Author: Robert Johnston
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic
Author: Robert Johnston
Publisher:
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Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poland
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Travels Through Part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland; Along the Southern Shores of the Baltic. Illustrated with Maps and ... Plates
Author: Esq. Robert Johnston (A.M.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Mrs. Adams in Winter
Author: Michael O'Brien
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429944757
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what the long years of Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. The journey was a metaphor for a life spent crossing borders: born in London in 1775, she had grown up partly in France, and in 1797 had married into the most famous of American political dynasties and become the daughter-in-law of John and Abigail Adams. The prizewinning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429944757
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a heavy Russian carriage and set out on a difficult journey to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, down the Baltic coast to Prussia, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing the tumultuous events of Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what the long years of Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old friends in the royal court in Berlin had experienced during the French occupation, how it felt to have her life threatened by reckless soldiers, and how to manage fear. The journey was a metaphor for a life spent crossing borders: born in London in 1775, she had grown up partly in France, and in 1797 had married into the most famous of American political dynasties and become the daughter-in-law of John and Abigail Adams. The prizewinning historian Michael O'Brien reconstructs for the first time Louisa Adams's extraordinary passage. An evocative history of the experience of travel in the days of carriages and kings, Mrs. Adams in Winter offers a moving portrait of a lady, her difficult marriage, and her conflicted sense of what it meant to be a woman caught between worlds.
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The Polish-German Borderlands
Author: Barbara Paul
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313387931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This annotated guide to English language materials dealing with all aspects of the history of the borderlands since the 1700s gives special attention to conflicts between Germans and Poles and issues that are again critical in Central Europe. Students, teachers, and scholars will find this bibliography of over 1200 entries to primary sources, books, chapters in books, dissertations, journal articles, government documents, fiction, and films easy to use. The introduction points to different names given to the region and puts the bibliography into historical context. The chapters cover different historical periods and organize material either by genre of work or by topics significant to a particular era. Author, title, and subject indexes make the material easily accessible for a wide variety of research needs.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313387931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This annotated guide to English language materials dealing with all aspects of the history of the borderlands since the 1700s gives special attention to conflicts between Germans and Poles and issues that are again critical in Central Europe. Students, teachers, and scholars will find this bibliography of over 1200 entries to primary sources, books, chapters in books, dissertations, journal articles, government documents, fiction, and films easy to use. The introduction points to different names given to the region and puts the bibliography into historical context. The chapters cover different historical periods and organize material either by genre of work or by topics significant to a particular era. Author, title, and subject indexes make the material easily accessible for a wide variety of research needs.
Jews in Poland-Lithuania in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Gershon David Hundert
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520940321
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world—an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did not fit the pattern of integration and universalization—in short, of westernization—that historians tend to place at the origins of Jewish modernity. Hundert puts this experience, that of the majority of the Jewish people, at the center of his history. He focuses on the relations of Jews with the state and their role in the economy, and on more "internal" developments such as the popularization of the Kabbalah and the rise of Hasidism. Thus he describes the elements of Jewish experience that became the basis for a "core Jewish identity"—an identity that accompanied the majority of Jews into modernity.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520940321
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Missing from most accounts of the modern history of Jews in Europe is the experience of what was once the largest Jewish community in the world—an oversight that Gershon David Hundert corrects in this history of Eastern European Jews in the eighteenth century. The experience of eighteenth-century Jews in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth did not fit the pattern of integration and universalization—in short, of westernization—that historians tend to place at the origins of Jewish modernity. Hundert puts this experience, that of the majority of the Jewish people, at the center of his history. He focuses on the relations of Jews with the state and their role in the economy, and on more "internal" developments such as the popularization of the Kabbalah and the rise of Hasidism. Thus he describes the elements of Jewish experience that became the basis for a "core Jewish identity"—an identity that accompanied the majority of Jews into modernity.
Catalogue of an Extensive Collection of Books in Every Department of Ancient and Modern Literature
Author: Lea & Febiger
Publisher:
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Modern Publications and New Editions of Valuable Standard Works, Published, Or Preparing for Publication
Author: Lea & Febiger
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The British Critic
Author:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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