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Author : Rachel Challice
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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of the Court of Spain During the Last Century written by Rachel Challice and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Challice
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ISBN 13 : 9781330811863
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of The-Court of Spain During the Last Century (Classic Reprint) written by Rachel Challice and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Secret History of the-Court of Spain During the Last Century In presenting this history to the British public, I must draw attention to the fact that the material is gathered solely from Spanish sources, so that where the statements do not tally with the reports of English historians it must be remembered that the book, as the mouthpiece of Spanish writers, may lay claim to a special interest of its own, particularly as some of these books are not known in our country. Thus, the account of the character of Ferdinand VII., the story of the Second of May, 1808, the relations between England and Spain during the reign of Isabella II., and the account of the recent Regency of Maria Cristina, may open points of view not generally entertained in England, but the fact of their sources may entitle them to some attention. The history of the Regency ending in 1902, by Ortega Rubio, was only published last year, and it was as a privileged reader of the library of the Royal Palace at Madrid that I studied it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Rachel Challice
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Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (557 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of the Court of Spain During the Last Century ... With Thirty Illustrations written by Rachel Challice and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachel Challice
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Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of the Court of Spain During the Last Century, by Rachel Challice,... written by Rachel Challice and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Andrew Sharp Hume
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267406104
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Court of Philip IV written by Martin Andrew Sharp Hume and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Court of Philip IV: Spain in Decadence Thus wrote William Camden with reference to his projected life of Lord Burghley, which was never written; and the words may be applied not inappropriately to the present book and its writer. Some years ago I passed many laborious months in archives and libraries at home and abroad, searching and transcribing contemporary papers for what I hoped to make a complete history of the long reign Of Philip IV., during which the final seal of decline was stamped indelibly upon the proud Spanish empire handed down by the great Charles V. To his descendants. I had dreamed of writing a book which should not only be a social review of the period signalised by the triumph of French over Spanish influence in the civilisation of Europe, but also a political history of the wane and final disappearance of the pro digious national imposture that had enabled Spain, aided by the rivalries between other nations, to dominate the world for a century by moral force unsupported by any proportionate material power. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Eliza Fowler Haywood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334127793
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (277 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania (Classic Reprint) written by Eliza Fowler Haywood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Secret History of the Present Intrigues of the Court of Caramania But not to detain on the rack the Curio fity of my Reader, who by What I have faid, cannot but imagine there was fome other and more powerful motive for this Prince's Behaviour, than that which I have related, or than was publickly known; Ifhall, in as brief a manner as the Subjeet will admit, give an account how very different from their fceming, were the real Inducements of theodore 'to a& in the manner he had done. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Frances Elliot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483731714
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Old Court Life in Spain, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Frances Elliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Court Life in Spain, Vol. 2 The time is early summer; the sky an unbroken sphere of blue, as deep and smooth as a turquoise, canopying the blanched domes and pinnacles of the cathedral and illuminating with ineffable splendour the elegant galleries of the Giralda tower. No shade any where, ou plaza, patio or river bank; nothing but a blazing sun, making golden motes; the thinly leaved palms scarcely leaving a reflection on the hot earth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Frances Elliot
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333376307
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Old Court Life in Spain, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Frances Elliot and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Court Life in Spain, Vol. 1 It is with the earlier and less known passages of old Court life I have dealt down to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel, from which period the history of Spain loses its peculiar identity and becomes merged into that of Europe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Wilfred Partington
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Bookman's Journal and Print Collector written by Wilfred Partington and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Miller Collier
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365524915
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (249 download)
Download or read book At the Court of His Catholic Majesty (Classic Reprint) written by William Miller Collier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from At the Court of His Catholic Majesty In the performance of my duties I learned more and more to esteem Spanish character. My work brought me into intimate relations with Spain's statesmen who directed her foreign policy and gave me as the representative of a sovereign nation many an audience with the King and the Queen and the other members of the royal family. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Tara Zanardi
