Discover the Night Sky through Binoculars: A systematic guide to Binocular Astronomy, Tonkin Fras Stephen
Автор: Westaby Stephen Название: Fragile Lives ISBN: 0008196788 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008196783 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 964.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT`S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of the world`s most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he`s worked on.
Автор: Fraser, Frankie Morton, James Название: Mad frank`s diary ISBN: 0753554038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780753554036 Издательство: Random House - Penguin Рейтинг: Цена: 1715.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: And by contrast, he also opens up with personal memories of growing up in poverty, in London`s East End, and the reality of having to steal food to feed the family. Frankie Frasier died in 2014, and this rare True Crime classic is first-hand history at its most compelling.
Автор: Westaby Stephen Название: Fragile Lives ISBN: 0008196761 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008196769 Издательство: HarperCollins UK Рейтинг: Цена: 1979.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY PRIZE THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.2 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BMA PRESIDENT`S AWARD 2017 An incredible memoir from one of the world`s most eminent heart surgeons, recalling some of the most remarkable and poignant cases he`s worked on.
Автор: Gosnell, Jonathan K. Название: Franco-America in the making : ISBN: 0803285272 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803285279 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 7524.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making them the fifth-largest ethnic group in the United States, their cultural legacy has remained nearly invisible. Events like Franco-American Day, however, attest to French ethnic permanence on the American topography.
In Franco-America in the Making, Jonathan K. Gosnell examines the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, especially New England and southern Louisiana. To shed light on the French cultural legacy in North America long after the formal end of the French empire in the mid-eighteenth century, Gosnell seeks out hidden French or “Franco” identities and sites of memory in the United States and Canada that quietly proclaim an intercontinental French presence, examining institutions of higher learning, literature, folklore, newspapers, women’s organizations, and churches. This study situates Franco-American cultures within the new and evolving field of postcolonial Francophone studies by exploring the story of the peoples and ideas contributing to the evolution and articulation of a Franco-American cultural identity in the New World. Gosnell asks what it means to be French, not simply in America but of America.
Автор: Stephen A. Toth Название: Mettray: A History of France`s Most Venerated Carceral Institution ISBN: 1501740180 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501740183 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 6389.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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The Mettray Penal Colony was a private reformatory without walls, established in France in 1840 for the rehabilitation of young male delinquents. Foucault linked its opening to the most significant change in the modern status of prisons and now, at last, Stephen Toth takes us behind the gates to show how the institution legitimized France's repression of criminal youth and added a unique layer to the nation's carceral system.
Drawing on insights from sociology, criminology, critical theory, and social history, Stephen Toth dissects Mettray's social anatomy, exploring inmates' experiences. More than 17,000 young men passed through the reformatory before its closure, and Toth situates their struggles within changing conceptions of childhood and adolescence in modern France. Mettray demonstrates that the colony was an ill-conceived project marked by internal contradictions. Its social order was one of subjection and subversion, as officials struggled for order and inmates struggled for autonomy.
Toth's formidable archival work exposes the nature of the relationships between, and among, prisoners and administrators. He explores the daily grind of existence: living conditions, discipline, labor, sex, and violence. Thus, he gives voice to the incarcerated, not simply to the incarcerators, whose ideas and agendas tend to dominate the historical record. Mettray is, above all else, a deeply personal illumination of life inside France's most venerated carceral institution.
