Download or read book Louisburg and the Peace of Aix la Chapelle 1748 written by Jack M. Sosin and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660 1783 written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birth of a Great Power System 1740 1815 written by Hamish Scott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth of a Great Power System, 1740-1815 examines a key development in modern European history: the origins and emergence of a competitive state system. H.M. Scott demonstrates how the well-known and dramatic events of these decades - the emergence of Russia and Prussia; the three partitions of Poland; the continuing retreat of the Ottoman Empire; the unprecedented territorial expansion of Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, halted by the final defeat of Napoleon - were part of a wider process that created the modern great power system, dominated by Europe's five leading states. Enhanced by maps and a chronology of principal events, this comprehensive and accessible textbook is fully up-to-date in its coverage of recent scholarship. Unlike many other treatments of this period, Scott extends his beyond the French Revolution of 1789 in order to demonstrate how events both before and after this great upheaval merged to produce the central political development in modern European history. This book addresses the crucial phase in the emergence of the modern international system which, with the subsequent addition of the USA, Japan and Russia, has prevailed until the present day.
Download or read book A Pictorial History of the United States written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Influence of Sea Power upon History written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Influence of Sea Power Upon History is a work by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the history of maritime conflict while examining the numerous aspects required to support and attain sea power.
Download or read book British French Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century written by Kathleen Hardesty Doig and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and Great Britain, so close geographically but separated by language, culture and history, had been exchanging merchandise, visitors, rulers and ideas for hundreds of years before the eighteenth century. The flow of traffic only quickened during this period, and became a flood, in the direction of Great Britain, during the decade following the Revolution. While certain of these exchanges, such as Voltaire’s sojourn abroad, have been studied in detail, others are coming into focus only as scholars study secondary figures in the host country and the interactions of various groups with its citizens. British-French Exchanges in the Eighteenth Century gathers together fourteen recent essays by scholars from Great Britain and the United States who have examined various parameters of the subject. Correspondences and translations are obvious forms of cultural sharing and are in play in many of the essays. Others recount and analyse the stories of persons who actually visited the other country in circumstances ranging from pure tourism to emigration to a hostage exchange. A final group of essays treats intellectual influences in realms as diverse as encyclopaedism, cultural analysis, connoisseurship, and cosmopolitanism in the arts. The volume is appropriate for collections in history, literature, and culture. TABLE OF CONTENTS Part I: Translations and Correspondence 1 Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s English Correspondents During the French Revolution MALCOLM COOK 2 The English Translations of Voltaire’s La Pucelle J. PATRICK LEE† 3 Enlightened Exchange: The Correspondence of André Morellet and Lord Shelburne DOROTHY MEDLIN and ARLENE P. SHY 4 The Scottish Enlightenment in Action: The Correspondence of William Robertson and J.-B.-A. Suard JEFFREY SMITTEN Part II: Sojourns Abroad 5 ‘The Only Disagreeable Thing in the Whole’: the Selection and Experience of the British Hostages for the Delivery of Cape Breton in Paris, 1748-49 ROBIN EAGLES 6 Peregrinations to the Convent: Hester Thrale Piozzi and Ann Radcliffe TONYA MOUTRAY MCARTHUR 7 Friend or Foe? French Émigrés Discover Britain ROSENA DAVISON 8 ‘Genuine Anecdotes’: Mary Charlton and Revolutionary Celebrity GILLIAN DOW Part III: Intellectual and Artistic Exchanges 9 Two Partial English-Language Translations of the Encyclopédie: The Encyclopedias of John Barrow and Temple Henry Croker JEFF LOVELAND 10 British Biography in the Encyclopédie méthodique: Histoire KATHLEEN HARDESTY DOIG 11 Diderot, Dentistry and British Politics: Two Neglected Pamphlets DAVID ADAMS 12 British and French Influences on Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur’s Letters from an American Farmer DEIDRE DAWSON 13 A Commonwealth of Connoisseurs: British Humanism in the Art and Science of the Ancien Régime ELIZABETH LIEBMAN 14 An Anglo-Swiss Connection in the Age of Voltaire: Jean Huber’s British Friends and Relations GARRY APGAR
Download or read book The Loyalists of America and their Times written by Egerton Ryerson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Loyalists of America and their Times by Egerton Ryerson
