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Book Travels Through France  Turkey  and Hungary  to Vienna  in 1792

Download or read book Travels Through France Turkey and Hungary to Vienna in 1792 written by William Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travels in the Year 1792 Through France  Turkey  and Hungary  to Vienna

Download or read book Travels in the Year 1792 Through France Turkey and Hungary to Vienna written by William HUNTER (Barrister-at-Law) and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rebellious Hearts

Download or read book Rebellious Hearts written by Adriana Craciun and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-05-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the full spectrum of women's participation in the social, economic, religious, and poetic debates surrounding the French Revolution.

Book Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy 1711 1848

Download or read book Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy 1711 1848 written by Gábor Vermes and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyzes the critical period of 1711-1848 within Hungary from novel points of view, including close analyses of the proceedings of Hungarian diets. Contrary to conventional interpretations, the study, stressing the strong continuity of traditionalism in Hungarian thought, society, and politics, argues that Hungarian liberalism did not begin to flower in any substantial way until the 1830s and 1840s. Hungarian Culture and Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy also traces and evaluates the complex relationship between Austria and Hungary over this span of time. Past interpretations have, with only a few exceptions, tilted heavily towards the Austrian role within the Monarchy, both because its center was in Vienna and because few non-Hungarian scholars can read Hungarian. This analysis redresses this balance through the use of both Austrian and Hungarian sources, demonstrating the deep cultural differences between the two halves of the Monarchy, which were nevertheless closely linked by economic and administrative ties and by a mutual recognition that co-existence was preferable to any major rupture.

Book Veiled Figures

    Book Details:
  • Author : Teresa Heffernan
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2016-05-12
  • ISBN : 1442624922
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Veiled Figures written by Teresa Heffernan and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, public debates about Islam and the veil have become increasingly divisive. Yet few acknowledge that this fascination with veiling goes back more than three centuries. In Veiled Figures, Teresa Heffernan explores how the clash of civilizations is perpetuated by the rhetoric of veiling and unveiling. Drawing on travel narratives, harem literature, and other stories, Heffernan argues that women’s bodies have been used to exacerbate the divide between religion and reason in the eighteenth century, the Islamic umma and the Western nation in the nineteenth, and Islamism and global capitalism in the contemporary period. Through the study of the writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Anna Bowman Dodd, Demetra Vaka Brown, Zeyneb Hanoum, and others, Heffernan’s book demonstrates the ways in which these works complicate and interrupt these divides, opening up new opportunities for a more constructive dialogue between East and West.

Book British Travel Writers in Europe 1750 1800

Download or read book British Travel Writers in Europe 1750 1800 written by Katherine Turner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: Hundreds of European travelogues produced by British travellers between 1750 and 1800 remain out of sight in most libraries and have generally been out of print since the 18th century. While many people with a working knowledge of the 18th century are familiar with works including Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey" and Smollett's "Travels through France and Italy", those produced by less "literary" travellers are largely unknown. This study aims to recreate the world of 18th-century travel writing in order to illuminate its central role in shaping Britain's emerging sense of national identity - an identity which proves to be more complex an less homogeneous than some cultural and historical studies would suggest. The author finds that the developing discourse of national character is bound up with questions of gender: national and authorial virtue are projected in terms of appropriately gendered behaviour, for male and female travel writers alike. In turn, gender intersects with class, most obviously in the tendency to denigrate aristocratic travellers as effeminate and celebrate the more manly activities of the middle-class traveller. These then - national identity, authorship and gender - are the central preoccupations of the study

Book Cultures of Power in Europe during the Long Eighteenth Century

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.

Book Catalogue of the     library of     John Morice     which will be sold by auction

Download or read book Catalogue of the library of John Morice which will be sold by auction written by John Morice and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the valuable library of the late J  Morice  which will be sold by auction   With a MS  list of prices and purchasers

Download or read book Catalogue of the valuable library of the late J Morice which will be sold by auction With a MS list of prices and purchasers written by John MORICE and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York

Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York written by Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York  to which are Prefixed  the Constitution  and the Rules and Regulations of the Same

Download or read book Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York to which are Prefixed the Constitution and the Rules and Regulations of the Same written by Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-York and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Constantinople

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Mansel
  • Publisher : John Murray
  • Release : 2011-11-10
  • ISBN : 1848546475
  • Pages : 538 pages

Download or read book Constantinople written by Philip Mansel and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family. In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. For almost five centuries Constantinople, with its enormous racial and cultural diversity, was the centre of the dramatic and often depraved story of an extraordinary dynasty.

Book Literature of Travel and Exploration

Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration written by Jennifer Speake and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 3477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Book Pleasurable Instruction

Download or read book Pleasurable Instruction written by Charles L Jr Batten and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Book Women in the Mosque

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marion Katz
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2014-09-23
  • ISBN : 0231162669
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Women in the Mosque written by Marion Katz and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juxtaposing Muslim scholarsÕ debates over womenÕs attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of womenÕs activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques, this study shows how over the centuries legal scholarsÕ arguments have often reacted to rather than dictated Muslim womenÕs behavior. Tracing Sunni legal positions on women in mosques from the second century of the Islamic calendar to the modern period, this volume connects shifts in scholarly terminology and argumentation to changing constructions of gender. Over time, assumptions about womenÕs changing behavioral norms over different stages of the lifecycle gave way to a global preoccupation with sexual temptation, which then became the central rationale for limits on womenÕs mosque access. At the same time, travel narratives, biographical dictionaries, and religious polemics document patterns suggesting that womenÕs usage of mosque space often diverged in both timing and content from the ritual models constructed by scholars. This book demonstrates both the concrete social and political implications of Islamic legal discourse and the autonomy of womenÕs mosque-based activities. It also examines womenÕs mosque access as a trope in Western travelersÕ narratives and the evolving significance of womenÕs mosque attendance among different Islamic currents in the twentieth century.

Book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York

Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library in New York written by Mercantile Library Association (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: