Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Case of the Hanover Forces in the Pay of Great-Britain, Impartially and Freely Examined:
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Case of the Hanoverian Forces, in the Pay of Great-Britain
Author: Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain ...
Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country
Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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George II
Author: Andrew C. Thompson
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300118929
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his abilities misunderstood. This landmark biography uncovers extensive new evidence in British and German archives, making possible the most complete and accurate assessment of this thirty-three-year reign. Andrew C. Thompson paints a richly detailed portrait of the many-faceted monarch in his public as well as his private life. Born in Hanover in 1683, George Augustus first came to London in 1714 as the new Prince of Wales. He assumed the throne in 1727, held it until his death in 1760, and has the distinction of being Britain's last foreign-born king and the last king to lead an army in battle. With George's story at its heart, the book reconstructs his thoughts and actions through a careful reading of the letters and papers of those around him. Thompson explores the previously underappreciated roles George played in the political processes of Britain, especially in foreign policy, and also charts the intricacies of the king's complicated relationships and reassesses the lasting impact of his frequent return trips to Hanover. George II emerges from these pages as an independent and cosmopolitan figure of undeniable historical fascination.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300118929
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Despite a long and eventful reign, Britain's George II is a largely forgotten monarch, his achievements overlooked and his abilities misunderstood. This landmark biography uncovers extensive new evidence in British and German archives, making possible the most complete and accurate assessment of this thirty-three-year reign. Andrew C. Thompson paints a richly detailed portrait of the many-faceted monarch in his public as well as his private life. Born in Hanover in 1683, George Augustus first came to London in 1714 as the new Prince of Wales. He assumed the throne in 1727, held it until his death in 1760, and has the distinction of being Britain's last foreign-born king and the last king to lead an army in battle. With George's story at its heart, the book reconstructs his thoughts and actions through a careful reading of the letters and papers of those around him. Thompson explores the previously underappreciated roles George played in the political processes of Britain, especially in foreign policy, and also charts the intricacies of the king's complicated relationships and reassesses the lasting impact of his frequent return trips to Hanover. George II emerges from these pages as an independent and cosmopolitan figure of undeniable historical fascination.
Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Etc
Author: Edmund LODGE (Norroy King of Arms.)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
To the Farewell Address
Author: Felix Gilbert
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400820197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Washington's Farewell Address comprises various aspects of American political thinking. It reaches beyond any period limited in time and reveals the basic issue of the American attitude toward foreign policy: the tension between Idealism and Realism. Settled by men who looked for gain and by men who sought freedom, born into independence in a century of enlightened thinking and of power politics, America has wavered in her foreign policy between Idealism and Realism, and her great historical moments have occurred when both were combined. Thus the history of the Farwell Address forms only part of the wider, endless, urgent problem. Felix Gilbert analyzes the diverse intellectual trends which went into the making of the Farwell Address, and sheds light on its beginnings.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400820197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Washington's Farewell Address comprises various aspects of American political thinking. It reaches beyond any period limited in time and reveals the basic issue of the American attitude toward foreign policy: the tension between Idealism and Realism. Settled by men who looked for gain and by men who sought freedom, born into independence in a century of enlightened thinking and of power politics, America has wavered in her foreign policy between Idealism and Realism, and her great historical moments have occurred when both were combined. Thus the history of the Farwell Address forms only part of the wider, endless, urgent problem. Felix Gilbert analyzes the diverse intellectual trends which went into the making of the Farwell Address, and sheds light on its beginnings.
Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830
Author: Erik Simpson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748636455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution.When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social developments of the period: an increased ability of young people to choose their spouses and the shift from patronage to commercial, market-based support of authorship. While the slave, a traditional focus of transatlantic studies, troubles the rhetoric of liberty through a lack of autonomy and consent, the mercenary raises questions about liberty by embodying its excess. Simpson argues that the mercenary of popular imagination takes monstrous advantage of modern freedoms by contracting away the ostensibly natural and foundational bonds of civil society.Substan
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748636455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution.When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social developments of the period: an increased ability of young people to choose their spouses and the shift from patronage to commercial, market-based support of authorship. While the slave, a traditional focus of transatlantic studies, troubles the rhetoric of liberty through a lack of autonomy and consent, the mercenary raises questions about liberty by embodying its excess. Simpson argues that the mercenary of popular imagination takes monstrous advantage of modern freedoms by contracting away the ostensibly natural and foundational bonds of civil society.Substan
Memoirs of Horatio Lord Walpole Selected from His Correspondence and Papers (etc.)
Author: William Coxe
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
American Empire in the Pacific
Author: Arthur Power Dudden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351959387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
American Empire in the Pacific explores the empire that emerged from the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with Great Britain and the outcome of the Mexican War in 1848. Together, they signalled the mastery of the United States over the continent of North America; the Pacific Ocean and the ancient civilizations of Asia at last lay within reach. England's East India Company in the 17th and 18th centuries had introduced Asian wares including tea to the American colonists, but wars against France and then the struggle for American independence held back expansion by Yankee entrepreneurs until 1783. Thereafter, from the Atlantic seaboard, American ships began regularly to reach China. Merchants, sailors and missionaries, motivated toward trade and redemption like the Europeans they met along the way, encountered the exotic peoples and cultures of the Pacific. Would-be empire builders projected a manifest destiny without limits. Russian Alaska, the native kingdom of Hawai'i, Japan, Korea, Samoa, and Spain's Philippine Islands, as well as a transcontinental railroad and an isthmian canal, acquired strategic significance in American minds, in time to outweigh both commerce and conversion.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351959387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
American Empire in the Pacific explores the empire that emerged from the Oregon Treaty of 1846 with Great Britain and the outcome of the Mexican War in 1848. Together, they signalled the mastery of the United States over the continent of North America; the Pacific Ocean and the ancient civilizations of Asia at last lay within reach. England's East India Company in the 17th and 18th centuries had introduced Asian wares including tea to the American colonists, but wars against France and then the struggle for American independence held back expansion by Yankee entrepreneurs until 1783. Thereafter, from the Atlantic seaboard, American ships began regularly to reach China. Merchants, sailors and missionaries, motivated toward trade and redemption like the Europeans they met along the way, encountered the exotic peoples and cultures of the Pacific. Would-be empire builders projected a manifest destiny without limits. Russian Alaska, the native kingdom of Hawai'i, Japan, Korea, Samoa, and Spain's Philippine Islands, as well as a transcontinental railroad and an isthmian canal, acquired strategic significance in American minds, in time to outweigh both commerce and conversion.