Download or read book The Shipwreck of the Alceste an English Frigate in the Straits of Gasper written by and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Theodore Gericault Painting Black Bodies written by Albert Alhadeff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Théodore Géricault’s images of black men, women and children who suffered slavery’s trans-Atlantic passage in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, including his 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa. The book focuses on Géricault’s depiction of black people, his approach towards slavery, and the voices that advanced or denigrated them. By turning to documents, essays and critiques, both before and after Waterloo (1815), and, most importantly, Géricault’s own oeuvre, this study explores the fetters of slavery that Gericault challenged—alongside a growing number of abolitionists—overtly or covertly. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, race and ethnic studies and students of modernism.
Download or read book No Mercy written by Eleanor Learmonth and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disaster strikes. A ship goes down, a plane crashes, a party of travellers is cut off. But when the panic and confusion subside and the dead are counted, the survivors must find a way to keep surviving. And in desperation, unconstrained by law or conventional authority, the tactics they resort to can be both horrifying and ultimately self-destructive. Learmonth and Tabakoff outline the physical and neurological changes that typically affect the victims of disaster. Then, using true stories from history as case studies, they investigate the scenario famously imagined by William Golding in Lord of the Flies and borne out by the extraordinary Robbers Cave experiments of the 1950s. As this fascinating book unfolds the awful truth becomes clear. In extremis, humans are capable of a swift descent into murderous savagery that is both hard to believe - and impossible to forget. Eleanor Learmonth has worked as a teacher and freelance journalist in Japan and Australia. She has a reputation as a magnet for natural disasters. Jenny Tabakoff has been a senior journalist in Australia and Britain for The Times, the Sydney Morning Herald and AAP. She is the co-author of Australian Style. Eleanor and Jenny live in Sydney with their husbands and children. They met at the school gate. 'Succinct yet considered, accessible yet authoritative, Learmonth and Tabakoff strike a happy balance between scholarliness and readability throughout...cogent presentation of some truly harrowing subject matter, which less responsible hands might have milked for vulgar sensationalism.' Bookseller and Publisher 'Well researched and well argued, lively and energetic, No Mercy is full of insights into leadership, loyalty, sacrifice and compassion that will challenge readers to wonder what they might do if similarly tested.' Booktopia Buzz 'Sometimes adversity brings out the best in people, at other times it does the opposite. This is about those other times...excellent reading when you’re safely at home.' Weekend Herald 'A fascinating post-mortem of how certain groups manage to survive while others flailed about in drunken, murderous chaos.' Daily Telegraph 'This fascinating book shines light on an awful truth.' Get Reading
Download or read book The Wreck of the Medusa written by Jonathan Miles and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the "Titanic" draws on published accounts and journals of survivors. Historian Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired Theodore Gericaults painting "The Raft of the Medusa."
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Download or read book Britain s Second Embassy to China written by Caroline Stevenson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Amherst’s diplomatic mission to the Qing Court in 1816 was the second British embassy to China. The first led by Lord Macartney in 1793 had failed to achieve its goals. It was thought that Amherst had better prospects of success, but the intense diplomatic encounter that greeted his arrival ended badly. Amherst never appeared before the Jiaqing emperor and his embassy was expelled from Peking on the day it arrived. Historians have blamed Amherst for this outcome, citing his over-reliance on the advice of his Second Commissioner, Sir George Thomas Staunton, not to kowtow before the emperor. Detailed analysis of British sources reveal that Amherst was well informed on the kowtow issue and made his own decision for which he took full responsibility. Success was always unlikely because of irreconcilable differences in approach. China’s conduct of foreign relations based on the tributary system required submission to the emperor, thus relegating all foreign emissaries and the rulers they represented to vassal status, whereas British diplomatic practice was centred on negotiation and Westphalian principles of equality between nations. The Amherst embassy’s failure revised British assessments of China and led some observers to believe that force, rather than diplomacy, might be required in future to achieve British goals. The Opium War of 1840 that followed set a precedent for foreign interference in China, resulting in a century of ‘humiliation’. This resonates today in President Xi Jinping’s call for ‘National Rejuvenation’ to restore China’s historic place at the centre of a new Sino-centric global order.
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book nos 1 4087 Books printed in Dublin by known printers 1602 1882 List of printers and booksellers in Dublin v 2 nos 4088 8743 Books printed in Dublin without printer s name Provincial towns The works of Irish authors printed elsewhere arranged alphabetically Books printed elsewhere which relate to Ireland arranged chronologically App I Books and documents relating to the papacy Deposited in the University library by the Rev Robert James M Ghee A M A D 1840 App II List of books added during the compilation of the catalogue Addenda Notes and corrigenda v 3 Index written by Cambridge University Library. Bradshaw Irish Collection and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge written by Charles Sayle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 1916 three-volume catalogue of over 8,000 books and pamphlets from or about Ireland, printed between 1600 and 1900.
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge written by Cambridge University Library. Bradshaw Irish Collection and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Shipwreck Of The Alceste An English Frigate In The Straits Of Gasper written by John M'Leod and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting account of two separate shipwrecks - one English, one French - is a testament to the indomitable human spirit in the face of extreme adversity. Alexandre Corréard, Jean Baptiste Henri Savigny, and John M'Leod vividly recount the harrowing experiences of the crews of the Alceste and the Medusa, as they struggle to survive in hostile waters. A true classic of maritime literature, this book is not to be missed. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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