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Royals and the Reich - Professor Jonathan Petropoulos - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Royals and the Reich - Professor Jonathan Petropoulos - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The link between Hitler''s Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of Queen Victoria''s great-grandsons, the Princes of Hesse, and the important role they played in the Nazi regime. Petropolous tells the fascinating tale of how, lured by prominent positions in the Nazi regime and highly susceptible to nationalist appeals, the princes became enthusiastic supporters of Hitler and helped make the Nazis socially acceptable to wealthy, high-society patrons. Permitted access to Hessen family private papers and the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, Petropoulos follows the story of the House of Hesse through to its tragic denouement - the princes'' betrayal and persecution by an increasingly paranoid Hitler, followed by prosecution after the war.

DKK 321.00
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Royals and the Reich - Professor Jonathan Petropoulos - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Royals and the Reich - Professor Jonathan Petropoulos - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The link between Hitler''s Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of Queen Victoria''s great-grandsons, the Princes of Hesse, and the important role they played in the Nazi regime. Petropolous tells the fascinating tale of how, lured by prominent positions in the Nazi regime and highly susceptible to nationalist appeals, the princes became enthusiastic supporters of Hitler and helped make the Nazis socially acceptable to wealthy, high-society patrons. Permitted access to Hessen family private papers and the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle, Petropoulos follows the story of the House of Hesse through to its tragic denouement - the princes'' betrayal and persecution by an increasingly paranoid Hitler, followed by prosecution after the war.

DKK 274.00
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Stories from Scotland - Barbara Ker Wilson - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Stories from Scotland - Barbara Ker Wilson - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oxford Children''s Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago. Heroes and villains, witches and wizards, warriors and royalty - there''s something here for everyone. From the Highlands and islands, to the Border country, there are stories from all over Scotland in this wonderful collection. You''ll find tales of Tam Lin the elfin knight, MacCodrum of the Seals and many more - all told with a thrilling sense of adventure and fun.

DKK 107.00
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Stories from England - James Reeves - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Stories from England - James Reeves - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oxford Children''s Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago. Heroes and villains, witches and wizards, warriors and royalty - there''s something here for everyone. This lively collection brings to life the very best English traditional fairy tales and stories. From Johnny Gloke the giant killer and the frog prince at the World''s End, to the better-known characters of Dick Whittington and Tom Thumb, this magical collection is full of adventure and humour.

DKK 107.00
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Stories from Ireland - Ita Daly - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Stories from Ireland - Ita Daly - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Oxford Children''s Myths and Legends bring you the greatest stories ever told, from around the world and long ago. Heroes and villains, witches and wizards, warriors and royalty - there''s something here for everyone. This wonderful collection is drawn from a long tradition of story-telling - tales that have been retold and passed down from generation to generation. Read about how the children of Lir were turned into swans, what happens to anyone who dares to look into King Balor''s evil eye, and about many more magical characters and heroic adventures.

DKK 107.00
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Queen Victoria - John Plunkett - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Queen Victoria - John Plunkett - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The nineteenth century saw the arrival of the mass media: high-volume illustrated newspapers and magazines, photography, and the telegraph which connected every part of the Empire. From the beginning, royalty was an essential subject for the media; Victoria''s reign was documented in a detail never known before: her accession and coronation, her very public marriage, her travels at home and abroad, her Jubilees, and ultimately her death and funeral. John Plunkett''s book is the first to study the role of the media in Queen Victoria''s reign. He argues that the development of popular print and visual media in the nineteenth century helped to reinvent the position of the monarchy in national life. He reveals how the royal family was one of the principal beneficiaries of the growth of cheap newspapers and illustrated periodicals and the advent of new media. He brings to light a wealth of previously unexamined material, including a detailed account of the emergence of royal journalism and the role of functionaries like the Court Newsman, and shows how photographs of Victoria were routinely retouched and manipulated in the latter decades of the century.

DKK 752.00
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Landownership in Eastern Germany Before the Great War - Scott M. Eddie - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Landownership in Eastern Germany Before the Great War - Scott M. Eddie - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The big landlords of eastern Germany have loomed large in the country''s history, but the absence of official statistics on landownership has left their position and identity confined to folklore, without satisfactory quantification. This study, making extensive use of primary sources from the seven ''core provinces'' of eastern Germany-the so-called ''East Elbian'' region-establishes answers to questions pivotal to our understanding of pre-war Germany: who were the biggest landowners, both by area and by the tax assessment of their land? Which social groups held land? How much land did they own and where? How did this change, especially during the last decades before the Great War?Professor Eddie demonstrates that most of the inroads into landownership by the bourgeoisie had already been made by the mid-1850s, perhaps even before the mid-1830s. However, one of the most interesting findings in this study is that, despite rapid industrialization after 1880, there was a net exodus of the nouveaux riches from the ranks of large land owners. On the eve of war, the largest landowners were the Prussian state, the royalty, and the higher nobility.Meticulously researched and thoroughly documented, this book will be the benchmark for all future work in this area.

