Download or read book HUGUENOT THIEF written by L. K. Clement and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient relic kept in an obscure French convent--stolen in 1685 by a Huguenot girl who escapes to the English colony of Carolina. Three hundred years later, Dr. Kate Strong is kidnapped from Charleston by the former head of Russia's bioterrorism program. How could these two events possibly be linked? As Interpol and the FBI struggle to rescue Kate from her imprisonment in Istanbul, the truth is more horrifying than anyone imagines. And, the Vatican wants its property back.
Download or read book The Religious Culture of the Huguenots 1660 1750 written by Dr Anne Dunan-Page and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the history of the Huguenots, and new research has increased our understanding of their role in shaping the early-modern world. Yet while much has been written about the Huguenots during the sixteenth-century wars of religion, much less is known about their history in the following centuries. The ten essays in this collection provide the first broad overview of Huguenot religious culture from the Restoration of Charles II to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Dealing primarily with the experiences of Huguenots in England and Ireland, the volume explores issues of conformity and nonconformity, the perceptions of 'refuge', and Huguenot attitudes towards education, social reform and religious tolerance. Taken together they offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Huguenot religious identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Download or read book A Thief s Blood written by Douglas Skelton and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2024-11-14 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city on the brink of civil war. A madman pulling the strings. A family is found butchered in a dismal room in the Rookery, London’s poorest district. Not even their small children are left alive. Most of the authorities pay scant attention, except for Thiefmaster General Jonathan Wild. Intrigued by this development, Colonel Nathaniel Charters tasks his most trusted operative, Jonas Flynt, with discovering why. When another family is murdered just as brutally, Flynt uncovers evidence of a simmering conflict between rival gangs, with Wild seemingly desperate to keep a lid on the slaughter. The question for Flynt is how deep is his new friend The Admiral, a gang leader, involved, and is he capable of killing innocents? Or is there someone else in London, more dangerous and more deranged, with blood on their hands? A scintillating serial killer thriller set amidst the dirt and grime of Georgian London, the next thrilling instalment in the McIlvanney longlisted Company of Rogues series.
Download or read book Admiral Coligny and the Rise of the Huguenots written by William Maxwell Blackburn and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE HUGUENOT written by Garvin Fitzroy Pollock and published by Author House. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sequel to my first book in the Trilogy of "The Huguenot Series" where the Comte Gerard de Gault had to flee Paris the night the French Catholics murdered 20,000 of his fellow Huguenots in 1572. These are his subsequent adventures, where he helped Drake capture the greatest ever Treasure ship at Cadiz, and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. This second book of the trilogy carries on with his exploits. The murder of Queen Elizabeth 1, the Civil War, the Execution of Charles 1st and the Gunpowder Plot. All the major events and characters in "The Huguenots" are real. and I have only put modern day words into their mouths. The only fictional person is Gerard de Gault, and I am sure my ancestor would have acted as he did.
Download or read book The Huguenot Family written by Sarah Tytler and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Huguenot Heritage written by Robin D. Gwynn and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director of the 1985 Huguenot Heritage tercentenary commemoration, Gwynn surveys the contributions to Britain and Ireland by the French-speaking Calvinist refugees who crossed the Channel between the 16th and 18th centuries. Among the topics are the situation in France, settlements in England, government reaction, crafts and trades, churches, opposition, the impact of Louis XIV's defeat, and assimilation. The first edition was published by Routledge in 1985; the second incorporates literature published and artefacts discovered since then, and is more comprehensively footnoted. All referencing material has been updated tin the light of new findings. And the plate section has been expanded to take into account recently available pictures of Huguenot artefacts and scenes.
Download or read book Thief Taker General written by Gerald Howson and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical literature of political deviance is sparse. This unusual work, chronicling the history of Jonathan Wild, represents an effort to come to terms with one of the more amazing characters of English social history. Wild was both part of the policy system in eighteenth-century England, and also one of the most adroit criminals of the age. In the 1720s, London suffered the worst crime waves in its history. Civic corruption took place on a staggering scale. The government's answer was to pay a bounty for the capture of robbers, thus creating a class of professional informers. Wild was applauded as the most efficient thief hunter and gang breaker in British society; but his own posse of thief catchers was basically a front behind which he was able to control the underground world, through a complex system of blackmail, perjury, and terror which the book details. All who opposed him were betrayed to the law, and in the struggle for power Wild sacrificed several hundred of his own people to the hangman. No one since his time, with the exception of Lavrenti Beria of the late Stalin era GPU so nearly succeeded in bringing the underworld under the control of one system of power. At one level, this is a biography of the world's first supercriminal. At another, it is a sociology of criminal behavior and its political consequences. Howson sheds fresh light, not only on a figure who has become famous in literature, but more important, on the entire structure of gang life. The book is written "as a "terrifying and fascinating study of a historical epoch; it also offers a completely fresh picture of the birth of modern organized-crime families as part of modern organized political systems.
Download or read book The Huguenot written by Edward Meryon and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Huguenot written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of London written by Huguenot Society of London and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A bibliography of some works relating to the Huguenot refugees, whence they came, where they settled": v. 1, pp. [130-149].
Download or read book Stealing Things written by Rosemary A. Peters and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stealing Things traces the representations of thieves and thievery in nineteenth-century French novels. Re-reading canonical texts by Balzac, the Comtesse de Ségur, and Zola through the lens of crime, Peters highlights bourgeois anxiety about ownership and objects while considering the impact of literature on popular attitudes about crime and its legislation and punishment. A detailed analysis of the role of objects, this work chronicles nineteenth-century changes in legal attitudes, popular mentalities, and individual and social identity, focusing particularly on the resulting transformations in representations of gender, class, and (criminal) subjectivity.
Download or read book The captain written by Gatien Courtilz de Sandras and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Huguenot written by George Payne Rainsford James and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Huguenot by George Payne Rainsford James
Download or read book The Buccaneer s Realm written by Benerson Little and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1674, it is three years since Henry Morgan’s pirates sacked Panama. England is now at peace with Spain, and soon France, Holland, and Spain will briefly be at peace among themselves. But soon buccaneers and their French counterparts, the filibusters, will seize the opportunity of material gain presented by the far-flung and failing Spanish Empire. And Spain will produce its own notorious pirates, whose depredations against the English and French will become legend. These men of opportunistic calculation and desperate courage live in a wilder, larger, and richer time and place than any other frontier in modern history—the Spanish Main. Unflinchingly, unhesitatingly, unabashedly, they will take to the peaceful seas for riches by force of arms. The world will witness piracy on a grand scale. While Benerson Little’s previous work showed brilliantly how pirates actually plied their trade, The Buccaneer’s Realm focuses on their cultural and physical environments. It describes not merely their deeds but their world—the New World of the Spanish Main and its many peoples, freedoms, dangers, and exploits that are the foundation of the Americas. A detailed and lively description of pirate life, it will especially appeal to readers with an interest in maritime, naval, military, and colonial history, as well as sociologists, anthropologists, and armchair adventurers.
Download or read book The Huguenot A Tale of the French Protestants written by G. P. R. James and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-09 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Little Huguenot written by Max Pemberton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gabrielle de Vernet (the little Huguenot) has been sent for by Louis the Well-Beloved, and it is the duty of his servant De Guyon, the King's musketeer, to somehow bring her to the palace from her hiding place in the forest.
