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Plain Style: A Guide to Written English

3 reviews
Christopher Lasch

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002

Great Update of, and Supplement to, Strunk & White
Similar in style and tone (and usefulness) to Strunk & White's classic "Elements of Style". Short, pithy, intelligent. Lots of examples, followed by Professor Lasch's thoughtful, penetrating, often witty comments. Recommended for all undergrads.

John Fielden and the Politics of Popular Radicalism 1832-1847
Stewart Weaver

Oxford University Press, USA, 1987

John Fielden, industrial magnate and radical Member of Parliament for Oldham in Lancashire from 1832 to 1847, was best known as a leading advocate of factory reform. Drawing on a rare collection of Fielden family papers, this biographical study provides a fresh assessment of each of the movements in which Fielden became involved and of his role within them, and discusses the influences that shaped this radical industrialist who occupied a unique ...

The Hammonds: A Marriage in History
Stewart Weaver

Stanford University Press, 1997

Here for the first time is the story of one of history?s great scholarly and marital collaborations. J. L. and Barbara Hammond were among the most innovative and influential historians of the twentieth century. Between 1911 and 1934, they wrote eight books together that amount, in effect, to the first sustained social history of modern England. Three of their books in particular ?The Village Labourer (1911), The Town Labourer (1917), and The ...

Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes

6 reviews
Maurice Isserman, Stewart Weaver

Yale University Press, 2008

An Uplifting Read
This is an excellent history of mountain climbing in the Himalaya. Isserman and Weaver do a masterful job, not just of recounting the history, but placing the efforts in political and cultural context. There were long periods where access to these mountains was restricted or forbidden. There has also always been a competitive thread to the missions, as climbers tried for all kinds of "firsts." Of ...

William Cobbett
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Ihs Press, 2009

From Cobbett's boyhood in the south of England, to expatriation in France, his residence in the United States and subsequent return to England, Chesterton masterfully illuminates the life, times and philosophy of this complex and important figure.

Toward an Age of Greatness
Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz, Under Secretary, Dept of Health, Education & Welfare Wilbur J. Cohen, ..., 1966

1965, The Economy; Employment and Training; A New Day for the Aged; Toward a Strong Urban America; Civil and Voting Rights; Agriculture and Rural Life; A Nation Aroused About Poverty; Education; Conserving the American Environment; The Exploration of Space