David Gilmour
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The author, a historian has provided a coherent, persuasive, and entertaining interpretation of the paradoxes of Italian life, past and present. Did Garibaldi do Italy a disservice when he helped its disparate parts achieve unity? Was the goal of political unification a mistake? The author's exploration of Italian life over the centuries is filled with provocative anecdotes as well as personal observations, and is peopled with the great figures of...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Explores the lives of the British in India from the seventeenth century to Independence, profiling the everyday realities of everyday British people, including missionaries, East India Company employees, and forestry officials.