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The outlaws of medieval legend
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ISBN: 113512888X 0203350049 1283967928 1135128812 9781135128814 9780203350041 0415236509 9780415236508 0415239001 9780415239004 Year: 2000 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Wonderfully written and beautifully presented , The Outlaws of Medieval Legend brings the popular heroes of the Middle-Ages to life. Featuring both famous - Robin Hood and William Wallace - and now forgotten rogues such as Gamelyn and Fulke Fitzwarin, this book explains the popularity of these semi-mythical figures, and how their stories appealed to the common people of the Middle Ages.Long unavailable, and now featuring a new introduction from the author, this is the perfect book for anyone with a fondness for medieval history and folklore.

Imagining Robin Hood : the late-medieval stories in historical context
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ISBN: 128028126X 9786610281268 020300552X 9780203005521 6610281262 9780415223089 0415223083 0415223083 0415404932 9780415404938 9781134595341 9781134595389 9781134595396 1134595387 1134595344 1134595395 Year: 2004 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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A.J. Pollard takes us back to the earliest surviving stories, tales and ballads of Robin Hood, and re-examines the story of this fascinating figure. Setting out the economic, social and political context of the time, Pollard illuminates the legend of this yeoman hero and champion of justice as never before.Imagining Robin Hood questions:what a 'yeoman' was, and what it meant to be a fifteenth-century EnglishmanWas Robin Hood hunted as an outlaw, or respected as an officially appointed forest ranger?Why do we ignore the fact that this celebrated


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Tax is not a four-letter word
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ISBN: 1554589037 9781554589036 9781554589043 1554589045 9781554588329 1554588324 Year: 2013 Publisher: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Taxes connect us to one another, to the common good, and to the future. This is a book about taxes: who pays what and who gets what. More than that, it's about the role of government, about citizenship and our collective well-being, about the Canada we want. The contributors, leading Canadian practitioners and scholars, explore how taxes have become a political "no-go zone" and how changes in taxation are changing Canada. They challenge the view that any tax is a bad tax and provide broad directions for fairer and smarter approaches.This is a book that will be of interest to anyone concerned with public policy and public affairs, economics, and political science and to anyone interested in challenging the conventional wisdom that lower taxes and smaller government are the cures to what ails us.


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Wartime kiss
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ISBN: 128380431X 1400844886 9780691145785 0691145784 9781283804318 9781400844883 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey Princeton University Press

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"Wartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World War II and the later 1940s. Starting with a powerful reinterpretation of one of the most famous photos of all time, Alfred Eisenstaedt's image of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on V-J Day, Alexander Nemerov goes on to examine an idiosyncratic collection of mostly obscure or unknown images and movie episodes--from a photo of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland lying on a picnic blanket in the Santa Barbara hills to scenes from such films as Twelve O'Clock High and Hold Back the Dawn. Erotically charged and bearing traces of trauma even when they seem far removed from the war, these photos and scenes seem to hold out the promise of a palpable and emotional connection to those years. Through a series of fascinating stories, Nemerov reveals the surprising background of these bits of film and discovers unexpected connections between the war and Hollywood, from an obsession with aviation to Anne Frank's love of the movies. Beautifully written and illustrated, Wartime Kiss vividly evokes a world in which Margaret Bourke-White could follow a heroic assignment photographing a B-17 bombing mission over Tunis with a job in Hollywood documenting the filming of a war movie. Ultimately this is a book about history as a sensuous experience, a work as mysterious, indescribable, and affecting as a novel by W. G. Sebald"--

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ART / History / General. --- HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. --- PHOTOGRAPHY / History. --- ART / American / General. --- Nineteen forties. --- Collective memory. --- Art and history. --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Historiography and photography. --- 1940s --- 40s (Twentieth century decade) --- Forties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- Collective remembrance --- Common memory --- Cultural memory --- Emblematic memory --- Historical memory --- National memory --- Public memory --- Social memory --- Memory --- Social psychology --- Group identity --- National characteristics --- History and art --- History --- History in art --- World War, 1939-1945, in motion pictures --- Photography and historiography --- Photography --- Motion pictures and the war. --- Photography. --- Art and history --- Collective memory --- Historiography and photography --- Nineteen forties --- 77.01 --- 791.43.01 --- Amerikaanse film ; 1936-1948 ; Wereldoorlog II --- Fotografie ; theorie ; beschouwing --- Kunsttheorie ; collectief geheugen --- Thema's in de film ; de oorlog --- Motion pictures and the war --- Fotografie ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Filmkunst ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Aircraft. --- Alfred Eisenstaedt. --- Andrew Marvell. --- Anecdote. --- Ann Carter. --- Anne Frank. --- Archibald MacLeish. --- Arsenic and Old Lace (play). --- Bertolt Brecht. --- Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. --- Bomb bay. --- Bomb. --- Bosley Crowther. --- Cary Grant. --- Combat Mission. --- Command Decision (play). --- Confetti. --- Consolidated B-24 Liberator. --- Darryl F. Zanuck. --- Dick Powell. --- Donna Reed. --- Down on His Luck. --- Dr. Strangelove. --- Eddie Muller. --- Eloquence. --- Enola Gay. --- Erskine Caldwell. --- Fan magazine. --- Footage. --- G. (novel). --- Geoffrey de Havilland. --- Getty Images. --- Government Girl. --- Graflex. --- Gregory Peck. --- Henry Fonda. --- Hold Back the Dawn. --- Howard Hawks. --- Howard Hughes. --- I Wanted Wings. --- In the Woods. --- Instant. --- Intercom. --- Jack Warner (actor). --- James Agee. --- Jennifer Jones. --- Joan Fontaine. --- John Hersey. --- John Steinbeck. --- John Swope (photographer). --- Joseph Cornell. --- Lady, Be Good (musical). --- Lightness. --- Linhof. --- Los Angeles Times. --- Margaret Bourke-White. --- Margaret Herrick Library. --- Marx Brothers. --- Max Reinhardt. --- Meal. --- Memphis Belle (aircraft). --- Michelangelo Antonioni. --- Mickey Rooney. --- Mr. --- Nickname. --- North Africa. --- Olivia de Havilland. --- Patchwork. --- Paulette Goddard. --- Phonograph. --- Potion. --- Princess O'Rourke. --- Princeton University Press. --- Priscilla Lane. --- Report from the Aleutians. --- Roland Barthes. --- Rosie the Riveter. --- Seminar. --- Stanley Kubrick. --- Stardom. --- Swoon (artist). --- Sy Bartlett. --- Tamara Toumanova. --- The Adventures of Robin Hood (TV series). --- The Circus Animals' Desertion. --- The Curse of the Cat People. --- The Dark Corner. --- The New York Times. --- To His Coy Mistress. --- Toby Jug. --- Tom Conway. --- Toner. --- Top Gun. --- Twelve O'Clock High. --- Veronica Lake. --- William Wyler. --- Wing and a Prayer. --- Wings of the Navy. --- Writing.

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