Author: James Seton Cockburn
Publisher: London : Printers : Army and Navy Co-operative Society
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Pretty Gentlemen
Author: Peter McNeil
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300217463
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"The term "macaroni" was once as familiar a label as "punk" or "hipster" is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress, biography, and historical events with the broader visual and material culture of the late 18th century. For thirty years, macaroni was a highly topical word, yielding a complex set of social, sexual, and cultural associations. Pretty Gentlemen is grounded in surviving dress, archival documents, and art spanning hierarchies and genres, from scurrilous caricature to respectful portrait painting. Celebrities hailed and mocked as macaroni include politician Charles James Fox, painter Richard Cosway, freed slave Julius "Soubise," and criminal parson Reverend Dodd. The style also rapidly spread to neighboring countries in cross-cultural exchange, while Horace Walpole, George III, and Queen Charlotte were active critics and observers of these foppish men."--Publisher's website.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300217463
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
"The term "macaroni" was once as familiar a label as "punk" or "hipster" is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress, biography, and historical events with the broader visual and material culture of the late 18th century. For thirty years, macaroni was a highly topical word, yielding a complex set of social, sexual, and cultural associations. Pretty Gentlemen is grounded in surviving dress, archival documents, and art spanning hierarchies and genres, from scurrilous caricature to respectful portrait painting. Celebrities hailed and mocked as macaroni include politician Charles James Fox, painter Richard Cosway, freed slave Julius "Soubise," and criminal parson Reverend Dodd. The style also rapidly spread to neighboring countries in cross-cultural exchange, while Horace Walpole, George III, and Queen Charlotte were active critics and observers of these foppish men."--Publisher's website.
A Gentleman of Pleasure
Author: Brian John Busby
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773538186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The first biography of Canada's most enigmatic literary figure, a self-described "great practitioner of deceit."
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773538186
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
The first biography of Canada's most enigmatic literary figure, a self-described "great practitioner of deceit."
Gentlemen Engineers
Author: Richard White
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802008879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"This study is an important contribution to our understanding of the professionalization of civil engineering, and to the modernization of business practices in nineteenth-century Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802008879
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
"This study is an important contribution to our understanding of the professionalization of civil engineering, and to the modernization of business practices in nineteenth-century Canada."--BOOK JACKET.
THE LONDON MAGAZINE OR GENTLEMEN'S MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Gentlemen Emigrants
Author: Patrick Alexander Dunae
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
The Reader of Gentlemen's Mail
Author: David Kahn
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
One of the most colorful and controversial figures in American intelligence, Herbert O. Yardley (1889-1958) gave America its best form of information, but his fame rests more on his indiscretions than on his achievements. In this highly readable biography, a premier historian of military intelligence tells Yardley's story and evaluates his impact on the American intelligence community. Yardley established the nation's first codebreaking agency in 1917, and his solutions helped the United States win a major diplomatic victory at the 1921 disarmament conference. But when his unit was closed in 1929 because "gentlemen do not read each other's mail," Yardley wrote a best-selling memoir that introduced-and disclosed-codemaking and codebreaking to the public. David Kahn de-scribes the vicissitudes of Yardley's career, including his work in China and Canada, offers a capsule history of American intelligence up to World War I, and gives a short course in classical codes and ciphers. He debunks the accusations that the publication of Yardley's book caused Japan to change its codes and ciphers and that Yardley traitorously sold his solutions to Japan. And he asserts that Yardley's disclosures not only did not hurt but actually helped American codebreaking during World War II.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300129882
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
One of the most colorful and controversial figures in American intelligence, Herbert O. Yardley (1889-1958) gave America its best form of information, but his fame rests more on his indiscretions than on his achievements. In this highly readable biography, a premier historian of military intelligence tells Yardley's story and evaluates his impact on the American intelligence community. Yardley established the nation's first codebreaking agency in 1917, and his solutions helped the United States win a major diplomatic victory at the 1921 disarmament conference. But when his unit was closed in 1929 because "gentlemen do not read each other's mail," Yardley wrote a best-selling memoir that introduced-and disclosed-codemaking and codebreaking to the public. David Kahn de-scribes the vicissitudes of Yardley's career, including his work in China and Canada, offers a capsule history of American intelligence up to World War I, and gives a short course in classical codes and ciphers. He debunks the accusations that the publication of Yardley's book caused Japan to change its codes and ciphers and that Yardley traitorously sold his solutions to Japan. And he asserts that Yardley's disclosures not only did not hurt but actually helped American codebreaking during World War II.
Journals of the House of Commons of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
House of Commons Debates, Official Report
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The Canada Gazette
Author: Canada
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1298
Book Description
Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1164
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