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Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837

4 reviews
Linda Colley

Yale University Press, 1994

Excellent book, but flawed in its analysis
Linda Colley demonstrates her abilities as a top-shelf social historian in "Britons." Her command of widely diverse source material is remarkable--her presentation of popular ballads, cartoons, and broadsheets is both delightful and interesting. However, in her rush to demonstrate the consensual nature of "Britishness," she glosses over some very difficult issues (like the deliberately omitted ...

Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism During The Holocaust

5 reviews

Putnam Juvenile, 2000

*To do 'mitzvahs ' for Freedom was his calling . . . *
"Forging Freedom" impresses me with its factual account of Jewish people in the Netherlands suffering the terrifying power of Adolph Hitler in 1940. Here the impact of Hudson Talbott's art is significant; using somber tones, sometimes in the style of educational graphics, he makes his points dramatically. Jaap Penraat grew to manhood having friends who were Jewish. His early neighborly task of ...

Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837, Second Edition (Yale Nota Bene)

1 review
Linda Colley

Yale University Press, 2005

A work of professional ingenuity and scholarly courage
Linda Colley's Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 leans heavily on the understanding of a nation as an imagined political community of culturally and ethnically diverse peoples. Once the reader accepts this premise, Colley's central argument that religion and war served as primary movers in the creation of the British nation becomes palpable. Under this guise, Colley credits the Act of ...

Making War, Forging Revolution: Russias Continuum of Crisis, 1914-1921

4 reviews
Peter Holquist

Harvard University Press, 2002

A new view of the Russian Revolution
I had been teaching the Russian Revolution for thirty years and knew the subject well. Peter Holquist's remarkable first book changed the entire structure of that great event and its causation in my mind. He shows how the outbreak of the First World War transformed the status of the educated upper middle strata of Imperial Russian society. The Tsarist regime needed its educated intellectuals, ...

Cold And Hot Forging: Fundamentals And Applications

ASM International, 2004

Forging Environmentalism: Justice, Livelihood, And Contested Environments

M.E. Sharpe, 2006

Forging the Darksword: The Darksword Trilogy, Volume 1

37 reviews
Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

Spectra, 1987

Early stages of Weis/Hickman
If you want a lot of interesting, evolving plot, this book has it. It's an early trilogy by Weis and Hickman and it shows. It's a fantasy meets sci-fi piece that is just right for the early 80's *LOL*. I throughly enjoyed this series. I read it once in High School and now that I'm in Graduate school, I re-read it. Great trilogy. It's a classic tragic hero story that you can't put down.

The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000
Colin Kidd

Cambridge University Press, 2006

This book revolutionises our understanding of race. Building upon the insight that races are products of culture rather than biology, Colin Kidd demonstrates that the Bible - the key text in Western culture - has left a vivid imprint on modern racial theories and prejudices. Fixing his attention on the changing relationship between race and theology in the Protestant Atlantic world between 1600 and 2000 Kidd shows that, while the Bible itself is ...

Forging the Sword (The Farsala Trilogy)

6 reviews
Hilari Bell

Simon Pulse, 2007

Absolutely Amazing
Hilari Bell could not have written a better book if she tried. Forging the Sword was amazing. The captivating characters Soraya, Jiaan, and Kavi continue to evolve. They learn more about themselves and each other all throughout the book. Honestly, it was a struggle to put the book down. There was not one dull part. You would think the war with the Hrum would get boring, or tiring at best, but ...

Metal: Forming, Forging, and Soldering Techniques

1 review
Jose Antonio Ares

Barron's Educational Series, 2006

Title misleading
The Title is(Metal Forming, Forging, and Soldering Techniques) There is entirely too much of the book on tools and how to use them. I already know how to use the tools but I do need more info. on forming metal. I can get a free Sears tool catalog and have tools. I do not feel that it was worth the $12.95+ shipping. I was looking for the "techniques" on how to do the bending, forming, etc. It ...

The Forging of the Modern State: Early Industrial Britain, 1783-1870 (3rd Edition) (Foundations of Modern ...
Eric Evans

Longman, 2001

B> This is a survey of every aspect of the period in which the Britain was transformed into the world's first industrial power. It was an era of revolutionary change unparalleled in Britain, yet one in which transformation was achieved without political revolution. The combination of revolution and transition is a major theme of the book, which ranges across the embryonic empire, the Church, education, health, finance and rural and urban ...

Forging the American Character: Readings in United States History to 1877, Volume I (4th Edition)
John R.M. Wilson

Prentice Hall, 2002

Forging Links: Effective Schools and Effective Departments
Pam Sammons, Sally M Thomas, ...

Paul Chapman Educational Publishing, 1997

`This book is a very useful text for anyone studying comparative education systems as well as those who seek to understand more fully the complexities and frustrations that lie beneath the underuse of the leadership skills and talents of women in schools, colleges and higher education in a number of European contexts: England and Wales, France, The Federal Republic of Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway and Spain' - ...

Forging Freedom: The Formation of Philadelphia's Black Community, 1720-1840

2 reviews
Gary B. Nash

Harvard University Press, 1991

An Excellent, Highly Readable Overview
Researching life in Philadelphia in the 1790's, I was looking for a concentrated source that would give an overview of the role of African-Americans in the city, and ran across this book. It was exactly right. It provides a concise overview of the origins of the African-American population, the various social classes, the leaders and dynamics of the community, and the relevant historical and ...

No Pity:: People with Disabilities Forging a New Civil Rights Movement

9 reviews
Joseph P. Shapiro

Crown, 1993

A really good introduction to disability politics
This book is written in an easy-to-read style by a journalist who has covered disability issues for many years. It explains how he came to see that disability is a civil rights issue, just like racial or sexual discrimination. And it provides a very interesting history of the American disability movement in particular.

Forging Gay Identities: Organizing Sexuality in San Francisco, 1950-1994
Elizabeth A. Armstrong

University Of Chicago Press, 2002

Unlike many social movements, the gay and lesbian struggle for visibility and rights has succeeded in combining a unified group identity with the celebration of individual differences. Forging Gay Identities explores how this happened, tracing the evolution of gay life and organizations in San Francisco from the 1950s to the mid-1990s.

Immigrants and Boomers: Forging a New Social Contract for the Future of America

4 reviews
Dowell Myers

Russell Sage Foundation Publications, 2007

A New Perspective for the Immigrant Debate
Dowell Myers is a professor, urban planner, and numbers cruncher as well as a good thinker and clear writer. In this book, he has used his synthesizing ability to write a cogent argument about the mutual need that the aging baby boomers and many immigrants have for each other. He states at the outset: "This book is a river of discovery formed of many tributaries, each of which began in ...

Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain, and France in the Railway Age
Frank Dobbin

Cambridge University Press, 1997

The United States, France, and Britain use markedly different kinds of industrial policies to foster economic growth. To understand the origins of these different policies, this book examines the evolution of public policies governing one of the first modern industries, the railroads. The author challenges conventional thinking in economics, political science, and sociology by arguing that cultural meaning plays an important role in the ...

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