The Letters of Francis Jeffrey to Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle
Title | The Letters of Francis Jeffrey to Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle PDF eBook |
Author | William Christie |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 239 |
Release | 2016-06-16 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1315475804 |
Contains letters from Francis Jeffrey (1773-1850) to Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and Jane Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866). The letters in this title present a personal and intellectual narrative of nineteenth-century Britain.
Catalogue, Systematic and Analytical, of the Books of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association
Title | Catalogue, Systematic and Analytical, of the Books of the Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association PDF eBook |
Author | St. Louis Mercantile Library Association |
Publisher | |
Pages | 830 |
Release | 1858 |
Genre | Subscription libraries |
ISBN |
Empire
Title | Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Niall Ferguson |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 572 |
Release | 2008-03-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465013104 |
A bestselling historian shows how the British Empire created the modern world, in a book lauded as "a rattling good tale" (Wall Street Journal) and "popular history at its best" (Washington Post) The British Empire was the largest in all history: the nearest thing to global domination ever achieved. The world we know today is in large measure the product of Britain's Age of Empire. The global spread of capitalism, telecommunications, the English language, and institutions of representative government -- all these can be traced back to the extraordinary expansion of Britain's economy, population and culture from the seventeenth century until the mid-twentieth. On a vast and vividly colored canvas, Empire shows how the British Empire acted as midwife to modernity. Displaying the originality and rigor that have made Niall Ferguson one of the world's foremost historians, Empire is a dazzling tour de force -- a remarkable reappraisal of the prizes and pitfalls of global empire.
Catalogue of the first (-third and concluding) portion of the ... stock of mr. Henry George Bohn ... which will be sold by auction
Title | Catalogue of the first (-third and concluding) portion of the ... stock of mr. Henry George Bohn ... which will be sold by auction PDF eBook |
Author | Henry George Bohn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1062 |
Release | 1868 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Catalogue
Title | Catalogue PDF eBook |
Author | Michigan State Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1875 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Civilising Subjects
Title | Civilising Subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Hall |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2002-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226313351 |
This volume argues that the empire was at the heart of 19th century Englishness. It tells stories of a group of English men and women who constructed themselves as colonizers. It then uses these studies as a means of exploring wider colonial issues.
The Territories of Science and Religion
Title | The Territories of Science and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Harrison |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2017-03-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 022647898X |
The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that’s not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and religion are relatively recent, emerging only in the past three hundred years, and it is those very categories, rather than their underlying concepts, that constrain our understanding of how the formal study of nature relates to the religious life. In The Territories of Science and Religion, Harrison dismantles what we think we know about the two categories, then puts it all back together again in a provocative, productive new way. By tracing the history of these concepts for the first time in parallel, he illuminates alternative boundaries and little-known relations between them—thereby making it possible for us to learn from their true history, and see other possible ways that scientific study and the religious life might relate to, influence, and mutually enrich each other. A tour de force by a distinguished scholar working at the height of his powers, The Territories of Science and Religion promises to forever alter the way we think about these fundamental pillars of human life and experience.