Book Description
"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393037098
"The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
Author : Jonathan Spence
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 17,61 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0241959144
In 1728 a stranger handed a letter to Governor Yue calling on him to lead a rebellion against the Manchu rulers of China. Feigning agreement, he learnt the details of the plot and immediately informed the Emperor, Yongzheng. The ringleaders were captured with ease, forced to recant and, to the confusion and outrage of the public, spared. Drawing on an enormous wealth of documentary evidence - over a hundred and fifty secret documents between the Emperor and his agents are stored in Chinese archives - Jonathan Spence has recreated this revolt of the scholars in fascinating and chilling detail. It is a story of unwordly dreams of a better world and the facts of bureaucratic power, of the mind of an Emperor and of the uses of his mercy.
Author : Suzanne M. Wolfe
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 13,82 MB
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643851799
The Elizabethan court is beset by traitors at home and abroad as spies, rogues, and would-be usurpers of the throne vie for power. England, 1586. Tensions rise as threats to the realm abound. Traitors are plotting for Mary Queen of Scots to depose Elizabeth I and take the throne. Rumors of a Spanish invasion by sea mount daily. And the body of one of Sir Francis Walsingham's agents is found floating in the Thames as other agents face enemies armed with crossbows and vials of poison. Nicholas Holt, a spy in Walsingham's employ, narrowly averts the same fate while setting off in pursuit of the killer--or killers. And when he surprises a suspect in the company of a Spanish agent, he believes he's close not only to solving the case but preventing an act of high treason. But soon, the attacks begin to threaten Nick's circle of friends. As those he loves face mortal peril, Nick must unravel the tangled plot, all the while steering a careful path through the fierce rivalry between Walsingham's agents and those of the Queen's favorite, the upstart Earl of Essex. Now it's a race to the breathless conclusion as Nick desperately searches for the answers that can save the day--and a vestige of loyalty that can save his own life.
Author : F. G. Bailey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429983085
Treasons, Stratagems, and Spoils is a sequel to the author's highly regarded Stratagems and Spoils.Treason, the new word in the title, indicates a heightened attention to morality?to ideas of duty and conscience?as a foil to rational calculations of advantage. By providing sets of propositions and questions that illuminate narratives of political events, this book helps anyone interested in struggles for power understand politics and political leaders in their own and in other cultures. The method can be used to make sense of power struggles in peasant villages, electoral and presidential maneuvering in the United States, the confusions of post-Soviet Eastern Europe, or Gandhi's morality deployed as a weapon to drive the British out of India.
Author : Peter BURKE (Serjeant at Law.)
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 35,53 MB
Release : 1842
Category :
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 1682
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Lawrence Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Land titles
ISBN :
Author : Henry FOULIS (Fellow of Lincoln College Oxford.)
Publisher :
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 41,35 MB
Release : 1681
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Peter Burke
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Criminal law
ISBN :
Author : Henry Foulis
Publisher :
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 1671
Category : Anti-Catholicism
ISBN :