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Book A Journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787  with particular attention to the agriculture  manufactures  commerce  population  taxes and revenue of that country  and remarks in passing through a part of France

Download or read book A Journey through Spain in the years 1786 and 1787 with particular attention to the agriculture manufactures commerce population taxes and revenue of that country and remarks in passing through a part of France written by Joseph TOWNSEND (Rector of Pewsey, Wilts.) and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Journey Through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787

Download or read book A Journey Through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787 written by Joseph Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Journey Through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787

Download or read book A Journey Through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787 written by Joseph TOWNSEND (Rector of Pewsey, Wilts.) and published by . This book was released on 1792 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 1106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 A Catalogue of the Books  Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia  with an Account of the Institution  Charters  Laws and Regulations

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia with an Account of the Institution Charters Laws and Regulations written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia  To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution  With The Charter Laws And Regulations

Download or read book A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution With The Charter Laws And Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cambridge University Library Bulletin  extra Series

Download or read book Cambridge University Library Bulletin extra Series written by Cambridge University Library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Acton Collection

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  • Author : Cambridge University Library. Acton Collection
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Acton Collection written by Cambridge University Library. Acton Collection and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution

Download or read book A History of the Theories of Production and Distribution written by Edwin Cannan and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Lazy  Improvident People

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  • Author : Ruth MacKay
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2018-07-05
  • ISBN : 1501728385
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book Lazy Improvident People written by Ruth MacKay and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the early modern era, historians and observers of Spain, both within the country and beyond it, have identified a peculiarly Spanish disdain for work, especially manual labor, and have seen it as a primary explanation for that nation's alleged failure to develop like the rest of Europe. In "Lazy, Improvident People," the historian Ruth MacKay examines the origins of this deeply ingrained historical prejudice and cultural stereotype. MacKay finds these origins in the ilustrados, the Enlightenment intellectuals and reformers who rose to prominence in the late eighteenth century. To advance their own, patriotic project of rationalization and progress, they disparaged what had gone before. Relying in part on late medieval and early modern political treatises about "vile and mechanical" labor, they claimed that previous generations of Spaniards had been indolent and backward. Through a close reading of the archival record, MacKay shows that such treatises and dramatic literature in no way reflected the actual lives of early modern artisans, who were neither particularly slothful nor untalented. On the contrary, they behaved as citizens, and their work was seen as dignified and essential to the common good. MacKay contends that the ilustrados' profound misreading of their own past created a propagandistic myth that has been internalized by subsequent intellectuals. MacKay's is thus a book about the notion of Spanish exceptionalism, the ways in which this notion developed, and the burden and skewed vision it has imposed on Spaniards and outsiders. "Lazy, Improvident People" will fascinate not only historians of early modern and modern Spain but all readers who are concerned with the process by which historical narratives are formed, reproduced, and given authority.

Book Who Should Rule

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  • Author : Mónica Ricketts
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2017-07-14
  • ISBN : 0190494905
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Who Should Rule written by Mónica Ricketts and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who Should Rule? traces the ambitious imperial reform that empowered new and competing political actors in an era of intense imperial competition, war, and the breakdown of the Spanish empire. Mónica Ricketts examines the rise of men of letters and military officers in two central areas of the Spanish world: the viceroyalty of Peru and Spain. This was a disruptive, dynamic, and long process of common imperial origins. In 1700, two dynastic lines, the Spanish Habsburgs and the French Bourbons, disputed the succession to the Spanish throne. After more than a decade of war, the latter prevailed. Suspicious of the old Spanish court circles, the new Bourbon Crown sought meritorious subjects for its ministries, men of letters and military officers of good training among the provincial elites. Writers and lawyers were to produce new legislation to radically transform the Spanish world. They would reform the educational system and propagate useful knowledge. Military officers would defend the monarchy in this new era of imperial competition. Additionally, they would govern. From the start, the rise of these political actors in the Spanish world was an uneven process. Military officers became a new and somewhat solid corps. In contrast, the rise of men of letters confronted constant opposition. Rooted elites in both Spain and Peru resisted any attempts at curtailing their power and prerogatives and undermined the reform of education and traditions. As a consequence, men of letters found limited spaces in which to exercise their new authority, but they aimed for more. A succession of wars and insurgencies in America fueled the struggles for power between these two groups, paving the way for decades of unrest. Emphasizing the continuities and connections between the Spanish worlds on both sides of the Atlantic, this work offers new perspectives on the breakdown of the empire, the rise of modern politics in Spanish America, and the transition to Peruvian independence.