Новинки Дэвида Гилмора

The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in English
The Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medici, from Cavour and Verdi to the controversial political figures of the twentieth century. The book gives a clear-eyed view of the Risorgimento, the pivotal event in modern Italian history, debunking the influential myths which have grown up around it.
Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with their distinctive art, civic cultures, identities and cuisine and whose inhabitants identified themselves not as Italians, but as Tuscans and Venetians, Sicilians and Lombards, Neapolitans and Genoese. This is where the strength and culture of Italy still comes from, rather than from misconceived and mishandled concepts of nationalism and unity. This wise and enormously engaging book explains the course of Italian history in a manner and with a coherence which no one with an interest in the country could fail to enjoy.
David Gilmour is one of Britain's most admired and accomplished historical writers and biographers. His previous books include The Last Leopard : A Life of Giuseppe di Lampedusa (winner of the Marsh Biography Award) Curzon (Duff Cooper Prize) and Long Recessional:The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling (Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography).

Может ли курортный роман перерасти в серьезные отношения? Свадебный организатор Мадлен Фицрой сбежала с собственного венчания, поклявшись, что впредь не согласится на брак без любви! Но когда она притворилась на время девушкой графа Данте Фальконе, то постепенно стала понимать: их симпатия взаимна. Станет ли ее временный роман любовью всей жизни?

'A fast-moving, entertaining and finely written story' Simon Schama
'Masterly ... a remarkable portrait of a brilliant complex and tragic genius' William Dalrymple, Los Angeles Times
George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of the British Empire to the traumatized years following the First World War. As Viceroy of India under Queen Victoria and Foreign Secretary under George V, the

'Superb, beautifully written, touching and occasionally very funny' Andrew Roberts
David Gilmour's superb biography of Rudyard Kipling is the first to show how the life and work of the great writer mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His famous poem 'Recessional' celebrated Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897, but his last poems warned of the dangers of Nazism, and in those intervening years Kipling, himsel

A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A richly panoramic exploration of the British experience of India ... hugely researched and elegantly written, sensitive to the ironies of the past and brimming with colourful details' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times

The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to India, what did they do and how did they live?

This book explores the lives of the many different sorts of Briton who went to India: viceroys and offcials, soldiers and missionaries, planters and foresters, merchants, engineers, teachers and doctors. It evokes the three and a half centuries of their ambitions and experiences, together with the lives of their families, recording the diversity of their work and their leisure, and the complexity of their relationships with the peoples of India. It also describes the lives of many who did not fit in with the usual image of the Raj: the tramps and rascals, the men who 'went native', the women who scorned the role of the traditional memsahib.

David Gilmour has spent decades researching in archives, studying the papers of many people who
have never been written about before, to create a magnificent tapestry of British life in India. It is
exceptional work of scholarly recovery portrays individuals with understanding and humour, and makes an original and engaging contribution to a long and important period of British and Indian history.

Гилмор Д..Две ночи в Лондоне

Эта книга начинается как триллер: успешный телеведущий выходит вечером на пятнадцать минут в бар, и за это время его шестилетний сын исчезает навсегда. Полиция подозревает вконец отчаявшегося отца, за ним устанавливается слежка. А сам он начинает жить в двух измерениях, то и дело оказываясь в некоем параллельном мире. Там он встречается со своей умершей матерью, близкими друзьями и сыном, всякий раз испытывая облегчение оттого, что у мальчика все в порядке. Герой должен сделать выбор - между кошмаром повседневности и "другой" реальностью...

Visiting a villa built by Lorenzo de Medici outside Pisa, David Gilmour fell into conversation about the unification of Italy with a distinguished former minister: '"You know, Davide," he said in a low conspiratorial voice, as if nervously uttering a heresy, "Garibaldi did Italy a great disservice. If he had not invaded Sicily and Naples, we in the north would have the richest and most civilized state in Europe." After looking round the room at the other guests, he added in an even lower voice, "Of course to the south we would have a neighbour like Egypt."' These words stayed in the author's mind for a long time. The dream of a unified Italy, how and why it has never been more than a dream, became the subject of a book he has been thinking about and writing for the last twenty years. Was the elderly Italian right? "The Pursuit of Italy" traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula since the Romans in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Machiavelli and the Medici, Garibaldi and Cavour, and the rather less inspiring political figures of the 20th century. Gilmour gives a clear-eyed view of the Risorgimento, the pivotal event in modern Italian history, debunking the many absurd and influential myths which have grown up around it but including a particularly sympathetic portrait of Giuseppe Verdi, one of many cultural figures he treats. Gilmour shows that the glory of Italy has always lain in its regions, with their distinctive civic cultures, cuisine, art and identities. Similarly, most of the people of the peninsula have thought of themselves first as Tuscans, Venetians, Romans, Neapolitans or Sicilians and as Italians second, if at all. This, he argues, is where the strength of Italy lies rather than in misconceived ideas of unity. This wise and enormously engaging book explains the course of Italian history in a manner and with a coherence which no one with any interest in the country could fail to enjoy.

