Author: Sir Edward Baines
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Letters from the Continent, Written During a Tour Through the Netherlands, Along the Banks of the Rhine, and in Switzerland, Italy, and France
Author: Sir Edward Baines
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Mrs. Adams in Winter
Author: Michael O'Brien
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429944757
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what the long years of Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. The journey was a metaphor for a life spent crossing borders: born in London in 1775, she had grown up partly in France, and in 1797 had married into the most famous of American political dynasties and become the daughter-in-law of John and Abigail Adams. The prizewinning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429944757
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what the long years of Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. The journey was a metaphor for a life spent crossing borders: born in London in 1775, she had grown up partly in France, and in 1797 had married into the most famous of American political dynasties and become the daughter-in-law of John and Abigail Adams. The prizewinning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.
Book Bulletins Containing Genealogy, Topography, Pedigrees, Topographical Views, Portraits, MSS., Miscellanea ... Issued During the Year ...
Author: Henry Gray
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Katalog der Privat-Bibliothek seiner Majestät des Königs von Hannover. [With] Nachtrags-Katalog
Author: L. Nolte
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 778
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Guide to France, Belgium, Holland, the Valleys of the Rhine and Moselle, the South-West of Germany, and the North of Italy ... With ... Maps and Plans
Author: Charles Bertram BLACK
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 912
Book Description
The Monthly Literary Advertiser
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment
Author: Michel Delon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135959986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1512
Book Description
This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135959986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1512
Book Description
This acclaimed translation of Michel Delon's Dictionnaire Europen des Lumires contains more than 350 signed entries covering the art, economics, science, history, philosophy, and religion of the Enlightenment. Delon's team of more than 200 experts from around the world offers a unique perspective on the period, providing offering not only factual information but also critical opinions that give the reader a deeper level of understanding. An international team of translators, editors, and advisers, under the auspices of the French Ministry of Culture, has brought this collection of scholarship to the English-speaking world for the first time.
Thiers' History of the consulate, and empire of Napoleon, tr. by W. Stapleton
Author: Marie Joseph L. Adolphe Thiers
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon
Author: Adolphe Thiers
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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