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Joseph Knight
by James Robertson
‘A book of such quality as to persuade you that historical novels are the true business of the writer.’
Daily TelegraphA gripping, shocking story of history, enlightement and slavery from the bestselling author of THE FANATIC. JOSPEH KNIGHT confirms James Robertson as one of our foremost novelists.
Exiled to Jamaica after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, Sir John Wedderburn made a fortune, alongside his three brothers, as a faux surgeon and sugar planter. In the 1770s, he returned to Scotland to marry and re-establish the family name. He brought with him Joseph Knight, a black slave and a token of his years in the Caribbean.
Now, in 1802, Sir John Wedderburn is settling his estate, and has hired a solicitor’s agent, Archibald Jamieson, to search for his former slave. The past has haunted Wedderburn ever since Culloden, and ever since he last saw Knight, in court twenty-four years ago, in a case that went to the heart of Scottish society, pitting master against slave, white against black, and rich against poor.
As long as Knight is missing, Wedderburn will never be able to escape the past. Yet what will he do if Jamieson’s search is successful? And what effect will this re-opening of old wounds have on those around him? Meanwhile, as Jamieson tries to unravel the true story of Joseph Knight he begins to question his own motivation. How can he possibly find a man who does not want to be found?
James Robertson’s second novel is a tour de force, the gripping story of a search for a life that stretches over sixty years and moves from battlefields to the plantations of Jamaica, from Enlightenment Edinburgh to the back streets of Dundee. It is a moving narrative of history, identity and ideas, that dramatically retells a fascinating but forgotten episode of Scottish history.
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The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and will not reveal her lover’s identity. The scarlet letter A (for adultery) she has to wear on her clothes, along with her public shaming, is her punishment for her sin and her secrecy. She struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.
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Teorie e metodi dell’educazione inclusiva
di Angelo Lascioli
Dispensa ufficiale del corso di Laurea Magistrale in Scienze Pedagogiche tenuto dal Prof. Angelo Lascioli nell’anno accademico 2024/2025.
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Roffeno
Ricerche su una comunità montana di fine Cinquecento
di Claudia Evangelisti
L’autrice riesce a conoscere uno per uno i quattrocento abitanti circa di Roffeno e a seguirne le vicende, le storie personali, l’ascesa o la decadenza, verificando come, nonostante tutto, all’interno di un mondo apparentemente immobile, sia possibile riscontrare forme di mobilità sociale.” (Ottavia Niccoli)
Una minuscola comunità dell’Appennino bolognese del VXI secolo, i suoi abitanti, lo loro storie personali e le loro relazioni. Fra banditi e notai, conflitti e ricomposizioni, scritture e voci, ecco una ricerca che racconta vite normali di donne e uomini, l’inevitabile disordine delle loro esistenze e i loro movimenti all’interno di un mondo all’apparenza immobile.
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Montagne di sangue
di Andrea Toffolon
Omicidi, aggressioni, stupri, angherie. Faide interminabili tra famiglie aristocratiche. Le pratiche messe in atto da alcuni nobili per imporre il proprio dominio sul territorio. Il tentativo dei rappresentati della Repubblica di Venezia di gestire queste situazioni attraverso gli strumenti del diritto. E ancora: sacerdoti lontani dagli ideali tridentino; giochi folli e brutali… Da una ricerca condotta su molteplici fonti, emerge la quotidianità della violenza di una città della Terraferma veneta.
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Geografia dei beni geologici e culturali
Il patrimonio della Lessinia veronese centro-orientale e il Geosito di Bolca
di Emanuele Poli e Roberto Zorzia