Pistols at Dawn - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pistols at Dawn write by Richard Hopton. This book was released on 2011. Pistols at Dawn available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. After the gross and unjustifiable insults you have offered me both as a soldier and a gentleman, I conclude you must be prepared to give me that satisfaction I am entitled to. I am therefore to request that you will name a place and hour of meeting.' So runs a typical challenge to a duel from the early 19th century; formal, polite - and potentially fatal. Duelling is deeply imbedded in our collective consciousness, through numerous films and novels; it evokes a golden past, of gentlemen defending their honour (or that of their wives) in the early morning light of a wooded glade; of frockcoats, rapiers and pistols. From the duel's roots in medieval chivalric tournaments, to the unforgiving code of honour in which death was preferable to shame, this fascinating history recounts - with the aid of numerous vivid eye-witness accounts - all the drama and sheer terror of the duel.
Gentlemen's Blood
Gentlemen's Blood - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gentlemen's Blood write by Barbara Holland. This book was released on 2008-12-13. Gentlemen's Blood available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Never, never, did I imagine that dueling could be so enthralling, outrageous, gruesome, tragic, and, yes, ridiculous...Lively humor and sparkling prose." -Wall Street Journal The medieval justice of trial by combat evolved into the private duel by sword and pistol, with thousands of honorable men-and not-so-honorable women-giving lives and limbs to wipe out an insult or prove a point. The duel was essential to private, public, and political life, and those who followed the elaborate codes of procedure were seldom prosecuted and rarely convicted-for, in fact, they were obeying a grand old tradition. Based on her fascinating 1997 Smithsonian article, Barbara Holland's Gentlemen's Blood is the first trade book to trace the remarkable, often gruesome, sometimes comical history of the Western tradition of defending one's honor.
Touché
Touché - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Touché write by John Leigh. This book was released on 2015-06-08. Touché available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
Urban Australia and Post-Punk
Urban Australia and Post-Punk - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Australia and Post-Punk write by David Nichols. This book was released on 2020-02-25. Urban Australia and Post-Punk available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s ‘postpunk’ counterculture of share houses, drugs and decadence. Amongst its ensemble cast was Michael Hutchence, one of the biggest music stars of the period, in his acting debut. This book is a collection of essays exploring the place, period and legacy of Dogs in Space, by people who were there or who have been affected by this remarkable film. The writers are musicians, actors and artists and also academics in heritage, history, urban planning, gender studies, geography, performance and music. This is an invaluable resource for anyone passionate about Australian film, society, culture, history, heritage, music and art.
Revenges' Reward
Revenges' Reward - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Revenges' Reward write by M. E. Robertson-Hoon. This book was released on 2010-06-09. Revenges' Reward available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is a new villain in Yarford City, and he's mean and tough and he is a woman, and her only goal is to find the man that savagely murdered her husband Josiah Jessup and she's very eager to find him. And who is this man she is aiming to exact reveng on? Why it's none other than the incomparable Arliss Black!
