The Stranger in France
Author : Sir John Carr
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Sir John Carr
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,8 MB
Release : 1807
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Sir John Carr
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2012-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781290162739
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Sir John Carr
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 1803
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Peter McNeil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 019164028X
We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines daily in our newspapers and on the internet. More than ever, luxury is a pervasive presence in the cultural and economic life of the West - and increasingly too in the emerging super-economies of Asia and Latin America. Yet luxury is hardly a new phenomenon. Today's obsession with luxury brands and services is just one of the many manifestations that luxury has assumed. In the middle ages and the Renaissance, for example, luxury was linked to notions of magnificence and courtly splendour. In the eighteenth century luxury was at the centre of philosophical debates over its role in shaping people's desires and oiling the wheels of commerce. And it continues to morph today, with the growth of the global super-rich and increasing wealth polarization. From palaces to penthouses, from couture fashion to lavish jewellery, from handbags to red wine, from fast cars to easy money, Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello present the first ever global history of luxury, from the Romans to the twenty-first century: a sparkling and ever-changing story of extravagance, excess, novelty, and indulgence.
Author : Thompson Cooper
Publisher : London : G. Bell
Page : 1230 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 1873
Category : Biography
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 30,94 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
ISBN :
Author : Thompson Cooper
Publisher :
Page : 762 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Biography
ISBN :
Author : Jennifer Ham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 27,51 MB
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1136669183
Animal Acts records the history of the fluctuating boundary between animals and humans as expressed in literary, philosophical and scientific texts, as well as visual arts and historical practices such as dissection, circus acts, the hunt and zoos. The essays document a persistent return of animality, a becoming animal that has always existed within and at the margins of Western Culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 20,85 MB
Release : 1804
Category : Books
ISBN :
Author : Mark Philp
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754653134
"By bringing together historians of Britain and France to examine the dynamics of the conflict between the two nations in this period, this book measures its impact on their domestic political cultures, and its effect on their perceptions of each other. In so doing it will encourage scholars to examine in more detail aspects of popular mobilization which have hitherto been largely ignored, such as the resurgence of loyalism in 1803, and to see contributions in the light of the dual contexts of domestic political conflict and their war with each other. The book contributes both new detail to our understanding of the period and a better overall understanding of the complex place that each nation came to occupy in the consciousness of the other."--BOOK JACKET.