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Book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys  F R S   Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II

Download or read book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys F R S Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys  F R S  Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II  The Diary Deciphered by the Rev  J  Smith  A M  from the Original Shorthand MS  in the Pepysian Library  With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke  The Sixth Edition

Download or read book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys F R S Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II The Diary Deciphered by the Rev J Smith A M from the Original Shorthand MS in the Pepysian Library With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke The Sixth Edition written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys

Download or read book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys  F R S

Download or read book Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys F R S written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived in

Download or read book Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived in written by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pepys  s Navy

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  • Author : J. D. Davies
  • Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
  • Release : 2008-11-20
  • ISBN : 1848320140
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Pepys s Navy written by J. D. Davies and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new reference book describes every aspect the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long period of war with the Dutch came to an end. This is a crucial era which witnessed the creation of a permanent naval service, in essence the birth of the Royal Navy. Every aspect of the navy is covered - naval administration, ship types and shipbuilding, naval recruitment and crews, seamanship and gunnery, shipboard life, dockyards and bases, the foreign navies of the period, and the three major wars which were fought against the Dutch in the Channel and the North Sea. Samuel Pepys, whose thirty years of service did so much to replace the ad hoc processes of the past with systems for construction and administration, is one of the most significant players, and the navy which was, by 1690, ready for the 100 years of global struggle with the French owed much to his tireless work. This book is destined to become a major work for historians, naval enthusiasts and, indeed, anyone with an interest in this colourful era of the seventeenth century.

Book The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys

Download or read book The Tangier Papers of Samuel Pepys written by Edwin Chappell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1683 Samuel Pepys accompanied George Legge, Lord Dartmouth, to Tangier as his secretary. During the voyage Pepys kept another brief diary and miscellaneous notes which contain valuable information about the navy. He recorded his concerns, as well as the views of the sea officers and others with him. Richard Leake, master gunner, was criticised by Pepys for not being able to hit the side of the target, and for not being able to get the charges correct to blow up the forts. He recorded that Captain David Lloyd, a sea officer, was also a painter with a good reputation. Pepys records his views about the merits of gentleman captains and their behaviour compared to ‘tarpaulin captains’. He also collected in these Papers every story he could, about the alleged immorality and corruptness of Arthur Herbert, the commander-in-chief of the English Mediterranean fleet, in order to discredit him with the king. Herbert had, in fact, returned to England before Pepys had arrived in Tangier. The source of the stories about Herbert’s behaviour, in the Tangier Papers, came from old friends of Pepys and Herbert’s enemies, and are not to be trusted, or accepted as a true account of what Herbert achieved; this can only be traced through Herbert’s own letters and the unpublished admiralty papers in the Public Record Office.

Book The Social Life of Coffee

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  • Author : Brian Cowan
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300133502
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Social Life of Coffee written by Brian Cowan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

Book The Microbook Library of English Literature  1660 to 1784

Download or read book The Microbook Library of English Literature 1660 to 1784 written by Library Resources, inc and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Paper Bullets

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  • Author : Harold M. Weber
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 081315667X
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Paper Bullets written by Harold M. Weber and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority—especially the monarchy—and the printed word. Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power. The press helped bring about both the deconsecration of divine monarchy and the formation of a new public sphere, but these processes did not result in the progressive decay of royal authority. Charles fashioned his own semiotics of power out of the political transformations that had turned his world upside down. By linking diverse and unusual topics—the escape of Charles from Worcester, the royal ability to heal scrofula, the sexual escapades of the "merry monarch," and the trial and execution of Stephen College—Weber reveals the means by which Charles took advantage of a print industry instrumental to the creation of a new dispensation of power, one in which the state dominates the individual through the supplementary relationship between signs and violence. Weber's study brings into sharp relief the conflicts involving public authority and printed discourse, social hierarchy and print culture, and authorial identity and responsibility—conflicts that helped shape the modern state.

Book The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty

Download or read book The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty written by Sir William Petty and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Diary of Samuel Pepys     Complete

Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys Complete written by Samuel Pepys and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 2874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys was an English diarist and naval administrator whose private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 (yet first published in the 19th century) is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. Besides personal revelations like court intrigue, gossip, living conditions, weather, diet, counterfeiting, public hangings, it also contains eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.

Book The Diary of John Evelyn

Download or read book The Diary of John Evelyn written by John Evelyn and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary

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  • Author : Henry Benjamin Wheatley
  • Publisher : Legare Street Press
  • Release : 2022-10-27
  • ISBN : 9781017202991
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Diary written by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Diary

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  • Author : Samuel Pepys
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1666
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Diary written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1666 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rivers of Great Britain  Descriptive  Historical  Pictorial

Download or read book The Rivers of Great Britain Descriptive Historical Pictorial written by Francis WATT and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: