Tag: Anglo

Free Download The Grass is Greener: An Anglo-Saxon Passion by Tom Fort
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0002570645 | 256 Pages | EPUB | 4.7 MB
Grass and its organisation into lawns is a particularly English obsession.

Free Download Colin Partridge, "The Channel Islands in Anglo-French Relations, 1689-1918"
English | ISBN: 178327655X | 2024 | 310 pages | EPUB, PDF | 17 MB + 17 MB

Free Download The Anglo-Arab Encounter: Fiction and Autobiography by Arab Writers in English By Geoffrey Nash
2007 | 215 Pages | ISBN: 3039110268 | PDF | 2 MB
According to the late Edward Said, ‘Why English and not Arabic is the question an Egyptian, Palestinian, Iraqi or Jordanian writer has to ask him or herself right now.’ This concise study argues there is a qualitative difference between Arabic literature, Arabic literature translated into English, and a literature conceived and executed in English by writers of Arab background. It examines for the first time the corpus of a group of contemporary Arab writers who have taken the decision to incorporate Arab subjects and themes into the English language. Though variegated and distinct, the work of each writer contributes to a nexus of ideas, the central link of which is the notion of Anglo-Arab encounter. The fiction of Ahdaf Soueif, Jamal Mahjoub, Tony Hanania, Fadia Faqir and Leila Aboulela engages with the West – primarily England – and in the process blurs and hybridises discrete identities of both Arabs and English. Memoirs by accomplished academics, Leila Ahmed, Ghada Karmi and Jean Said Makdisi, are shown to expand definitions of postcolonial autobiography.

Free Download Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, C.600-900 By Sarah Foot
2006 | 398 Pages | ISBN: 0521859468 | PDF | 22 MB
A major new history of English monasticism between the sixth and tenth centuries.

Free Download Brothers in Arms: Hollanders in the Anglo-Boer War By Chris Schoeman
2012 | 264 Pages | ISBN: 1770223401 | EPUB | 10 MB
More than a hundred years later, there is still a great interest in Anglo-Boer War literature. It is an event that has captured the imagination of readers more than most other events in South African history have. The book is by far the most comprehensive account of the Hollander volunteers’ participation in the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa.At the outbreak of the Second Anglo-Boer War in 1899, a large number of Hollanders and Dutch expatriates joined the Boers, their reasons ranging from loyalty to their common ancestry to strong anti-British sentiments and a search for adventure. Brothers in Arms documents the trials and tribulations of these volunteers – most of them unaccustomed to the harsh landscape and climate of South Africa. Quotations and personal anecdotes from their diaries and memoirs vividly bring to life their hardships on commando, the thunder and chaos of battle, and the trauma of comrades falling around them. Some of the prominent figures in the book are Cornelius van Gogh, brother of the painter Vincent van Gogh; the Dutch artist Frans Oerder, who became the Transvaal’s first official war artist; Jochem van Bruggen, four-times winner of the coveted Hertzog Prize for Afrikaans literature; and Rev. Herman van Broekhuizen, who played rugby for South Africa in 1896 and later served as South African ambassador in The Hague.Based on numerous personal diaries and personal memoirs written by the Hollanders, Brothers in Arms covers the full spectrum of the Hollanders’ roles as soldiers at the various battle fronts, ambulance personnel and military attachés, and their life in prisoner-of-war camps overseas.

Free Download John Blair, "Building Anglo-Saxon England"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0691162980, 0691228426 | EPUB | pages: 496 | 52.5 mb
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize

Free Download John Maiden, "Age of the Spirit: Charismatic Renewal, the Anglo-World, and Global Christianity, 1945-1980"
English | ISBN: 0198847491 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This expansive study offers an interpretation of the ‘new Pentecost’: the rise of charismatic Christianity, before, during, and after the ‘long 1960s’. It examines the translocal actors, networks, and media which constructed a ‘Spiritscape’ of charismatic renewal in the Anglo-world contexts of Australia, the British Isles, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States. It places this arena also in a wider and dynamic worldwide setting, exploring the ways in which charismatic imaginations of an ‘age of the Spirit’ were shaped by interpenetrations with the ‘Third World’, the Soviet Bloc, and beyond in the global Sixties and Seventies.

Free Download Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BH98WJ78 | 2022 | 8 hours and 19 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 454 MB
Author: Eleanor Parker
Narrator: Kristin Atherton
The Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wiped out the leading families of Anglo-Saxon England-so what happened to the children this conflict left behind? Conquered offers a fresh take on the Norman Conquest by exploring the lives of those children, who found themselves uprooted by the dramatic events of 1066. Among them were the children of Harold Godwineson and his brothers, survivors of a family shattered by violence who were led by their courageous grandmother Gytha to start again elsewhere. Then there were the last remaining heirs of the Anglo-Saxon royal line-Edgar Ætheling, Margaret, and Christina-who sought refuge in Scotland, where Margaret became a beloved queen and saint.

Free Download An Alternative History of Britain: The Anglo-Saxon Age (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CLVXFQ58 | 2023 | 10 hours and 36 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 289 MB
Author: Timothy Venning
Narrator: Liam Gerrard
Timothy Venning explores the various decision points in a fascinating period of British history and the alternative paths that it might have taken. Dr. Timothy Venning starts within an outline of the process by which much of Britain came to be settled by Germanic tribes after the end of Roman rule, as far as it can be determined from the sparse and fragmentary sources. He then moves on to discuss a series of scenarios, which might have altered the course of subsequent history dramatically. For example, was a reconquest by the native British ever a possibility (under ‘Arthur’ or someone else)? Which of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms might have united England sooner and would this have kept the Danes out? And, of course, what if Harold Godwinson had won at Hastings? While necessarily speculative, all the scenarios are discussed within the framework of a deep understanding of the major driving forces, tensions and trends that shaped British history and help to shed light upon them. In so doing they help the listener to understand why things panned out as they did, as well as what might have been.

Free Download Jesse Russell, "The Political Christopher Nolan: Liberalism and the Anglo-American Vision "
English | ISBN: 1666906190 | 2023 | 172 pages | EPUB, PDF | 305 KB + 1224 KB
Many of Christopher Nolan’s films ironically both embrace the tradition of surrealist and Avant-Garde filmmaking while simultaneously providing (at least tacit) support for the Anglo-American liberal world order. For Nolan, this world order, which relies on global capitalism, technocratic supremacy, and ultimate control of world cultural production, is a much greater alternative to either left- or right-wing challenges to this liberalism. In Nolan’s films, this liberalism must occasionally use violence and violate some of its core principals of privacy and freedom to maintain its dominance. Nonetheless, Anglo-American liberalism, in Nolan’s vision provides a world that is freer, more humane, and more prosperous than other anarchic, Marxist, or fascist alternatives. Finally, (and perhaps most importantly for Nolan) the security, wealth, and freedom of this liberal world order enables the world of art and film to blossom, and the opportunity for Christopher Nolan to create (post-) ironic dream worlds or, in the words of Jean Baudrillard, a "hyperreality".