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Author : Michael Glover
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Very Slippery Fellow written by Michael Glover and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1978 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Clayton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1643131044
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Secret War Against Napoleon written by Tim Clayton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between two assassination attempts—in 1800 and 1804—on Napoleon Bonaparte, the British government launched a propaganda campaign of unprecedented scope and intensity to persuade George III’s reluctant subjects to fight the Napoleonic War, a war to the death against one man: the Corsican usurper and tyrant. The Secret War Against Napoleon tells the story of the British government’s determination to destroy the French Emperor by any means possible. We have been taught to think of Napoleon as the aggressor—a man with an unquenchable thirst for war and glory— but what if this story masked the real truth: that the British refusal to make peace, either with revolutionary France or with the man who claimed to personify the revolution, was the reason this epic conflict continued for more than twenty years? At this pivotal moment when it wanted to consolidate its place as the premier world power, Britain was uncompromising. This dynamic historical narrative plunges the reader into the hidden underworld of Georgian politics where, faced with the terrifying prospect of revolution, the British government used bribery and coercion in an effort to kill the French leader.
Author : Scott Hughes Myerly
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674082496
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)
Download or read book British Military Spectacle written by Scott Hughes Myerly and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the theater of war, how important is costume? And in peacetime, what purpose does military spectacle serve? This book takes us behind the scenes of the British military at the height of its brilliance to show us how dress and discipline helped to mold the military man and attempted to seduce the hearts and minds of a nation while serving to intimidate civil rioters in peacetime. Often ridiculed for their constrictive splendor, British army uniforms of the early nineteenth century nonetheless played a powerful role in the troops' performance on campaign, in battle, and as dramatic entertainment in peacetime. Plumbing a wide variety of military sources, most tellingly the memoirs and letters of soldiers and civilians, Scott Hughes Myerly reveals how these ornate sartorial creations, combining symbols of solidarity and inspiration, vivid color, and physical restraint, enhanced the managerial effects of rigid discipline, drill, and torturous punishments, but also helped foster regimental esprit de corps. Encouraging recruitment, enforcing discipline within the military, and boosting morale were essential but not the only functions of martial dress. Myerly also explores the role of the resplendent uniform and its associated gaudy trappings and customs during civil peace and disorder--whether employed as public relations through spectacular free entertainment, or imitated by rioters and rebels opposing the status quo. Dress, drills, parades, inspections, pomp, and order: as this richly illustrated book conducts us through the details of the creation, design, functions, and meaning of these aspects of the martial image, it exposes the underpinnings of a mentality--and vision--that extends far beyond the military subculture into the civic and social order that we call modernity.
Author : Nathaniel Wright Stephenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Lincoln written by Nathaniel Wright Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : lady Elizabeth Reid Hope
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Estella; or, Who is my neighbour? written by lady Elizabeth Reid Hope and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Donald Neely
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584770910
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Lawyers of Dickens and Their Clerks written by Robert Donald Neely and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful and humorous book Neely takes a look at the satire and irony in Dickens' work as shown in his derisive characterization of solicitors, barristers, judges and clerks. Lovers of Dickens and anyone acquainted with the law will find this to be an entertaining read.
Author : George Pryme
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Autobiographic Recollections of George Pryme, Esq. M.A. : Sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Professor of Political Economy in the University of Cambridge, and M.P. for the Borough written by George Pryme and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Neville Thompson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473813840
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Earl Bathurst and British Empire written by Neville Thompson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1999-03-16 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An accessible scholarly biography of a politician whom [Thomspon] rightly suggests has been largely neglected.” —The English Historical Review Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst family archives. These private papers clearly established what Bathurst’s contemporaries well knew, that he was a very effective administrator of the Colonial Office and a figure of first rank in the war against Napoleon, in diplomacy and in domestic politics. This biography also throws fresh light on other leading figures of the period notably The Duke of Wellington and The Prince Regent.