Кто может стать лучшим учителем для собственного сына? Только безработный кинокритик, ни секунды не задумываясь, скажет, что это кино. Сын ненавидит школу? Можно ее бросить. Но при этом он должен смотреть три фильма в неделю. Из тех, что выберет для него отец. "Бешеные псы" и "В джазе только девушки", "Завтрак у Тиффани" и "Последнее танго в Париже", "Крестный отец" и "Основной инстинкт", "Ребенок Розмари" и "Римские каникулы", Франсуа Трюффо и Акира Куросава, Мартин Скорсезе и Брайан де Пальма... Фильмы, долгие разговоры о жизни и сама жизнь: романтические драмы, ветреные подружки, трагические разрывы и душевные муки. Все то, что бывает только в кино. Книга ранее выходила под названием "Киноклуб".

While previous studies of Rudyard Kipling have concentrated on his writing and on his domestic life, this volume studies his public role and his influence on the way Britons saw both themselves and their empire.

"In this sensitive memoir, Canadian film critic and novelist Gilmour tells of the bargain he struck with his son, 15-year-old Jesse, who was unhappy at school. Gilmour would allow Jesse to drop out if he would agree to watch three movies a week with his dad. Over the next three years, the two would wrangle over movies that the elder Gilmour thought his son would love but didn't (A Hard Day's Night) and experience the irrational thrills of "guilty pleasures" (Showgirls). More important, they edged slantwise, in typical male fashion, into more personal discussions of big topics, such as sexual jealousy (Last Tango in Paris) and alcoholism (Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry). At the same time, Jesse dealt with serious heartbreak, while his father struggled to find steady work and worried incessantly over whether he had made the right decision in allowing his son to drop out of school. Both for its smart, engaging movie talk and for its touching depiction of a father-son relationship, The Film Club gets two thumbs way up". Joanne Wilkinson

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Кто может стать лучшим учителем для собственного сына? Только безработный кинокритик, ни секунды не задумываясь, скажет, что это кино. Сын ненавидит школу? Можно ее бросить. Но при этом он должен смотреть три фильма в неделю. Из тех, что выберет его отец. "Бешеные псы" и "В джазе только девушки", "Завтрак у Тиффани" и "Последнее танго в Париже", "Крестный отец" и "Основной инстинкт", "Ребенок Розмари" и "Римские каникулы", Франсуа Трюффо и Акира Куросава, Мартин Скорсезе и Брайан де Пальма… Фильмы, долгие разговоры о жизни и сама жизнь: романтические драмы, ветреные подружки, трагические разрывы и душевные муки. Все то, что бывает только…

David Gilmour's biography of Giuseppe di Lampedusa unearths the life story of the creator of 'The Leopard', one of the great novels of the 20th century.

At the start of this brilliantly unconventional family memoir, David Gilmour is an unemployed movie critic trying to convince his fifteen-year-old son Jesse to do his homework. When he realizes Jesse is beginning to view learning as a loathsome chore, he offers his son an unconventional deal: Jesse could drop out of school, not work, not pay rent - but he must watch three movies a week of his father's choosing.

Week by week, side by side, father and son watched everything from True Romance to Rosemary's Baby to Showgirls, and films by Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, Brian DePalma, Billy Wilder, among others. The movies got them talking about Jesse's life and his own romantic dramas, with mercurial girlfriends, heart-wrenching breakups, and the kind of obsessive yearning usually seen only in movies.

Through their film club, father and son discussed girls, music, work, drugs, money, love, and friendship - and their own lives changed in surprising ways.

