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Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (683 download)
Download or read book The Age of Improvement 1763-1867 written by Asa Briggs and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317878531
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 written by Asa Briggs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord Briggs amongst others, since its original publication. The book stresses both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the age, and raises fundamental issues about a period of crucial change in British history - industrialisation, war, constitutional change and the attitudes of politicians towards it, political development, and, not least, society and culture. In the background are the new economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron technology; in the foreground, new social and political problems and new ways of tackling them. The author also discusses perceptions of, and reactions to, changing circumstances, the influence of religion and science on national life, and changing styles in art and literature. The story ends, not with a full stop but with a question mark. Could improvement be maintained? Could balance and progress continue to be reconciled?
Author : Julia Baird
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0812982282
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Victoria: The Queen written by Julia Baird and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen—a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • ESQUIRE • THE CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY “Victoria the Queen, Julia Baird’s exquisitely wrought and meticulously researched biography, brushes the dusty myth off this extraordinary monarch.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice) When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europe’s monarchies in the coming decades. In Britain, a generation of royals had indulged their whims at the public’s expense, and republican sentiment was growing. The Industrial Revolution was transforming the landscape, and the British Empire was commanding ever larger tracts of the globe. In a world where women were often powerless, during a century roiling with change, Victoria went on to rule the most powerful country on earth with a decisive hand. Fifth in line to the throne at the time of her birth, Victoria was an ordinary woman thrust into an extraordinary role. As a girl, she defied her mother’s meddling and an adviser’s bullying, forging an iron will of her own. As a teenage queen, she eagerly grasped the crown and relished the freedom it brought her. At twenty, she fell passionately in love with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, eventually giving birth to nine children. She loved sex and delighted in power. She was outspoken with her ministers, overstepping conventional boundaries and asserting her opinions. After the death of her adored Albert, she began a controversial, intimate relationship with her servant John Brown. She survived eight assassination attempts over the course of her lifetime. And as science, technology, and democracy were dramatically reshaping the world, Victoria was a symbol of steadfastness and security—queen of a quarter of the world’s population at the height of the British Empire’s reach. Drawing on sources that include fresh revelations about Victoria’s relationship with John Brown, Julia Baird brings vividly to life the fascinating story of a woman who struggled with so many of the things we do today: balancing work and family, raising children, navigating marital strife, losing parents, combating anxiety and self-doubt, finding an identity, searching for meaning.
Author : Edyta M. Bojanowska
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674985702
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book A World of Empires written by Edyta M. Bojanowska and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the lens of a classic Russian travelogue, this historical study examines early globalization and Russia’s participation in the Imperial race. In the 1850s, American Commodore Matthew Perry embarked on a legendary expedition to open trade relations with Japan. Less well known is the Russian expedition that followed on his heels. Serving aboard the Russian Frigate Pallada was the novelist Ivan Goncharov, who turned his impressions into a bestselling book. In A World of Empires, Edyta Bojanowska uses Goncharov’s travelogue as a window onto mid-19th century global imperialism. Goncharov recounts experiences in Africa’s Cape Colony, Dutch Java, Spanish Manila, Japan, and the British ports of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, offering keen insight on imperial expansion, cooperation, and competition. Often overlooked in the history of European imperialism, Russia emerges here as an increasingly assertive empire, eager to position itself on the world stage and fully conversant with the ideologies of civilizing mission and race. Goncharov’s gripping narrative offers a unique eyewitness account of empire in action. Bojanowska’s illuminating analysis reveals both a zeal to emulate European powers and a determination to define Russia against them. A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year
Author : Nebahat Avcioglu
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754664222
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)
Download or read book 'Turquerie' and the Politics of Representation, 1728-1876 written by Nebahat Avcioglu and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in this study Nebahat Avcioglu rethinks the question of cultural frontiers not as separations but as a rapport of heterogeneities. Reclaiming turquerie as cross-cultural art from the confines of the inconsequential exoticism it is often reduced to, Avcioglu analyses hitherto neglected constructions, and links them to notions of self-representation and politics.
Author : David Mills
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773506602
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Idea of Loyalty in Upper Canada, 1784-1850 written by David Mills and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loyalty evolved as the central political idea in Upper Canada during the first half of the nineteenth century. It formed the basis of political legitimacy and acceptance into provincial society. David Mills examines the evolution and development of the concept of loyalty, placing special emphasis on the contribution of moderate reformers.