Author : Reider Payne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786725673
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book War and Diplomacy in the Napoleonic Era written by Reider Payne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives and careers of Sir Charles Stewart and his brother Lord Castlereagh take in a grand stage, from Britain and Ireland to the kingdoms and empires of western and central Europe. Throughout his life Stewart played a key role in shaping Europe: his is a Regency drama beyond anything imagined by Jane Austen: warfare, diplomacy, affairs, royal scandal, a romantic and brilliant marriage, and a brother's suicide. Stewart was at the heart of some of history's greatest events which took him from the bloodiest actions of the Napoleonic Wars to the palaces of Europe's ruling dynasties. For an all too brief period, Stewart blazed across the battlefields and chancelleries of Europe, enjoying a meteoric rise to the highest positions and influence, in a career indelibly linked to his brother's and one which is virtually unique. Stewart even found time to enjoy his share of scandal, from affairs and parties in Vienna to running a spy network which aimed to charge a Princess of Wales with adultery. Reider Payne's book is international in its scope and ambitions: with Stewart's military and diplomatic theatre of operations including Portugal, Spain, Prussia, Saxony, France, Austria and the Austrian territories in Italy. Stewart sat at the heart of the intrigues and social circles of Regency England, and his life story offers an unrivalled viewpoint into the competing claims and demands of Europe's courts.
Author : Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226579719
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Tosca's Rome written by Susan Vandiver Nicassio and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first section, the author reviews Roman life in the late 18th and 19th centuries, paying considerable attention to how Puccini's own prejudices shaped his story and how Sardou (the French playwright) reinterpreted the historical realities that the opera treats. In the second section, she looks at how Rome circa 1800 was viewed through the eyes of a painter, a singer, and a policeman (the occupations of the opera's three main characters). The third section gives a scene-by-scene analysis of the opera. An appendix shows the parallels (and discrepancies) between the play and the opera.
Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Savas Beatie
ISBN 13 : 161121002X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (112 download)
Download or read book The Russian Officer Corps of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars written by Alexander Mikaberidze and published by Savas Beatie. This book was released on 2005-01-19 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russian Officer Corps of The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1795–1815 features more than 800 detailed biographies of the commanders of that era. Foreword by Professor Donald H. Horward, Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution, Florida State University Based upon years of research in Russian archives, historian Alexander Mikaberidze’s biographies include the subject’s place of birth, family history, educational background, a detailed description of his military service, his awards and promotions, wounds, transfers, commands, and other related information, including the date and place of his death and internment, if known. In addition, an introductory chapter presents in meticulous detail the organization of the Russian military, how it was trained, the educational and cultural background of the officer corps, its awards and their history and meaning, and much more. This outstanding overview is supported and enhanced by three dozen charts, tables, and graphics that illustrate the rich history of the Russian officer corps. This study also includes an annotated bibliography to help guide students of the period through the available Russian sources. Stunning in its scope and depth of coverage, The Russian Officer Corps is essential reading for historians, scholars, genealogists, hobbyists, war gamers, and anyone working or studying late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century European history. Every student of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, as well as every academic library, will find this impressive reference work of this momentous period of history absolutely indispensable.
Author : Alan David Francis
Publisher : Tamesis
ISBN 13 : 9780729301909
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Portugal 1715-1808 written by Alan David Francis and published by Tamesis. This book was released on 1985 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the treaty of Utrecht, Portugal, successful diplomatically where she had failed militarily, embarked on a lengthy period of balancing the interests of Britain, France and Spain against her own political and economic needs. This study, drawing extensively on state papers and other collections, follows the course of Anglo-Portuguese relations through the years of John V, the age of Pombal and the 1762 war with Spain, to the years of the French revolution and the flight of the court to Brazil under the threat of Napoleon's army.
Author : Ernest Weekley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English written by Ernest Weekley and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Ernest Henley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present written by William Ernest Henley and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stephen Farmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present written by John Stephen Farmer and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matheson Lang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Purple Mask written by Matheson Lang and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tarquin Hall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416584021
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Case of the Missing Servant written by Tarquin Hall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a detective series that “immediately joins the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency as representing the best in international cozies” (Booklist, starred review). Meet Vish Puri, India’s most private investigator. Portly, persistent, and unmistakably Punjabi, he cuts a determined swath through modern India’s swindlers, cheats, and murderers. In hot and dusty Delhi, where call centers and malls are changing the ancient fabric of Indian life, Puri’s main work comes from screening prospective marriage partners, a job once the preserve of aunties and family priests. But when an honest public litigator is accused of murdering his maidservant, it takes all of Puri’s resources to investigate. With his team of undercover operatives—Tubelight, Flush, and Facecream—Puri combines modern techniques with principles of detection established in India more than two thousand years ago, and reveals modern India in all its seething complexity.
