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"The British Empire was an astonishingly complex and varied phenomenon, not to be reduced to any of the simple generalisations or theories that are often taken to characterise it. One way of illustrating this, and so conveying some of the subtle flavour of the thing itself, is to descend from the over-arching to the particular, and describe and discuss aspects of it in detail. This book, by the well-known imperial historian Bernard Porter, ranges among a wide range of the events and personalities that shaped or were shaped by British imperialism, or by its decline in the post-war years. These include chapters on science, drugs, battles, proconsuls, an odd assortment of imperialists including Kipling, Lady Hester Stanhope and TE Lawrence, architecture, music, the role of MI6 and the reputation of the Empire since its demise. Together the chapters inform, explain, provoke, and occasionally amuse; but above all they demonstrate the kaleidoscopic variety and ambivalence of Britain s imperial history.""--Bloomsbury publishing.

Great Britain --- British Empire --- Colonies. --- Colonies --- History. --- Imperialism. --- British & Irish history. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- British colonies. --- Ireland

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This book investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, with a foreword by his English translator Anthea Bell, the essays collected in this volume place Sebald's oeuvre within the broader context of European culture in order to better understand his engagement with the ethics of aesthetics. Whilst opening up his work to a range of under-explored areas including dissident surrealism, Anglo-Irish relations, contemporary performance practices and the writings of H. G. Adler, the volume notably returns to the original German texts. The recurring themes identified in the essays - from Sebald's carefully calibrated syntax to his self-consciousness about 'genre', from his interest in liminal spaces to his literal and metaphorical preoccupation with blindness and vision - all suggest that the 'attempt at restitution' constitutes the very essence of Sebald's understanding of literature. "This book investigates the crucial question of 'restitution' in the work of W. G. Sebald. Written by a range of leading scholars from fields as various as translation studies, English, German, and comparative literature, photography, critical theory, psychoanalysis, poetry, and art theory, the essays collected in the volume place Sebald's oeuvre within the broader context of European culture in order better to understand his engagement with the ethics of aesthetics. Whilst opening up his work to a range of under-explored areas - including dissident surrealism, Anglo-Irish relations, contemporary performance practices, and the writings of H. G. Adler - the volume also brings renewed impetus to the standard view of Sebald as a 'Holocaust writer'; following the lead established by his English translator Anthea Bell in her foreword, the essays all share a close attention to linguistic detail, returning to the original German texts in an attempt to do justice to Sebald's complex literary style. The recurring themes identified over the course of the collection - from Sebald's carefully calibrated syntax to his self-consciousness about 'genre', from his interest in liminal spaces to his literal and metaphorical preoccupation with blindness and vision - all suggest that the 'attempt at restitution' is both a thematic preoccupation and a narrative technique, and that as such it arguably constitutes the very essence of Sebald's understanding of literature. The volume will thus appeal not only to students and scholars of Sebald, but to anyone with a serious interest in the problems and possibilities of postwar European writing." --Back cover.

Sebald, W. G. --- זבאלד, וו. --- Sebald, Max, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Literature --- Prose: Non-Fiction --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- Germany --- Anglo-Irish history. --- Austerlitz. --- Corsica Project. --- English translations. --- Franz Kafka. --- H.G. Adler. --- Holocaust. --- Surrealism. --- The Emigrants. --- The Rings of Saturn. --- Vertigo. --- W. G. Sebald. --- blindness. --- collective memories. --- imagination. --- individual memories. --- photographic images. --- restitution. --- unwords.

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An in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family's political, landed, economic, social and religious interests.

Upper class women --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- Women --- History --- Ormond family. --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- Politics and government --- History. --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- anno 1600-1699 --- 1172-1603 --- Aristocratic women. --- Ireland. --- Irish history. --- aristocracy. --- confessional interests. --- economic interests. --- historical impact. --- landed interests. --- political impact. --- politics. --- power. --- social impact. --- social roles.

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This fascinating book provides a detailed account of the history of maternity and child welfare in Dublin between 1922 and 1960. In so doing it places maternity and child welfare in the context of twentieth-century Irish history, offering one of the only accounts of how women and children were viewed, treated and used by key lobby groups in Irish society and by the Irish state.

Motherhood --- Unmarried mothers --- Mother and child --- Child and mother --- Mother-child relationship --- Mothers and children --- Parent and child --- Unwed mothers --- Single mothers --- Illegitimate children --- Maternity --- Mothers --- Parenthood --- Government policy --- Religious aspects. --- Health and hygiene --- Dublin experiment. --- Emergency period. --- Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration. --- Irish society. --- National Conference of Infant Mortality. --- child welfare. --- infant mortality. --- motherhood. --- public health services. --- social rights of citizenship. --- twentieth-century Irish history.

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Medb of Connacht, a central female character of medieval Ireland's Ulster Cycle is read traditionally as an example of a misogynistic, patriarchal Christian campaign to suppress and silence women in early Ireland, or as symbolic of a primordial, mythic pre-Christian goddess, exempt from patriarchal censure because her behavior is ascribed to her duties as a divine sovereignty figure. In addition, this work provides the first comparative and comprehensive character analysis of the Connacht warrior queen across numerous tales in which she appears as a major player, presenting a more complete pic

Epic literature, Irish -- History and criticism. --- Tales -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland) -- History and criticism. --- Ulster cycle. --- Women and literature -- Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland). --- Epic literature, Irish --- Tales --- Women and literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Celtic Languages & Literatures --- Literature --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Irish epic literature --- Irish literature --- History and criticism --- Ulaid cycle --- Tochmarc Emire --- Táin bó Cúailnge --- Serglige Con Culainn --- Compert Con Culainn --- Aided Con Culainn --- Fled Bricrenn --- Fled Bricrenn ocus Loinges mac nDuíl Dermait --- Bruiden Da Choca --- Longes mac n-Uislenn --- Sgéal Chúchulainn ag Cuan Cárn