Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,64 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750931694
The British Abroad is illustrated throughout with a superb collection of photographs and maps, many previously unpublished. This book will appeal to anyone interested in eighteenth-century travel and the social intricacies of travelling abroad in that era.
Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 1982-06-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0199878536
A book about the meaning of travel, about how important the topic has been for writers for two and a half centuries, and about how excellent the literature of travel happened to be in England and America in the 1920s and 30s.
Author : Karen O'Reilly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 113543381X
Annotation This book is the first to study the British expatriate community in Spain and explodes popular stereotypes of 'Brits abroad'. This is instead a rich account of who migrates, their reasons for migration and the daily realities of expat life.
Author : Benjamin Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 2001-11-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521804080
Innocence Abroad explores the encounter between the Netherlands and the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author : Monika Class
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1443809373
The rise of the modern English nation coincided with England’s increased encounters with other peoples, both at home and abroad. Their cultures and ideas—artistic, religious, political, and philosophical—contributed, in turn, to the composition of England’s own domestic identity. Transnational England sheds light on this exchange through a close investigation of the literatures of the time, from dramas to novels, travel narratives to religious hymns, and poetry to prose, all of which reveal how connections between England and other world communities 1780-1860 simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation and the ideological boundaries that constituted it. Featuring essays from distinguished and emergent scholars that will enhance the literary, historical, and cultural knowledge of England's interaction with European, American, Eastern, and Asian nations during a time of increased travel and vast imperial expansion, this volume is valuable reading for academics and students alike.
Author : James T. Boulton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 25,99 MB
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1846317916
The volume gathers together, and allows the reader to explore, the diverse experiences of a group of quite unconnected young, wealthy travellers as they made their way through eighteenth-century Europe towards Rome and conveyed their views by letters to friends and family at home.
Author : T. Crook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 30,35 MB
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0230319327
Evil and barbarism continue to be associated with the totalitarian 'extremes' of twentieth-century Europe. Addressing domestic and imperial conflicts in modern Britain and beyond, as well as varied forms of representation, this volume explores the inter-relations of evil, atrocity and civilizational prejudice within liberal cultures of governance.
Author : Miriam Akhtar
Publisher : Virgin Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 35,84 MB
Release : 2000
Category : British
ISBN : 9781852279509
This is the story of rise of the summer holiday as Britain's most popular leisure activity. From pre-war through to the 1950s were the boom years for the British seaside resorts, but by the mid 1960s jet airliners were in widespread service, leading to package holidays and the mass invasion of the Rivieras and Costas.
Author : Xavier Guégan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1137304154
This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration – and exploitation – of other lands and peoples.
Author : Jeanne E. Abrams
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 20,56 MB
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1479802875
Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American From 1778 to 1788, the Founding Father and later President John Adams lived in Europe as a diplomat. Joined by his wife, Abigail, in 1784, the two shared rich encounters with famous heads of the European royal courts, including the ill-fated King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, and the staid British Monarchs King George III and Queen Charlotte. In this engaging narrative, A View from Abroad takes us on the first full exploration of the Adams’s lives abroad. Jeanne E. Abrams reveals how the journeys of John and Abigail Adams not only changed the course of their intellectual, political, and cultural development—transforming the couple from provincials to sophisticated world travelers—but most importantly served to strengthen their loyalty to America. Abrams shines a new light on how the Adamses and their American contemporaries set about supplanting their British origins with a new American identity. They and their fellow Americans grappled with how to reorder their society as the new nation took its place in the international transatlantic world. After just a short time abroad, Abigail maintained that, “My Heart and Soul is more American than ever. We are a family by ourselves.” The Adamses’ quest to define what it means to be an American, and the answers they discovered in their time abroad, still resonate with us to this day.
