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Author : Horace Walpole
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Supplement to the Letters of Horace Walpole 4th Earl of Orford written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Molesky
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030738750X
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book This Gulf of Fire written by Mark Molesky and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Phi Alpha Theta Best Subsequent Book Award A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist The captivating and definitive account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake--the most consequential natural disaster of modern times. On All Saints’ Day 1755, tremors from an earthquake measuring approximately 9.0 or perhaps higher on the magnitude scale swept furiously toward Lisbon, then one of the wealthiest cities in the world and the capital of a vast global empire. Within minutes, much of the city lay in ruins. A half hour later, a giant tsunami unleashed by the quake smashed into Portugal’s coastline and barreled up the Tagus River, carrying countless thousands out to sea. To complete Lisbon’s destruction, a hellacious firestorm then engulfed the city’s shattered remains, killing thousands more and incinerating much of what the earthquake and tsunami had spared. Drawing on a wealth of new sources, the latest scientific research, and a sophisticated grasp of European history, Mark Molesky gives us the gripping, authoritative account of the Great Lisbon Earthquake disaster and its impact on the Western world—including descriptions of the world’s first international relief effort, the rise of a brutal, yet modernizing, dictatorship in Portugal, and the effect of the catastrophe on the spirit and direction of the European Enlightenment.
Author : Adrian Hsia
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789622016088
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Vision of China in the English Literature of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Adrian Hsia and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vision of China is the first book on China as it came to be reflected in English literature. As such, it also offers the first comprehensive study of the image of China in Western literature. Featuring essays by prominent Chinese scholars such as Qian Zongshu, Fan Cunzhong, and Chen Shouyi, it complements such works as Pierre Martino's L'Orient dans la litterature francaise au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siecle (1906), Ursula Aurich's China im Spiegel der deutschen Literature des 18. Jahrhunderts (1935), and E. Horst Tscharner's China in der deutschen Dichtung bis zur Klassik (1939).Together with William W. Appleton's A Cycle of Cathay: The Chinese Vogue in England during the 17th and 18th Centuries (1951) and Raymond Dawson's The Chinese Chameleon: An Analysis of European Conceptions of Chinese Civilization (1967), the book studies the last phase of the Chinese mode in England. Some of the articles collected here actually inspired Appleton's study, at least in part.As a contemporary volume on the construct of China, The Vision of China can readily be considered the companion study to Edward Said's envisioned Orient in Orientalism (1979), to Tzvetan Todorov's Africa in Nous et les autres: la reflection francaise sur la diversite humaine (1989), and Gauri Viswanathan's Masks of Conquest: Literary Study and British Rule in India (1989).
Author : Mark Laird
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812234572
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (345 download)
Download or read book The Flowering of the Landscape Garden written by Mark Laird and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1999-03-23 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Laird offers a wealth of visual and literary materials to revolutionize our understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression.
Author : Justin Smith-Ruiu
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691178461
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book The Philosopher written by Justin Smith-Ruiu and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the role of the philosopher has changed over time and across cultures—and what it reveals about philosophy today What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions—ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years? The Philosopher does just that, providing a new way of looking at the history of philosophy by bringing to life six kinds of figures who have occupied the role of philosopher in a wide range of societies around the world over the millennia—the Natural Philosopher, the Sage, the Gadfly, the Ascetic, the Mandarin, and the Courtier. The result is at once an unconventional introduction to the global history of philosophy and an original exploration of what philosophy has been—and perhaps could be again. By uncovering forgotten or neglected philosophical job descriptions, the book reveals that philosophy is a universal activity, much broader—and more gender inclusive—than we normally think today. In doing so, The Philosopher challenges us to reconsider our idea of what philosophers can do and what counts as philosophy.
Author : Jane Merrill
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476676534
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Late Years of Benedict Arnold written by Jane Merrill and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Benedict Arnold, the American Revolutionary War general who attempted to surrender West Point to the British in 1780, didn't end after he betrayed his American compatriots. In the newly formed United States, he was condemned as a conspirator and in Britain, he was suspected of the same. He quickly left America, spent a short time in London, and largely operated in Canada and the Caribbean as a smuggler, a mercenary and a pariah. Although much has been written about Arnold's famous fall from grace, this book is the story of a charismatic man of vaulting ambition. With new research and photographs, it delves into his last twenty years. Arnold remains fascinating as a toppled hero and a flagrant traitor. Another American general wrote in the 1780s that Arnold "never does anything by halves"; indeed, he lived on a big scale. This study documents each of the various points of the globe where the restless Arnold operated and lived, pursuing wealth, status, and redemption.
