Author: Lucien Sicot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 180
Book Description
Le marquis de Chastellux (1734-1788) ...
Author: Lucien Sicot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 180
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Le Marquis de Chastellus, (1734-1788)
Author: Lucien Sicot
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Languages : en
Pages : 186
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 186
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History of the Portrait Collection, Independence National Historical Park
Author: Doris Devine Fanelli
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 0871692422
Category : Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This volume provides a history and catalog of the portraits by Charles Willson Peale, who painted heroes of the American revolution, founders of American government, statesmen, jurists, men of science, and individuals who contributed art and letters. The three chapters by Fanelli (Cultural Resources Management, Independence National Historical Park) discuss the collection from its inception through the period in which the shrine that housed it became a museum. Each of the 250 entries (mostly b&w, with a few in color) in the catalog includes a brief biography of the subject, a physical description of the painting, the circumstances under which it was created, and its provenance. They are arranged alphabetically by sitter. Edited by Karie Diethorn, chief curator, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 0871692422
Category : Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This volume provides a history and catalog of the portraits by Charles Willson Peale, who painted heroes of the American revolution, founders of American government, statesmen, jurists, men of science, and individuals who contributed art and letters. The three chapters by Fanelli (Cultural Resources Management, Independence National Historical Park) discuss the collection from its inception through the period in which the shrine that housed it became a museum. Each of the 250 entries (mostly b&w, with a few in color) in the catalog includes a brief biography of the subject, a physical description of the painting, the circumstances under which it was created, and its provenance. They are arranged alphabetically by sitter. Edited by Karie Diethorn, chief curator, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
A History of Mathematics in America Before 1900
Author: D. E. Smith
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1614440050
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This classic history of American mathematics was first published in 1934. “America”, for the authors, is defined as the “territory north of the Caribbean Sea and the Rio Grande River.” This slim volume surveys the mathematics of the early colonial period including the knowledge available for the average colonist; the progress made corresponding to various influxes of population from Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain; the beginnings of mathematical work in colleges and universities and the rapid acceleration in the last quarter of the nineteenth century; the development and growth of a professional infrastructure of societies and publications; and biographical information of particularly significant characters. The book pays special attention to the needs of commerce, exploration, and everyday life that drove the development of mathematics in the centuries before a professionalization of mathematics appeared in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 1614440050
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This classic history of American mathematics was first published in 1934. “America”, for the authors, is defined as the “territory north of the Caribbean Sea and the Rio Grande River.” This slim volume surveys the mathematics of the early colonial period including the knowledge available for the average colonist; the progress made corresponding to various influxes of population from Italy, France, Germany and Great Britain; the beginnings of mathematical work in colleges and universities and the rapid acceleration in the last quarter of the nineteenth century; the development and growth of a professional infrastructure of societies and publications; and biographical information of particularly significant characters. The book pays special attention to the needs of commerce, exploration, and everyday life that drove the development of mathematics in the centuries before a professionalization of mathematics appeared in the nineteenth century.
Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799
Author: Vincenzo Cuoco
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442620250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Deeply influenced by Enlightenment writers from Naples and France, Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823) was forced into exile for his involvement in the failed Neapolitan revolution of 1799. Living in Milan, he wrote what became one of the nineteenth century’s most important treatises on political revolution. In his Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, Cuoco synthesized the work of Machiavelli, Vico, and Enlightenment philosophers to offer an explanation for why and how revolutions succeed or fail. A major influence on political thought during the unification of Italy, the Historical Essay was also an inspiration to twentieth-century thinkers such as Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci. This critical edition, featuring an authoritative translation, introduction, and annotations, finally makes Cuoco’s work fully accessible to an English-speaking audience.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442620250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Deeply influenced by Enlightenment writers from Naples and France, Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823) was forced into exile for his involvement in the failed Neapolitan revolution of 1799. Living in Milan, he wrote what became one of the nineteenth century’s most important treatises on political revolution. In his Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, Cuoco synthesized the work of Machiavelli, Vico, and Enlightenment philosophers to offer an explanation for why and how revolutions succeed or fail. A major influence on political thought during the unification of Italy, the Historical Essay was also an inspiration to twentieth-century thinkers such as Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci. This critical edition, featuring an authoritative translation, introduction, and annotations, finally makes Cuoco’s work fully accessible to an English-speaking audience.
