Author: David Wyatt File Type: pdf Secret Histories claims that the history of the nation is hiddenin plain sightwithin the pages of twentieth-century American literature. David Wyatt argues that the nations fiction and nonfiction expose a secret history that cuts beneath the straight histories of our official accounts. And it does so by revealing personal stories of love, work, family, war, and interracial romance as they were lived out across the decades of the twentieth century. Wyatt reads authors both familiar and neglected, examining double consciousness in the postCivil War era through works by Charles W. Chesnutt, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Booker T. Washington. He reveals aspects of the Depression in the fiction of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anzia Yezierska, and John Steinbeck. Period by period, Wyatts nuanced readings recover the felt sense of life as it was lived, opening surprising dimensions of the critical issues of a given time. The rise of the womens movement, for example, is revivified in new appraisals of works by Eudora Welty, Ann Petry, and Mary McCarthy. Running through the examination of individual works and times is Wyatts argument about reading itself. Reading is not a passive activity but an empathetic act of cocreation, what Faulkner calls overpassing to love. Empathetic reading recognizes and relives the emotional, cultural, and political dimensions of an individual and collective past. And discovering a usable American past, as Wyatt shows, enables us to confront the urgencies of our present moment. **

Author: S. N. Behrman File Type: epub bAn exceptional biography of the worlds most famous art dealer.bA startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of one man, Joseph Duveen, art dealer to John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, and William Randolph Hearst. In a series of articles originally published in The New Yorker, playwright S.N. Behrman evokes the larger-than-life Duveen and reveals the wheeling and dealing, subterfuge, and spirited drama behind the sale of nearly-but not quite-priceless Rembrandts, Vermeers, Turners, and Bellinis.

Author: T. Mukhimer File Type: pdf Developing a normative framework for evaluating non-state actors in the absence of formally binding obligations, this study is the first detailed human rights analysis of Hamas conduct and governance in the Gaza Strip. **Review To come About the Author Tariq Mukhimer is a Human Rights Officer for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Author: Robin R. Mundill File Type: pdf In July 1290, Edward I issued writs to the Sheriffs ofthe English counties ordering them to enforce a decree to expel all Jews from England before All Saints Day of that year.England became the first country to expel a Jewish minority from its borders. They were allowed to take their portable property but their houses were confiscated by the king.In a highly readable account, Robin Mundillconsiders the Jews of medieval England as victims of violence (notably the massacre of Shabbat haGadol when Yorks Jewish community perished at Cliffords Tower) and as a people apart, isolated amidst a hostile environment. The origins of the business world are considered including the fact that the medieval English Jew perfected modern business methods many centuries before its recognised time. Whatemerges is a picture of a lost society which had much to contribute and yet was turned away in 1290. ReviewFrom the author of the acclaimed book on the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 we now have a lively account of the Jews of medieval England. From now on no one will have any excuse for not including Jews as an integral part of the history of Norman and Angevin England.(Dr Anna Sapir Abulafia, University of Cambridge )The history of medieval English Jews was well-served by earlier scholars, but as more and more evidence has been sifted and as technical scholarship has blossomed over the last several decades, it also became clear that there was a pressing need for a comprehensive new synthesis.With Robin Mundills eminently readable book this need is addressed head on. The arguments he offers and the insights he provides into the relations of Jews and Christians in medieval England will be the ones the next generation of scholars will have to engage if they are to make further progress on this exciting subject. Mundills accomplishment is commendable, and his work will constitute a powerful stimulus to further research.(William Chester Jordan, Dayton-Stockton Professor of History, Princeton University. )Robin Mundills new book is a very welcome addition to the all-too-short shelf of books dealing with the Jews of medieval England. It reflects Mundills enviable familiarity with the manuscript and secondary sources, which he weaves into a praiseworthy overview of his subject, and presents a readable picture of how Jews lived in a medieval Christian milieu. (Dr Zefira Entin Rokeah, Jerusalem )Mention in Times Higher Education.It is a sad and sorry tale but is well worth the retelling. There is no better guide than Robin Mundill ... It is a fascinating chapter in English history and Mundill does it full justice.(The American Spectator )[A] fascinating vision of the Middle Ages ... lively and engaging. (Church Times )Mr Mundill gives us a good survey based on a mastery of surviving records.(Contemporary Review )The author, who is well versed in both the primary and secondary sources of his subject, writes interestingly about the Jewish population... Overall, this is a useful book.(History )The Kings Jews is written with verve and enthusiasm, clarity and balance. It provides an excellent starting-point for those wishing to understand not only the factual, historical details of the Jews lives, but also the complicated, intricate relationship they had with the communities from whom they would ultimately be expelled.(History Today )From the author of the acclaimed book on the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290 we now have a lively account of the Jews of medieval England. From now on no one will have any excuse for not including Jews as an integral part of the history of Norman and Angevin England.(, )The history of medieval English Jews was well-served by earlier scholars, but as more and more evidence has been sifted and as technical scholarship has blossomed over the last several decades, it also became clear that there was a pressing need for a comprehensive new synthesis.With Robin Mundills eminently readable book this need is addressed head on. The arguments he offers and the insights he provides into the relations of Jews and Christians in medieval England will be the ones the next generation of scholars will have to engage if they are to make further progress on this exciting subject. Mundills accomplishment is commendable, and his work will constitute a powerful stimulus to further research.(, )Robin Mundills new book is a very welcome addition to the all-too-short shelf of books dealing with the Jews of medieval England. It reflects Mundills enviable familiarity with the manuscript and secondary sources, which he weaves into a praiseworthy overview of his subject, and presents a readable picture of how Jews lived in a medieval Christian milieu. (, )It is a sad and sorry tale but is well worth the retelling. There is no better guide than Robin Mundill It is a fascinating chapter in English history and Mundill does it full justice.(, )Mr Mundill gives us a good survey based on a mastery of surviving records.(, )The author, who is well versed in both the primary and secondary sources of his subject, writes interestingly about the Jewish population Overall, this is a useful book.(, )