Author: Pierre Jean Grosley
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 472
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New Observations on Italy and Its Inhabitants. Written in French by Two Swedish Gentlemen. Translated Into English by Thomas Nugent, ...
Author: Pierre Jean Grosley
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books (etc.)
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 538
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious and Useful Books, Published in Or Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing; ...
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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D.J
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
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A Bibliography of Topographical and Geological Works on the Phlegræan Fields
Author: Robert Theodore Gunther
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840
Author: P. Smethurst
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137030364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137030364
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it.
New Observations on Italy and Its Inhabitants
Author: Pierre Jean Grosley
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Publisher:
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Category : Italy
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans
Author: Richard Whatmore
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691206643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Geneva Barracks. The Barracks were the remnants of an experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvinist republican rebels who fled the continent in 1782. The British believed that the rectitude and industriousness of these imported revolutionaries would have a positive effect on the Irish populace. The experiment was abandoned, however, after the Calvinists demanded greater independence and more state money for their project. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire. Richard Whatmore brings to life a violent age in which powerful states like Britain and France intervened in the affairs of smaller, weaker countries, justifying their actions on the grounds that they were stopping anarchists and terrorists from destroying society, religion and government. The Genevans and the Irish rebels, in turn, saw themselves as advocates of republican virtue, willing to sacrifice themselves for liberty, rights and the public good. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans shows how the massacre at Geneva Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking empire and markets—in many respects the end of enlightenment itself.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691206643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by the French Revolution, and the site of their demise was known as Geneva Barracks. The Barracks were the remnants of an experimental community called New Geneva, a settlement of Calvinist republican rebels who fled the continent in 1782. The British believed that the rectitude and industriousness of these imported revolutionaries would have a positive effect on the Irish populace. The experiment was abandoned, however, after the Calvinists demanded greater independence and more state money for their project. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans tells the story of a utopian city inspired by a spirit of liberty and republican values being turned into a place where republicans who had fought for liberty were extinguished by the might of empire. Richard Whatmore brings to life a violent age in which powerful states like Britain and France intervened in the affairs of smaller, weaker countries, justifying their actions on the grounds that they were stopping anarchists and terrorists from destroying society, religion and government. The Genevans and the Irish rebels, in turn, saw themselves as advocates of republican virtue, willing to sacrifice themselves for liberty, rights and the public good. Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans shows how the massacre at Geneva Barracks marked an end to the old Europe of diverse political forms, and the ascendancy of powerful states seeking empire and markets—in many respects the end of enlightenment itself.
Forty Days
Author: John Booker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000451097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging from mud huts in the Danube basin to a converted fort on Malta, evoking every emotion from hatred and hostility through to resignation and even contentment. Drawing on the diaries and journals of some 300 men and women of many nationalities over more than two centuries, the author describes the inadequate accommodation, poor food and crushing boredom experienced by detainees. The book also draws attention to comradeship, sickness, and death in detention, as well as Casanova’s unique ability to do what he did best even in the lazaretto of Ancona. Other well-known detainees included Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain and Sir Walter Scott. Lavishly illustrated, the work includes a gazetteer of 49 lazarettos in Europe and Asia Minor, with inmates’ comments on each. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of medicine and the history of travel.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000451097
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Forty Days: Quarantine and the Traveller, c. 1700 –1900 provides a timely reminder that no traveller in past centuries could return from the East without spending up to 40 days in a lazaretto to ensure that no symptoms of plague were developing. Quarantine was performed in virtual prisons ranging from mud huts in the Danube basin to a converted fort on Malta, evoking every emotion from hatred and hostility through to resignation and even contentment. Drawing on the diaries and journals of some 300 men and women of many nationalities over more than two centuries, the author describes the inadequate accommodation, poor food and crushing boredom experienced by detainees. The book also draws attention to comradeship, sickness, and death in detention, as well as Casanova’s unique ability to do what he did best even in the lazaretto of Ancona. Other well-known detainees included Hans Christian Andersen, Mark Twain and Sir Walter Scott. Lavishly illustrated, the work includes a gazetteer of 49 lazarettos in Europe and Asia Minor, with inmates’ comments on each. This book will appeal to all those interested in the history of medicine and the history of travel.