DKK 926.00
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Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries - John Considine - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Sixteenth-Century English Dictionaries - John Considine - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is the first volume in the trilogy Dictionaries in the English-Speaking World, 1500-1800, which will offer a new history of lexicography in and beyond the early modern British Isles. The volume explores the dictionaries, wordlists, and glossaries that were compiled and read by speakers of English from the end of the Middle Ages to the year 1600. These include the first printed dictionaries in which English words were collected; the dictionaries of Latin used by all educated English-speakers, from young children to Shakespeare to adult royalty; the dictionaries of modern languages that gave English-speakers access to the languages and cultures of continental Europe; dictionaries and wordlists documenting other languages from Armenian to Malagasy to Welsh; and a great variety of specialized English wordlists. No unified history has ever surveyed this vast, lively, and culturally significant lexicographical output before.The guiding principle of the book, and the trilogy, is that a story about dictionaries must also be a story about human beings. John Considine offers a full and sympathetic account of those who compiled and used these works, and those who supported them financially, paying particular attention to records of dictionary use and its traces in surviving copies. The volume will appeal to all those interested in the languages and literary cultures of the sixteenth-century English-speaking world.

DKK 1092.00
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Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200 - Tom Licence - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200 - Tom Licence - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In the central Middle Ages, English society lavished unprecedented attention on a category of would-be outcasts who repudiated its ambitions and spurned its aspirations. Hermits and recluses (collectively ''anchorites'') had their own, very different vision of how life should be lived, and yet nobles retained them on their estates, parishioners did their bit to support their local recluses, and every tier of society from the peasantry up to royalty journeyed to rural hermitages for prayer, advice, and spiritual instruction. Anchorites were everywhere, dotted across the landscape, striving to restore humanity''s broken image, in their own lives and in their clients. The respect that came of their endeavour grew from a heightened sense of the conflict between society''s worldly concerns and its spiritual ideals, in the minds of their admirers. Tom Licence sets out to discover why anchorites rose to prominence, in the context of European monasticism and trends in spirituality. In the past, historians linked their rise to many different things: the impact of the Norman Conquest; a crisis of identity in the monasteries; the discovery of the individual; a reaction to the profit economy; and to a new need for ''holy men'' (or holy women) to minister to a changing society. Investigating the avenues by which anchorites gained their reputation, and pinpointing their function in relation to society, this new inquiry puts these hypotheses to the test in a study of English society in the central Middle Ages.

DKK 1196.00
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Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200 - Tom Licence - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200 - Tom Licence - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

In the central Middle Ages, English society lavished unprecedented attention on a category of would-be outcasts who repudiated its ambitions and spurned its aspirations. Hermits and recluses (collectively ''anchorites'') had their own, very different vision of how life should be lived, and yet nobles retained them on their estates, parishioners did their bit to support their local recluses, and every tier of society from the peasantry up to royalty journeyed to rural hermitages for prayer, advice, and spiritual instruction. Anchorites were everywhere, dotted across the landscape, striving to restore humanity''s broken image, in their own lives and in their clients. The respect that came of their endeavour grew from a heightened sense of the conflict between society''s worldly concerns and its spiritual ideals, in the minds of their admirers. Tom Licence sets out to discover why anchorites rose to prominence, in the context of European monasticism and trends in spirituality. In the past, historians linked their rise to many different things: the impact of the Norman Conquest; a crisis of identity in the monasteries; the discovery of the individual; a reaction to the profit economy; and to a new need for ''holy men'' (or holy women) to minister to a changing society. Investigating the avenues by which anchorites gained their reputation, and pinpointing their function in relation to society, this new inquiry puts these hypotheses to the test in a study of English society in the central Middle Ages.

DKK 533.00
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Race, Politics, and Irish America - Mary M. (professor Of English And Coordinator Burke - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Race, Politics, and Irish America - Mary M. (professor Of English And Coordinator Burke - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Figures from the Scots-Irish Andrew Jackson to the Caribbean-Irish Rihanna, as well as literature, film, caricature, and beauty discourse, convey how the Irish racially transformed multiple times: in the slave-holding Caribbean, on America''s frontiers and antebellum plantations, and along its eastern seaboard. This cultural history of race and centuries of Irishness in the Americas examines the forcibly transported Irish, the eighteenth-century Presbyterian Ulster-Scots, and post-1845 Famine immigrants. Their racial transformations are indicated by the designations they acquired in the Americas: ''Redlegs,'' ''Scots-Irish,'' and ''black Irish.'' In literature by Fitzgerald, O''Neill, Mitchell, Glasgow, and Yerby (an African-American author of Scots-Irish heritage), the Irish are both colluders and victims within America''s racial structure. Depictions range from Irish encounters with Native and African Americans to competition within America''s immigrant hierarchy between ''Saxon'' Scots-Irish and ''Celtic'' Irish Catholic. Irish-connected presidents feature, but attention to queer and multiracial authors, public women, beauty professionals, and performers complicates the ''Irish whitening'' narrative. Thus, ''Irish Princess'' Grace Kelly''s globally-broadcast ascent to royalty paves the way for ''America''s royals,'' the Kennedys. The presidencies of the Scots-Irish Jackson and Catholic-Irish Kennedy signalled their respective cohorts'' assimilation. Since Gothic literature particularly expresses the complicity that attaining power (''whiteness'') entails, subgenres named ''Scots-Irish Gothic'' and ''Kennedy Gothic'' are identified: in Gothic by Brown, Poe, James, Faulkner, and Welty, the violence of the colonial Irish motherland is visited upon marginalized Americans, including, sometimes, other Irish groupings. History is Gothic in Irish-American narrative because the undead Irish past replays within America''s contexts of race.

