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... Capitalism and Slavery Capitalism and Slavery by Eric Williams, Andre Deutsch. 30s, paperback 15s. 30s, paperback 15s. History of the People of Trinidad and Tobago by Eric Williams: Andre Duetsch. 30s, paperback 15s. Capitalism and Slavery was published ...

Published: Saturday 02 May 1964
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 577 | Page: 17 | Tags: Review 

MORE PLAY REVIEWS: Don Juan

... from his first teenage sexual encounters, through shipwreck and cannibalism, love on an idyllic Greek island, a period in slavery, a night in a harem, an affair with Catherine of Russia after dis playing heroism in her army, to a final session with the ...

Published: Thursday 09 November 1978
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 232 | Page: 12 | Tags: review 

Mr Wilberforce, MP

... before a committed audience. Alan Thornhill's biographical drama based on the Parliamentarian who sponsored the abolition of slavery, against career odds, reeks of purpose in Alby James' new production for matinee perform ances and misses the theatrical bait ...

Published: Thursday 16 October 1980
Newspaper: The Stage
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 181 | Page: 12 | Tags: review 

Russian Frenzy

... to get off their chests, and while as Mr. Piddington pertinently reminds us there are others, more unfortunate, still in slavery. And I suppose that in the bitter face of reality one cannot be literary and suggest that the phase has had its run. In Russian ...

Published: Wednesday 10 August 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 190 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

THE DESERT OF LOVE

... Where is the artist who may dare to imagine the processes and shifts of the great protagonist Grace It is the mark of our slavery and of our wretchedness that we can, without I ing, paint a faithful portrait only of the passi ns. A conclusion which I ...

Published: Wednesday 01 February 1950
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 381 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

THE MAKER OF MODERN NIGERIA

... with the history of modern Nigeria. Lugard's first task was the pacification of the Northern Nigerian Emirates to put down slavery in those states. ^Eext came the creation of a system of government by what is usually termed indirect rule. Lugard tfescribed ...

Published: Saturday 01 October 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 537 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

Don't play it at a party

... inve- rat ion of the lyrics reveals the t 1 social history of the Negro who: lot was cast in the South after the abolition of slavery. Witl it mounting a political plat form can safely say that these track are an indictment of the systr which was adopted in ...

Published: Wednesday 02 November 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 564 | Page: 49 | Tags: Review 

GEORGE ORWELL: by his friend, Sir Richard Rees

... occupation and thirteen years after the stroke of a pen in Paris had made French citizens equally of slaves and masters, slavery still exists. It lies concealed, says Maugham, behind a legal code that asserts that it has been abolished, and in this o ...

Published: Saturday 03 June 1961
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 691 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

The tensions behind Caribbean literature-- and aspects of Jamaica

... Spanish, French and English Caribbean. He is particularly authoritative on what is obviously his special field, the anti-slavery novel in Cuba, and Afro-Cubanism. One realises on reading this book how late in literary development were the English-speaking ...

Published: Saturday 15 December 1962
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 745 | Page: 19 | Tags: Review 

This is Miss Kirkwood's evening

... by the musical stage, the age of ragtime, of the Turkey Trot, the Suffragettes, the harem skirt and, of course, the White Slavery scares. It linds its heroine in a Miss Kirkwood who has come on immensely in the Beatrice Lillie line of satire. She certifies ...

Published: Wednesday 26 November 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 837 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

THREE LADIES OF SALEM: The Story of the Famous Peabody Sisters

... Mary, who won the heart and the hand of Horace Mann, one of the pioneers of American education and a doughty opponent of slavery. There was the delicate Sophia, artist by inclination and invalid at her mother's behest, who became the devoted wife of Nathaniel ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 858 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

ASPECTS OF AFRICA: Books on the Kalahari Bushmen, the Mau Mau and Apartheid

... story. But more than that it t all the savagery of apartheid in action. It is a [t'; both of brutality and stupidity, of slavery oppression, and it is extremely well set down. Ion L. Idriess is the historian of the Australian Out- ack, and whether he ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 824 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review