Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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The Cambridge Modern History
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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St. Petersburg and London in the Years 1852-64
Author: Graf Karl Friedrich Vitzthum von Eckstädt
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Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Crimean War, 1853-1856
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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The Cambridge Modern History
Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : History, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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The Crimean War
Author: Orlando Figes
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429997249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Please note that the maps available in the print edition do not appear in the ebook. From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed four great empires—the British, French, Turkish, and Russian—in a battle over religion as well as territory; that it fixed the fault lines between Russia and the West; that it set in motion the conflicts that would dominate the century to come. In this masterly history, Orlando Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence. Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources, Figes vividly depicts the world at war, from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the holy sites of Jerusalem; from the young Tolstoy reporting in Sevastopol to Tsar Nicolas, haunted by dreams of religious salvation; from the ordinary soldiers and nurses on the battlefields to the women and children in towns under siege.. Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, The Crimean War is a historical tour de force whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. At once a rigorous, original study and a sweeping, panoramic narrative, The Crimean War is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world..
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
ISBN: 1429997249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Please note that the maps available in the print edition do not appear in the ebook. From "the great storyteller of modern Russian historians," (Financial Times) the definitive account of the forgotten war that shaped the modern age The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. Less well-known is that this savage war (1853-1856) killed almost a million soldiers and countless civilians; that it enmeshed four great empires—the British, French, Turkish, and Russian—in a battle over religion as well as territory; that it fixed the fault lines between Russia and the West; that it set in motion the conflicts that would dominate the century to come. In this masterly history, Orlando Figes reconstructs the first full conflagration of modernity, a global industrialized struggle fought with unusual ferocity and incompetence. Drawing on untapped Russian and Ottoman as well as European sources, Figes vividly depicts the world at war, from the palaces of St. Petersburg to the holy sites of Jerusalem; from the young Tolstoy reporting in Sevastopol to Tsar Nicolas, haunted by dreams of religious salvation; from the ordinary soldiers and nurses on the battlefields to the women and children in towns under siege.. Original, magisterial, alive with voices of the time, The Crimean War is a historical tour de force whose depiction of ethnic cleansing and the West's relations with the Muslim world resonates with contemporary overtones. At once a rigorous, original study and a sweeping, panoramic narrative, The Crimean War is the definitive account of the war that mapped the terrain for today's world..
General Catalogue of the Library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Subjects
Author: Library of the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the Central Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1266
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Hazell's Annual
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers
Author: Anne Somerset
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101875577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
A riveting portrait of Queen Victoria and the ten prime ministers who headed British government during her sixty-three-year reign It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong. A passionate and opinionated leader, Victoria was born to govern with no room for doubt about her historic destiny or the might of the empire that was built in her name. When it came to her involvement in state affairs, Victoria herself acknowledged that she had held strong “likes and dislikes” for the various prime ministers who served throughout her political evolution from headstrong teenager to seasoned leader. Anne Somerset’s Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers charts the feuds and affectionate interactions Victoria had with her ten premiers in often hilarious detail, from her adoration of Benjamin Disraeli, her favorite prime minister who filled her life with “poetry, romance, and chivalry,” to her detestation for William Gladstone, a man she deemed a “dangerous old fanatic.” Drawing extensively on unpublished sources such as material from the Royal Archives and never-before-seen prime ministerial papers, Somerset casts a fresh and highly illuminating perspective not just on Victoria, but on the exceptional politicians who served her in a time of massive global change.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101875577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
A riveting portrait of Queen Victoria and the ten prime ministers who headed British government during her sixty-three-year reign It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong. A passionate and opinionated leader, Victoria was born to govern with no room for doubt about her historic destiny or the might of the empire that was built in her name. When it came to her involvement in state affairs, Victoria herself acknowledged that she had held strong “likes and dislikes” for the various prime ministers who served throughout her political evolution from headstrong teenager to seasoned leader. Anne Somerset’s Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers charts the feuds and affectionate interactions Victoria had with her ten premiers in often hilarious detail, from her adoration of Benjamin Disraeli, her favorite prime minister who filled her life with “poetry, romance, and chivalry,” to her detestation for William Gladstone, a man she deemed a “dangerous old fanatic.” Drawing extensively on unpublished sources such as material from the Royal Archives and never-before-seen prime ministerial papers, Somerset casts a fresh and highly illuminating perspective not just on Victoria, but on the exceptional politicians who served her in a time of massive global change.
Hazell's Annual ... a Cyclopædic Record of Men and Topics of the Day ...
Author:
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Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore, Including the Additions Made Since 1882
Author: George Peabody Library
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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The Book Buyer
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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