Susan Kingsley Kent
Auteur de The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 (Bedford Cultural Editions)
A propos de l'auteur
Susan Kingsley Kent is an Arts Sciences Professor of Distinction in the Department of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of The Global 1930s (2017) with Marc Matera, A New History of Britain: Four Nations and an Empire (2016), and Queen Victoria: Gender and Empire afficher plus (2016), among others. afficher moins
Œuvres de Susan Kingsley Kent
Gender and Power in Britain, 1600-Presen 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1952
- Sexe
- female
- Études
- Brandeis University (PhD)
- Professions
- History professor, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 12
- Membres
- 128
- Popularité
- #157,245
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 41
- Langues
- 1
Kent's own tone is a little troubling. Starving Irish peasants refused to pay rent because, she says, they were "bitter" (137). She seems similarly impatient with African, Caribbean, and Indian colonized peoples, as if, yes, she knows what she's supposed to write, but really, those rebels were all so messy. So on any three pages the book is excellent, engaging, absorbing, then you read something that makes you want to throw it in the bin. That, combined with the fact that it is an in-depth biography, then it's a history of everything, then it's a brief biography, then it's back to a history, then it's a wholly political biography of Victoria, losing sight completely of the personal biography with which the book began, makes it, as I said, an odd book -- but a keeper.… (plus d'informations)