In the Hurricane's Eye
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143111450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book Review The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower. In the concluding volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick tells the thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War. In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships based thousands of miles away was next to impossible. And then, on September 5, 1781, the impossible happened. Recognized today as one of the most important naval engagements in the history of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake—fought without a single American ship—made the subsequent victory of the Americans at Yorktown a virtual inevitability. A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143111450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Revolution. He succeeds, marvelously."--The New York Times Book Review The thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower. In the concluding volume of his acclaimed American Revolution series, Nathaniel Philbrick tells the thrilling story of the year that won the Revolutionary War. In the fall of 1780, after five frustrating years of war, George Washington had come to realize that the only way to defeat the British Empire was with the help of the French navy. But coordinating his army's movements with those of a fleet of warships based thousands of miles away was next to impossible. And then, on September 5, 1781, the impossible happened. Recognized today as one of the most important naval engagements in the history of the world, the Battle of the Chesapeake—fought without a single American ship—made the subsequent victory of the Americans at Yorktown a virtual inevitability. A riveting and wide-ranging story, full of dramatic, unexpected turns, In the Hurricane's Eye reveals that the fate of the American Revolution depended, in the end, on Washington and the sea.
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions: Volume 1, The Enlightenment and the British Colonies
Author: Wim Klooster
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108691625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
Volume I problematizes the concepts of Enlightenment and revolution, revealing how the former did not wholly cause the latter. The volume also provides a comprehensive analysis of the American Revolution, making it essential to American historians and scholars of the Atlantic World.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108691625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
Volume I problematizes the concepts of Enlightenment and revolution, revealing how the former did not wholly cause the latter. The volume also provides a comprehensive analysis of the American Revolution, making it essential to American historians and scholars of the Atlantic World.
Thomas Jefferson Correspondence
Author: Monticello West
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387101021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This newly discovered volume of Thomas Jefferson letters (both incoming and outgoing) is really a fascinating historical find. As a Thomas Jefferson historian and founder of Monticello West, all efforts are made to reproduce as faithfully as written writings related to the "Sage of Monticello." These letters are the more obscure and not easily found in the usual collections of Thomas Jefferson's writings. Here under one volume is a variety of interesting correspondence from the famous to the obscure. This volume of letters was originally published in 1916 and is COPYRIGHT FREE for anyone that wants to use this material. A big thank you to GOOGLE for their efforts both in the past and currently to digitize the printed word and offer up copyright free.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387101021
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This newly discovered volume of Thomas Jefferson letters (both incoming and outgoing) is really a fascinating historical find. As a Thomas Jefferson historian and founder of Monticello West, all efforts are made to reproduce as faithfully as written writings related to the "Sage of Monticello." These letters are the more obscure and not easily found in the usual collections of Thomas Jefferson's writings. Here under one volume is a variety of interesting correspondence from the famous to the obscure. This volume of letters was originally published in 1916 and is COPYRIGHT FREE for anyone that wants to use this material. A big thank you to GOOGLE for their efforts both in the past and currently to digitize the printed word and offer up copyright free.
Pictures of Rhode Island in the Past, 1642-1833
Author: Gertrude Selwyn Kimball
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rhode Island
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Major Butler's Legacy
Author: Malcolm Bell, Jr.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820323950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery--an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of Civil War. In Major Butler's Legacy, Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of this century and includes in its course such figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, Fanny Kemble, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820323950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
Master of vast rice and cotton plantations in South Carolina and Georgia, delegate to the Constitutional Convention, Major Pierce Butler bequeathed his family and nation a legacy of slavery--an inheritance of immense wealth sown with the seeds of Civil War. In Major Butler's Legacy, Malcolm Bell charts the unfolding of the Butler patrimony, an epic story that reaches from the eve of the Revolution to the first decades of this century and includes in its course such figures as George Washington, Aaron Burr, Fanny Kemble, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry James, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister.