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Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368844814
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (688 download)
Download or read book Life and Letters of Sir Gilbert Elliot written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Author : John P. Evans
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445668750
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Elliots of Minto written by John P. Evans and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Elliot family through six generations with a cast in the hundreds, across Britain and her Empire, as the Scottish Enlightenment dawns.
Author : Heidi A. Strobel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351558870
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe written by Heidi A. Strobel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity, and the spaces in between. Collectively, these essays by art historians and museum professionals argue for a more complex understanding of the relationship between objects and subjects in gendered terms. The objects under consideration range from the quotidian to the exotic, including beds, guns, fans, needle paintings, prints, drawings, mantillas, almanacs, reticules, silver punch bowls, and collage. These material goods may have been intended to enforce and affirm gendered norms, however as the essays demonstrate, their use by subjects frequently put normative formations of gender into question, revealing the impossibility of permanently fixing gender in relation to material goods, concepts, or bodies. This book will appeal to art historians, museum professionals, women's and gender studies specialists, students, and all those interested in the history of objects in everyday life.
Author : Dennis O'Donovan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library ...: A-H written by Dennis O'Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Quintin Colville
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1844862259
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Nelson, Navy & Nation written by Quintin Colville and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nelson, Navy & Nation explores the Royal Navy's relationship with Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars. The book encompasses the realities of naval life in this period; the navy's connection to society; culture and national identity; and the story of Nelson's life and career. It brings together a distinguished panel of leading historians including Roger Knight, Andrew Lambert, Brian Lavery, N.A.M. Rodger and Dan Snow. Together, they give a fascinating contextual overview, from the terrifying realities of battle in the age of sail to the lives of ordinary people ashore who celebrated the navy's achievements. It places the extraordinary achievements of Horatio Nelson within a wider context that makes sense of his dazzling celebrity. In so doing, it reveals that the story of the Royal Navy and Nelson is also the story of the fears and ambitions of the British people. Beautifully illustrated throughout from the world-leading collections of the National Maritime Museum, the book combines accessible narrative history for the general reader with superb visual appeal. It is an ideal companion to the Museum's new permanent 'Nelson, Navy, Nation' gallery, which opened in October 2013.
Author : Aditya Das
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783271299
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Defending British India Against Napoleon written by Aditya Das and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of how Napoleon's very real and very serious threat to British India was countered.
Author : Chiara Rolli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350112755
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Trial of Warren Hastings written by Chiara Rolli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impeachment trial of Warren Hastings lasted from 1788 until 1795. Hastings was the first Governor-General of Bengal and his trial had a formative impact on the British Empire. Chiara Rolli shows that in an age when British education consisted mainly of classical studies, it was antique views of rhetoric and imperial governance that permeated the trial. Prosecutor Edmund Burke was figured as a modern-day Cicero fighting corruption in the colonies, while Hastings was Verres, the corrupt propraetor of Sicily in the first century BC. In their prosecution, both Burke and Richard Brinsley Sheridan employed certain coups de théâtre – such as fainting for emphasis – advised by Cicero and the later Roman rhetorician Quintilian, whose style of spectacular justice played particularly well amid the eighteenth-century vogue for sentimental drama. Burke's defence of natural rights and passion for extirpating vice in the colonies similarly reflected an admiration for Cicero, just as Hastings' preference to rule the conquered by means of their own traditions recalled models of Roman provincial administration. Using contemporary journalism, satire and other ephemera, the book reconstructs the public's equally profound grasp of these parallels. It illuminates new aspects of early British discourse around the Empire, and shows how deeply classical precedents influenced the cultural and political imaginations of eighteenth-century Britain.
Author : Edinburgh Public Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Edinburgh Public Library. Catalogue of books in the Lending Library written by Edinburgh Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (29 download)
Download or read book “The” Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Whale
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152618608X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France written by John Whale and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1790 Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France initiated a debate not only about the nature of the unprecedented historical events taking place across the channel, but about the very identity of the British state and its people. It has subsequently been appropriated by a variety of conservative and liberal thinkers and has played a major role in our understanding of the relationship between rhetoric, aesthetics and politics. In this volume, leading Burke scholars offer new and challenging essays which allow us to reconsider the historical context in which Reflections on the Revolution in France was written. The essays consider its reception, its engagements in the discourses of nationalism and toleration, its legacy to English and Irish writers of the Romantic period and its impact within our contemporary cultural and critical theory. The volume demonstrates a range of interdisciplinary critical methods and cultural perspectives from which to read Burke's most famous work. This volume will be the ideal companion to Burke's Reflections for all students of literature, history, politics and Irish studies.
Author : Dennis O'Donovan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library ...: I.-P written by Dennis O'Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Curzon
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1473872502
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book The Elder Sons of George III written by Catherine Curzon and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 60 years, King George III reigned over a tumultuous kingdom. His health and realm were in turmoil, while family life held challenges of its own. From the corpulent Prinny and the Grand Old Duke of York, to a king who battled the Lords and the disciplinarian Duke of Kent, this is the story of the elder sons of George III. Born over the course of half a decade of upheaval, George, Frederick, William, and Edward defined an era. Their scandals intrigued the nation and their efforts to build lives away from the shadow of their impossibly pious parents led them down diverse paths. Whether devoting their lives to the military or to pleasure, every moment was captured in the full glare of the spotlight. The sons of George III were prepared from infancy to take their place on the world’s stage, but as the king’s health failed and the country lurched from one drama to the next, they found that duty was easier said than done. With scandalous romances, illegal marriages, rumors of corruption and even the odd kidnapping plot, their lives were as breathless as they were dramatic. In The Elder Sons of George III: Kings, Princes, and a Grand Old Duke, travel from Great Britain to America and on to Hanover in the company of princes who were sometimes scandalous, sometimes sensational, but never, ever dull.
Author : Roger Day
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1783379820
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)
Download or read book The Life of Sir John Moore written by Roger Day and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Moore organized and trained the British light infantry during the Napoleonic wars, and thus is regarded as the father of all subseqent British special warfare units. This biography is the first to draw on papers in the archives of the Dukes of Hamilton and Argyll which shed new light on Moore's upbringing and the shaping of his revolutionary approach to the art and science of warfare.
Author : F. P. Lock
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191513350
Total Pages : 645 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Edmund Burke, Volume II written by F. P. Lock and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second and concluding volume of a biography of Edmund Burke (1730-97), a key figure in eighteenth-century British and Irish politics and intellectual life. Covering the most interesting years of his life (1784-97), its leading themes are India and the French Revolution. Burke was largely responsible for the impeachment of Warren Hastings, former Governor-General of Bengal. The lengthy (145-day) trial of Hastings (which lasted from 1788 to 1795) is recognized as a landmark episode in the history of Britain's relationship with India. Lock provides the first day-by-day account of the entire trial, highlighting some of the many disputes about evidence as well as the great set speeches by Burke and others. In 1790, Burke published Reflections on the Revolution in France , the earliest sustained attack on the principles of the Revolution. Continuously in print ever since, the Reflections remains the most widely read and quoted book about the Revolution. The Reflections was followed by a series of anti-revolutionary writings, as Burke maintained his crusade against the Revolution to the end of his life. In addition to these leading themes, the biography examines many other topics in its coverage of Burke's busy and varied life: his parliamentary career; his family, friendships, and philanthropy; and his often difficult and obsessive personality. There are more than thirty illustrations, including many contemporary caricatures that convey how Burke was perceived by an often hostile and uncomprehending public. Controversial in his time, Burke is now regarded as one of the greatest of orators in the English language, as well as one of the most influential political philosophers in the Western tradition.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Academy and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