Author : John O. Norman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349231908
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book New Perspectives On Russian And Soviet Artistic Culture written by John O. Norman and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-01-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
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Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. written by Folger Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcus Tanner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300092813
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Ireland's Holy Wars written by Marcus Tanner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the twentieth century, Ireland has been synonymous with conflict, the painful struggle for its national soul part of the regular fabric of life. And because the Irish have emigrated to all parts of the world--while always remaining Irish--"the troubles" have become part of a common heritage, well beyond their own borders. In most accounts of Irish history, the focus is on the political rivalry between Unionism and Republicanism. But the roots of the Irish conflict are profoundly and inescapably religious. As Marcus Tanner shows in this vivid, warm, and perceptive book, only by understanding the consequences over five centuries of the failed attempt by the English to make Ireland into a Protestant state can the pervasive tribal hatreds of today be seen in context. Tanner traces the creation of a modern Irish national identity through the popular resistance to imposed Protestantism and the common defense of Catholicism by the Gaelic Irish and the Old English of the Pale, who settled in Ireland after its twelfth-century conquest. The book is based on detailed research into the Irish past and a personal encounter with today's Ireland, from Belfast to Cork. Tanner has walked with the Apprentice Boys of Derry and explored the so-called Bandit Country of South Armagh. He has visited churches and religious organizations across the thirty-two counties of Ireland, spoken with priests, pastors, and their congregations, and crossed and re-crossed the lines that for centuries have isolated the faiths of Ireland and their history.
Author : Catherine Curzon
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399097040
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Real Queen Charlotte written by Catherine Curzon and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known to millions as the imperious matriarch of Bridgerton’s court, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was still a teenager when she was chosen to be the bride of King George III. Shy, innocent, and sheltered, the orphaned princess and her youthful groom carried the hopes of a nation on their shoulders. The placid and unassuming young couple symbolised a new beginning, but soon those hopes began to sour. Charlotte and George’s marriage lasted for nearly 60 years and produced more than a dozen children, but it was beset by unrest at home, war in the colonies, and the king’s encroaching madness. As the royal couple battled against their critics, their political opponents, and sometimes even their own family, Charlotte learned what it really meant to be queen. Locked in a bitter struggle with her eldest son for the king’s future and with her daughters for their freedom, the timid young girl grew into an insular and domineering woman that few dared to cross. Shouldering the burden of family disputes, ambitious courtiers, and the care of the man she adored, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz presided over one of the most tumultuous eras that the monarchy has ever seen. As tragic as it was glittering, this is the story of her extraordinary life.
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Publisher : Ed. de Bruxelles
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Manuel du libraire et de l'amateur de livres written by and published by Ed. de Bruxelles. This book was released on 1839 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Langford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198207337
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (73 download)
Download or read book A Polite and Commercial People written by Paul Langford and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of Sir George Clark's Oxford History of England was published in 1934. Over the following 50 years that series established itself as a standard work of reference, and a repertoire of scholarship. The New Oxford History of England, of which this is the first volume, is its successor. Each volume will set out an authoritative view of the present state of scholarship, presenting a distillation of the knowledge built up by a half-century's research and publication of new sources, and incorporating the perspectives and judgements of modern scholars.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Pearce
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409089088
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Pitt the Elder written by Edward Pearce and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable book opens at the dawn of the British Empire - with the great sea battle at Quiberon Bay where French ships, intended for the 1759 invasion of Britain, are chased, caught and defeated by a fleet commanded by Admiral Sir Edward Hawke. In this momentous victory Britain effectively settled the outcome of the Seven Years' War and established itself as the world's dominant imperial power. At the heart of the conflict with France was William Pitt, the first Earl of Chatham and Britain's future Prime Minister. Weaving together military history and political biography Edward Pearce provides a portrait of the man 'with an eye like a diamond' - a man who had close ties with the slave trade and who preached war and British supremacy on a world stage. Alongside detailed descriptions of battles in Europe and North America we follow Pitt's career as a politician - one that was closely intertwined with General James Wolfe at Quebec; American independence; the slow mind of George III and the quick one of the rake and outsider John Wilkes. Edward Pearce scrutinises the real man at the heart of the historical events and mystique surrounding the legacy of Pitt the Elder, to present a rounded and masterful portrait of arguably the most powerful minister ever to guide Britain's foreign policy and of an age which marked a new epoch in history, when the balance of power in Europe and the world was set for almost two centuries.
Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 : 9780835216036
Total Pages : 1826 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Biographical Books, 1876-1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1983 with total page 1826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.
Author : Minnie Earl Sears
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Standard Catalog for Public Libraries written by Minnie Earl Sears and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Boston Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book More Books written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
