Marcus Cunliffe Libri

Traces the ancestral background, childhood, growth, failures and achievements of George Washington to show him as a real person.

Illustrated with over 300 photographs and paintings,this book is a marvellous insight into the reality of a legendary epoch.

The American Civil War was, and remains, one of the most significant events in the history of the modern world. It was the great point of crisis in the development of the United States, and its repercussions are still felt today. Yet to most people it is a confused collection of political, social and military events, with little pattern behind the differing elements. Leading scholars of American history here explain the whole background and course of the war, with special emphasis on the clash between two fraternal societies each with sincere but acutely opposed ambitions. From this basis, they demonstrate where all the various elements come into the story - how for instance, the ante-bellum South developed in such a distinctive manner, and why it identified itself with the continuation and expansion of slavery. The book is illustrated with over 300 pictures, many in colour. This is a compulsive re-appraisal of an historic event of tragic proportions which wove a hybrid collection of peoples into the greatest, most influential nation of the western world.

Reprint. Uncreased copy covered with clear non adhesive plastic. Some aged tape residue/ghosting to cover facing pages. Tanned pages

Una satira astuta e ingegnosa utilizza inversioni comiche per offrire spunti sulla natura umana e sulla società. Segue i quattro viaggi di Lemuel Gulliver, un chirurgo di bordo. A Lilliput, scopre un mondo in miniatura, sovrastando i suoi abitanti e osservando la loro società da una prospettiva quasi divina. Al contrario, a Brobdingnag, Gulliver diventa la curiosità, esposto nei mercati come un uomo in miniatura tra giganti. Il suo viaggio prosegue verso Laputa, un'isola volante dove incontra una società di speculatori distaccati dalla realtà, che permettono alla loro patria di cadere in rovina mentre si ossessionano per idee impraticabili. Infine, raggiunge la terra degli Houyhnhnms, cavalli gentili che ammira, in netto contrasto con gli Yahoos, creature sporche che somigliano agli esseri umani. Questo testo, basato sull'edizione originale del 1726, esplora le interpretazioni dell'opera dalla sua pubblicazione. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), nato a Dublino, ha creato questo classico intramontabile.