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'This book brings history alive' BERNADINE EVARISTOWITH A BRAND NEW FOREWORD FROM ZADIE SMITH'Black England is a book that will be relevant for ever' BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH----------------The idea that Britain became a mixed-race country after 1945 is a common mistake. Georgian England had a large and distinctive Black community. Whether prosperous citizens or newly freed slaves, they all ran the risk of kidnap and sale to plantations. Black England tells their dramatic, often moving stories.In the eighteenth century, Black people could be found in clubs and pubs, there were special churches, Black-only balls and organisations for helping Black people who were out of work or in trouble. Many were famous and respected: most notably Francis Barber, Doctor Johnson's beloved manservant; Ignatius Sancho, a correspondent of Laurence Sterne; Francis Williams, a Cambridge scholar, and Olaudah Equiano whose Interesting Narrative went into multiple editions. But far more were ill-paid and ill-treated servants or beggars, despite having served Britain in war and on the seas. For alongside the free world there was slavery, from which many of these Black Britons had escaped.The triumphs and tortures of Black England, the Ambivalent relations between the races, sometimes tragic, sometimes heart-warming, are brought to life in this wonderfully readable history. Black England explores a fascinating chapter of our shared past, a chapter that has been ignored too long.

Mit über 1.000 Illustrationen veranschaulicht dieser aufwendig gestaltete Kunstband in einzigartiger Weise die Geschichte und Entwicklung der georgischen Schrift und Typographie von den Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Die im 5. Jahrhundert n. Chr. geschaffene georgische Schrift ist eine Alphabetschrift mit 33 Buchstaben, von denen jeder genau einem Phonem entspricht.Dieser Band beschreibt erstmals systematisch die Entwicklungsstadien der georgischen Schrift und ihrer Buchstaben im Verlauf der Geschichte.Der erste Teil zeigt die schönsten auf Gravuren, Mosaiken, Fresken, Teppichen u.a.m. verwendeten Inschriften sowie außergewöhnliche Manuskripte und Urkunden, anhand derer die Entwicklung der georgischen Schrift von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart anschaulich dargestellt wird.Der zweite Teil des Buches präsentiert einen Überblick über die Entwicklung der georgischen Typographie und Schriftarten von den Druckbuchstaben Königs Vakhtang VI. bis zu den modernsten Schriften.Eingeleitet werden beide Teile mit Texten des berühmten georgischen Autors Aka Morchiladze.