DKK 325.00
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Ruritania - Nicholas (professor Of Modern English And American Literature Daly - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Ruritania - Nicholas (professor Of Modern English And American Literature Daly - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is a book about the long cultural shadow cast by a single bestselling novel, Anthony Hope''s The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), which introduced Ruritania, a colourful pocket kingdom. In this swashbuckling tale, Englishman Rudolf Rassendyll impersonates the king of Ruritania to foil a coup, but faces a dilemma when he falls for the lovely Princess Flavia. Hope''s novel inspired stage and screen adaptations, place names, and even a board game, but it also launched a whole new subgenre, the "Ruritanian romance". The new form offered swordplay, royal romance, and splendid uniforms and gowns in such settings as Alasia, Balaria, and Cadonia. This study explores both the original appeal of The Prisoner of Zenda, and the extraordinary longevity and adaptability of the Ruritanian formula, which, it is argued, has been rooted in a lingering fascination with royalty, and the pocket kingdom''s capacity to hold a looking glass up to Britain and later the United States. Individual chapters look at Hope''s novel and its stage and film adaptations; at the forgotten American versions of Ruritania; at the chocolate-box principalities of the musical stage; at Cold War reworkings of the formula; and at Ruritania''s recent reappearance in young adult fiction and made-for-television Christmas movies. The adventures of Ruritania have involved a diverse list of contributors, including John Buchan, P.G Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Ian Fleming among the writers; Sigmund Romberg and Ivor Novello among the composers; Erich Von Stroheim and David O. Selznick among the film-makers; and Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Peter Ustinov, Peter Sellers, and Anne Hathaway among the performers.

DKK 408.00
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The Real Traviata - Rene Weis - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Real Traviata - Rene Weis - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi''s masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame aux Camélias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. The woman at the centre of the story, Marie Duplessis, escaped from her life as an abused teenage girl in provincial Normandy, rising in an amazingly short space of time to the apex of fashionable life in nineteenth century Paris, where she was considered the queen of the Parisian courtesans. Her life was painfully short, but by sheer willpower, intelligence, talent, and stunning looks she attained such prominence in the French capital that ministers of the government and even members of the French royal family fell under her spell. In the 1840s she commanded the kind of ''paparazzi'' attention that today we associate only with major royalty or the biggest Hollywood stars. Aside from the younger Dumas, her conquests included a host of writers and artists, including the greatest pianist of the century, Franz Liszt, with whom she once hoped to elope. When she died Théophile Gautier, one of the most important Parisian writers of the day, penned an obituary fit for a princess. Indeed, he boldly claimed that she had been a princess, notwithstanding her peasant origin and her distinctly demi-monde existence. And although now largely forgotten, in the years immediately after her death, Marie''s legend if anything grew in stature, with her immortalization in Verdi''s La traviata, an opera in which the great Romantic composer tried to capture her essence in some of the most heart-wrenching and lyrical music ever composed.

DKK 236.00
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The Violin Family and its Makers in the British Isles - Brian W. Harvey - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Violin Family and its Makers in the British Isles - Brian W. Harvey - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The contribution of the British Isles to the history of the violin family has been consistently under-estimated. For over 200 years England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland have produced many fine makers and an abundance of quality instruments and bows, now sought after around the world. In addition London has for over 100 years been an important centre for restoring, dealing in, collecting, and exhibiting the finest products of Stradivari, Guarneri, and other Italian masters - an important source of inspiration.Professor Harvey explains in detail the history of violin-making in Britain, from one of the earliest extant English instruments made of iron by John Bunyan in about 1647, to the extensive British craft industry of today, including within his book a comprehensive directory of violin-and-bow-makers of the British Isles, with auction prices. The book includes numerous high-quality colour and monochrome illustrations, including samples of the work of the major craftsmen involved. Throughout most of this history the scene has been dominated by the Hill family, which for over 250 years has produced instruments and bows of the highest quality, and their influence is fully assessed. The book is also a social and economic history of stringed instruments, showing how in England in particular the violin was slow to win acceptance by association with gypsies and the devil, and how the cello became the instrument favoured by royalty and the aristocracy. The demand for instruments at any particular time is gauged against musical activity in the country.The book is the first in any language to deal with the vast and fascinating subject in this way and in such depth. As such, it will be welcomed by makers, dealers internationally, auction houses, collectors, teachers, players, and students of stringed instruments.

DKK 1150.00
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