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Book Stadt Strassburg  1522 1532

Download or read book Stadt Strassburg 1522 1532 written by and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail  1700      1860

Download or read book Spanish Warships in the Age of Sail 1700 1860 written by Rif Winfield and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the latest contribution to a unique series in a common format documenting in great detail the warships of the major naval powers during the age of sail. To date, four volumes have covered the British Navy, two have been devoted to the French Navy and one each to the Dutch and Russian Navies. This volume on the Spanish Navy, for much of its history the third largest in the world, fills the final gap in the ranks of the major maritime powers. This book is the first comprehensive listing of these ships in English and covers the development of all the naval vessels owned or deployed by Spain during the period of the Bourbon monarchy from 1700 to 1860 (including the period of French control during the Napoleonic Wars), but it also sets the scene for that period by summarizing the origins of Spanish naval development under the preceding Habsburg regime. As with previous volumes in the series, the main chapters list all the naval vessels from 1700 onwards (including those 16th century ships which survived into the new regime in 1700) by type, with the first chapters listing the ships of the line (navíos in Spanish terminology) and frigates in descending order of firepower, and subsequent chapters covering minor and ancillary vessels. Where available, a brief service history of each individual ship is given. A comprehensive introductory section includes a group of background essays designed to provide the reader with a deep understanding of how Spanish naval forces operated, and the context within which they were organized. Certain to become the standard English-language reference work, its publication is of the utmost importance to every naval historian and general reader interested in the navies of the sailing era.

Book  Lazy  Improvident People

Download or read book Lazy Improvident People written by Ruth Mackay and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 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 Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain

Download or read book Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain written by James Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical and critical notices, with translations of various poems.

Book Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain

    Book Details:
  • Author : James KENNEDY (Her Britannic Majesty's Judge in the Mixed Court of Havana.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1852
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 442 pages

Download or read book Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain written by James KENNEDY (Her Britannic Majesty's Judge in the Mixed Court of Havana.) and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hispanic American Historical Review

Download or read book The Hispanic American Historical Review written by James Alexander Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes "Bibliographical section".

Book Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History

Download or read book Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History written by Derek Flitter and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flitter examines those narratives within the intellectual parameters that defined them, probing the conceptual strategies by which writers represented history.

Book British and Foreign State Papers

Download or read book British and Foreign State Papers written by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accounts and Papers

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  • Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1823
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 472 pages

Download or read book Accounts and Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Papers

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  • Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1823
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 532 pages

Download or read book Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Otherness and National Identity in 19th Century Spanish Literature

Download or read book Otherness and National Identity in 19th Century Spanish Literature written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of the several subaltern types and social groups that were placed at the margins of national narratives in Spain during the nineteenth century. Una mirada profunda a los diversos tipos y grupos sociales que fueron relegados a los márgenes del relato nacional en la España decimonónica.

Book Gentlemen  Bourgeois  and Revolutionaries

Download or read book Gentlemen Bourgeois and Revolutionaries written by Jesus Cruz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional interpretation of the crisis of the Spanish Old Regime is to see it as a revolution carried out by an ascendant bourgeoisie. Professor Cruz challenges this viewpoint by arguing that in Spain, as in the rest of continental Europe, a national bourgeoisie did not exist before the second half of the nineteenth century. Consequently, the model of bourgeois revolution proves inadequate to explain any movement toward modernisation before 1850. Historiography based on the bourgeois revolution theory portrays Spain as an exceptional model whose main feature is the 'failure' produced by the immobility of its ruling class. This work re-examines that understanding, and relocates Spain in the mainstream for industrialisation, urbanisation and democratisation that characterise the history of modern Europe.

Book Francisco Mart  nez de la Rosa

Download or read book Francisco Mart nez de la Rosa written by Robert Mayberry and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nineteenth Century Theatre in Spain

Download or read book The Nineteenth Century Theatre in Spain written by Margaret A Rees and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2002. The present volume forms part of a major Bibliography of the Hispanic Theatre, forthcoming in several volumes by different specialists. As such, it is one of the products of a still larger computer-assisted Project of Hispanic Research Bibliographies. The aim has been to give as wide a coverage to the area as possible, listing not only books and articles in periodicals but also data of a documentary character such as items on playbills and the local regulation of theatres. Annotation is confined to information, and critical appraisal is excluded.

Book Hertslet s Commercial Treaties

Download or read book Hertslet s Commercial Treaties written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of treaties and conventions, between Great Britain and foreign powers, and of the laws, decrees, orders in council, &c., concerning the same, so far as they relate to commerce and navigation, slavery, extradition, nationality, copyright, postal matters, &c., and to the privileges and interests of the subjects of the high contracting parties.

Book The Foreign Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Foreign Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Four Horsemen

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  • Author : Richard Stites
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2014-01-09
  • ISBN : 0199981485
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book The Four Horsemen written by Richard Stites and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of revolts starting in 1820, four military officers rode forth on horseback from obscure European towns to bring political freedom and a constitution to Spain, Naples, and Russia; and national independence to the Greeks. The men who launched these exploits from Andalusia to the snowy fields of Ukraine--Colonel Rafael del Riego, General Guglielmo Pepe, General Alexandros Ypsilanti, and Colonel Sergei Muraviev-Apostol--all hoped to overturn the old order. Over the next six years, their revolutions ended in failure. The men who led them became martyrs. In The Four Horsemen, the late, eminent historian Richard Stites offers a compelling narrative history of these four revolutions. Stites sets the stories side by side, allowing him to compare events and movements and so illuminate such topics as the transfer of ideas and peoples across frontiers, the formation of an international community of revolutionaries, and the appropriation of Christian symbols and language for secular purposes. He shows how expressive behavior and artifacts of all kinds--art, popular festivities, propaganda, and religion--worked their way to various degrees into all the revolutionary movements and regimes. And he documents as well the corruption, abandonment of liberal values, and outright betrayal of the revolution that emerged in Spain and Naples; the clash of ambitions and ideas that wracked the unity of the Decembrists' cause; and civil war that erupted in the midst of the Greek struggle for independence. Richard Stites was one of the most imaginative and broad-ranging historians working in the United States. This book is his last work, a classic example of his dazzling knowledge and idiosyncratic yet accessible writing style. The culmination of an esteemed career, The Four Horsemen promises to enthrall anyone interested in nineteenth-century Europe and the history of revolutions.