The Case Of The Stricken Outpost

Sexton Blake fights the bootleggers and pirates of America's Rum Row. A tensely-told tale of 'tec work and thrills, introducing also Mlle. Roxane. Complete! Drama, Action, Thrills-and Sexton Blake! Roxane Harfield, born in New Brunswick, Canada, is featured in this story. Her knowledge of the New Brunswick South-East shoreline, and Bay of Fundy, is a key feature of this thriller from USA prohibition days. Also included is 'The Sexton Blake Works of George Hamilton Teed' in the "Union Jack" and "The Sexton Blake Library"

Famine and the relief operations in India during the year 1896-97 No. V.

This work presents the details of the part played in the Spanish-American War by the Eighth Regiment, Massachusetts Infantry. It was a peacetime regiment of infantry. The writer delivered some unknown facts about what these soldiers went through, acknowledging their hard work and courage. The 1898 conflict between the United States and Spain ended Spanish colonial rule in the Americas and resulted in U.S. possession of western Pacific and Latin America territories. The call to arms in this situation did not come unexpectedly. For a few months, it was evident to all the close observers of national affairs that a conflict was almost unavoidable. The government placed itself in a position to allow the country to acquit itself creditably when the time of the clash came. The eighth regiment showed great technique and bravery during those tumultuous circumstances.

Examinations of the culture - artistic, material, musical - of English monasteries in the six centuries between the Conquest and the Dissolution. The cultural remains of England's abbeys and priories have always attracted scholarly attention but too often they have been studied in isolation, appreciated only for their artistic, codicological or intellectual features and notfor the insights they offer into the patterns of life and thought - the underlying norms, values and mentalité - of the communities of men and women which made them. Indeed, the distinguished monastic historian David Knowles doubted there would ever be sufficient evidence to recover "the mentality of the ordinary cloister monk". These twelve essays challenge this view. They exploit newly catalogued and newly discovered evidence - manuscript books, wall paintings, and even the traces of original monastic music - to recover the cultural dynamics of a cross-section of male and female communities. It is often claimed that over time the cultural traditions of the monasteries were suffocated by secular trends but here it is suggested that many houses remained a major cultural force even on the verge of the Reformation. James G. Clark is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. Contributors: DAVID BELL, ROGER BOWERS, JAMES CLARK, BARRIE COLLETT, MARY ERLER, G. R. EVANS, MIRIAM GILL, JOAN GREATREX, JULIAN HASELDINE, J. D. NORTH, ALAN PIPER, AND R. M. THOMSON.

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