Author: Peter Heylyn
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
When the Waves Ruled Britannia
Author: Jonathan Scott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military security? How did geographical ideas inform the construction of English – and then British – political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for political purposes, Jonathan Scott's ambitious and interdisciplinary study traces the development of the idea of Britain as an island nation, state and then empire from 1500 to 1800, through literature, philosophy, history, geography and travel writing. One argument advanced in the process concerns the maritime origins, nature and consequences of the English revolution. This is the first general study to examine changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context. Offering a new perspective on the nature of early modern Britain, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139499939
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
How did a rural and agrarian English society transform itself into a mercantile and maritime state? What role was played by war and the need for military security? How did geographical ideas inform the construction of English – and then British – political identities? Focusing upon the deployment of geographical imagery and arguments for political purposes, Jonathan Scott's ambitious and interdisciplinary study traces the development of the idea of Britain as an island nation, state and then empire from 1500 to 1800, through literature, philosophy, history, geography and travel writing. One argument advanced in the process concerns the maritime origins, nature and consequences of the English revolution. This is the first general study to examine changing geographical languages in early modern British politics, in an imperial, European and global context. Offering a new perspective on the nature of early modern Britain, it will be essential reading for students and scholars of the period.
A Catalogue of ... [books] ...
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 2634
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 2634
Book Description
Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology
Author: J. V. Field
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147251078X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Kepler is a key figure in the development of modern astronomy. His work is also important in the history of philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. The present study is concerned with one of Kepler's major preoccupations, namely his search for the geometrical plan according to which God created the Universe. The author discusses how Kepler's cosmological theories, which embrace music and astrology as well as astronomy, are related to his other work. The subject will be of great interest to historians of science, mathematicians and astronomers as well as to historians of the late Renaissance.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 147251078X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Kepler is a key figure in the development of modern astronomy. His work is also important in the history of philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. The present study is concerned with one of Kepler's major preoccupations, namely his search for the geometrical plan according to which God created the Universe. The author discusses how Kepler's cosmological theories, which embrace music and astrology as well as astronomy, are related to his other work. The subject will be of great interest to historians of science, mathematicians and astronomers as well as to historians of the late Renaissance.
Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books ... Relating to Africa and African Islands [for Sale By] Francis Edwards
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Athenae Oxonienses
Author: Anthony à Wood
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 666
Book Description
The Complete Angler ... With Lives, and Notes, by Sir John Hawkins ... Edited by James Rennie. With Plates and Illustrations
Author: Izaak Walton
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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R.S. Thomas
Author: M. Wynn Thomas
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708326617
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an 'alternative' war poet, a conscience-stricken pacifist, a jealously opportunistic student of art, and an experimental biographer of the modern soul. Published to mark the centenary of the ‘ogre of Wales’, this volume deals with the idées fixes that serially possessed the fiercely intense imagination of R. S. Thomas: Iago Prytherch, Wales, his family and, of course, a vexingly elusive deity. Here, these familiar obsessions are set in several unusual contexts that bring Thomas’s poetry into startling new relief. The war poetry is considered alongside the poet’s early relationship to the English topographical tradition; comparisons with Borges and Levertov underline the international dimensions of the poetry’s concerns; the intriguing ‘secret code’ of some of Thomas’s Welsh-language references is cracked; and his painting-poems (including several hitherto unpublished) are brought centre-stage from the peripheries to which they have been routinely relegated.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 0708326617
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The study places the work of a major religious poet of the late twentieth century in a number of striking new perspectives that allow him to be viewed for the first time as an 'alternative' war poet, a conscience-stricken pacifist, a jealously opportunistic student of art, and an experimental biographer of the modern soul. Published to mark the centenary of the ‘ogre of Wales’, this volume deals with the idées fixes that serially possessed the fiercely intense imagination of R. S. Thomas: Iago Prytherch, Wales, his family and, of course, a vexingly elusive deity. Here, these familiar obsessions are set in several unusual contexts that bring Thomas’s poetry into startling new relief. The war poetry is considered alongside the poet’s early relationship to the English topographical tradition; comparisons with Borges and Levertov underline the international dimensions of the poetry’s concerns; the intriguing ‘secret code’ of some of Thomas’s Welsh-language references is cracked; and his painting-poems (including several hitherto unpublished) are brought centre-stage from the peripheries to which they have been routinely relegated.
Autobiography of the Rt. Hon. Sir Richard Cox, Bart. ... from the original manuscript, preserved at the “Manor House, Dunmanway,” county Cork. Edited by Richard Caulfield
Author: Richard COX (Right Hon. Sir)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Catalogue of the General and Law Library of the State of Tennessee
Author: Tennessee. State Library
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature...
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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