Author : Beatrice de Graaf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1108842062
Europe was forged out of the ashes of the Napoleonic wars by means of a collective fight against revolutionary terror. The Allied Council created a culture of in- and exclusion, of people that were persecuted and those who were protected, using secret police, black lists, border controls and fortifications, and financed by European capital holders.
Author : Danny Laurie-Fletcher
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 3030038521
This book examines British invasion and spy literature and the political, social, and cultural attitudes that it expresses. This form of literature began to appear towards the end of the nineteenth century and developed into a clearly recognised form during the Edwardian period (1901-1914). By looking at the origins and evolution of invasion literature, and to a lesser extent detective literature, up to the end of World War I, Danny Laurie-Fletcher utilises fiction as a window into the mind-set of British society. There is a focus on the political arguments embedded within the texts, which mirrored debates in wider British society that took place before and during World War I – debates about military conscription, immigration, spy scares, the fear of British imperial decline, and the rise of Germany. These debates and topics are examined to show what influence they had on the creation of the intelligence services, MI5 and MI6, and how foreigners were perceived in society.
Author : J. E. Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2011-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0857720511
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries revolutionary dissent, political upheaval and social protest spread throughout Europe - and Wales was no exception. In this unique examination of British social history, J.E. Thomas focuses upon the power of the local gentry in Wales, and their relationship with the poor and potentially revolutionary population. Early explosions of protest were seen all over Wales, coinciding with the aftermath of the American Revolution, and the equally seismic events of the French Revolution, while later revolts went on to provide serious challenges to the British state. 'Social Disorder in Britain' is an important contribution to the study of the history of religion, social protest and the rise of revolutionary movements, and will be essential reading for students and researchers of British history as well as those interested in revolution more generally.
Author : William Wordsworth
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 12,84 MB
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1770485376
Published seven years after William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s popular collection Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth’s Poems, in Two Volumes shocked readers and drew scornful reviews. Poems was a revolutionary challenge to literary taste in revolution-weary times. The poems were perceived as inappropriately personal and egotistical in the attention that the poet pays to “moods of [his own] mind.” The collection is now seen as containing some of the most enduring works of British Romantic poetry, and Wordsworth’s achievement in opening up new worlds of subject matter, emotion, and poetic expression is widely recognized. Richard Matlak places the initial reaction to Poems in its historical context and explains the sea change in critical and popular opinion about these poems. The extensive historical documents place the poems in the context of Wordsworth’s life, contemporary politics, and the literary world of the early nineteenth century.
Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 977 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Geopolitics
ISBN : 0199951063
The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.
Author : Harold Felix Baker Wheeler
Publisher :
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Harold Felix Baker Wheeler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,57 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781018132938
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Frederick George Aflalo
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Literature
ISBN :
Author : Eduard von Wertheimer
Publisher :
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,69 MB
Release : 1906
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Tom Reiss
Publisher : Crown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307952959
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • ONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used his larger-than-life feats as inspiration for such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. But, hidden behind General Dumas's swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: he was the son of a black slave—who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time. Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution—until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat. The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world’s first multi-racial society. TIME magazine called The Black Count "one of those quintessentially human stories of strength and courage that sheds light on the historical moment that made it possible." But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.
