizenship, community, and political legitimacy demonstrate the generative influence of the plays on our understanding of internecine strife in both countries.

British-American Relations

British-American Relations
Title British-American Relations PDF eBook
Author James Davenport Whelpley
Publisher
Pages 356
Release 1924
Genre Great Britain
ISBN

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