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  • Holocaust in The Raj - The Great Famine of India (1876-78)

    British Raj Series, #2

    by Mark Colenutt ...
    Series Book 2 - British Raj Series
    The Raj is considered the jewel in the crown of British colonial achievement. Startlingly, this rose-tinted view is not shared by the Indian subcontinent.The national archives of India tell of a very different history under British control; a history which is well documented in its public records and similarly well covered by the nation's historians.When the Great Famine swept across India, the ... Read more

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  • Under Providence - Short History of How an Island Conquered a Sub-continent

    British Raj Series, #1

    by Mark Colenutt ...
    Series Book 1 - British Raj Series
    The Raj, as anyone in modern Britain can tell you, is still considered the 'jewel in the crown' of British colonial achievement, but how many of us Britons are able to explain why?Consequently, such belief requires an unquestioning leap of faith. Startlingly though, this rose-tinted analysis is not shared by the Indian subcontinent, whose national archives tell a very different history under ... Read more

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  • On Balance - Was Britain a Net Gain for India?

    British Raj Series, #3

    by Mark Colenutt ...
    Series Book 3 - British Raj Series
    A storm that has been brewing in a tea cup has recently been gathering pace.Was Britain a net gain for India or nothing more than a net drain? The question has led to calls for Britain to pay reparations to her colonies, and no colony supplied more than her Indian Empire. But to what extent was Britain a burden and to what extent, if one dare ask, was she a blessing for the Indian people?Viceroy ... Read more

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  • A Bluffer's Handbook to Machiavelli's The Prince

    by Mark Colenutt ...
    Considered the 'Koran of the courtiers', The Prince inspired Mussolini, and served Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and Carlos V. It is therefore a book that has impressed Monarchs, Emperors, Dictators and a Lord Protector. It has also been denounced as the work of the Devil and Old Nick's book has been read by Catholics and Protestants alike, with both religious factions believing it the work of the ... Read more

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  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri : Volume 3: Paradiso

    Volume 3: Paradiso

    by Ronald L. Martinez; Robert M. Durling; Robert Turner ...
    Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living Italian-to-English ... Read more

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  • The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto

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    This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the narratological strategies used to depict non-European characters in these stories, Jo ... Read more

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  • Pre-Occupied Spaces

    Remapping Italy's Transnational Migrations and Colonial Legacies

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    Film Censorship and State Intervention in the Translation of Foreign Cinema in Fascist Italy

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    Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600

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  • On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities

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  • Anna Maria Ortese

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