Download or read book The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution written by D. H. Robinson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Idea of Europe and the Origins of the American Revolution, Dan Robinson presents a new history of politics in colonial America and the imperial crisis, tracing how ideas of Europe and Europeanness shaped British-American political culture. Reconstructing colonial debates about the European states system, European civilisation, and Britain's position within both, Robinson shows how these concerns informed colonial attitudes towards American identity and America's place inside - and, ultimately, outside - the emerging British Empire. Taking in more than two centuries of Atlantic history, he explores the way in which colonists inherited and adapted Anglo-British traditions of thinking about international politics, how they navigated imperial politics during the European wars of 1740-1763, and how the burgeoning patriot movement negotiated the dual crisis of Europe and Empire in the between 1763 and 1775. In the process, Robinson sheds new light on the development of public politics in colonial America, the Anglicisation/Americanisation debate, the political economy of empire, early American art and poetry, eighteenth-century geopolitical thinking, and the relationship between international affairs, nationalism, and revolution. What emerges from this story is an American Revolution that seems both decidedly arcane and strikingly relevant to the political challenges of the twenty-first century.
Download or read book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660 1783 written by A. T. Mahan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVInfluential classic of naval history and tactics still used as text in war colleges. Read by Kaiser Wilhelm, both Roosevelts, other leaders. First paperback edition. 4 maps. 24 battle plans. /div
Download or read book History of Europe 1500 1815 written by Carlton Hayes and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five hundred years ago a European could search in vain the map of "the world" for America, or Australia, or the Pacific Ocean. Experienced mariners, and even learned geographers, were quite unaware that beyond the Western Sea lay two great continents peopled by red men; of Africa they knew only the northern coast; and in respect of Asia a thousand absurd tales passed current. The unexplored waste of waters that constituted the Atlantic Ocean was, to many ignorant Europeans of the fifteenth century, a terrible region frequented by fierce and fantastic monsters. To the average European the countries surveyed in the preceding chapter, together with their Muslim neighbors across the Mediterranean, still comprised the entire known world.
Download or read book A History of the United States for Catholic Schools written by Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration (La Crosse, Wis.) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 1660 1783 written by Alfred Thayer Mahan and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011-03-29 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) was an American naval officer and historian. ‘The influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783’ was published in 1890, chronicles the history of naval warfare, with a particular emphasis on the role and significance that sea-power held. The book earned Mahan critical acclaim immediately, and it remains an influential work of naval strategy amongst scholars today. Still a fascinating read, this classic text will appeal to historians, military and naval enthusiasts alike. We are republishing this highly acclaimed vintage text in a high quality, modern and affordable edition. It also features a specially written concise biography.
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Download or read book Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century written by Hamish Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to get behind the surface of political events and to identify the forces which shaped politics and culture from 1680 to 1840 in Germany, France and Great Britain. The contributors, all leading specialists in the field, explore critically how 'culture', defined in the widest sense, was exploited during the 'long eighteenth century' to buttress authority in all its forms and how politics infused culture. Individual essays explore topics ranging from the military culture of Central Europe through the political culture of Germany, France and Great Britain, music, court intrigue and diplomatic practice, religious conflict and political ideas, the role of the Enlightenment, to the very new dispensations which prevailed during and after the French Revolution and the Napoleonic watershed. The book will be essential reading for all scholars of eighteenth-century European history.
Download or read book The Causes of War written by Alexander Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume of a projected six-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them. These volumes seek to show why millions of people, over thousands of years, slew each other. In departing from the various theories put forward by historians, anthropologists and psychologists, the author offers a different taxonomy of the causes of war, focusing on the broader settings of politics, religion, migrations and empire-building. These four contexts were dominant and often overlapping justifications during the first four thousand years of human civilisation, for which written records exist.
