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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Sir Walter Ralegh, 1900-1968
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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Sir Walter Ralegh, an Annotated Bibliography
Author: Christopher M. Armitage
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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The Letters of Sir Walter Ralegh
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This edition of the letters of Sir Walter Ralegh will replace the long out-of-print edition of Edward Edwards published in 1868. It contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation, of all known surviving letters, 240 in all, compared with Edwards' 160, in most cases taken from the original manuscripts, many never before published. All are extensively annotated, many have been newly dated and corrected; there is a substantial Introduction by Joyce Youings. The letters help to reconcile the family man, never happier than at home on his estate in the West Country, with one who is revered, especially in North America, as the founder and inspirer of English overseas settlement. They show him drawn both towards his native West Country, where he was not universally admired, and towards the Court at Westminster where lay the determination of the success or failure of his enterprises. Never before have we been able to get as near to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of one of the best-known figures of English history, the man who was both patriot and European; courtier and failed politician; soldier and poet; owner of ships and organiser of privateering ventures yet a reluctant sail∨ greedy for personal wealth and social status but apparently ready to plead the case of the poor and disadvantaged.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This edition of the letters of Sir Walter Ralegh will replace the long out-of-print edition of Edward Edwards published in 1868. It contains the full text, in the original spelling, with modern punctuation, of all known surviving letters, 240 in all, compared with Edwards' 160, in most cases taken from the original manuscripts, many never before published. All are extensively annotated, many have been newly dated and corrected; there is a substantial Introduction by Joyce Youings. The letters help to reconcile the family man, never happier than at home on his estate in the West Country, with one who is revered, especially in North America, as the founder and inspirer of English overseas settlement. They show him drawn both towards his native West Country, where he was not universally admired, and towards the Court at Westminster where lay the determination of the success or failure of his enterprises. Never before have we been able to get as near to understanding the strengths and weaknesses of one of the best-known figures of English history, the man who was both patriot and European; courtier and failed politician; soldier and poet; owner of ships and organiser of privateering ventures yet a reluctant sail∨ greedy for personal wealth and social status but apparently ready to plead the case of the poor and disadvantaged.
Albion
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Category : Conference on British Studies
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Publisher:
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Category : Conference on British Studies
Languages : en
Pages : 822
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Catalog of Printed Books of the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D. C. : First Supplement
Author: Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Reports of the President and of the Treasurer
Author: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Publisher:
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Publisher:
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Category : Research
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
The Writing of History in Britain
Author: Charles A. Watson
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Publisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description
Roanoke
Author: Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742552630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In telling the tragic and heroic story of Roanoke, the lost colony, award-winning historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman recovers the earliest days of English exploration and settlement in America the often forgotten years before Jamestown and the landing of the Mayflower. Roanoke explores Britain s attempt to establish a firm claim to North America in the hope that colonies would make England wealthy and powerful. Kupperman brings to life the men and women who struggled to carve out a settlement in an inhospitable environment on the Carolina coast and the complex Native American cultures they encountered. She reveals the mixture of goals and challenges that led to the colony s eventual abandonment, and discusses the theories about what might have become of the first English settlers in the New World as they adapted to life as Indians. With a new preface and afterword written by the author, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony brings the fascinating story of America s earliest settlement up-to-date, bringing together new work from scholars in a variety of fields. The story of Roanoke remains endlessly fascinating. It is a tale marked by courage, miscalculation, exhilaration, intrigue, and mystery."
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780742552630
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In telling the tragic and heroic story of Roanoke, the lost colony, award-winning historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman recovers the earliest days of English exploration and settlement in America the often forgotten years before Jamestown and the landing of the Mayflower. Roanoke explores Britain s attempt to establish a firm claim to North America in the hope that colonies would make England wealthy and powerful. Kupperman brings to life the men and women who struggled to carve out a settlement in an inhospitable environment on the Carolina coast and the complex Native American cultures they encountered. She reveals the mixture of goals and challenges that led to the colony s eventual abandonment, and discusses the theories about what might have become of the first English settlers in the New World as they adapted to life as Indians. With a new preface and afterword written by the author, Roanoke: The Abandoned Colony brings the fascinating story of America s earliest settlement up-to-date, bringing together new work from scholars in a variety of fields. The story of Roanoke remains endlessly fascinating. It is a tale marked by courage, miscalculation, exhilaration, intrigue, and mystery."
Walter Ralegh's History of the World and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance
Author: Nicholas Popper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226675025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations issued in the years that followed. Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh’s History as a touchstone in this lively exploration of the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. From Popper we learn why early modern Europeans ascribed heightened value to the study of the past and how scholars and statesmen began to see historical expertise as not just a foundation for political practice and theory, but as a means of advancing their power in the courts and councils of contemporary Europe. The rise of historical scholarship during this period encouraged the circulation of its methods to other disciplines, transforming Europe’s intellectual—and political—regimes. More than a mere study of Ralegh’s History of the World, Popper’s book reveals how the methods that historians devised to illuminate the past structured the dynamics of early modernity in Europe and England.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226675025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations issued in the years that followed. Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh’s History as a touchstone in this lively exploration of the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. From Popper we learn why early modern Europeans ascribed heightened value to the study of the past and how scholars and statesmen began to see historical expertise as not just a foundation for political practice and theory, but as a means of advancing their power in the courts and councils of contemporary Europe. The rise of historical scholarship during this period encouraged the circulation of its methods to other disciplines, transforming Europe’s intellectual—and political—regimes. More than a mere study of Ralegh’s History of the World, Popper’s book reveals how the methods that historians devised to illuminate the past structured the dynamics of early modernity in Europe and England.
Reports of the President and the Treasurer - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Author: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Publisher:
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Category : Endowments
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Includes: biographies of fellows appointed; reappointments; publications, musical compositions, academic appointments and index of fellows.
Publisher:
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Category : Endowments
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Includes: biographies of fellows appointed; reappointments; publications, musical compositions, academic appointments and index of fellows.