From Tristram Hunt award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist & leading UK politician Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 & the end days of Empire Britain's colonial past has been the subject of passionate debate Tristram Hunt goes beyond the now familiar arguments about Empire being good or bad & adopts a fresh approach to Britain's empire & its legacy Through an exceptional array of first-hand accounts & personal reflections he portrays the great colonial & imperial cities of Boston Bridgetown Dublin Cape Town Calcutta Hong Kong Bombay Melbourne New Delhi & twentieth-century Liverpool their architecture culture & society balls; the famines uprisings & repressions which coursed through them; the primitive accumulation & ghostly bureaucracy which ran them; the British supremacists & multicultural trailblazers who inhabited them From the pioneers of early America to the builders of modern India from west to east & back again Hunt follows the processes of exchange & adaptation that collectively moulded the colonial experience & which in their turn transformed the culture economy & identity of the British Isles This vivid & richly detailed imperial story located in ten of the most important cities which the Empire constructed demolished reconstructed & transformed allows us a new understanding of the British Empire's influence upon the world & the world's influence upon it Praise for The Frock-Coated Communist' Beautifully written & consistently engaging'
- Independent' An excellent book Hunt has a mastery of 19th-century British culture & European political thought'
- Robert Service Sunday Times' Thoughtful & engaging'
- Telegraph Review


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Please note this is a region B Blu ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play This spectacular biblical epic from legendary showman Cecil B De Mille tells the story of Moses from his infancy to the triumphant moment when he led the Israelites out of captivity in Egypt The film begins as the pharaoh&s daughter (Yvonne De Carlo) discovers the abandoned infant Moses & takes him to the shelter of her family Charlton Heston stars as the young man raised by the pharaoh as an Egyptian prince Moses is righteous & kind the favored successor to the kingdom which results in the deep-seated jealousy of Prince Rameses (Yul Brynner) Rameses & Moses compete for the throne & the love of the young princess Nefretiri (Anne Baxter) until Moses learns the truth about his origins & joins the Jewish slaves in their fight for freedom After receiving the Ten Commandments from God Moses helps free the Jews from the pharaoh&s tyrannical rule surmounting all obstacles in his way including the parting of the Red Sea in one of the movie&s most famous scenes Cecil B De Mille&s extravagant final film & remake of his silent 1923 version is a legendary combination of the master showman&s love of historical realism spectacle lavish scenic design & dizzying crowd sequences The exodus alone is a stunning feat of modern cinema featuring thousands of actors trekking through the arid desert as Pharaoh&s chariots chase after them ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Story of Moses the Prince of Egypt
- One biblical figure is revered by Jews Christians & Muslims alike The man who rose in power to defend a people to free them & to live in history like no other
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Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder One day he meets Kurose a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion As the two go through each of the ten steps Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows ...

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder One day he meets Kurose a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion As the two go through each of the ten steps Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows Shirotani begins opening his heart to Kurose until the counselor suddenly tells him that their sessions are over Shocked Shirotani withdraws into his home refusing to come out Out of the blue Kurose texts him & asks to see him What will Shirotani do when he finds out the secret Kurose has been hiding from him this whole time? ...

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder One day he meets Kurose a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion As the two go through each of the ten steps Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows At the mercy of Kurose's hands & words Shirotani finally hears the full reason Kurose fell in love with him The truth is such a surprise that Shirotani runs away from him in shock & it isn't long before his body starts aching for Kurose's touch causing Shirotani to soothe his own desire But in doing so he scares up memories of the traumatic event at the core of his compulsion ...

Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder One day he meets Kurose a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion As the two go through each of the ten steps Shirotani's attraction to his counselor grows Seeing Kurose for the first time in two months Shirotani takes a big step forward in their relationship-and his treatment-by holding hands with Kurose Then after Kurose fails to invite him home Shirotani chases after him! Could this new more impulsive side of Shirotani signal a new phase in this tumultuous relationship? ...

' It flashed upon me suddenly they were going to shoot me!' This electrifying eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution written by an American journalist in St Petersburg as the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 is an unsurpassed record of history in the making ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Commissioned by the October Revolution Jubilee Committee (Chairman NikolaiPodvolsky) for the tenth anniversary of the revolution Sergei Eisenstein&s third major feature film " October 1917" is a marvelous reconstruction of the events from February leading up to the revolution & the Bolshevik&s overthrow of the czarists & Kerensky&s provisional government in 1917 True to the communist philosophy there were no main characters; the proletariat providing the &heroic& star quality throughout The ultimate victory belonging to the revolution Eisenstein&s skill & experimentation in using fast moving & rhythmic montage to produce telling metaphors & build & intensify sequences was not fully understood by the early Russian audiences; typical examples being the rapidly alternating images employed to create a machine-gun firing & the cross-cutting between power-hungry Kerensky & the statue of Napoleon Outstanding for the period are the dynamic sequences illustrating the massacre in the vicinity of the St Petersburg bridges & the storming of the Winter Palace which feature a profusion of exciting cinematic techniques Eisenstein&s research was extremely thorough & he did not allow contemporary events to influence his production The film&s release was delayed until 1928 by the Government Group&s demands for the removal of most of the footage featuring Stalin&s political adversary Trotsky This required substantial re-editing & caused the film to be reduced to a little over three-quarters of its original length When this film was made Leningrad & it&s streets the buildings the Winter Palace the corridors of the Smolny were the same as in that fateful year Thus October 1917 renders a stirring &eye-witness& account of the early days of the revolution Many of the participants of the revolution; Red Guards soldiers & sailors appear in the film Among them is NikoaliPodvolsky one of the leaders of the armed uprising Actors Layaschenko Boris Livanov Vasili Nikandrov Nikolai Popov & Eduard Tisse Director Sergei Eisenstein Certificate PG Year 1928 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages Dolby (10) Mono Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 44 minutes (approx) ...

Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed's eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution A contemporary journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm he gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917 when Lenin & the Bolsheviks finally seized power Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders & the chance comments of bystanders set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat soldiers sailors & peasants uniting to throw off oppression Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement & remains an unsurpassed classic of reporting ...