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Book Synopsis The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain by : Andrew Cobbing
Download or read book The Japanese Discovery of Victorian Britain written by Andrew Cobbing and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The investigations undertaken in the pursuit of knowledge by the first overseas Japanese travellers during the 1860s and 70s have left a unique record of life in the then unknown west. Leaving behind a homeland culturally isolated for more than 200 years, these samurai travellers were especially fascinated by the extent of British political and commercial influence they observed during their travels, and therefore paid particularly close attention to the Victorian world and recorded all they saw in minute detail. Their diaries and 'travelogues' comprise the single largest body of material on Victorian society to be recorded in any non-European language. This book examines the nature of these travellers' experiences and their perceptions of Victorian Britain. A deeper understanding of this rich source material is important because, although entirely unknown to British readers, the documents reveal one of the most spectacular culture shocks ever recorded in World History. They are also important because the images of Victorian and other western societies that they portrayed to the Japanese reading public in the late nineteenth century still underpin Japanese understanding of the outside world more than a hundred years later.
Download or read book Foundation written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in Peter Ackroyd's history of England series, which has since been followed up with two more installments, Tudors and Rebellion. In Foundation, the chronicler of London and of its river, the Thames, takes us from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII. He guides us from the building of Stonehenge to the founding of the two great glories of medieval England: common law and the cathedrals. He shows us glimpses of the country's most distant past--a Neolithic stirrup found in a grave, a Roman fort, a Saxon tomb, a medieval manor house--and describes in rich prose the successive waves of invaders who made England English, despite being themselves Roman, Viking, Saxon, or Norman French. With his extraordinary skill for evoking time and place and his acute eye for the telling detail, Ackroyd recounts the story of warring kings, of civil strife, and foreign wars. But he also gives us a vivid sense of how England's early people lived: the homes they built, the clothes the wore, the food they ate, even the jokes they told. All are brought vividly to life in this history of England through the narrative mastery of one of Britain's finest writers.
Download or read book Antiquaries written by Rosemary Sweet and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of Britain by : Esther Moir
Download or read book The Discovery of Britain written by Esther Moir and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Discovery of England by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-30 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOR some years past a rising tide of lecturers and literary men from England has washed upon the shores of our North American continent. The purpose of each one of them is to make a new discovery of America. They come over to us travelling in great simplicity, and they return in the ducal suite of the Aquitania. They carry away with them their impressions of America, and when they reach England they sell them. This export of impressions has now been going on so long that the balance of trade in impressions is all disturbed. There is no doubt that the Americans and Canadians have been too generous in this matter of giving away impressions. We emit them with the careless ease of a glow worm, and like the glow-worm ask for nothing in return.
Book Synopsis The History of Britain, that Part Especially Now Call'd England by : John Milton
Download or read book The History of Britain, that Part Especially Now Call'd England written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1670 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Discovery of England by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by London : J. Lane the Bodley Head. This book was released on 1922 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Discovery of England by : Stephen Leacock
Download or read book My Discovery of England written by Stephen Leacock and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals) by : Esther Moir
Download or read book The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals) written by Esther Moir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964, this book examines the Tour of Britain. It focuses, neither on foreign tourists coming to Britain, nor on British tourists travelling abroad, but on British people exploring their native land in the three centuries from 1540 to 1840. During this period, it became a popular pastime amongst gentlemen of leisure to travel for weeks, even months, in discovery of their own country and this book describes both the pleasure taken by tourists of Britain and the hardships they endured. Tracking these journeys over three centuries, the book presents a changing English landscape, a changing economy, and a change in people’s tastes as the interests and concerns of the tourists evolve over the timeframe covered.
Download or read book Execution written by Simon Webb and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessentially British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have been used in this country; ranging from burning, beheading and shooting to crushing and boiling to death. Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain explores these types of execution in detail. Readers may be surprised to learn that a means of mechanical decapitation, the Halifax Gibbet, was being used in England five hundred years before the guillotine was invented. Boiling to death was a prescribed means of execution in this country during the Tudor period. From the public death by starvation of those gibbeted alive, to the burning of women for petit treason, this book examines some of the most gruesome passages of British history. This carefully researched, well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to those interested in the history of British executions.
Book Synopsis History of the British Empire by : William Francis Collier
Download or read book History of the British Empire written by William Francis Collier and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of Great Britain and Ireland; from the First Discovery of These Islands to the Norman Conquest ... The Second Edition [of “Historical Collections,” Etc.]. With a Preface Wherein the Partiality of Mons. Rapin, and Some Other Republican Historians is Demonstrated by : Thomas SALMON (Rector of Mepsall.)
Download or read book The History of Great Britain and Ireland; from the First Discovery of These Islands to the Norman Conquest ... The Second Edition [of “Historical Collections,” Etc.]. With a Preface Wherein the Partiality of Mons. Rapin, and Some Other Republican Historians is Demonstrated written by Thomas SALMON (Rector of Mepsall.) and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of Botany, British and Foreign by :
Download or read book Journal of Botany, British and Foreign written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Analysis of English History by : Charles William Adam Tait
Download or read book Analysis of English History written by Charles William Adam Tait and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science by : British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting
Download or read book Report of the ... Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science written by British Association for the Advancement of Science. Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals) by : Esther Moir
Download or read book The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals) written by Esther Moir and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964, this book examines the Tour of Britain, focusing on British people exploring their native land in the three centuries from 1540 to 1840. By tracking these journeys over three centuries, the book presents a changing English landscape, a changing economy, and a change in people's tastes as the interests and concerns of the tourists evolve over the timeframe covered.
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