Search:

Results 1 to 10 of 61 |

Kings, barons & serfs : a pictorial history, 1086-1300 / by Unstead, R. J.(CARDINAL)151444;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The turn of midnight / by Walters, Minette,author.(CARDINAL)368284;
"As the year 1349 approaches, the Black Death continues its devastating course across England. In Dorseteshire, the quarantined people of Develish question whether they are the only survivors. Guided by their beloved young mistress, Lady Anne, they wait, knowing that when their dwindling stores are finally gone they will have no choice but to leave. But where will they find safety in the desolate wasteland outside? One man has the courage to find out."
Subjects: Survival fiction.; Historical fiction.; Plague; Serfs; Black Death; Plague; Quarantine;
Available copies: 23 / Total copies: 23
unAPI

After America / by Steyn, Mark.(CARDINAL)361484;
Prologue: the stupidity of broke -- The new Rome: the decaying city -- Undreaming America: serfing USA -- The new Athens: the drowning city -- Decline: American idyll -- The new Britannia: the depraved city -- Fall: beyond the green zone -- The new Jerusalem: the city besieged -- After: a letter from the post-American world -- Epilogue: the hope of audacity.
Subjects: Obama, Barack.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
unAPI

After America : get ready for Armageddon / by Steyn, Mark.(CARDINAL)361484;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-403) and index.Prologue: the stupidity of broke -- The new Rome: the decaying city -- Undreaming America: serfing USA -- The new Athens: the drowning city -- Decline: American idyll -- The new Britannia: the depraved city -- Fall: beyond the green zone -- The new Jerusalem: the city besieged -- After: a letter from the post-American world -- Epilogue: the hope of audacity.Steyn argues that President Barack Obama is a dangerous radical who wants not only big government, but the Europeanization of the United States. He explains how citizens can roll back the liberal establishment and return to fundamental American values.
Subjects: Obama, Barack.; Economic policy;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 17
unAPI

Joust / by Lackey, Mercedes.(CARDINAL)347291;
Vetch, an Altan serf, must learn the secret of the Tian jousters and their dragons in order to save his people.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fiction.; Fantasy fiction, American.; Dragons;
Available copies: 17 / Total copies: 19
unAPI

The Pearl : a true tale of forbidden love in Catherine the Great's Russia / by Smith, Douglas,1962-(CARDINAL)654118;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Biographies.; Kovaleva-Zhemchugova, P. I. (Praskovʹi͡a Ivanovna); Sheremetev family.; Singers; Opera;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
unAPI

Dead souls / by Gogolʹ, Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich,1809-1852,author.(CARDINAL)141770; Pevear, Richard,1943-editor,translator,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)345271; Volokhonsky, Larissa,editor,translator.(CARDINAL)345276;
Chichikov, an amusing and often confused schemer, buys deceased serfs' names from landholders' poll tax lists hoping to mortgage them for profit.1080L
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Satirical literature.; Picaresque fiction.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
unAPI

The life and times of Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky / by Whiting, Jim,1943-(CARDINAL)668883;
Includes bibliographical references (page 46) and index.A happy dance, an unhappy man -- A sensitive boy -- A musical career begins -- Two women -- The final years.Chronicles the troubled life of the nineteenth-century Russian composer. Includes sidebars about such topics as serfs, Leo Tolstoy, and the invention of the phonograph.
Subjects: Biographies.; Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893; Composers; Composers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

The coming of neo-feudalism : a warning to the global middle class / by Kotkin, Joel,author.(CARDINAL)160524;
Includes bibliographical references and index.How feudalism came back -- The oligarchs -- The clerisy -- The embattled yeomanry -- The new serfs -- The new geography of feudalism -- A manifesto for the third estate"Following a remarkable epoch of greater dispersion of wealth and opportunity, we are inexorably returning towards a more feudal era marked by greater concentration of wealth and property, reduced upward mobility, demographic stagnation, and increased dogmatism. If the last seventy years saw a massive expansion of the middle class, not only in America but in much of the developed world, today that class is declining and a new, more hierarchical society is emerging. The new class structure resembles that of Medieval times. At the apex of the new order are two classes-a reborn clerical elite, the clerisy, which dominates the upper part of the professional ranks, universities, media and culture, and a new aristocracy led by tech oligarchs with unprecedented wealth and growing control of information. These two classes correspond to the old French First and Second Estates. Below these two classes lies what was once called the Third Estate. This includes the yeomanry, which is made up largely of small businesspeople, minor property owners, skilled workers and private-sector oriented professionals. Ascendant for much of modern history, this class is in decline while those below them, the new Serfs, grow in numbers-a vast, expanding property-less population. The trends are mounting, but we can still reverse them-if people understand what is actually occurring and have the capability to oppose them"--
Subjects: Social classes; Distribution (Economic theory); Social history;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
unAPI

Marching through Peachtree / by Turtledove, Harry.(CARDINAL)525235;
AYATBL1TBLAYF1KXD1JWhen King Avram, the new ruler of Detina, announces his intent to free the serfs upon which the northern provinces of his country depend, Detina erupts in a fierce civil war between the North and South.
Subjects: Alternative histories (Fiction); War fiction.; Civil war; Serfdom;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
unAPI

Results 1 to 10 of 61 |