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Book Journal  Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge

Download or read book Journal Memorials and Letters of Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge written by Peter Borschberg and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admiral Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge was a Director in the Rotterdam chamber of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) for three decades in the early 17th century. In May 1605 he set sail from the Dutch Republic with a fleet of 11 ships, and in the following year launched an unsuccessful attack on Portuguese Melaka. After visiting various locations in the region and signing landmark treaties with the rulers of Johor (1606) and Ternate (1607), he returned to the Netherlands in 1608. There he wrote a series of epistolary reports and memoranda that were carefully studied by leading policy makers in the Republic, among them the renowned jurist Hugo Grotius, and the politician and diplomat Johan van Oldenbarnevelt. Early VOC policy for south-eastern Asia drew heavily on Matelieff's submissions, and the materials reproduced in this volume provide candid insights into key elements of VOC strategy, trade, security and regional diplomacy, as well as Dutch relations with Spain and Portugal. Here translated into English for the first time, this collection of Matelieff's writings is an invaluable resource for students of business history, early colonial history, and the history of international law.

Book Memorials Journal and Botanical Correspondence of Charles Cardale Babington

Download or read book Memorials Journal and Botanical Correspondence of Charles Cardale Babington written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese

Download or read book Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to the Chinese written by Alexander Wylie and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Books in the H  H  Baxter Memorial Library of Rutland  Vt

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books in the H H Baxter Memorial Library of Rutland Vt written by Baxter Memorial Library, Rutland, Vt and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thomas And Jane Carlyle

Download or read book Thomas And Jane Carlyle written by Rosemary Ashton and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-03-31 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They were the most remarkable couple in London: the great sage Carlyle, with his vehement prophecies, and his witty, sardonic wife Jane. It was a strong, close, mutually admiring yet often mutually antagonistic partnership, fascinating to all who observed it. The Carlyles lived at the heart of English life in mid-Victorian London, but both were outsiders, a largely self-educated Scottish pair who took a sometimes caustic look at the society they so influenced - Carlyle through his copious writings, and both through their network of acquaintances and correspondents. Carlyle's fame was confirmed by his Sartor Resartus of 1843, The French Revolution, his lectures on heroes and hero-worship and by his radical account of contemporary industrial Britain in Past and Present, 1843. Both husband and wife were great letter-writers, Carlyle commenting on the matters of the day, dashing off pen portraits of those he met and Jane with her brilliant stories and her sharp, dry humour. Yet despite her brilliance, Jane suffered, especially from Carlyle's infatuation with the lion-hunting Lady Ashburton, and the tensions in their marriage grew. The letters they wrote, both to each other and to others, make theirs the most well-documented marriage of the nineteenth century and give us an unequalled portrait of a famously unhappy marriage. This moving and vivid biography describes their relationship with each other, from their first meeting in 1821 to Jane's death in 1866, and also their relationship with the world outside. Rosemary Ashton's inimitable blend of rigorous scholarship, warm sensitivity and lively wit makes this not only a portrait of a marriage but a picture of a whole age, elegant, erudite and entertaining.

Book Sentimental Memorials

Download or read book Sentimental Memorials written by Melissa Sodeman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer dismiss or ignore these works, recent reassessments have emphasized their interventions in various political and cultural debates rather than their literary significance. Sentimental Memorials, by contrast, argues that sentimental novels gave the women who wrote them a means of clarifying, protesting, and finally memorializing the historical conditions under which they wrote. As women writers successfully navigated the professional marketplace but struggled to position their works among more lasting literary monuments, their novels reflect on what the elevation of literature would mean for women's literary reputations. Drawing together the history of the novel, women's literary history, and book history, Melissa Sodeman revisits the critical frameworks through which we have understood the history of literature. Novels by Sophia Lee, Ann Radcliffe, Charlotte Smith, and Mary Robinson, she argues, offer ways of rethinking some of the signal literary developments of this period, from emerging notions of genius and originality to the rise of an English canon. And in Sodeman's analysis, novels long seen as insufficiently literary acquire formal and self-historicizing importance.

Book Journals of the Continental Congress  1774 1789

Download or read book Journals of the Continental Congress 1774 1789 written by United States. Continental Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Wades  Jonathan Wade  D D   Deborah B  L  Wade   A Memorial

Download or read book The Wades Jonathan Wade D D Deborah B L Wade A Memorial written by Walter N. Wyeth and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of two Christian missionaries to Myanmar (then called Burma), Jonathan Wade and his wife, Deborah. They mostly lived near the Karen people in the region, and successfully translated the bible to the S'gaw Karen language. The Wades chose to remain in Myanmar for the rest of their lives, later settling in Mawlamyine, and would also be buried in the country.

Book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States

Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

Book The Centenary Memorial of Sir Walter Scott

Download or read book The Centenary Memorial of Sir Walter Scott written by C. S. M. Lockhart and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book Apr  1  1782  to Nov  1  1788  inclusive  also  the Journal of the Committee of the States  from the 1st Friday in June  to the 1st Friday in August  1784  with an Appendix

Download or read book Apr 1 1782 to Nov 1 1788 inclusive also the Journal of the Committee of the States from the 1st Friday in June to the 1st Friday in August 1784 with an Appendix written by United States. Continental Congress and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Senate Journal of the     Legislature of the State of Washington

Download or read book Senate Journal of the Legislature of the State of Washington written by Washington (State). Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Baptist Memorial

Download or read book American Baptist Memorial written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Missionary Memorial

Download or read book American Missionary Memorial written by Hamilton Wilcox Pierson and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memorials as Spaces of Engagement

Download or read book Memorials as Spaces of Engagement written by Quentin Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorials are more diverse in design and subject matter than ever before. No longer limited to statues of heroes placed high on pedestals, contemporary memorials engage visitors in new, often surprising ways, contributing to the liveliness of public space. In Memorials as Spaces of Engagement Quentin Stevens and Karen A. Franck explore how changes in memorial design and use have helped forge closer, richer relationships between commemorative sites and their visitors. The authors combine first hand analysis of key examples with material drawn from existing scholarship. Examples from the US, Canada, Australia and Europe include official, formally designed memorials and informal ones, those created by the public without official sanction. Memorials as Spaces of Engagement discusses important issues for the design, management and planning of memorials and public space in general. The book is organized around three topics: how the physical design of memorial objects and spaces has evolved since the 19th century; how people experience and understand memorials through the activities of commemorating, occupying and interpreting; and the issues memorials raise for management and planning. Memorials as Spaces of Engagement will be of interest to architects, landscape architects and artists; historians of art, architecture and culture; urban sociologists and geographers; planners, policymakers and memorial sponsors; and all those concerned with the design and use of public space.

Book The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Record

Download or read book The Baptist Memorial and Monthly Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: