Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The modern traveller, a popular description geographical, historical, and topographical of the varieus countries of the globe
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical and Topographical of the Various Countries of the Globe
Author: Josiah Conder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The modern traveller
Author: Josiah Conder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Modern Traveller
Author: Josiah Conder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
The Modern Traveller. A Popular Description, Geographical, Historical and Topographical of the Various Countries of the Globe
Author: Josiah Conder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Deconstructions of the Russian Empire in Western Travel Literature
Author: Dimitrios Kassis
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527561291
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Situated between Europe and Asia, Russia has systematically challenged the European theories attached to nationhood due to its geopolitical and cultural peculiarities. After the rise of European nationalist movements, imperial Russia posed a threat to the very existence of the Germanic empires of Britain, Germany and Austria, and was frequently evoked to epitomise European barbarism, paganism, despotism and the Orient. In its struggle to acquire a new identity, which would bridge the gap with Western empires, Russia could not conform to the rising Anglo-Saxon movements that sought to glorify Nordic supremacy at the expense of the Oriental Other. Drawing upon this binary opposition between the Orient and the Occident, the Russian Empire concentrated on the development of its own nation-building theories, which managed to incorporate the ascending Pan-Slavic wave into its nationalist agenda. The anti-Western rhetoric that often characterised Russian politics contributed to the subversion of the conventional Western perspective of the Orient and the emergence of Eurasianism as a political theory that exalted the different traits of its imperial system. This book sets the focus on the representations of the Russian Empire from 1792 until 1912 in the field of travel literature. To this end, it selects British and American travel narratives of the aforementioned period to explore all aspects of Russian identity and culture. For this reason, it addresses major issues attached to Russian history and culture that were investigated by Western travellers in their attempt to approach the Russian Empire.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527561291
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Situated between Europe and Asia, Russia has systematically challenged the European theories attached to nationhood due to its geopolitical and cultural peculiarities. After the rise of European nationalist movements, imperial Russia posed a threat to the very existence of the Germanic empires of Britain, Germany and Austria, and was frequently evoked to epitomise European barbarism, paganism, despotism and the Orient. In its struggle to acquire a new identity, which would bridge the gap with Western empires, Russia could not conform to the rising Anglo-Saxon movements that sought to glorify Nordic supremacy at the expense of the Oriental Other. Drawing upon this binary opposition between the Orient and the Occident, the Russian Empire concentrated on the development of its own nation-building theories, which managed to incorporate the ascending Pan-Slavic wave into its nationalist agenda. The anti-Western rhetoric that often characterised Russian politics contributed to the subversion of the conventional Western perspective of the Orient and the emergence of Eurasianism as a political theory that exalted the different traits of its imperial system. This book sets the focus on the representations of the Russian Empire from 1792 until 1912 in the field of travel literature. To this end, it selects British and American travel narratives of the aforementioned period to explore all aspects of Russian identity and culture. For this reason, it addresses major issues attached to Russian history and culture that were investigated by Western travellers in their attempt to approach the Russian Empire.
The Examiner
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Long Way Home
Author: John Demont
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771025130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write. No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history. The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the story of what is, from the European view of things, the oldest part of Canada. Before Confederation it was also the richest, but now Nova Scotia is among the poorest. Its defining myths and stories are mostly about loss and sheer determination. Equal parts narrative, memoir and meditation, The Long Way Home chronicles with enthralling clarity a complex and multi-dimensional story: the overwhelming of the first peoples and the arrival of a mélange of pioneers who carved out pockets of the wilderness; the random acts and unexplained mysteries; the shameful achievements and noble failures; the rapture and misery; the twists of destiny and the cold-heartedness of fate. This is the biography of a place that has been hardened by history. A place full of reminders of how great a province it has been and how great—with the right circumstances and a little luck—it could be again.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771025130
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
The province's premier journalist tells the story he was born to write. No journalist has travelled the back roads, hidden vales and fog-soaked coves of Nova Scotia as widely as John DeMont. No writer has spent as much time considering its peculiar warp and weft of humanity, geography and history. The Long Way Home is the summation of DeMont's years of travel, research and thought. It tells the story of what is, from the European view of things, the oldest part of Canada. Before Confederation it was also the richest, but now Nova Scotia is among the poorest. Its defining myths and stories are mostly about loss and sheer determination. Equal parts narrative, memoir and meditation, The Long Way Home chronicles with enthralling clarity a complex and multi-dimensional story: the overwhelming of the first peoples and the arrival of a mélange of pioneers who carved out pockets of the wilderness; the random acts and unexplained mysteries; the shameful achievements and noble failures; the rapture and misery; the twists of destiny and the cold-heartedness of fate. This is the biography of a place that has been hardened by history. A place full of reminders of how great a province it has been and how great—with the right circumstances and a little luck—it could be again.
Indian Monuments
Author: N. S. Ramaswami
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9780896840911
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Abhinav Publications
ISBN: 9780896840911
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William Jerdan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description