Author: Christina (Queen of Sweden)
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Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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The Works of Christina Queen of Sweden
Author: Christina (Queen of Sweden)
Publisher:
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Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Publisher:
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Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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An Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers
Author: Katharina M. Wilson
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824085476
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780824085476
Category : European literature
Languages : en
Pages : 698
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An Essay Towards a Collection of Books Relating to Proverbs, Emblems, Apophthegms, Epitaphs and Ana
Author: William Stirling Maxwell
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Category : Ana
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Publisher:
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Category : Ana
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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An Essay Towards a Collection of Books Relating to Proverbs, Emblems, Apophthegms Epitaphs and Ana, Being a Catalogue of Those at Keir
Author: William Stirling-Maxwell (Brt)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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An Essay towards a collection of Books relating to Proverbs, Emblems, Apophthegms, Epitaphs, and Ana; being a Catalogue of those at Keir
Author: Sir afterwards STIRLING MAXWELL STIRLING (William)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The First European
Author: Pierre Briant
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
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
Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800
Author:
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Publisher:
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Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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The Ancient Historians
Author: Michael Grant
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9781566195997
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Grant offers a study of the primary historians of Greece and Rome, discussing the works and methods of the founders of the historical discipline. These philosophers studied history as a moral discipline that bears meaningfully not only on the past but on future human conduct.
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9781566195997
Category : Historians
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Grant offers a study of the primary historians of Greece and Rome, discussing the works and methods of the founders of the historical discipline. These philosophers studied history as a moral discipline that bears meaningfully not only on the past but on future human conduct.
The Learned Lady in England, 1650-1760
Author: Myra Reynolds
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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