The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals)
Title | The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Jackson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2013-06-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1135040648 |
First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920. The pair were accused of a payroll robbery and the murder of two guards for which they were arrested and, after a long trial based on inadequate and prejudiced evidence, executed in 1927. In 1977, on the fiftieth anniversary of their deaths, the Commonwealth of Massachusettes issued a proclamation which acknowledged a miscarriage of justice. The Black Flag provides an account of the controversial trial and a re-evaluation of the celebrated case of the Commonwealth’s decision. Brian Jackson puts the trial in the social context of the period and exposes the nature of anarchism by looking at the lives of two of its exponents, resulting in a moving exploration of a series of events that continue to trouble the conscience of America.
The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals)
Title | The Black Flag (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Jackson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2013-06-26 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 113504063X |
First published in 1981, this book reassesses the case of Sacco and Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists living in Boston in 1920. The pair were accused of a payroll robbery and the murder of two guards for which they were arrested and, after a long trial based on inadequate and prejudiced evidence, executed in 1927. In 1977, on the fiftieth anniversary of their deaths, the Commonwealth of Massachusettes issued a proclamation which acknowledged a miscarriage of justice. The Black Flag provides an account of the controversial trial and a re-evaluation of the celebrated case of the Commonwealth’s decision. Brian Jackson puts the trial in the social context of the period and exposes the nature of anarchism by looking at the lives of two of its exponents, resulting in a moving exploration of a series of events that continue to trouble the conscience of America.
The British and the Grand Tour (Routledge Revivals)
Title | The British and the Grand Tour (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Black |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 2010-10-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1136836365 |
First published in 1985, this is a history of the Grand Tour, undertaken by young men in the eighteenth century to complete their education - a tour usually to France, Italy and Switzerland, and sometimes encompassing Germany. Rather than being another popular treatment of the theme, this is a scholarly analysis of the motives, purposes, activities and achievements of those who made the Grand Tour. The book considers to what extent the Grand Tour did fulfil its theoretical educational function, or whether travellers merely parroted the observations of their guidebooks. It also indicates the importance of the Grand Tour in introducing foreign customs into Britain and extending the cosmopolitanism of the European upper classes.
Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathon Green |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 1445 |
Release | 2013-10-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1317908171 |
First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Containing around 21, 000 entries, the dictionary encompasses a truly eclectic range of fields and includes extensive coverage of both British and U.S. jargon. Areas dealt with range from marketing to medicine, from advertising to artificial intelligence and from skiing to sociology. This is a fascinating resource for students of lexicography and professional lexicographers, as well as the general inquisitive reader.
Newspeak (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Newspeak (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathon Green |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2013-10-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 131790821X |
George Orwell coined the term ‘Newspeak’ for his novel 1984, the purpose of which was designed to shrink vocabularies and eliminate subtlety and nuance. For this dictionary, first published to herald the year 1984, Jonathon Green compiled nearly 8, 000 entries – selected from the slangs and specific vocabularies of trades, professions and interests – covering such areas as the world of entertainment, the media, the military economics, and finance. This dictionary provides an accurate and useful linguistic guide for students of lexicography and an interesting compendium for the general inquisitive reader.
Ovid (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Ovid (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | J. W. Binns |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2014-08-01 |
Genre | Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | 1317808525 |
Ovid, Rome’s most cynical and worldly love poet, has not until recently been highly regarded among Latin poets. Now, however, his reputation is growing, and this volume is an important contribution to the re-establishment of Ovid’s claims to critical attention. This collection of essays ranges over a wide variety of themes and works: Ovid’s development of the Elegiac tradition handed down to him from Propertius, Catullus and Tibullus; the often disparaged and neglected Heroides; the poetry of Ovid’s miserable exile by the Black Sea; the poetic diction of the Metamorphoses, Ovid’s lengthy mythological epic which codified classical myth and legend, and has strong claims to be considered, with the exception of Virgil’s Aeneid, Rome’s greatest epic poem; humour and the blending of the didactic and elegiac traditions in the Ars Amatoria and Remedia Amoris. Finally, Ovid’s incomparable influence in the Middle Ages and sixteenth century is examined.
Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals)
Title | Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | K T Fann |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1136646094 |
J. L. Austin (1911-1960) exercised in Post-war Oxford an intellectual authority similar to that of Wittgenstein in Cambridge. Although he completed no books of his own and published only seven papers, Austin became through lectures and talks one of the acknowledged leaders in what is called ‘Oxford philosophy’ or ‘ordinary language philosophy’. Few would dispute that among analytic philosophers Austin stands out as a great and original philosophical genius. Three volumes of his writing, published after his death, have become classics in analytical philosophy: Philosophical Papers; Sense and Sensibilia; and How to Do Things with Words. First published in 1969, this book is a collection of critical essays on Austin’s philosophy written by well-known philosophers, many of whom knew Austin personally. A number of essays included were especially written for this volume, but the majority have appeared previously in various journals or books, not all easy to obtain.