Bøger af Anna Green

Poems about the past, present and future

The Houses of History provides a comprehensive introduction to the twelve schools of thought which have had the greatest influence on the study of history in the twentieth century. Ranging from Empiricism to Postcolonialism, Marxism to the Ethnohistorians, each chapter begins with an introduction to the particular school, the ma protagonists, the critics, and is followed by a useful section of further readings. From the classic, such as G. R. Elton's "England Under the Tudors" and E. P. Thompson's "The Making of the English Working Class", to the recent, such as Henrietta Whiteman's "White Buffalo Woman" and Judith Walkowitz's "City of Dreadful Delight", the diverse selections_ collected hereof bring together the leading historian, and theorists the century.

En sen kväll råkar Miss Butterworth se något mystiskt: ett ungt par som går in i det obebodda, förfallna huset mittemot hennes. En stund senare försvinner mannen ut. Dagen därpå visar sig ett hemskt mord ha skett, och Miss Butterworth är övertygad om att den anklagade inte är skyldig. Ska hon lyckas övertyga den erfarna, sobra Mr. Bryce att hennes magkänsla talar sanning? Eller kommer hon bli tagen för en nyckfull kvinna vars amatörkunskap inom detektivbranschen inte har något värde?En spännande vintage crime om Miss Butterworth och Mr. Bryce.Anna Green (1846-1935) var en känd amerikansk författare och poet. Hon skrev ett stort antal detektivromaner, alltid med en intrikat och sofistikerad handling. Agatha Christie har skrivit i sin självbiografi att Greens böcker influerade hennes skrivande.

An updated edition of this accessible critical reader, with additional chapters including an introduction that contextualises the rise of each theoretical perspective and draw links between them. -- .

States that the 19th-century representations of childhood and adolescence - in paintings, various forms of visual culture, and in diverse written discourses of the period - are critical for understanding modernity. This book contains chapters structured according to such themes as parent-child relations, modes of discipline, work, and others.

Anna Green provides a coherent and accessible introduction to the major theoretical approaches and key concepts within this most diverse of historical fields. 'Cultural History' explores the conceptual, affective and imaginative worlds of human consciousness, as reflected in elite intellectual works as well as everyday social beliefs and practices.

When a wealthy merchant is found murdered in his home, circumstances point toward a member of the household as the killer in this bestselling tale of love, greed, sacrifice, and betrayal.