Author: William Vincent
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Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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The Commerce and Navigation of the Ancients in the Indian Ocean: The Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, containing an account of the navigation of the ancients: pt. 1. From the sea of Suez to the coast of Zanguebar, with dissertations
Author: William Vincent
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Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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Publisher:
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Category : Classical geography
Languages : en
Pages : 1038
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“A” Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London, Instituted in the Year 1824 with an Alphabetical List of Authors Annexed
Author: City of London. Corporation
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Languages : en
Pages : 666
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A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Author: Signet Library (Great Britain)
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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A Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of London Institude in the Year 1824
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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The First European
Author: Pierre Briant
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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“A truly remarkable forgotten chapter of European intellectual history, laid out with passion and integrity.” (The Wall Street Journal) The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in the minds of eighteenth-century intellectuals and philosophers, Alexander was the first European: a successful creator of empire who opened the door to new sources of trade and scientific knowledge, and an enlightened leader who brought the fruits of Western civilization to an oppressed and backward “Orient.” In France, Scotland, England, and Germany, Alexander the Great became an important point of reference in discourses from philosophy and history to political economy and geography. Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Robertson asked what lessons Alexander’s empire-building had to teach modern Europeans. They saw the ancient Macedonian as the embodiment of the rational and benevolent Western ruler, a historical model to be emulated as Western powers accelerated their colonial expansion into Asia, India, and the Middle East. “This important work. . . . confirms once more that the life-trajectory of the Macedonian conqueror remains an inexhaustible cultural resource.” —Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Empires Between Islam and Christianity
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
“A truly remarkable forgotten chapter of European intellectual history, laid out with passion and integrity.” (The Wall Street Journal) The exploits of Alexander the Great were so remarkable that for centuries after his death the Macedonian ruler seemed a figure more of legend than of history. Thinkers of the European Enlightenment, searching for ancient models to understand contemporary affairs, were the first to critically interpret Alexander’s achievements. As Pierre Briant shows, in the minds of eighteenth-century intellectuals and philosophers, Alexander was the first European: a successful creator of empire who opened the door to new sources of trade and scientific knowledge, and an enlightened leader who brought the fruits of Western civilization to an oppressed and backward “Orient.” In France, Scotland, England, and Germany, Alexander the Great became an important point of reference in discourses from philosophy and history to political economy and geography. Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Robertson asked what lessons Alexander’s empire-building had to teach modern Europeans. They saw the ancient Macedonian as the embodiment of the rational and benevolent Western ruler, a historical model to be emulated as Western powers accelerated their colonial expansion into Asia, India, and the Middle East. “This important work. . . . confirms once more that the life-trajectory of the Macedonian conqueror remains an inexhaustible cultural resource.” —Sanjay Subrahmanyam, University of California, Los Angeles, author of Empires Between Islam and Christianity
A catalogue of the library of the corporation of ... London
Author: London corporation, libr
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 684
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The English Cyclopædia
Author: Charles Knight
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Catalogue of the Library of the Corporation of the City of London. Instituted in the Year 1824: M-Z and additions to June, 1889
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H. M. Signet in Scotland
Author: Thomas-Graves Law
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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