Travels in Hungary
Author : Robert Townson
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1797
Category : Botany
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Author : Robert Townson
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 1797
Category : Botany
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Author : Robert Townson
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Page : 506 pages
File Size : 44,78 MB
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Author : Robert Townson
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1797
Category : Botany
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Author : Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1527561348
This volume offers a unique glimpse into a European household in 18th century India. Claude Martin was an entrepreneurial Frenchman who settled in Lucknow, capital of the rich Muslim state of Awadh (Oudh). The book presents the inventory of his houses here for the first time, together with the catalogue of books from his library. It gathers together six experts to examine Martin’s numerous possessions, and discuss his paintings, silverware, jewellery, textiles, weapons, carriages, boats and hot air balloons. His collection of scientific items imported from the best European instrument makers reveals his practical experiments with electricity and astronomy, while his buildings exploited hydraulic engineering to keep them cool. This book will appeal to readers fascinated by the introduction of Enlightenment ideas into post-Mughal India and the rise of a ‘common soldier’ to the highest ranks of the East India Company. Childless himself, Martin left money to found La Martinière schools in India and France.
Author : Ezra Greenspan
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780271020501
Book History is the annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP). Book History is devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the history of the creation, dissemination, and the reception of script and print. Book History publishes research on the social, economic, and cultural history of authorship, editing, printing, the book arts, publishing, the book trade, periodicals, newspapers, ephemera, copyright, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, literacy education, reading habits, and reader response.
Author : Tobias Smollett
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Page : 610 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 1797
Category : Books
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Author : Robert Nemes
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0804799121
Another Hungary tells the stories of eight remarkable individuals: an aristocrat, merchant, engineer, teacher, journalist, rabbi, tobacconist, and writer. All eight came from the same woebegone corner of prewar Hungary. Their biographies illuminate how the region's residents made sense of economic underdevelopment, ethnic diversity, and relations between Christians and Jews. Taken together, their stories create a unique picture of the troubled history of Eastern Europe, viewed not from the capital cities, but from the small towns and villages. Through these eight lives, Another Hungary investigates the wider processes that remade Eastern Europe in the nineteenth century. It asks: How did people make sense of the dramatic changes, from the advent of the railroad to the outbreak of the First World War? How did they respond to the army of political ideologies that marched through this region: liberalism, socialism, nationalism, antisemitism, and Zionism? To what extent did people in the provinces not just react to, but influence what was happening in the centers of political power? This collective biography confirms that nineteenth-century Hungary was no earthly paradise. But it also shows that the provinces produced men and women with bold ideas on how to change their world.
Author : Ralph Griffiths
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Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,37 MB
Release : 1797
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Page : 612 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
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Author : Ralph Griffiths
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Page : 614 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 1797
Category : Books
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