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271076682
Total Pages : 583 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Framing Majismo written by Tara Zanardi and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Majismo, a cultural phenomenon that embodied the popular aesthetic in Spain from the second half of the eighteenth century, served as a vehicle to “regain” Spanish heritage. As expressed in visual representations of popular types participating in traditional customs and wearing garments viewed as historically Spanish, majismo conferred on Spanish “citizens” the pictorial ideal of a shared national character. In Framing Majismo, Tara Zanardi explores nobles’ fascination with and appropriation of the practices and types associated with majismo, as well as how this connection cultivated the formation of an elite Spanish identity in the late 1700s and aided the Bourbons’ objective to fashion themselves as the legitimate rulers of Spain. In particular, the book considers artistic and literary representations of the majo and the maja, purportedly native types who embodied and performed uniquely Spanish characteristics. Such visual examples of majismo emerge as critical and contentious sites for navigating eighteenth-century conceptions of gender, national character, and noble identity. Zanardi also examines how these bodies were contrasted with those regarded as “foreign,” finding that “foreign” and “national” bodies were frequently described and depicted in similar ways. She isolates and uncovers the nuances of bodily representation, ultimately showing how the body and the emergent nation were mutually constructed at a critical historical moment for both.
Author : Jill Lepore
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0385354053
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Secret History of Wonder Woman written by Jill Lepore and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Within the origin of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes hides a fascinating family story—and a crucial history of feminism in the twentieth-century. “Everything you might want in a page-turner…skeletons in the closet, a believe-it-or-not weirdness in its biographical details, and something else that secretly powers even the most “serious” feminist history—fun.” —Entertainment Weekly The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Jill Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women’s rights—a chain of events that begins with the women’s suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. Lepore, a Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer, has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of Wonder Woman’s creator, William Moulton Marston. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. Even while celebrating conventional family life in a regular column that Marston and Byrne wrote for Family Circle, they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth—he invented the lie detector test—lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. Includes a new afterword with fresh revelations based on never before seen letters and photographs from the Marston family’s papers, and 161 illustrations and 16 pages in full color.
Author : Diego Durán
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806126494
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (264 download)
Download or read book The History of the Indies of New Spain written by Diego Durán and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unabridged translation of a 16th century Dominican friar's history of the Aztec world before the Spanish conquest, based on a now-lost Nahuatl chronicle and interviews with Aztec informants. Duran traces the history of the Aztecs from their mythic origins to the destruction of the empire, and describes the court life of the elite, the common people, and life in times of flood, drought, and war. Includes an introduction and annotations providing background on recent studies of colonial Mexico, and 62 b&w illustrations from the original manuscript. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1646424719
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)
Download or read book Francisco López de Gómara's General History of the Indies written by and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies. Including substantial critical annotations and providing access to various readings and passages added to or removed from the successive editions of the 1550s, this translation expands the archive of texts available to English speakers reconsidering the various aspects of the European invasion of America. General History of the Indies was the first universal history of the recent discoveries and conquests of the New World made available to the Old World audience. At publication it consisted of two parts: the first a general history of the European discovery, conquest, and settlement of the Americas, and the second a detailed description of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico. Part one—in the multiple Spanish editions and translations into Italian and French published at the time—was the most comprehensive, popular, and accessible account of the natural history and geography of the Americas, the ethnology of the peoples of the New World, and the history of the Spanish conquest, including the most recent developments in Peru. Despite its original and continued importance, however, it had never been translated into English. Gómara’s history communicates Europeans’ general understanding of the New World throughout the middle and later sixteenth century. A lively, comparatively brief description of Europe’s expansion into the Americas with significant importance to today’s understanding of the early modern worldview, Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies will be of great interest to students of and specialists in Latin American history, Latin American literature, anthropology, and cultural studies, as well as specialists in Spanish American intellectual history and colonial Latin America.
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Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated The Print Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 964 pages
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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bookman's Journal with which is Incorporated the Print Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. 1-3 include "Bibliographies of modern authors by Henry Danielson."
