Download or read book A Portion of the Journal Kept by T Raikes Esq from 1831 to 1847 written by Esq. Thomas Raikes and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes Esq from 1831 1847 written by Thomas Raikes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of an influential London dandy and socialite, published posthumously from 1856 to 1857 in four volumes.
Download or read book A Portion of the Journal Kept by T Raikes Esq from 1831 to 1847 written by Esq. Thomas Raikes and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes Esq from 1831 to 1847 written by Thomas Raikes and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Portion of the Journal Kept by T Raikes Esq from 1831 to 1847 written by Esq. Thomas RAIKES and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes Esq from 1831 to 1847 written by Thomas Raikes and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of Victorian Political Figures Part I written by Michael Partridge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-19 with total page 1888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to bring alive, through the eyes of their contemporaries, three of the greatest political figures of the Victorian era - Henry, third Viscount Palmerston, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. This four-volume set draws together various documents including journals and diaries, pamphlets, correspondence, and other ephemeral literature.
Download or read book Lives of Victorian Political Figures Part I Volume 3 written by Nancy LoPatin-Lummis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to bring alive, through the eyes of their contemporaries, three of the greatest political figures of the Victorian era - Henry, third Viscount Palmerston, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone. This four-volume set draws together various documents including journals and diaries, pamphlets, correspondence, and other ephemeral literature. Volume 3 covers the political life of Benjamin Disraeli (Part II) and William Ewart Gladstone (Part I).
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Download or read book The Greek Revolution written by Mark Mazower and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize • One of The Economist's top history books of the year From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of Independence—the ultimate worldwide liberal cause célèbre of the age of Byron, Europe’s first nationalist uprising, and the beginning of the downward spiral of the Ottoman Empire—published two hundred years after its outbreak As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get. And they got it as Europeans and Americans embraced the idea that the heirs to ancient Greece, the wellspring of Western civilization, were fighting for their freedom against the proverbial Eastern despot, the Turkish sultan. This was Christianity versus Islam, now given urgency by new ideas about the nation-state and democracy that were shaking up the old order. Lord Byron is only the most famous of the combatants who went to Greece to fight and die—along with many more who followed events passionately and supported the cause through art, music, and humanitarian aid. To many who did go, it was a rude awakening to find that the Greeks were a far cry from their illustrious forebears, and were often hard to tell apart from the Ottomans. Mazower does full justice to the realities on the ground as a revolutionary conspiracy triggered outright rebellion, and a fraying and distracted Ottoman leadership first missed the plot and then overreacted disastrously. He shows how and why ethnic cleansing commenced almost immediately on both sides. By the time the dust settled, Greece was free, and Europe was changed forever. It was a victory for a completely new kind of politics—international in its range and affiliations, popular in its origins, romantic in sentiment, and radical in its goals. It was here on the very edge of Europe that the first successful revolution took place in which a people claimed liberty for themselves and overthrew an entire empire to attain it, transforming diplomatic norms and the direction of European politics forever, and inaugurating a new world of nation-states, the world in which we still live.
Download or read book A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes Esq written by Thomas Raikes and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Menagerie written by Caroline Grigson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo -- a tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and -- on occasion -- the downright bizarre. From Henry III's elephant at the Tower, to George IV's love affair with Britain's first giraffe and Lady Castlereagh's recalcitrant ostriches, Caroline Grigson's tour through the centuries amounts to the first detailed history of exotic animals in Britain. On the way we encounter a host of fascinating and outlandish creatures, including the first peacocks and popinjays, Thomas More's monkey, James I's cassowaries in St James's Park, and Lord Clive's zebra -- which refused to mate with a donkey, until the donkey was painted with stripes. But this is not just the story of the animals themselves. It also the story of all those who came into contact with them: the people who owned them, the merchants who bought and sold them, the seamen who carried them to our shores, the naturalists who wrote about them, the artists who painted them, the itinerant showmen who worked with them, the collectors who collected them. And last but not least, it is about all those who simply came to see and wonder at them, from kings, queens, and nobles to ordinary men, women, and children, often impelled by no more than simple curiosity and a craving for novelty.
Download or read book George IV written by E.A. Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engrossing biography of George IV, king of England from 1820 to 1830, gives a full and objective reassessment of the monarch’s character, reputation, and achievement. Previous writers have tended to accept the unfavorable verdicts of the king’s contemporaries that he was a dissolute, pleasure-loving dilettante and a feeble and ineffective ruler who was responsible for the decline of the power and reputation of the monarchy in the early nineteenth century. Now E.A. Smith offers a new view of George IV, one that does not minimize the king’s faults but focuses on the positive qualities of his achievement in politics and in the patronage of the arts. Smith explores the roots of the king’s character and personality, stressing the importance of his relationship with his parents and twelve surviving siblings. He examines the king’s important contributions to the cultural enhancement of his capital and his encouragement of the major artistic, literary, and scholarly figures of his time. He reassesses the king’s role as constitutional monarch, contending that it was he, rather than Victoria and Albert, who created the constitutional monarchy of nineteenth-century Britain and began the revival of its popularity. Smith’s biography not only illuminates the character of one of the most colorful of Britain’s rulers but also contributes to the history of the British monarchy and its role in the nation’s life.
Download or read book The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay written by William Thomas and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 1669 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of "The History of England". This work shows how, spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay's pen. It states that these unique manuscripts held at Trinity College, Cambridge, are most revealing of all his writings.
Download or read book Annual report written by New York State Library (Albany, NY) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York State Library annual Report written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1889 to 1918 the reports consist of the Report of the director and appendixes, which from 1893 include various bulletins issued by the library (Additions; Bibliography; History; Legislation; Library school; Public libraries) These, including the Report of the director, were each issued also separately.
Download or read book Annual Report written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
