Henry Austen, Jane Austen’s witty and loyal brother, led a colorful and turbulent life that influenced her work and reflected Regency society’s complexities.Henry Austen, Jane Austen’s favourite brother, was born into a large and lively clergy family in Hampshire. Of her seven siblings, Henry most shared Jane’s mischievous wit and facility with words and his support enabled the publication of her novels.Henry’s own life was much more incident-packed than hi...

The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. Examining the closely linked gold rushes in California and British Columbia, historian Christopher Herbert shows that these men worried about the meaning of their manhood in the near-anarchic, ethnica...

On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in India was often portrayed as a clash of civilization and barbarity demanding merciless retribution. Although by twentieth-century standards the number of victims was small, the Victorian public saw...

An honest and straightforward boy, Clemo grows up in the Wye Valley in Henry VIII’s reign. Working on the family farm and at a foundry, he is also attracted by the serenity of the Cistercian Abbey at Tintern, but family tragedies and secrets change his life, and, like Dick Whittington, he leaves to seek his fortune in London. He is welcomed by the family of the lively and beautiful Alice who help him to become an agent of the Imperial Ambassador. A visit to Waverley Abbey, near Farnham rem...

None of us can escape the pain and suffering of ill-health at times, and most of us will also at other times have to adopt the role of carer to loved ones who are sick. Such experiences bring into sharp focus our vulnerability, and can force some difficult questions to be asked, Why me? Why our family? Illness takes us out of our normality and routine, hinders our work and pleasure, and takes away our sense of being in control. We might feel abandoned by God, or even punished in some way. ...

Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great religious revival, often lauded in later scholarship as a "moral revolution," is depicted as an evil conspiracy centered on the attempted dismantling of the humanitarian moral culture of the na...

Cadence Colo is a student, struggling with a heritage he doesn't want and a beautiful girl he does.Cadence Colo is a nightmare-ridden war veteran, struggling to rebuild his life but caught in the same war that ruined him before.Cadence Colo is a man on a mission to destroy the Old Gods, but what he must do may break him for good.Cadence Colo is the last Storykeeper. This is the story he has kept.

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SIE HAT DIE VERLORENE WELT GEFUNDEN … Die unerschrockene interstellare Forscherin Brooke Stevens hat in ihrem Leben schon viele seltsame und einzigartige Dinge gesehen, aber dies hier könnte das Unglaublichste von allen sein. Von der Organisation Interstellar Expeditions mit dem Auftrag betraut, eine ganze Welt zu finden, hat sie den bis dahin "verschollenen" Planeten Jardine wiederentdeckt. ABER WIRD SIE LANGE GENUG AM LEBEN BLEIBEN, UM IRGENDJEMANDEM DAVON ERZÄHLEN ZU KÖNNEN? Nachdem sie...

Almost all current wars are primarily intra-state, involving complex societal conflicts with at least one party a non-state community. Second Track/ Citizens' Diplomacy is broadly defined as facilitated dialogue to address conflict issues between unofficial representatives or equivalent opinion leaders ?from communities in conflict. It is an essential complement to official (first track) diplomacy for responding to the enormous challenge that these complex conflicts pose to buildi...

This first-of-a-kind collection brings together in one volume the strongest available evidence of successful transfer effects from unofficial third-party work to official peacemaking. Using comparative case analysis from several real-world interventions, Paving the Way offers insights into the conditions and qualities of successful programs of interactive conflict resolution from experts in the field. Editor Ronald J. Fisher has assembled a collection of seminal case studies that ...

DER KAMPF UM DIE VORHERRSCHAFT DER BATTLEMECHS GEHT WEITER … Fünfzehn Jahre, nachdem die Terranische Hegemonie erstmals den Mackie, den allerersten BattleMech zum Einsatz brachte, hat dieses Große Haus die anderen Häuser der Inneren Sphäre nach Belieben vor sich hergetrieben. Jeder, der den Versuch unternahm, gegen die Terraner und ihre Todesmaschinen anzugehen, wurde komplett besiegt. Doch es gibt andere Wege, das Schlachtenglück auszugleichen. Und das Lyranische Commonwealth ist drauf un...