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Hace 4 días · Psychoanalysts claimed the author of stories like “In the Penal Colony” and “A Hunger Artist” as a neurotic herald of the uncanny or a self-tortured “poet of shame and guilt” (as the ...
Hace 4 días · By Nicolas Mahler. Pushkin Press, pb, £12.99. Kafka, one of the greatest Jewish writers of the 20th century, died 100 years ago. Most of us have a clear image of Kafka the man and the writer ...
Hace 5 días · Fragments of this past scattered throughout the city are reminders of the convict roots of a new nation. Once a continent-sized prison, it's today what many people think of, thanks to its civil ...
Hace 4 días · Be as it may, for the purpose of this manuscript, in order to avoid further confusion, the name Puerto Princesa is used to mean the town and Yguahit as the “penal colony”. It is with much hope that the succeeding chapters shall eventually clear the impression as to whether or not the expeditionary force that established Puerto Princesa found a Tagbanua settlement in the area when they ...
Hace 2 días · In this article, we will examine 20 pervasive myths from history – exploring their origins, their impact, and the true stories that lie behind them. 1. Napoleon Bonaparte‘s Supposed Shortness. One of the most famous historical myths is the idea that Napoleon Bonaparte was an exceptionally short man. This belief has become so widespread that ...
Hace 2 días · Puerto Rico was the historic first gateway to the discovery of Florida, which opened the door to the settlement of the southeastern United States. They introduced Christianity, cattle, horses, sheep, the Spanish language and more to the land (Florida) that later became the United States of America.
Hace 2 días · Price: £45.00. Dr Simon Constantine, review of German Colonialism. A Short History, (review no. 1268) This is an excellent overview of German colonialism, constructed with some skill from the scholarship on the colonies, and shaped also by the wider debate on European colonialism and its legacies. It is the best survey of the subject in ...