Author : Nebahat Avcioglu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351538357
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book "Turquerie and the Politics of Representation, 1728?876 " written by Nebahat Avcioglu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first full-length study devoted explicitly to the examination of Ottoman/Turkish-inspired architecture in Western Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Nebahat Avcioglu rethinks the question of cultural frontiers not as separations but as a rapport of heterogeneities. Reclaiming turquerie as cross-cultural art from the confines of the inconsequential exoticism it is often reduced to, Avcioglu analyses hitherto neglected images, designs and constructions; and links Western interest in the Ottoman Empire to notions of self-representation and national politics. In investigating why and to what effect Europeans turned to the Turk for inspiration, Avcioglu provides a far-reaching cultural reinterpretation of art and architecture in this period. Presented as a series of case studies focusing on three specific building types?kiosks, mosques, and baths?chosen on the basis that each represents the first full-fledged manifestations of their respective genres to be constructed in Western Europe, the study delves into the cultural politics of architectural forms and styles. The author argues that the appropriation of those building types was neither accidental, nor did it merely reflect European domination of another culture. The process was essentially dialectical, and contributed to transculturation in both the West and the East.
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Events from History: Modern European Series: 1800-1899 written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short articles about people, discoveries, and writings: includes Columbus, Machiavelli, Luther, Sir Thomas More, Charles V, Nantes, Kepler, Vervins, Bacon, Adam Smith, Rousseau, Kant, Robespierre, Napoleon, Spanish Revolution, Corn Laws, Boer War, Balkan Wars, Dollfuss, Sartre, Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan, etc.
Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393313666
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (136 download)
Download or read book The Enlightenment written by Peter Gay and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enlightenment/Peter Gay.-v.II
Author : Paul Starkey
Publisher : Garnet & Ithaca Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Interpreting the Orient written by Paul Starkey and published by Garnet & Ithaca Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers is taken from the "Travellers in Egypt and the Near East" conference held at St Catherine's College, Oxford in 1997.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ibadan written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Byrapatna Murthy Chandana Gowda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Development, Elite Agency and the Politics of Recognition in Mysore State, 1881-1947 written by Byrapatna Murthy Chandana Gowda and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : L. W. B. Brockliss
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719050466
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)
Download or read book A Union of Multiple Identities written by L. W. B. Brockliss and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the importance of history to Elizabethan and early Stuart gentry and how this led to a vibrant antiquarian culture. The family, town and county histories written by the community, which form the core of the study, had an influence on the development of local history in England which lasted into the twentieth century and is still felt today. Eschewing a narrow historiographical approach, the author examines a range of manuscript and published works and other material reflecting the gentry's interest in the past: pedigree rolls, antiquarian notebooks, heraldic displays and maps. The book provides a survey of the development of local history in England from its medieval origins to 1660. This is followed by chapters on the practicalities of local historical research: the national educational and institutional framework, the development of regional networks of local historians and the gentlemen who controlled access to their sources, and analysis of the source materials available. The final section features chapters on genealogy, didacticism and the physical world.
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Events from History--worldwide Twentieth Century Series written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short, clear articles about important people, writings and discoveries; includes Semites, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Christians, Byzantines, Holy Roman Empire, middle ages & rennaisance.
Author : Peter Gay
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307831450
Total Pages : 939 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment Volume 2 written by Peter Gay and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay's brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes' program and their views of society. His masterful appraisal opens a new range of insights into the Enlightenment's critical method and its humane and libertarian vision.
Author : Alex Benchimol
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351056409
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Cultures of Improvement in Scottish Romanticism, 1707-1840 written by Alex Benchimol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first applied research volume in Scottish Romanticism, this collection foregrounds the concept of progress as 'improvement' as a constitutive theme of Scottish writing during the long eighteenth century. It explores improvement as the animating principle behind Scotland’s post-1707 project of modernization, a narrative both shaped and reflected in the literary sphere. It represents a vital moment in Romantic studies, as a 'four-nations' interrogation of the British context reaches maturity. Equally, the volume contributes to a central concern in the study of Scottish culture, amplifying a critical synthesis of Romanticism and Enlightenment. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Frank Northen Magill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Great Events from History: Modern European Series: 1900-1969 written by Frank Northen Magill and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short articles about people, discoveries, and writings: includes Columbus, Machiavelli, Luther, Sir Thomas More, Charles V, Nantes, Kepler, Vervins, Bacon, Adam Smith, Rousseau, Kant, Robespierre, Napoleon, Spanish Revolution, Corn Laws, Boer War, Balkan Wars, Dollfuss, Sartre, Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan, etc.
