Download or read book Historical Parallels vol 3 of 3 written by Arthur Thomas Malkin and published by CHARLES KNIGHT & Co. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Example in this ebook CHAPTER XIII The cautious policy of Pericles, and the plague, combined to render the two first years of the war barren of incidents. The third campaign opened more energetically with the siege of Platæa, the old and faithful ally of Athens. This is the earliest siege of which we have any full and particular account; and some surprise may be felt at the rudeness and inefficacy of the means employed in prosecuting it by the most military nation of Greece. For this, however, all previous history prepares us. To the early Greeks fortifications of any strength appear to have presented insuperable obstacles. Not a city of any note can be mentioned which was taken by fair fighting. Troy was impregnable by force. Eira was taken in consequence of its being accidentally left unguarded. Ithome held out for ten years, and at last obtained honourable terms of surrender. And when Cyrus marched against Babylon, the inhabitants, trusting in their walls and their magazines, “made no account at all of being besieged; but Cyrus became greatly puzzled what to do, having spent much time there and made no progress at all.” The stratagem by which he took it at last is well known: he laid dry the bed of the Euphrates, and introduced a body of troops through the deserted channel; yet danger, even from this quarter, had been foreseen and guarded against, if proper caution had been used. Each side of the river was lined with walls, and gates were placed at the end of the streets which led down to the water side; so that, as Herodotus himself remarks, if the Persians had been on their guard the attempt might have been defeated by merely closing the gates, and the assailants might have been cut off entirely by missile weapons. But, to return to Platæa; the Spartans were notoriously unskilled, even among the Greeks, in this branch of warfare. Military engines they had none; a want arising probably from their national poverty; for the ram was known, and was employed, some say invented, by Pericles, at the siege of Samos, some years before the Peloponnesian war broke out. It is remarkable that from this time downwards to the invention of gunpowder, no material discovery was made in this branch of the military art, except the introduction of moving towers. Lines of circumvallation, as they were the earliest, continued to be the surest means of overcoming the pertinacious resistance of stone and mortar. Such was the case even at Rome, after the vast influx of wealth from conquered provinces had facilitated the construction of the largest and most expensive machines; and the vast scale upon which those temporary enclosures were completed, exhibits most strikingly the laboriousness of the Roman legionaries. This, however, is foreign to our present subject. If the reader has any curiosity respecting these works, he will find some remarkable ones described in Cæsar’s Commentaries. To be continue in this ebook
Download or read book Historical Parallels Commemoration and Icons written by Andreas Leutzsch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical parallels, analogies, anachronisms and metaphors to the past play a crucial role in political speeches, historical narratives, iconography, movies and newspapers on a daily basis. They frame, articulate and represent a specific understanding of history and can be used not only to construct but also to rethink historical continuity. Almost-forgotten or sleeping history can be revived to legitimize an imagined future in a political discourse today. History can hardly be neutral or factual because it depends on the historian’s, as well the people’s, perspective as to what kind of events and sources they combine to make history meaningful. Analysing historical analogies – as embedded in narratives and images of the past – enables us to understand how history and collective memory are managed and used for political purposes and to provide social orientation in time and space. To rethink theories of history, iconology and collective memory, the authors of this volume discuss a variety of cases from Hong Kong, China and Europe.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Boston written by BOSTON, Massachusetts. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Best Reading Hints on the Selection of Books written by Frederic Beecher Perkins and published by New York, G. P. Putnam's sons [c1877]. This book was released on 1877 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Society of Writers to H M Signet in Scotland written by Signet Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the signet library written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 1358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The London catalogue of books published in Great Britain from 1814 to 1846 compiled by T Hodgson written by London catalogue and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The London Catalogue of Books Published in Great Britain with the Sizes Prices and Publishers Names from 1814 to 1846 written by Catalogues and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rethinking Sino Japanese Alienation written by Barry Buzan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bitterly contested memories of war, colonisation, and empire among Japan, China, and Korea have increasingly threatened regional order and security over the past three decades. In Sino-Japanese relations, identity, territory, and power pull together in a particularly lethal direction, generating dangerous tensions in both geopolitical and memory rivalries. Buzan and Goh explore a new approach to dealing with this history problem. First, they construct a more balanced and global view of China and Japan in modern world history. Second, building on this, they sketch out the possibilities for a 21st century great power bargain between them. Buzan puts Northeast Asia's history since 1840 into both a world historical and a systematic normative context, exposing the parochial nature of the China-Japan history debate in relation to what is a bigger shared story about their encounter with modernity and the West, within which their modern encounter with each other took place. Arguing that regional order will ultimately depend substantially on the relationship between these two East Asian great powers, Goh explores the conditions under which China and Japan have been able to reach strategic bargains in the course of their long historical relationship, and uses this to sketch out the main modes of agreement that might underpin a new contemporary great power bargain between them in a variety of future scenarios for the region. The frameworks adopted here consciously blend historical contextualisation, enduring concerns with wealth, power and interest, and the complex relationship between Northeast Asian states' evolving encounters with each other and with global international society.
Download or read book Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth Century Literature written by Elizabeth Rich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Fact: Authority and the Historical Document in Late Twentieth-Century Literature examines historiographic metafiction’s epistemological concern with the historical document. The six texts herein recover official and neglected documents, viewing history from marginal perspectives endeavoring an ethical reconsideration of dominant historical narratives. Thematically paired chapters focus on eye-witness narratives, legal and official government documents, and news publications. The first two chapters, D.M. Thomas’ The White Hotel with Toni Morrison’s Beloved, explore the writers’ reconsideration of eye-witness accounts, specifically the Holocaust survivor narrative and the slave narrative. The second pair reviews mythologies of the nation in the United States. Susan Howe’s Singularities rewrites the Indian captivity narrative. Hannah Weiner’s Spoke revises the 1868 Black Hills treaty to focus on how popular and official texts promote the colonial imaginary and function to justify colonial expansion. The final two chapters examine Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace and Robert Coover’s The Public Burning, which critique the press’s authority by questioning its claim to objectivity.
Download or read book The Epochs of Painting Characterized written by Ralph Nicholson Wornum and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Historical and literary studies written by Bruce M. Metzger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Roman Literature 2 vols written by M. von Albrecht and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-16 with total page 1864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael von Albrecht's A History of Roman Literature, originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the long awaited counterpart to Albin Lesky's Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur. In what will probably be the last survey made by a single scholar the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. 'Literature' is taken here in its broad, antique sense, and therefore also includes e.g. rhetoric, philosophy and history. Special attention has been given to the influence of Latin literature on subsequent centuries down to our own days. Extensive indices give access to this monument of learning. The introductions in Von Albrecht's texts, together with the large bibliographies make further study both more fruitful and easy.
Download or read book Brighton Free Public Library and Museum Royal Pavilion Catalogue of Books in the Library 1873 written by BRIGHTON. Public Library, Museums and Fine Art Galleries and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
