Twickenham is chiefly known today as the home of rugby, but its heyday could be said to be in the eighteenth century when first Alexander Pope and then Horace Walpole made it their home and extolled its Arcadian setting.Captain Gray, a naval officer, acquired plots of land close to the river in Twickenham in 1718 on which he built two rows of houses, Sion Row and Montpelier Row, which survive to this day and are much admired.This book tells the story of Sion Row, which was ...

Arguing that there has never been a consensus on which rights all people are entitled, Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World traces how the concept of human rights is tied to a global project rooted in colonialism and grounded in nineteenth-century liberalism and post-World War II social democratic principles.This book contends that human rights are conceived, imagined, and promoted by dominant states, organizations, and activists within...

Previous studies of the practice of footbinding in imperial China have theorized that it expressed ethnic identity or that it served an economic function. By analyzing the popularity of footbinding in different places and times, Footbinding as Fashion investigates the claim that early Qing (1644–1911) attempts by Manchu rulers to ban footbinding made it a symbol of anti-Manchu sentiment and Han identity and led to the spread of the practice throughout all levels of society. Detail...

At the time of the American Revolution most of the New World still belonged to Spain and Portugal, whose captains and conquerors had been the first to come to its shores. Spain had the lion's share, but Portugal held Brazil, in itself a vast land of unsuspected resources. No empire mankind had ever yet known rivaled in size the illimitable domains of Spain and Portugal in the New World; and none displayed such remarkable contrasts in land and people. Boundless plains and forests, swamps and d...

This book is a message of Grace birthed in me by the Holy Spirit through many years of struggle.This book is solely derived by the Grace of a loving Father concerned about the welfare of His children...a High Priest who is touched by our infirmities' feelings.Please, readers, don't allow the devil to use this book to deceive you into thinking that Grace gives one the license to sin. It does not...God forbid! God hates sin.... For the wages of sin is Death... and the soul th...

THE WORLD CENSURED-SHUT DOWN AND UNDER-SEIZED is written to inform the readers of the urgency God has placed in my heart to warn the world of things that are presently occurring upon our world-signifying HIS soon return. I pray this book will make the readers aware that we're living in unprecedented-and-perilous times, and signs of HIS imminent return is neigh. I pray that all of those the Holy Spirit directs, inspires, and cause to read this Endtime message-will repent and prepare themsel...

“The historian,” wrote E. L. Doctorow, “will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.” This book sees Peter Hennessy and Robert Shepard combine both approaches with the art of the interviewer, a craft at once sensitive and probing.Reflections collects transcripts of the best interviews from the BBC Radio 4 series Reflections with Peter Hennessy, a show on which the British political elite have spoken candidly about their careers and th...

Accompanying the acclaimed BBC Radio 4 program, Reflections features interviews with twelve of Britain’s most influential political figures from the last twenty years. Presented by Peter Hennessy, one of the UK’s most renowned historians, each interview not only offers an honest and frank assessment of a political career, but also acts as a biography filled with fresh insights and moments of new revelation. From one of the longest-serving Prime Ministers and three of the Conservat...

On the BBC radio show Reflections with Peter Hennessy, the preeminent historian of British political life interviewed leading figures from the UK’s governing parties during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Bringing together transcripts of the collected interviews for the first time, The Complete Reflections features interviews the biggest names from the Thatcher era, the New Labour years, and the coalition government of the 2010s.In The Com...

This book is about soul winning. It was written both to win souls and to inspire Christians who have been sleeping to wake from slumber and pick up their cross and go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature.This book should remind God's church why it is here and what it is called to do: Preach the gospel and make disciples of men.In this book, the Author reminds us of the value of a soul. And he provokes us to have compassion for souls by reminding us that "t...

In "Helps to Holiness," Samuel Logan Brengle, a renowned holiness advocate, offers a profound exploration of the path to spiritual transformation. Through a series of insightful chapters, Brengle guides readers on a journey of self-discovery, repentance, and surrender to God's grace. With a blend of biblical wisdom and practical advice, he illuminates the obstacles that hinder holiness and provides practical steps for overcoming them. This classic work is an invaluable resource for anyone ...

Within tourism studies, the cosmopolitan potentials of tourism have often been situated within a broader conversation about globalization, an approach that implies that cosmopolitanism is a predictable by-product of globalization and becoming more cosmopolitan should be the goal of travel. And yet a fundamental value of a cosmopolitan outlook—namely, to not only to be “at home in the world” but also to experience the world in an authentic sense—depends on the culturally embedded, parochial...