Between 1837 and 1901, less than 100,000 Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and its sense of imperial grandeur, but it has become fashionable to deprecate it for its arrogance and ignorance. In this balanced, witty, and multi-faceted history, David Gilmour goes far to explain the paradoxes of the "Anglo-Indians," showing us what they hoped to achieve and what sort of society they thought they were helping to build.
THE RULING CASTE: IMPERIAL LIVES IN THE VICTORIAN RAJ principally concerns the officers of the legendary India Civil Service - each of whom to perform as magistrate, settlement officer, sanitation inspector, public-health officer, and more for the million or so people in his charge. Gilmour extends his study to every level of the administration and to the officers' women and children, so often ignored in previous works.
THE RULING CASTE: IMPERIAL LIVES IN THE VICTORIAN RAJ is the best book yet on the real trials and triumphs of an imperial ruling class; on the dangerous temptations that an empire's power encourages; on relations between governor and governed, between European and Asian. No one interested in politics and social history can afford to miss this book.

Его зовут Саймон Олбрайт, и ему 16. Это многое объясняет. Многое, но не все. Саймон пытается стать лучшим другом своей матери. Человеком, которого обожает его девушка, мужчиной, которого уважает его отец. Но это не так просто сделать, когда детство уходит и мать отдаляется, девушка слишком красива, а отец поражен душевной болезнью...

Эта книга начинается как триллер: успешный телеведущий выходит вечером на пятнадцать минут в бар, и за это время его шестилетний сын исчезает навсегда. Полиция подозревает вконец отчаявшегося отца, за ним устанавливается слежка. А сам он начинает жить в двух измерениях, то и дело оказываясь в некоем параллельном мире. Там он встречается со своей умершей матерью, близкими друзьями и сыном, всякий раз испытывая облегчение от того, что у мальчика все в порядке. Герой должен сделать выбор - между кошмаром повседневности и "другой" реальностью...

"Elegant biography . . . a fast-moving, entertaining, and finely written story." --Simon Schama, The New Yorker

George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of his country's empire to the traumatized years following World War I. As viceroy of India under Queen Victoria and foreign secretary under King George V, the obsessive Lord Curzon left his unmistakable mark on the era. David Gilmour's award-winning book is a brilliant assessment of Curzon's character and achievements, offering a richly dramatic account of the infamous long vendettas, the turbulent friendships, and the passionate, risky love affairs that complicated and enriched his life.

Born into the ruling class of what was then the world's greatest power, Curzon was a fervent believer in British imperialism who spent his life proving he was fit for the task. Often seen as arrogant and tempestuous, he was loathed as much as he was adored, his work disparaged as much as it was admired. In Gilmour's well-rounded appraisal, Curzon is seen as a complex, tragic figure, a gifted leader who saw his imperial world overshadowed at the dawn of democracy.

Что значит "быть мужчиной" в различных культурах земного шара? Автор, профессор антропологии Нью-Йоркского университета, обнаружил, что большинство культур имеют сходные представления о "настоящей мужественности"; у мужчин, во всем остальном имеющих малого общего, существуют аналогичные концепции маскулинности и одинаковые заботы и тревоги. Обширная феминистская литература за последнее десятилетие значительно продвинула вперед наше понимание женских социальных и психологических ролей, но совершенно не затронула культы и коды мужественности. Данная книга, представляющая собой интересное ретроспективное кросс-культурное исследование маскулинности, отчасти восполняет этот пробел.

Содержание:
Глава 1. Тайна возмужания.
Глава 2. Совершенство действия: Средиземноморье.
Глава 3. В поисках мужественности: остров Трак
Глава 4. Тревоги публичного действия: меинаку.
Глава 5. Интерлюдия: другие мужчины, другие системы возмужания.
Глава 6. Вехи мужественности: самбуру.
Глава 7. Ритуалы мужественности: самбиа.
Глава 8. Действие и неопределенность: Восточная и Южная Азия.
Глава 9. Исключения: Таити и семаи.

"Readable and reliable . . . [Gilmour's] assessment of the political background of Kipling's writings is exemplary." —Earl L. Dachslager, Houston Chronicle

David Gilmour's superbly nuanced biography of Rudyard Kipling, now available in paperback, is the first to show how the great writer's life and work mirrored the trajectory of the British Empire, from its zenith to its final decades. His great poem "Recessional" celebrated Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 and his last poems warned of the dangers of Nazism, while Kipling himself, an icon of the empire, was transformed from an apostle of success to a prophet of national decline. As Gilmour makes clear, Kipling's mysterious and enduring works deeply influenced the way his readers saw both themselves and the British Empire, and they continue to challenge our own generation.