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“stephen basdeo”

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  • Pandemic Obsession

    How They Feature in our Popular Culture

    by Stephen Basdeo ...
    "Pestilence entered… The ordinary pursuits of society were paralysed; all previously-formed plans of happiness, business, trade, occupation, and domestic arrangement, were checked as cruelly and abruptly as if every principle of the human mind were in a moment subverted… The physicians saw that human aid was vain, and that destruction inevitably awaited all who approached the infected. Terrific ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Comic History of England

    The Original Horrible History

    by Stephen Basdeo ...
    Blends humor with factual storytelling, turning kings, queens, and historic events into witty, irreverent narratives.“Nothing now succeeds unless it’s in the comic line. We have comic Latin grammars, and comic Greek grammars; indeed, I don't know but what English grammar, too, is a comedy altogether. All our tragedies are made into comedies by the way they are performed; and no work sells without ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of the End of the World

    The Apocalypse in Popular Culture

    by Stephen Basdeo ...
    Traces how apocalyptic fears and visions have shaped popular culture from medieval times to today.People have always imagined that human history has an end point. The way this has been imagined has varied according to time, place, and culture. In medieval England people lived in expectation of the Biblical Day of Judgment, when the world would end and people would be judged by God according to ... Read more

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  • English Rebels and Revolutionaries

    by Stephen Basdeo ...
    Throughout history brave Englishmen and women have never been afraid to rise up against their unjust rulers and demand their rights. Barely a century has gone by without England being witness to a major uprising against the government of the day, often resulting in a fundamental change to the constitution. This book is a collection of biographies, written by experts in their field, of the lives ... Read more

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  • Heroes & Villains of the British Empire

    Their Lives & Legends

    by Stephen Basdeo ...
    An analysis of the builders of the British Empire, how they were represented in popular culture of the day, and how that vision has changed over time.From the sixteenth until the twentieth century, British power and influence gradually expanded to cover one quarter of the world's surface. The common saying was that "the sun never sets on the British Empire." What began as a largely entrepreneurial ... Read more

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  • The Lives & Exploits of the Most Noted Highwaymen, Rogues and Murderers

    by Stephen Basdeo ...
    A fascinating historical survey of the world's most infamous outlaws.For as long as human societies have existed there have always been people who have transgressed the laws of their respective societies. It seems that whenever new laws are made, certain people find ways to break them.This book will introduce you to some of the most notorious figures, from all parts of the world, who have ... Read more

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  • The Secret History of the Royal Court of England

    The Scandalous Chronicle of the Georgian Monarchy

    Edited by Stephen Basdeo ...
    The Georgian era, we are told, was a "polite and commercial" era. The supposedly refined aristocracy governed the nation while the bourgeoisie, at the center of the largest empire the world had ever known, expanded the nation's overseas trading interests while currying royal favors. It was an era which witnessed the flowering of art, literature, and music. But at the heart of the British Empire ... Read more

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  • Subaltern Medievalisms

    Medievalism 'from below' in Nineteenth-Century Britain

    by David Matthews, Ingrid Hanson, Stuart McWilliams, Carolyn P Collette, Michael Sanders, Matthew Roberts, Rosemary A. Mitchell, Stephen Knight, Stephen Basdeo0, Colin Trodd1 ...
    This book offers a challenge to the current study of nineteenth-century British medievalism, re-examining its general perception as an elite and conservative tendency, the imposition of order from above evidenced in the work of Walter Scott, in the Eglinton Tournament, and in endless Victorian depictions of armour-clad knights. Whilst some previous scholars have warned that medievalism should not ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Making of the English Working Class

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    A history of the common people and the Industrial Revolution: "A true masterpiece" and one of the Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the twentieth century ( Tribune) .During the formative years of the Industrial Revolution, English workers and artisans claimed a place in society that would shape the following centuries. But the capitalist elite did not form the working class—the ... Read more

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  • Acts of Union and Disunion

    by Linda Colley ...
    The United Kingdom; Great Britain; the British Isles; the Home Nations: such a wealth of different names implies uncertainty and contention - and an ability to invent and adjust. In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, Linda Colley analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past.She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far - and why - it has faded. ... Read more

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  • The Road Not Taken

    How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution, 1381-1926

    by Frank McLynn ...
    Britain has not been successfully invaded since 1066; nor, in nearly 1,000 years has it known a true revolution - one that brings radical, systemic and enduring change. The contrast with Britain's European neighbours, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Russia, is dramatic - all have been convulsed by external warfare, revolution and civil war and experienced fundamental change to their ruling ... Read more

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  • A Radical History Of Britain

    Visionaries, Rebels and Revolutionaries - the men and women who fought for our freedoms

    by Edward Vallance ...
    From medieval Runnymede to twentieth-century Jarrow, from King Alfred to George Orwell by way of John Lilburne and Mary Wollstonecraft, a rich and colourful thread of radicalism runs through a thousand years of British history. In this fascinating study, Edward Vallance traces a national tendency towards revolution, irreverence and reform wherever it surfaces and in all its variety. He unveils the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD