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Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book A Companion to Every Place of Curiosity and Entertainment in and about London and Westminster written by and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book A Companion to every place of Curiosity and Entertainment in and about London and Westminster, etc written by London and published by . This book was released on 1767 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Companion to All the Principal Places of Curiosity and Entertainment in and about London and Westminister ... With a ... Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 1797 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 212 pages
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Download or read book A Companion to the Principal Places of Curiosity and Entertainment in and about London and Westminster ... The sixth edition written by London and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Troy Bickham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199286965
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Savages Within the Empire written by Troy Bickham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Savages within the Empire explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to capture the nation's sustained attention for the first time. Troy Bickham considers an array of contexts,including newspapers, imperial policy, museum exhibits, the Enlightenment, missionary records, and the public outcry over the use of American Indians as allies during the American War of Independence. He thusreveals the prevailing pragmatism with which Britons of all ranks approached the empire as well as its impact on British culture.
Author : Troy Bickham
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789142458
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Eating the Empire written by Troy Bickham and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When students gathered in a London coffeehouse and smoked tobacco; when Yorkshire women sipped sugar-infused tea; or when a Glasgow family ate a bowl of Indian curry, were they aware of the mechanisms of imperial rule and trade that made such goods readily available? In Eating the Empire, Troy Bickham unfolds the extraordinary role that food played in shaping Britain during the long eighteenth century (circa 1660–1837), when such foreign goods as coffee, tea, and sugar went from rare luxuries to some of the most ubiquitous commodities in Britain—reaching even the poorest and remotest of households. Bickham reveals how trade in the empire’s edibles underpinned the emerging consumer economy, fomenting the rise of modern retailing, visual advertising, and consumer credit, and, via taxes, financed the military and civil bureaucracy that secured, governed, and spread the British Empire.
Author : Cynthia Wall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646797X
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Grammars of Approach written by Cynthia Wall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Grammars of Approach, Cynthia Wall offers a close look at changes in perspective in spatial design, language, and narrative across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that involve, literally and psychologically, the concept of “approach.” In architecture, the term “approach” changed in that period from a verb to a noun, coming to denote the drive from the lodge at the entrance of an estate “through the most interesting part of the grounds,” as landscape designer Humphrey Repton put it. The shift from the long straight avenue to the winding approach, Wall shows, swung the perceptual balance away from the great house onto the personal experience of the visitor. At the same time, the grammatical and typographical landscape was shifting in tandem, away from objects and Things (and capitalized common Nouns) to the spaces in between, like punctuation and the “lesser parts of speech”. The implications for narrative included new patterns of syntactical architecture and the phenomenon of free indirect discourse. Wall examines the work of landscape theorists such as Repton, John Claudius Loudon, and Thomas Whately alongside travel narratives, topographical views, printers’ manuals, dictionaries, encyclopedias, grammars, and the novels of Defoe, Richardson, Burney, Radcliffe, and Austen to reveal a new landscaping across disciplines—new grammars of approach in ways of perceiving and representing the world in both word and image.
Author : William Strong
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Total Pages : 630 pages
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Download or read book A Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books in Every Department of Literature and in Various Languages written by William Strong and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vincent Carretta
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820363308
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Phillis Wheatley Peters written by Vincent Carretta and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrity by the time she was in her early twenties, only to fall into relative obscurity when she died in 1784 at barely the age of thirty. Introduced to Benjamin Franklin in London, praised by her correspondent George Washington, and criticized by Thomas Jefferson, Phillis Wheatley (later Peters) laid claim to being the virtual poet laureate during the American Revolution as well as in the new United States. She overcame contemporaneous restraints of age, gender, race, and social status to assert her position as the unofficial spokesperson and critical observer of the nation that claimed to be founded on the principle that all men are created equal. Grounded in extensive primary research, Phillis Wheatley Peters recovers her life and times and reclaims the recognition and status she deserves as a heroic literary and political figure in an age of heroes. She is indisputably the founder of African American literature. Contemporary African American authors, including Nikki Giovanni, Amanda Gorman, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, June Jordan, and Alice Walker, celebrate Phillis Wheatley Peters’s transcendent literary achievement and influence. This new edition incorporates significant discoveries that Vincent Carretta and others have made since the book’s initial publication about Wheatley’s education, affiliations, activities, publications, marriage, husband, maternity, later years, and the posthumous survival of the manuscript of her proposed second volume of writings. Moreover, this new edition gives Carretta the opportunity to reconsider some previously available evidence.
Author : Paul Readman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108575811
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Storied Ground written by Paul Readman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People have always attached meaning to the landscape that surrounds them. In Storied Ground Paul Readman uncovers why landscape matters so much to the English people, exploring its particular importance in shaping English national identity amid the transformations of modernity. The book takes us from the fells of the Lake District to the uplands of Northumberland; from the streetscapes of industrial Manchester to the heart of London. This panoramic journey reveals the significance, not only of the physical characteristics of landscapes, but also of the sense of the past, collective memories and cultural traditions that give these places their meaning. Between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries, Englishness extended far beyond the pastoral idyll of chocolate-box thatched cottages, waving fields of corn and quaint country churches. It was found in diverse locations - urban as well as rural, north as well as south - and it took strikingly diverse forms.
Author : George W. Redway
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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Walford's Antiquarian written by George W. Redway and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Walford's Antiquarian Magazine and Bibliographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819579513
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)
Download or read book The Age of Phillis written by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An arresting and meticulously researched collection of poems” about the life of Phillis Wheatley, the first black woman to publish a book in America (Ms. Magazine). In 1773, a young African American woman named Phillis Wheatley published a book of poetry, Poems on various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). When Wheatley’s book appeared, her words would challenge Western prejudices about African and female intellectual capabilities. Her words would astound many and irritate others, but one thing was clear: This young woman was extraordinary. Based on fifteen years of archival research, The Age of Phillis, by award-winning writer Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, imagines the life and times of Wheatley: her childhood with her parents in the Gambia, West Africa, her life with her white American owners, her friendship with Obour Tanner, her marriage to the enigmatic John Peters, and her untimely death at the age of about thirty-three. Woven throughout are poems about Wheatley's “age”—the era that encompassed political, philosophical, and religious upheaval, as well as the transatlantic slave trade. For the first time in verse, Wheatley’s relationship to black people and their individual “mercies” is foregrounded, and here we see her as not simply a racial or literary symbol, but a human being who lived and loved while making her indelible mark on history.
Author : Vincent Carretta
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820333387
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Phillis Wheatley written by Vincent Carretta and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the fascinating life of Phillis Wheatley, the first English-speaking person of African descent to publish a book, and only the second woman to do so in America, and also to do so while she was a slave and a teenager.
Author : Jonathan Eacott
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469622319
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Selling Empire written by Jonathan Eacott and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Bentley Book Prize, World History Association Linking four continents over three centuries, Selling Empire demonstrates the centrality of India--both as an idea and a place--to the making of a global British imperial system. In the seventeenth century, Britain was economically, politically, and militarily weaker than India, but Britons increasingly made use of India's strengths to build their own empire in both America and Asia. Early English colonial promoters first envisioned America as a potential India, hoping that the nascent Atlantic colonies could produce Asian raw materials. When this vision failed to materialize, Britain's circulation of Indian manufactured goods--from umbrellas to cottons--to Africa, Europe, and America then established an empire of goods and the supposed good of empire. Eacott recasts the British empire's chronology and geography by situating the development of consumer culture, the American Revolution, and British industrialization in the commercial intersections linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. From the seventeenth into the nineteenth century and beyond, the evolving networks, ideas, and fashions that bound India, Britain, and America shaped persisting global structures of economic and cultural interdependence.
Author : Pam Lieske
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104024923X
Total Pages : 403 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Part III vol 12 written by Pam Lieske and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By reprinting in facsimile primary texts on eighteenth-century midwifery and childbirth, this comprehensive twelve-volume collection gives readers a much deeper, more nuanced understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour.
Author : Crystal B. Lake
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421436507
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Artifacts written by Crystal B. Lake and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary history of the old, broken, rusty, dusty, and moldy stuff that people dug up in England during the long eighteenth century. In the eighteenth century, antiquaries—wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historians—used old objects to establish what they claimed was a true account of history. But just what could these small, fragmentary, frequently unidentifiable things, whose origins were unknown and whose worth or meaning was not self-evident, tell people about the past? In Artifacts, Crystal B. Lake unearths the four kinds of old objects that were most frequently found and cataloged in Enlightenment-era England: coins, manuscripts, weapons, and grave goods. Following these prized objects as they made their way into popular culture, Lake develops new interpretations of works by Joseph Addison, John Dryden, Horace Walpole, Jonathan Swift, Tobias Smollett, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, among others. Rereading these authors with the artifact in mind uncovers previously unrecognized allusions that unravel works we thought we knew well. In this new history of antiquarianism and, by extension, historiography, Lake reveals that artifacts rarely acted as agents of fact, as those who studied them would have claimed. Instead, she explains, artifacts are objects unlike any other. Fragmented and from another time or place, artifacts invite us to fill in their shapes and complete their histories with our imaginations. Composed of body as well as spirit and located in the present as well as the past, artifacts inspire speculative reconstructions that frequently contradict one another. Lake's history and theory of the artifact will be of particular importance to scholars of material culture and forms. This fascinating book provides curious readers with new ways of evaluating the relationships that exist between texts and objects.
