Journeys of a German in England in 1782
Author : Karl Philipp Moritz
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 1965
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : Karl Philipp Moritz
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 1965
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan M. Hess
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300097016
In the analysis of the debates in Germany over Jews, Judaism and Jewish emancipation in the late 18th and 19th centuries, Jonathan M. Hess reconstructs a crucial chapter in the history of secular anti-Semitism. He examines not only the thinking of German intellectuals of the time but also that of Jewish writers, revealing the connections between anti-Semitism and visions of modernity, and the Jewish responses to the treat posed by these connections.
Author : Troy Bickham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2005-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0199286965
Savages within the Empire explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to capture the nation's sustained attention for the first time. Troy Bickham considers an array of contexts,including newspapers, imperial policy, museum exhibits, the Enlightenment, missionary records, and the public outcry over the use of American Indians as allies during the American War of Independence. He thusreveals the prevailing pragmatism with which Britons of all ranks approached the empire as well as its impact on British culture.
Author : Susanne Kord
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571132680
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Author : Royal Historical Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 1998-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521622622
The Royal Historical Society Transactions offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians. Also available as a journal, volume seven of the sixth series will include: 'The Peoples of Britain and Ireland, 1100-1400: IV Language and Historical Mythology', Rees Davies; 'The Limits of Totalitarianism: God, State and Society in the GDR', Mary Fulbrook; 'History as Destiny: Gobineau, H. S. Chamberlain and Spengler', Michael Biddiss; 'Constructing the Past in the Early Middle Ages: The Case of the Royal Frankish Annals', Rosamond McKitterick; 'England, Britain and the Audit of War', Kenneth Morgan; 'The Cromwellian Decade: Authority and Consent', C. S. L. Davies; 'Place and Public Finance', R. W. Hoyle; 'The Parliament of England', Pauline Croft; 'Thomas Cromwell's Doctrine of Parliamentary Sovereignty', Conrad Russell; 'Religion', Christopher Haigh; 'Sir Geoffrey Elton and the Practice of History', Quentin Skinner.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3477 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135456623
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Lynn MacKay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317321421
The population of London soared during the Industrial Revolution and the poorer areas became iconic places of overcrowding and vice. Focusing on the communities of Westminster, MacKay shows that many of the plebeian populace retained traditional working-class pursuits, such as gambling, drinking and blood sports.
Author : Derek Offord
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2006-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1402039093
Journeys to a Graveyard examines the descriptions provided by eight Russian writers of journeys made to western European countries between 1697 and 1880. The descriptions reveal the mentality and preoccupations of the Russian social and intellectual elites during this period. The travellers' perceptions of western European countries are treated here as an ambivalent response to a civilization with which Russia was belatedly coming into close contact as a result of the imperial ambition of the Russian state and the westernization of the Russian elites. The travellers perceived the most advanced European countries as superior to Russia in terms of material achievement and the maturity and refinement of their cultures, but they also promoted a view of Russia as in other respects superior to the western nations. Heavily influenced from the late eighteenth century by Romanticism and by the rise of nationalism in the west, they tended to depict European civilization as moribund. By this means they managed to define their own emergent nation in a contrastive way as having youth and promising futurity.
Author : Royal Historical Society
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521815611
Publishes general papers and a section on English politeness: conduct, social rank and moral virtue.
Author : Matthias Konzett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1159 pages
File Size : 42,46 MB
Release : 2015-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113594122X
Designed to provide English readers of German literature the opportunity to familiarize themselves with both the established canon and newly emerging literatures that reflect the concerns of women and ethnic minorities, the Encyclopedia of German Literature includes more than 500 entries on writers, individual work, and topics essential to an understanding of this rich literary tradition. Drawing on the expertise of an international group of experts, the essays in the encyclopedia reflect developments of the latest scholarship in German literature, culture, and history and society. In addition to the essays, author entries include biographies and works lists; and works entries provide information about first editions, selected critical editions, and English-language translations. All entries conclude with a list of further readings.