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Author : C. Harvey Gardiner
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Download or read book The Literary Memoranda of William Hickling Prescott written by C. Harvey Gardiner and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hickling Prescott
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Total Pages : 684 pages
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Download or read book The Works of William H. Prescott: Life of William Hickling Prescott, by G. Ticknor written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hickling Prescott
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Total Pages : 484 pages
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Download or read book The Papers of William Hickling Prescott written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter O. Koch
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476665338
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book William Hickling Prescott written by Peter O. Koch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-04-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Hickling Prescott (1796-1859) was one of those rare historians who effectively melded history and literature in an elegant, compelling writing style that appealed to the casual reader, while still meeting the strict criteria of the scholar. Prescott was the first American historian to achieve international recognition with his critically acclaimed History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella. Plagued by poor vision and chronic health issues, he was determined to make his mark as a historian. His follow-up work, The History of the Conquest of Mexico, is considered his masterpiece. Prescott went on to write A History of the Conquest of Peru, History of the Reign of Philip II and a 200-page addendum to William Robertson's History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles V. Drawing on correspondence and journal entries, this book traces the life of one of America's most celebrated historians.
Author : George Ticknor
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Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Life of William Hickling Prescott written by George Ticknor and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Harvey Gardiner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292735154
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book William Hickling Prescott written by C. Harvey Gardiner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of a distinguished historian and man of letters is the first study of William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859) to be written by a historian who has worked with the very themes explored by Prescott. And it is the first to treat him not only as creative historian but also as family man, as traveler and clubman, as investor and humanitarian, and as private citizen with strong political preferences. Prescott the socialite and Prescott the introvert writer emerge in the round as the magnificent amateur who helped establish canons that have enriched American historical scholarship ever since. Blending history and literature, his multivolume works won Prescott the first significant international reputation to be accorded to an American historian. Working despite persistent obstacles of health and against a penchant for society and leisure that was always part of his personality, Prescott came to be considered the finest interpreter of the Hispanic world produced by the Anglo-Saxon world. His Conquest of Mexico and Conquest of Peru were pronounced classics. C. Harvey Gardiner takes the reader back to the nineteenth century in style and in subject to present William Hickling Prescott, gentleman and scholar, firmly fixed in relationship to his community and his times. But Gardiner's Victorian stance and respect for nineteenth-century historiography do not prevent his presenting Prescott as a whole man, viewed in retrospect, stripped of myth, and evaluated for moderns.
Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441154019
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book William H. Prescott's History of the Conquest of Mexico written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a substantial extract from William H. Prescott's major work A History of the Conquest of Mexico. Prescott lived from 1796-1859 and his book was a pioneering view of the Aztec civilization. The country of the ancient Mexicans or Aztecs, as they were known, formed but a very small part of the extensive territories, which make up modern Mexico. The story of the life of Hernando Cortes, the Conqueror and the tragic story of Moctezuma the Aztec king are essential to this history. In his fascinating introduction J.H. Elliott sets Prescott's work against the background of the growth of historical research. .
Author : George Ticknor
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385245117
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Life of William Hickling Prescott written by George Ticknor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-28 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : William Hickling Prescott
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Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Life of William Hickling Prescott, by G. Ticknor written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hickling Prescott
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Total Pages : 674 pages
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Download or read book The Works of William H. Prescott: Ticknor, G. Life of William Hickling Prescott written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rollo Ogden
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Total Pages : 262 pages
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Download or read book William Hickling Prescott written by Rollo Ogden and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald G. Darnell
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Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book William Hickling Prescott written by Donald G. Darnell and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eileen K. Cheng
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820330736
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth written by Eileen K. Cheng and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American historians of the early national period, argues Eileen Ka-May Cheng, grappled with objectivity, professionalism, and other “modern” issues to a greater degree than their successors in later generations acknowledge. Her extensive readings of antebellum historians show that by the 1820s, a small but influential group of practitioners had begun to develop many of the doctrines and concerns that undergird contemporary historical practice. The Plain and Noble Garb of Truth challenges the entrenched notion that America’s first generations of historians were romantics or propagandists for a struggling young nation. Cheng engages with the works of well-known early national historians like George Bancroft, William Prescott, and David Ramsay; such lesser-known figures as Jared Sparks and Lorenzo Sabine; and leading political and intellectual elites of the day, including Francis Bowen and Charles Francis Adams. She shows that their work, which focused on the American Revolution, was often nuanced and surprisingly sympathetic in its treatment of American Indians and loyalists. She also demonstrates how the rise of the novel contributed to the emergence of history as an autonomous discipline, arguing that paradoxically “early national historians at once described truth in opposition to the novel and were influenced by the novel in their understanding of truth.” Modern historians should recognize that the discipline of history is itself a product of history, says Cheng. By taking seriously a group of too-often-dismissed historians, she challenges contemporary historians to examine some ahistorical aspects of the way they understand their own discipline.
Author : Robert W. Johannsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281472
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book To the Halls of the Montezumas written by Robert W. Johannsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-01-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For mid-19th-century Americans, the Mexican War was not only a grand exercise in self-identity, legitimizing the young republic's convictions of mission and destiny to a doubting world; it was also the first American conflict to be widely reported in the press and to be waged against an alien foe in a distant and exotic land. It provided a window onto the outside world and promoted an awareness of a people and a land unlike any Americans had known before. This rich cultural history examines the place of the Mexican War in the popular imagination of the era. Drawing on military and travel accounts, newspaper dispatches, and a host of other sources, Johannsen vividly recreates the mood and feeling of the period--its unbounded optimism and patriotic pride--and adds a new dimension to our understanding of both the Mexican War and America itself.
Author : Anthony Molho
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691187347
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Imagined Histories written by Anthony Molho and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by twenty-one distinguished American historians reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. At a time when history-writing has changed dramatically, the authors discuss the birth and evolution of historiography in this country, from its origins in the late nineteenth century through its present, more cosmopolitan character. In the book's first part, concerning recent historiography, are chapters on exceptionalism, gender, economic history, social theory, race, and immigration and multiculturalism. Authors are Daniel Rodgers, Linda Kerber, Naomi Lamoreaux, Dorothy Ross, Thomas Holt, and Philip Gleason. The three American centuries are discussed in the second part, with chapters by Gordon Wood, George Fredrickson, and James Patterson. The third part is a chronological survey of non-American histories, including that of Western civilization, ancient history, the middle ages, early modern and modern Europe, Russia, and Asia. Contributors are Eugen Weber, Richard Saller, Gabrielle Spiegel, Anthony Molho, Philip Benedict, Richard Kagan, Keith Baker, Joseph Zizak, Volker Berghahn, Charles Maier, Martin Malia, and Carol Gluck. Together, these scholars reveal the unique perspective American historians have brought to the past of their own nation as well as that of the world. Formerly writing from a conviction that America had a singular destiny, American historians have gradually come to share viewpoints of historians in other countries about which they write. The result is the virtual disappearance of what was a distinctive American voice. That voice is the subject of this book.
Author : I. Jaksic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137014911
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880 written by I. Jaksic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-14 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.
Author : William Hickling Prescott
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Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Works of William H. Prescott written by William Hickling Prescott and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
