“…A number of the major chiefs of Fiji had offered to cede Fiji to Queen Victoria; and after the offer had been accepted, Fiji became a British Crown Colony on that day. …”

“…Susanne Soederberg, Canada Research Chair, Department of Development Studies, Queen's University, Canada. 'A masterful work of historical materialism.' …”

“…Modernist historiography set itself the objective of going beyond the colourful narratives of 'whigs' and 'popularizers' in order to establish history as the queen of the humanities and as a rival to the sciences as a vehicle of knowledge. …”

“…Spanning ten years, his adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, to the north coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and even to Buckingham Palace to see a Vermeer masterpiece in the collection of the Queen El inventor Tim Jenison busca comprender las técnicas de pintura utilizados por el maestro holandés Johannes Vermeer…”
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“…Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades.It was a century of enormous change, encompassing two world wars, four monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI and the Queen), the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the Labour Party, women's suffrage, the birth of the NHS, the march of suburbia and the clearance of the slums. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…." : the Beatles : the Ed Sullivan Show, CBS TV, February 9, 1964 / Laurel Sercombe -- Bob Dylan : Newport Folk Festival, July 25, 1965 / Lee Marshall -- When deep soul met the love crowd : Otis Redding : Monterey Pop Festival, June 17, 1967 / Sarah Hill -- The road not taken : Elvis Presley : comeback special : NBC TV studios, December 3, 1968 / Ian Inglis -- Land of the free : Jimi Hendrix : Woodstock Festival, August 18, 1969 / Mike Daley -- If anything, blame Woodstock : the Rolling Stones : Altamont, December 6, 1969 / Norma Coates -- Watch that man : David Bowie : Hammersmith Odeon, London, July 3, 1973 / Philip Auslander -- Patti Smith : the old grey whistle test : BBC-2 TV, May 11, 1976 / Sheila Whiteley -- Print the truth, not the legend : the Sex Pistols : Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester, June 4, 1976 / Sean Albiez -- I need contact : rock 'n' roll and ritual : Peter Gabriel : Security tour, 1982-1983 / Jeffrey Callen -- Michael Jackson : Motown 25 : Pasadena Civic Auditorium, March 25, 1983 / Jaap Kooijman -- Live on tape : Madonna : MTV video music awards : Radio City Music Hall, New York, September 14, 1984 / Gary Burns -- Popular music performance and cultural memory : Queen : Live Aid, Wembley Stadium, London, July 13, 1985 / Susan Fast -- Nirvana : University of Washington, Seattle, January 6, 1990 / Tim Hughes -- The booing of Sinead O'Connor : Bob Dylan 30th anniversary concert : Madison Square Garden, New York, October 16, 1992 / Emma Mayhew…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Blair -- Learning from Philistines: suspicion, refusing to read, and the rise of dubious modernism / Leonard Diepeveen -- Reception and authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town / Marcial González -- Discourses in dialogue: the reception of Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin -- The power of recirculation: scrapbooks and the reception of the nineteenth-century press / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Accuracy or fair play? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…UNA LECTURA DESDE AMÉRICA LATINA / PERIFERIAS INTERNAS: LA ANTROPOLOGIA CUBANA Y LAS VOCES DEL OTRO / LA TRANSFERENCIA DE LO COLONIAL: EL MESTIZAJE Y EL CONTROL DEL DISCURSO LITERARIO EN MÉXICO / "I TOAST TO NUESTRA AMERICA": POSTCOLONIALITY AND PAN-AMERICAN CONCEPTS IN CHICANO/A LITERATURE / DRAG QUEENS "DOWN UNDER": POSTCOLONIALISM MEETS POSTFEMINISM IN AUSTRALIAN FILMS / FILÓSOFOS EN ÁFRICA POSTCOLONIAL / "CROYANT 'ME PARCOURIR', JE NE FAIS QUE CHOISIR UN AUTRE VOILE ": LE JEU DES DISCOURS DANS L'AUTOBIOGRAPHIE POSTCOLONIALE D'ASSIA DJEBAR / RELACIÓN CENTRO-PERIFERIA: LA EXPRESIÓN DE LA MARGINALIDAD COMO COMPONENTE ESTÉTICO DEL TEATRO PERFORMANCE / SHE WOULD BE THE NEXT SENTENCE OF MY NOVEL…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Roe, and Roy Ito -- 3 Cree Intellectual Traditions in History -- Part Two: The Aboriginal West -- 4 Visualizing Space, Race, and History in the North:: Photographic Narratives of the Athabasca-Mackenzie: River Basin -- 5 The Kaleidoscope of Madness: Perceptions of Insanity: in British Columbia Aboriginal Populations, 1872-1950 -- 6 Space, Temporality, History: Encountering Hauntings: in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside -- 7 The Expectations of a Queen: Identity and Race Politics: in the Calgary Stampede -- Part Three: The Workers' West -- 8 Capitalist Development, Forms of Labour,: and Class Formation in Prairie Canada -- 9 Two Wests, One-and-a-Half Paradigms,: and, Perhaps, Beyond -- 10 Disease as Embodied Praxis: Epidemics, Public Health,: and Working-Class Resistance in Winnipeg, 1906-19 -- 11 Winnipeg's Moment: The Winnipeg Postal Strike of 1919 -- Part Four: Viewing the West from the Margins -- 12 "Our Negro Citizens": An Example of Everyday: Citizenship Practices -- 13 A Queer-Eye View of the Prairies:: Reorienting Western Canadian Histories -- 14 Human Rights Law and Sexual Discrimination: in British Columbia, 1953-84 -- Part Five: Cultural Portrayals of the West -- 15 W.L. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Chapter 33: Gambling on a ProfitChapter 34: The Solitaire Trader; Chapter 35: The Big Brother He Never Had; Chapter 36: Wanted: Your Money; Chapter 37: The Business of Making Money; Chapter 38: Failure to Deliver; Chapter 39: Cyber Psycho; Chapter 40: Drag Queens and Drugs; Chapter 41: Wire Transfers from Nowhere; Glossary; Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Vernacular Imagination and Exophone Reconfiguration in Francophone Chinese Diasporic Literature -- Shuangyi Li (Lund University, Sweden) -- Afterword: A Vernacular Future? -- Galin Tihanov (Queen Mary University, UK) -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…/ Juliane Kokott and Christoph Sobotta -- Proportionality and the margin of appreciation : Strasbourg and London / Philip Sales -- Orgins and presentation of the proportionality principle in French law / Yoan Sanchez -- An Italian perspective on the principle of proportionality / Giuseppe Martinico and Marta Simoncini -- The application of proportionality in Denmark in the light of European legal integration / Helle Krunke -- Private autonomy and protection of the weaker party / Stephen Weatherill, Stefan Vogenauer, and Petra Weingerl -- Private autonomy and the protection of the weaker party : historical / Hector L. MacQueen and Stephen Bogle -- Personal freedom and the protection of the weak through the lens of contract : jurisprudential overview / Dori Kimel -- Private autonomy, weak parties, and private law : views from law and economics / Fernando Gómez and Mireia Artigot -- Fairness at a time of perplexity : the civil law principle of fairness in the Court of Justice of the European Union / Daniela Caruso -- Discrimination on grounds of obesity / Niilo Jääskinen -- Discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity / Alina Tryfonidou -- Judging general principles / David Edward…”

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“…Destined to be the founder of Roman culture, Aeneas, nudged by the gods, decides to leave his beloved Dido, Queen of Carthage, causing her suicide in pursuit of his historical destiny. …”