The Lives of the British Admirals. Displaying, in the Most Striking Colours, the Conduct and Heroism of the Naval Commanders of Great Britain and Ireland. Whose Intrepidity Has Convinced the World, that Britannia is the Sovereign of the Ocean. Intended Not Only to Instruct and Entertain, But Also to Animate the Youth of this Country with a Becoming Ardour, to Imitate the Glorious Actions of These Heroes, If Their Duty Should Hereafter Call Them Forth in the Defence of Their Country
Title | The Lives of the British Admirals. Displaying, in the Most Striking Colours, the Conduct and Heroism of the Naval Commanders of Great Britain and Ireland. Whose Intrepidity Has Convinced the World, that Britannia is the Sovereign of the Ocean. Intended Not Only to Instruct and Entertain, But Also to Animate the Youth of this Country with a Becoming Ardour, to Imitate the Glorious Actions of These Heroes, If Their Duty Should Hereafter Call Them Forth in the Defence of Their Country PDF eBook |
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Release | 1787 |
Genre | Admirals |
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Mr. Punch's History of the Great War
Title | Mr. Punch's History of the Great War PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Larcom Graves |
Publisher | London : Cassell |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | English wit and humor, Pictorial |
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A series of exerpts from Punch Magazine articles about World War I. Reprinted in the United States by Frederick Stokes.
Champions of the Fleet
Title | Champions of the Fleet PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Fraser |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1908 |
Genre | Great Britain |
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Admiral Phillip
Title | Admiral Phillip PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Becke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Australia |
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The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock
Title | The History of an Expedition Against Fort Du Quesne, in 1755 Under Major-General Edward Braddock PDF eBook |
Author | Winthrop Sargent |
Publisher | |
Pages | 458 |
Release | 1856 |
Genre | Braddock's Campaign, 1755 |
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Contains a history of Braddock's Campaign in 1755 against Fort Duquesne.
Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture
Title | Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Fenoulhet |
Publisher | UCL Press |
Pages | 252 |
Release | 2016-11-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1910634972 |
This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – The Uses of Myth and History, The Past as Illumination of Cultural Context, and Historiography in Focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history. The chapters cover a range of disciplines and approaches: some authors offer a broad view of a particular period, such as Jonathan Israel's contribution on myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age, while others zoom in on specific genres, texts or historical moments, such as Benjamin Schmidt’s study of the doolhof, a word that today means ‘labyrinth’ but once described a 17th-century educational amusement park. This volume, enlightening and home to multiple paths of enquiry leading in different directions, is an excellent example of what a past-present doolhof might look like.
Culture and Imperialism
Title | Culture and Imperialism PDF eBook |
Author | Edward W. Said |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2012-10-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0307829650 |
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.