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Macmillan’s Magazine, 1859–1907

Autor: George J. Worth

Número de Páginas: 285

Macmillan's Magazine has long been recognized as one of the most significant of the many British literary/intellectual periodicals that flourished in the second half of the nineteenth century. Yet the first volume of the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (1966) pointed out that 'There is no study of Macmillan's Magazine' - and that lack has been only partially remedied in all the decades since. In this work, George Worth addresses five principal questions. Where did Macmillan's come from, and why in 1859? Who or what was the guiding spirit behind the Magazine, especially in its early, formative years? What cluster of ideas gave it such coherence as it manifested during that period? How did it and its parent firm deal with authors and juggle their periodical work and the books they produced for Macmillan and Co.? And what, finally, accounted for the palpable decline in the quality and fiscal health of Macmillan's during the last 25 years of its life and, ultimately, for its death? Worth includes a treasure trove of original material about the Magazine much of it drawn from unpublished manuscripts and other previously untapped primary sources. Macmillan's Magazine, 1859-1907...

Harold Macmillan: Aspects of a Political Life

Autor: R. Aldous , S. Lee

Número de Páginas: 274

Even 35 years after Harold Macmillan's resignation in 1963, opinions are sharply divided over his achievements as a politician and prime minister. This volume contributes to the debate about Macmillan's political role, his successes and his failures, by examining key aspects of his political life. Biographers, historians, and contemporaries present facets of Macmillan's life, his political visions, his skills, successes and failures in his personal life as well as in his domestic and foreign policies. With most official papers covering his active political life until his resignation now in the public domain, a more considered judgement about his party political and his governmental activities is possible. Taking account of this newly-available documentary evidence, there is much yet to be written on Harold Macmillan's career, but this collection bears witness to the fact that his was a magnificent life.

La suerte de los irlandeses (Serie Pat MacMillan 1)

Autor: J.l. Rod

Número de Páginas: 375

Descubre a Pat MacMillan, el investigador políticamente incorrecto que ha conquistado a más de cincuenta mil lectores. Un thriller trepidante sobre los últimos años de ETA, escrito por un prestigioso guionista de Hollywood. Pat MacMillan es un investigador intuitivo, ácido y políticamente incorrecto, con una irrefrenable tendencia a las frases lapidarias. Un personaje inolvidable que ha conquistado ya a decenas de miles de lectores a través de las páginas de este best seller internacional. Español de raíces irlandesas, MacMillan trabaja en un departamento del CNI que no tiene nombre ni figura en el organigrama. Se ocupa de las operaciones de las que ningún otro de los tres mil quinientos agentes puede ocuparse, salvo que esté dispuesto a ir a la cárcel por violar en una misma mañana cuatro o cinco artículos del Código Penal. Cuando en pleno día de Nochebuena se dispone a comenzar unas largas vacaciones, MacMillan recibe dos malas noticias. La primera de ellas, que hay un topo de ETA infiltrado en los servicios secretos. La segunda, que el agente elegido por el Gobierno para identificar al topo y detenerlo es precisamente él. Así arranca este trepidante thriller...

Mañana es otro mundo (Serie Pat MacMillan 2)

Autor: J.l. Rod

Número de Páginas: 276

El guionista de Hollywood J. L. Rod regresa a las librerías con la segunda novela negra protagonizada por el carismático Pat MacMillan. En esta ocasión tiene que resolver un caso complejo y lleno de peligros en el atractivo mundo de las bodegas de Jerez de la Frontera. Tras abandonar el CNI, MacMillan vive retirado en un pueblecito de la costa de Cádiz, consagrado a su huerto y sus perros, y se gana modestamente la vida con trabajos puntuales como investigador privado. Todo es calma y placidez, o al menos lo parece, hasta que conoce a la exquisita y amabilísima señora Donnell y, matriarca de una de las grandes familias vinícolas de Andalucía, quien le encarga investigar la muerte de su hija Nora, salvajemente asesinada unos años atrás. Reseñas: «El último milagro del boca a boca.» La Vanguardia «Pat MacMillan es un personaje que remueve las entrañas de cualquier lector que se precie de serlo.» El Mundo «El protagonista recoge lo mejor de Jack Bauer ( 24), Carrie Mathison ( Homeland) y el Pepe Carvalho de Vázquez Montalbán.» Abc

Eisenhower, Macmillan and the Problem of Nasser

Autor: N. Ashton

Número de Páginas: 282

The years 1955-59 were a vital transitional period for the Anglo-American relationship in the Middle East. British and American leaders sought to protect cold war and oil interests in the region against the background of a renaissance of Arab nationalism personified by the Egyptian leader Nasser. With the aid of extensive declassified official documentation, this study traces the British and American responses to the Turco-Iraqi Pact of 1955, the Suez crisis, the Syrian crisis of 1957, the outbreak of civil strife in Lebanon, and the Iraqi Revolution of 1958. It shows how the differing priorities of the two powers in the region promoted a patchwork of confrontation and cooperation over Middle Eastern questions. For Britain, this study reveals that it was the Iraqi Revolution rather than Suez which led to a redefinition of strategy in the region, and a concentration on the defence of her oil interests in the Gulf.

Macmillan, Khrushchev and the Berlin Crisis, 1958-1960

Autor: Kitty Newman

Número de Páginas: 282

This new study casts fresh light on the roles of Harold Macmillan and Nikita Khrushchev and their efforts to achieve a compromise settlement on the pivotal Berlin Crisis. Drawing on previously unseen documents and secret archive material, Kitty Newman demonstrates how the British Prime Minister acted to prevent the crisis sliding into a disastrous nuclear conflict. She shows how his visit to Moscow in 1959 was a success, which convinced Khrushchev of a sincere effort to achieve a lasting settlement. Despite the initial reluctance of the French and the Americans, and the consistent opposition of the Germans, Macmillan’s subsequent efforts led to a softening of the Western line on Berlin and to the formulation of a set of proposals that might have achieved a peaceful resolution to the crisis if the Paris Conference of 1960 had not collapsed in acrimony. This volume also assesses Khrushchev’s role, which despite his sometimes intemperate language, was to secure a peaceful settlement which would stabilize the East German regime, maintain the status quo in Europe and prevent the reunification of a resurgent, nuclearized Germany, thereby paving the way for disarmament. This book...

Macmillan's Magazine

Número de Páginas: 496

Macmillan's Progressive German Course. I. [- II.] First [- Second] Year ...

Autor: George Eugène Fasnacht

Número de Páginas: 98

Memoir of Daniel Macmillan

Autor: Thomas Hughes

Número de Páginas: 322

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

The American Catalogue

Número de Páginas: 334

American Monthly Review of Reviews

Número de Páginas: 828

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

Número de Páginas: 1040

Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 878

Current Opinion

Número de Páginas: 606

The Publishers Weekly

Número de Páginas: 874

The Use of Life

Autor: Sir John Lubbock

Número de Páginas: 322

International Literary Market Place 2003

Autor: Information Today Inc

Número de Páginas: 1776

Plus, ILMP 2003 includes two publisher indexes--Types of Publications Index and Subject Index--that offer access to publishers via some 142 headings. Additional coverage includes information on international literary prizes, copyright conventions, a yellow pages directory, and a worldwide calendar of events through 2003.