![]() ![]() The Making of the English Working Class has also been subject to extensive critique and commentary, not least in the pages of History Workshop Journal. In a few pages in the book’s Preface, Thompson laid out some of the ideas that would guide several generations of historians: class as a relationship rather than a structure or category the working class being ‘present at its own making’ the revolutionary potentials of working-class politics and, perhaps most memorably, the responsibility of historians to ‘rescue’ ordinary people of the past, especially those whose struggles were defeated, from the ‘enormous condescension of posterity’-a phrase that currently generates more than 33,000 google hits. Undoubtedly one of the most influential historical books of the twentieth century, The Making set much of the agenda for the ‘new social history’ of the 1960s and 1970s, influencing generations of historians and other scholars. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class, which was first published by Victor Gollancz in 1963. ![]() ![]() Next year sees the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of E. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() In this extraordinary quest, “Krug erases the boundaries between comics, scrapbooking, and collage as she endeavors to make sense of 20th-century history, the Holocaust, her German heritage, and her family’s place in it all” ( The Boston Globe). ![]() Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.Īfter twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. ![]() Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. As a second generation German-American whose grandmother lived in Germany during WWII, I related to the premise of this book a great deal, but needed to be in the right mindset to read it. I’ve had the advance reader copy of this book for longer than I’d like to admit, and just recently got around to reading it. First published in German as Heimat: Ein Deutsches Familienalbum ![]() ![]() ![]() Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. My Ántonia is considered one of the most significant American novels of the twentieth century. Penguin Drop Caps debuts with an “A” for Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, a “B” for Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, and a “C” for Willa Cather’s My Ántonia, and continues with more classics from Penguin.Ĭ is for Cather. A collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series design encompasses foil-stamped paper-over-board cases in a rainbow-hued spectrum across all twenty-six book spines and a dacorative stain on all three paper edges. ![]() to Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguin's own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and gift-worthy hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet by superstar type designer Jessica Hische, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co. ![]() From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers-featuring cover art by type superstar Jessica Hische ![]() ![]() When I watched his seminar, Clouds Without Water, and he explained that expecting to hear God’s voice outside of Scripture is unbiblical, my jaw dropped. But that changed when I stumbled upon Justin Peters Ministries. I even began doubting my salvation and God’s love for me. And whenever I thought I heard something, I could not be confident whether it was God or my subconscious. Hearing God’s voice became a stumbling block in my faith because I struggled to hear Him like everyone else. ![]() Not wanting to miss what seemed like a paramount Christian experience, I purchased several books teaching how to hear God’s voice, listened to any sermon about it, and tried every method they prescribed. Intrigued by Bevere’s experience, I did a quick search on hearing God’s voice and discovered many sermons and books, all claiming I am supposed to hear God’s voice outside the Bible. His books always mention several extra-biblical revelations like dreams, whispers, and promptings regarding his daily decisions. ![]() And one thing that struck me about Bevere’s teachings was how often he claims God speaks to him outside Scripture. ![]() ![]() I enjoyed it so much that I bought a few of his other books and online courses. The first Christian book I read as a new believer was Good or God by John Bevere (Not recommended). ![]() ![]() ![]() Veronica Speedwell ends up realizing that solving this mystery is a necessary part of saving her life and also discovering where she came from. She must make the choice to flee to safety which leads her on a mysterious adventure that she never intended to take. Our story opens with the loss of a spinster aunt and in the midst of her loss, an attempted kidnapping on Veronica’s life. She is a spunky and strong heroine that is misunderstood in the world that she lives in. Her actions and mannerisms are unexpected for the time period she is born in. Veronica Speedwell is a lepidopterologist (a butterfly collector) and has an uncanny ability to solve puzzles or mysteries. Synopsis: “A Curious Beginning” begins in the year 1887 in London where we meet the delightfully, intelligent Veronica Speedwell. ![]() |