Author: Lois Francois Lejeune (baron)
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Category : France
Languages : en
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Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, aide-de-camp to Marshalls, Berthier, Davour, and Oudinot
Author: Lois Francois Lejeune (baron)
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Category : France
Languages : en
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Category : France
Languages : en
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Memoirs of Baron Lejeune, Aide-de-camp to Marshals Berthier, Davout, and Oudinot
Author: Louis-François Baron Lejeune
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Memoirs of Baron Lejeune
Author: Louis Francois Baron Lejeune
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
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Category : Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815
Languages : en
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Napoleon's Russian Campaign of 1812
Author: Edward A. Foord
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
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Languages : en
Pages : 522
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The Life of Francis Place, 1771-1854
Author: Graham Wallas
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Extremities
Author: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300088878
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists - Girodet, Gros, Gericault, and Delacroix - painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events in faraway, colonial lands. This book examines six of these paintings and argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, decapitation, cannibalism, massacre, and abduction chart the history of France's empire and colonial politics. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby shows that these paintings about occurrences in the West Indies, Syria, Egypt, Senegal, and Ottoman Empire Greece are preoccupied not with mastery and control but with loss, degradation, and failure, and she explains how such representations of crises in the colonies were able to answer the artists' longings as well as the needs of the government and the opposition parties at home. Empire made painters devoted to the representation of liberty and the new French nation confront liberty's antithesis: slavery. It also forced them to contend with cultural and racial difference. Young male artists responded, says Grigsby, by translating distant crises into images of challenges to the self, making history painting the site where geographic extremities and bodily extremities articulated one another.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300088878
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists - Girodet, Gros, Gericault, and Delacroix - painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events in faraway, colonial lands. This book examines six of these paintings and argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, decapitation, cannibalism, massacre, and abduction chart the history of France's empire and colonial politics. Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby shows that these paintings about occurrences in the West Indies, Syria, Egypt, Senegal, and Ottoman Empire Greece are preoccupied not with mastery and control but with loss, degradation, and failure, and she explains how such representations of crises in the colonies were able to answer the artists' longings as well as the needs of the government and the opposition parties at home. Empire made painters devoted to the representation of liberty and the new French nation confront liberty's antithesis: slavery. It also forced them to contend with cultural and racial difference. Young male artists responded, says Grigsby, by translating distant crises into images of challenges to the self, making history painting the site where geographic extremities and bodily extremities articulated one another.
The Cambridge History of Warfare
Author: Geoffrey Parker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107181593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107181593
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
After the Revolution
Author: David O'Brien
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 0271023058
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"The many color illustrations in After the Revolution enable the reader to follow O'Brien's informative analysis of the mixing of fact and fiction in such famed paintings as The Battlefield of Eylau. This book will be of interest to art historians, students of political and military history, and all those fascinated by Napoleon."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Penn State University Press
ISBN: 0271023058
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
"The many color illustrations in After the Revolution enable the reader to follow O'Brien's informative analysis of the mixing of fact and fiction in such famed paintings as The Battlefield of Eylau. This book will be of interest to art historians, students of political and military history, and all those fascinated by Napoleon."--BOOK JACKET.
The Ultimate Spectacle
Author: Ulrich Keller
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134392095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Chloroform, telegraphy, steamships and rifles were distinctly modern features of the Crimean War. Covered by a large corps of reporters, illustrators and cameramen, it also became the first media war in history. For the benefit of the ubiquitous artists and correspondents, both the domestic events were carefully staged, giving the Crimean War an aesthetically alluring, even spectacular character. With their exclusive focus on written sources, historians have consistently overlooked this visual dimension of the Crimean War. Photo-historian Ulrich Keller challenges the traditional literary bias by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs, press illustration and academic painting. The result is a new and different historical account which emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134392095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Chloroform, telegraphy, steamships and rifles were distinctly modern features of the Crimean War. Covered by a large corps of reporters, illustrators and cameramen, it also became the first media war in history. For the benefit of the ubiquitous artists and correspondents, both the domestic events were carefully staged, giving the Crimean War an aesthetically alluring, even spectacular character. With their exclusive focus on written sources, historians have consistently overlooked this visual dimension of the Crimean War. Photo-historian Ulrich Keller challenges the traditional literary bias by drawing on a wealth of pictorial materials from scientific diagrams to photographs, press illustration and academic painting. The result is a new and different historical account which emphasizes the careful aesthetic scripting of the war for popular mass consumption at home.
The Byzantine Empire
Author: Edward A. Foord
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
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