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Examines the war in Sierra Leone as a crisis of modernity.

A biography of the poet and libertine the Earl of Rochester.

Nine of today's most celebrated Hispanic writers reveal themselves and their concerns, and how the latter are reflected in their work. The writers are Ricardo Piglia, Antonio Muqoz Molina, Juan Josi Millas, Josi Marma Merino, Enrique Vila-Matas, Quim Monzs, Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Pedro Zarraluki and Ray Loriga. The interviews allow readers closer personal acquaintance with the subjects, their fiction and their cultural circumstances, in the process touching on major intellectual issues of today - the definition of reality, the role of art and the challenge of otherness. Each conversation is introduced by an essay commenting on the main themes in the author's works. The book contains a detailed bibliography and an extensive general introduction, which presents the intellectual context for the issues discussed. Entrevistas con Ricardo Piglia y ocho eminentes escritores espaqoles: Antonio Muqoz Molina, Juan Josi Millas, Josi Marma Merino, Enrique Vila-Matas, Quim Monzs, Cristina Fernandez Cubas, Pedro Zarraluki y Ray Loriga. Son extensas conversaciones sobre la narrativa de cada escritor, abordando los problemas mas recurrentes en ella. Pero las conversaciones no sslo permiten conocer a fondo a los escritores y entender mejor sus ideas sino tambiin contienen gran variedad de comentarios sobre los temas mas polimicos de finales del siglo XX - el caracter de la realidad, el papel del arte y la importancia de la otredad. Las entrevistas van precedidas de ensayos que se centran en la obra de cada autor y de una introduccisn general, donde se presentan los temas tratados, y las acompaqa una bibliografma detallada. KATARZYNA OLGA BEILIN es profesora de espaqol en la Universidad de Wisconsinen Madison.

Norman Scarfe explores place names, the Sutton Hoo ship burial, the coming of Christianity, and the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, concluding with an evocative study of five Suffolk places - Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford, and Wingfield and Fressingfield.

The first multi-disciplinary history of the English East India Company, one of the most powerful commercial companies ever to have existed.

Barber B. Conable Jr. served as a Republican congressman from western New York from 1965 to 1985. He is recognized as one of the most respected members of the House of Representatives in recent years. This biography explores his twenty-year congressional career, focusing on his remarkable educational abilities as a gifted teacher-legislator. Using excerpts from Conable's private journal, his newsletters and news columns, and from personal interviews, James S. Fleming has crafted a book that enables readers to appreciate why Conable was held in high regard by his constituents, his colleagues, the press, and congressional scholars. Political scientist Charles O. Jones expressed the opinion of many when he observed that "Barber Conable was just about everybody's idea of what a congressman should be." Recognizing the importance of Conable's western New York heritage, James Fleming traces Conable's story from his childhood in Warsaw, New York, to his election to the historic Eighty-ninth Congress of 1965-1966. Fleming's chronicle of Conable's subsequent legislative career offers a window on Congress and on an historic period in American history. As the fourth-ranking Republican leader in the House, Conable played a critical role in the Watergate investigation that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. As the ranking Republican leader of the Ways and Means Committee, he was a key contributor to the tax legislation passed during the Ford, Carter, and Reagan administrations. The highlight of his legislative career was his crucial work in solving the 1983 Social Security crisis. Fleming concludes the biography with a look at Conable's service as World Bank President and hisretirement to his beloved western New York home. In his foreword the renowned congressional scholar, Richard F. Fenno Jr. writes, "Barber Conable was an especially admirable United States Representative; and Jim Fleming has written an especially admirable congressional biography

Essays on Milton's developing ideas on liberty, and his republicanism, as expressed in his writings over his lifetime.

Diane Watt sets aside the conventional hiatus between the medieval and early modern periods in her study of women's prophecy, following the female experience from medieval sainthood to radical Protestantism. The English women prophets and visionaries whose voices are recovered here all lived between the twelfth and the seventeenth centuries and claimed, through the medium of trances and eucharistic piety, to speak for God. They include Margery Kempe and the medieval visionaries, Elizabeth Barton (the Holy Maid of Kent), the Reformation martyr Anne Askew and other godly women described in John Foxe's Acts and Monuments, and Lady Eleanor Davies as an example of a woman prophet of the Civil War. The strategies women devised to be heard and read are exposed, showing that through prophecy they were often able to intervene in the religious and political discourse of their times: the role of God's secretary gave them the opportunity to act and speak autonomously and publicly.Winner of Foster Watson Memorial Gift for 1998.

Historic accounts and new material illuminate the creation, early history and artistic intentions of Britten's first opera.

A history of arms and armour in Europe from pre-history to the 15th century.