Roland G. Robertson, "Rotting Face: Smallpox and the American Indian"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0870044192 | PDF | pages: 346 | 18.1 mb
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press

Mary Harris, "Rocks, Radio and Radar: The Extraordinary Scientific, Social and Military Life of Elizabeth Alexander"
English | ISBN: 1786346648 | 2019 | 616 pages | EPUB | 1477 KB
Many women scientists, particularly those who did crucial work in two world wars, have disappeared from history. Until they are written back in, the history of science will continue to remain unbalanced. This book tells the story of Elizabeth Alexander, a pioneering scientist who changed thinking in geology and radio astronomy during WWII and its aftermath.

Shunsuke Katsuta, "Rockites, Magistrates and Parliamentarians: Governance and Disturbances in Pre-Famine Rural Munster "
English | ISBN: 1472478991 | 2017 | 178 pages | EPUB | 890 KB
Early nineteenth-century Ireland witnessed widespread and prolonged rural unrest, as groups of labourers and smallholders formed secret societies demanding land reform, fair rents, the protection of wages and an end to tithes. One of the most active of these groups - the Rockites - waged a vigorous and sustained campaign of arson, intimidation and houghing (maiming of animals) across the southern half of Ireland during the 1820s, quickly attracting the attention of the authorities in both Ireland and Britain. Combining analyses of local and economic concerns with wider national political dimensions, this book offers an in-depth and alternative interpretation of the Rockites. Attaching particular importance to the political dimensions of the Rockites, Katsuta demonstrates how their political mindset was created by local circumstances. Styling themselves descendants of the United Irishmen, Rockites drew on the memories of the bitter political struggles in Cork during the 1790s, as well as current political events such as Daniel O'Connell's mass mobilisation to oppose the Catholic relief bill in 1821. As well as situating the Rockites within the Irish context, the book also offers insights into how British politicians dealt with Ireland in the early years of the Union. The Rockite disturbances prompted the Tory government to adopt a new course that proved less a remedy to problems in Ireland than as a response to events within parliament. In turn Rockites became a useful tool for Whigs and radicals in Westminster to blame the Tories for the misgovernment of Ireland, revealing how the Irish question in the early nineteenth-century UK was regarded first and foremost as a parliamentary issue.

Rock pools
by Hayward, Peter J.;
English | 2022 | ISBN: 1784273597 | 186 pages | True PDF EPUB | 71.2 MB

Lesley Coote, "Robin Hood in Outlaw/ed Spaces "
English | ISBN: 1032097450 | 2021 | 250 pages | EPUB | 398 KB
Following in the tradition of recent work by cultural geographers and historians of maps, this collection examines the apparently familiar figure of Robin Hood as he can be located within spaces that are geographical, cultural, and temporal. The volume is divided into two sections: the first features an interrogation of the literary and other textually transmitted spaces to uncover the critical grounds in which the Robin Hood 'legend' has traditionally operated. The essays in Part Two take up issues related to performative and experiential space, demonstrating the reciprocal relationship between page, stage, and lived experience. Throughout the volume, the contributors contend with, among other things, modern theories of gender, literary detective work, and the ways in which the settings that once advanced court performances now include digital gaming and the enactment of 'real' lives.

Alexander L. Kaufman, "Robin Hood and the Outlaw/ed Literary Canon "
English | ISBN: 1138336912 | 2018 | 252 pages | EPUB | 651 KB
This cutting-edge volume demonstrates both the literary quality and the socio-economic importance of works on "the matter of the greenwood" over a long chronological period. These include drama texts, prose literature and novels (among them, children's literature), and poetry. Whilst some of these are anonymous, others are by acknowledged canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and John Keats. The editors and the contributors argue that it is vitally important to include Robin Hood texts in the canon of English literary works, because of the high quality of many of these texts, and because of their significance in the development of English literature.

Terrence Edward Paupp, "Robert F. Kennedy in the Stream of History: In the Stream of History"
English | ISBN: 1138514241 | 2017 | 288 pages | EPUB | 675 KB
This assessment of the statesmanship, principles, and policies of Robert F. Kennedy places him "in the stream of history," to assess what came before his time in political life, what happened during that time, and what happened to his legacy after his assassination. Terrence Edward Paupp evaluates the themes and issues RFK confronted, responded to, and for which he provided visionary solutions.

Robert F. Zeidel, "Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse: Ethnic and Class Dynamics during the Era of American Industrialization"
English | ISBN: 1501748319 | 2020 | 306 pages | EPUB | 822 KB
Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces. As Robert F. Zeidel argues, attribution of industrial-era class conflict to an "alien" presence supplements nativism―a sociocultural negativity toward foreign-born residents―as a reason for Americans' dislike and distrust of immigrants. And in the era of American industrialization, employers both relied on immigrants to meet their growing labor needs and blamed them for the frequently violent workplace contentions of the time.

Melissa D. Ramos, "Ritual in Deuteronomy: The Performance of Doom "
English | ISBN: 1138570982 | 2021 | 170 pages | EPUB | 743 KB
Ritual in Deuteronomy explores the symbolic world of Deuteronomy's ritual covenant and curses through a lens of religious studies and anthropology, drawing on previously unexamined Mesopotamian material.

Adrian Wilson, "Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England "
English | ISBN: 1138250597 | 2016 | 270 pages | EPUB | 1194 KB
This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation of the marital norm - it proceeds through marriage to the wider gender-order and so to the 'ceremony of childbirth', the popular ritual through which women collectively controlled this, the pivotal event in their lives. Focussing on the seventeenth century, but ranging from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, this study offers a new viewpoint on such themes as the patriarchal family, the significance of illegitimacy, and the structuring of gender-relations in the period.