The Anglo-French Alliance 1716-1731
Author : Jeremy Black
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Alliances
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Author : Jeremy Black
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Alliances
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Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 18,82 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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Author : David Edward McKillop
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,45 MB
Release : 1984
Category : France
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Author : Christoph Schmitt-Maaß
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2014-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9401210640
François Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon, Archbishop of Cambrai (1651–1715) exerted a considerable influence on the development and spread of the Enlightenment. His most famous work, the Homeric novel Les Aventures de Télémaque, Fils d’Ulysse (1699), composed for the education of his pupil Duc de Bourgogne, was, after the Bible, the most widely read literary work in France throughout the eighteenth century. It was also translated and adapted into many other European languages. And yet oddly enough, the question as to why Fénelon’s ideas resonated over such a wide span of space and time has as yet found no coherent and comprehensive answer. By taking Fénelon’s intellectual influence as a matter of ‘cultural translation’, this anthology traces the reception of Fénelon and his multifaceted writings outside of France, and in doing so aims to enrich not only our understanding of the Enlightenment, but also of the thinker himself.
Author : Patrick Milton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2023-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0192871188
Interventions in other states on behalf of their populations is often portrayed as a novel phenomenon in state practice, one which breaches the old principle of sovereignty. But is this really a new practice? Patrick Milton argues that such interventions occurred frequently as far back as the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries.
Author : Alfred Colville
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 14,12 MB
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1107623200
Originally published in 1935, this collection of essays examines the mutual effect of Anglo-French relations on the cultures, governments, finances and institutions of each country from 1716 to the beginning of WWI. The text is in English, although the essays are by both French and English scholars. This book will be of value for anyone with an interest in the shared history between France and England.
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Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,16 MB
Release : 1935
Category : France
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Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 15,83 MB
Release : 2006-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802142283
History would have been different if not for the events of 1759. It was the fourth year of the Seven Years', or the French-and-Indian, War, and crucial victories against the French in the first truly global conflict laid the foundations of British supremacy throughout the world for the next hundred years. The defeat of the French not only paved the way for the global hegemony of the English language but also made the emergence of the United States possible. Guiding us through England's often extremely narrow victories in India, North America, and the Caribbean, McLynn controversially suggests that the birth of the British Empire was more a result of luck than of rigorous planning. McLynn includes anecdotes of the intellectual and cultural leaders of the day--Swedenborg, Hume, Voltaire--and sources ranging from the Vatican archives to oral histories of Native Americans.--From publisher description.
Author : Thomas McGeary
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 11,12 MB
Release : 2024-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1837651698
Explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature and partisan politics to show how Italian opera was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day. This last of a trilogy of books on opera and politics in Britain examines the cultural politics of opera during the ministerial reign of Sir Robert Walpole from 1720 to 1742. The book explores the intersection of the world of opera, literature, and partisan politics to show how Italian opera - with its associations with the court, ministry and Britain's social-political elite - was put to use in the 'culture wars' of the day: how Italian opera was used for partisan political advantage; how political work could be accomplished by means of opera. It shows that attacks on opera had ulterior targets. The book surveys a range of often overlooked verse and prints to show how critique or satire of opera were a means for oppositional writers to delegitimize the Walpole ministry. Polemicists framed opera as a consequence of the corruption, luxury and False Taste generated by Walpole's ministry. It closes in the watershed year 1742: Handel had produced the last of his Italian operas the previous year, Walpole fell from power, and Alexander Pope published the last book of his Dunciad project.
Author : William Young
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2003
Category : A Bibliography
ISBN : 0595298745
The history of international relations and warfare of early modern Europe has gained popularity in recent years. This bibliography provides a valuable listing of books, dissertations, and journal articles in the English language for scholars and general readers interested in diplomatic relations and warfare from the Hundred Years' War to the Napoleonic Wars.