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Book Warfare and the Age of Printing  4 vols

Download or read book Warfare and the Age of Printing 4 vols written by Louis Sloos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 2008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important part of the Dutch national treasure of early printed books from before 1801 on military and related subjects is kept in military libraries and collections. This catalogue contains 10,000 books in twelve different languages dated 1500–1800 from nine different Defence institutions/collections, representing both Army and Navy. By far the largest collections are the property of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum in Delft and the Royal Netherlands Military Academy in Breda. A great if not substantial part of these books is especially of international significance because of the contents, the intrinsic value or as historical objects. It took eight years to trace and describe these books, all of which have been given extensive analytical bibliographic descriptions. The book includes over 2000 illustrations. The book is a project of the Royal Netherlands Army Museum, Delft

Book Liberty on the Waterfront

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul A. Gilje
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2012-04-17
  • ISBN : 0812202023
  • Pages : 359 pages

Download or read book Liberty on the Waterfront written by Paul A. Gilje and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-04-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through careful research and colorful accounts, historian Paul A. Gilje discovers what liberty meant to an important group of common men in American society, those who lived and worked on the waterfront and aboard ships. In the process he reveals that the idealized vision of liberty associated with the Founding Fathers had a much more immediate and complex meaning than previously thought. In Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution, life aboard warships, merchantmen, and whalers, as well as the interactions of mariners and others on shore, is recreated in absorbing detail. Describing the important contributions of sailors to the resistance movement against Great Britain and their experiences during the Revolutionary War, Gilje demonstrates that, while sailors recognized the ideals of the Revolution, their idea of liberty was far more individual in nature—often expressed through hard drinking and womanizing or joining a ship of their choice. Gilje continues the story into the post-Revolutionary world highlighted by the Quasi War with France, the confrontation with the Barbary Pirates, and the War of 1812.

Book Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland in haar       vergadering genomen op donderdag den 26 february 1784

Download or read book Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland in haar vergadering genomen op donderdag den 26 february 1784 written by and published by . This book was released on 1784 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes  1730 1807

Download or read book Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes 1730 1807 written by Emma Christopher and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Book Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions

Download or read book Atlantic Creoles in the Age of Revolutions written by Jane Landers and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a tumultuous era of Atlantic revolutions, a remarkable group of African-born and African-descended individuals transformed themselves from slaves into active agents of their lives and times. Through prodigious archival research, Landers alters our vision of the breadth and extent of the Age of Revolution, and our understanding of its actors.

Book Nelson

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrew Lambert
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2010-12-09
  • ISBN : 0571265707
  • Pages : 422 pages

Download or read book Nelson written by Andrew Lambert and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fascinating . . . Shot through with fresh insights . . . No previous biography has attempted anything so comprehensive.' ObserverNelson is a thrilling new appraisal of Horatio Nelson, the greatest practitioner of naval command the world has ever seen. It explores the professional, personal, intellectual and practical origins of one man's genius, to understand how the greatest warrior that Britain has ever produced transformed the art of conflict, and enabled his country to survive the challenge of total war and international isolation. In Nelson, Andrew Lambert - described by David Cannadine as 'the outstanding British naval historian of his generation' - is able to offer new insights into the individual quality which led Byron rightly to celebrate Nelson's genius as 'Britannia's God of War'. He demonstrates how Admiral Nelson elevated the business of naval warfare to the level of the sublime. Nelson's unique gift was to take that which other commanders found complex, and reduce it to simplicity. Where his predecessors and opponents saw a particular battle as an end in itself, Nelson was always a step ahead - even in the midst of terrifying, close-quarters action, with officers and men struck down all around him. 'Excellent . . . Worthy of the stirring events [it celebrates].' Independent

Book The Age of Revolutions in Global Context  c  1760 1840

Download or read book The Age of Revolutions in Global Context c 1760 1840 written by David Armitage and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and China, the chapters shed new light on this pivotal period of world history. Offering fresh perspectives on: - The American, French, and Haitian Revolutions - The break-up of the Iberian empires - The Napoleonic Wars The volume also presents ground-breaking treatments of world history from an African perspective, of South Asia's age of revolutions, and of stability and instability in China. The first truly global account of the causes and consequences of the transformative 'Age of Revolutions', this collection presents a strikingly novel and comprehensive view of the revolutionary era as well as rich examples of global history in practice.

Book Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en West Vriesland  in hun       vergaderinge genoomen op woensdag den 30 april 1783

Download or read book Extract uit de resolutien van de heeren Staaten van Holland en West Vriesland in hun vergaderinge genoomen op woensdag den 30 april 1783 written by and published by . This book was released on 1783 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Press gang Afloat and Ashore

Download or read book The Press gang Afloat and Ashore written by John Robert Hutchinson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Extract uyt het register der resolutien van de       gecommitteerde raaden van de Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland  genoomen op den 15 january 1749

Download or read book Extract uyt het register der resolutien van de gecommitteerde raaden van de Staaten van Holland en Westvriesland genoomen op den 15 january 1749 written by and published by . This book was released on 1749 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: