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Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland

Heffernan, David
Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland
During the sixteenth century, officials and interested parties in Ireland composed hundreds of papers on crown policy and sent them to the metropolitan government in England. The information contained in these 'reform' treatises substantially shaped how senior ministers in England viewed an Ireland which very few of them had visited personally. Moreover, these documents informed much of these ministers' outlooks on the Irish of Ireland and the...

CHF 163.00

Studies in the Age of Chaucer

Heffernan, Thomas J.
Studies in the Age of Chaucer
Studies in the Age of Chaucer is the annual yearbook of the New Chaucer Society, publishing articles on the writing of Chaucer and his contemporaries, their antecedents and successors, and their intellectual and social contexts. More generally, articles explore the culture and writing of later medieval Britain (1200-1500). Each SAC volume also includes an annotated bibliography and reviews of Chaucer-related publications.

CHF 89.00

Mutiny on the Globe

Heffernan, Thomas
Mutiny on the Globe
Whilst sailing between Hawaii and Tahiti in January 1824, the captain and officers of the Nantucket whaling ship 'the Globe' were attacked with whaling gear, shot, and dumped overboard under the audacious direction of twenty-one-year-old Samuel Comstock, whose dream was to found his own tropical kingdom. This book offers an account of this mutiny.

CHF 14.50

South Thames

Heffernan, Hilary
South Thames
This book is part of the Archive Photographs series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Great Britain, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.

CHF 18.50

In the Shadow of the Bomb

Heffernan, Niall
In the Shadow of the Bomb
Detective McNulty applies bite marks to a deceased man's body with a set of dentures in The Wire, illustrating how officialdom deals in falsehood. Dr. Strangelove lovingly describes the "doomsday machine" as being free from "human meddling, " while it destroys the world, highlighting the absurdity of placing systems above any moral considerations. In Crash, Ballard survives a car accident only to be cared for by a paternal technology that tend...

CHF 91.00

WHEN THE WATER RISES

Heffernan, Julie
WHEN THE WATER RISES
This exhibition catalogue features recent works by artist Julie Heffernan included in LSU Museum of Art's exhibition, When the Water Rises. Essays by Curator Courtney Taylor, art writer and critic Eleanor Heartney, and LSU School of Art professor Kelli Scott Kelley as well as a statement by Julie Heffernan accompany the full-color plates in this richly illustrated catalogue. Julie Heffernan's recent paintings imagine alternative habitats as cr...

CHF 28.50