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Book Tropical Versailles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kirsten Schultz
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-10-18
  • ISBN : 1135308403
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Tropical Versailles written by Kirsten Schultz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging study tells the fascinating story of the only European empire to relocate its capital to the New World.

Book The European Magazine  and London Review

Download or read book The European Magazine and London Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The European Magazine and London Review  by the Philological Society of London

Download or read book The European Magazine and London Review by the Philological Society of London written by and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dom Pedro

Download or read book Dom Pedro written by Neill Macaulay and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the life of Dom Pedro, the first emperor of Brazil.

Book 1808  The Flight of the Emperor

Download or read book 1808 The Flight of the Emperor written by Laurentino Gomes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a time of terror for Europe’s monarchs—imprisoned, exiled, executed—Napoleon’s army marched toward Lisbon. Cornered, Prince Regent João had to make the most fraught decision of his life. Protected by the British Navy, he fled to Brazil with his entire family, including his deranged mother, most of the nobility, and the entire state apparatus. Until then, no European monarch had ever set foot in the Americas. Thousands made the voyage, but it was no luxury cruise. It took two months in cramped, decrepit ships. Lice infested some of the vessels, and noble women had to shave their hair and grease their bald heads with antiseptic sulfur. Vermin infested the food, and bacteria contaminated the drinking water. Sickness ran rampant. After landing in Brazil, Prince João liberated the colony from a trade monopoly with Portugal. As explorers mapped the burgeoning nation’s distant regions, the prince authorized the construction of roads, the founding of schools, and the creation of factories, raising Brazil to kingdom status in 1815. Meanwhile, Portugal was suffering the effects of abandonment, war, and famine. Never had the country lost so many people in so little time. Finally, after Napoleon’s fall and over a decade of misery, the Portuguese demanded the return of their king. João sailed back in tears in 1821, and the last chapter of colonial Brazil drew to a close, setting the stage for the strong, independent nation that we know today, changing the New World forever.

Book The Medieval Spains

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard F. Reilly
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1993-06-03
  • ISBN : 9780521397414
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book The Medieval Spains written by Bernard F. Reilly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-06-03 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the political evolution of the Iberian peninsula from late Roman imperial provinces to monarchies of the mid-fifteenth century, essays on the significant periods of medieval Spain sketch the major political, economic, social and intellectual features of their times.

Book Sintra

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  • Author : Malcolm Jack
  • Publisher : Carcanet Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 290 pages

Download or read book Sintra written by Malcolm Jack and published by Carcanet Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sintra is a unique and fantastic place. It is a place to be visited and explored, time and time again, both on account of its magnificent, natural scenery - an alpine setting in the south of Portugal - and its rich history entwined with that of the Portuguese Royal family. Sintra: A Glorious Eden evokes the spirit of this magical place, a cool sanctuary for the monarchy from the overwhelming heat of the city of Lisbon. The reader is introduced to the historical and literary background to what has become a symbol of Portuguese romanticism at home and abroad.

Book Names of dramas  A L

Download or read book Names of dramas A L written by David Erskine Baker and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of English Drama 1660 1900

Download or read book History of English Drama 1660 1900 written by Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.

Book Global History

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  • Author : Jerry Weiner
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006-05
  • ISBN : 9780764133824
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Global History written by Jerry Weiner and published by . This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This teacher's manual is designed for use with Barron's "Global History, Volume I" textbook. It suggests classroom discussion points and ideas for essay questions, and offers general advice on presenting the subject matter.

Book Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions

Download or read book Imperial Portugal in the Age of Atlantic Revolutions written by Gabriel Paquette and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolutions, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind in the English language to examine the Portuguese Atlantic World in the period from 1750 to 1850, this book reveals that despite formal separation, the links and relationships that survived the demise of empire entwined the historical trajectories of Portugal and Brazil even more tightly than before. From constitutionalism to economic policy to the problem of slavery, Portuguese and Brazilian statesmen and political writers laboured under the long shadow of empire as they sought to begin anew and forge stable post-imperial orders on both sides of the Atlantic.

Book Republican Portugal

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas L. Wheeler
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1998-08-10
  • ISBN : 9780299074548
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Republican Portugal written by Douglas L. Wheeler and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-08-10 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Global History of Portugal

Download or read book The Global History of Portugal written by Carlos D. Fiolhais and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thousands of years, Portugal has been the point of arrival and departure for peoples, cultures, languages, ideas, fashions, behaviours, beliefs, institutions and produce. While its miscegenation and global multimodal activity enriched the world in many ways, it also provoked violence, war, suffering and resistance. The Global History of Portugal contains 93 chapters grouped into five parts: Pre-history, Antiquity, Middle Ages, Early Modern period and Modern World. Each chapter begins with an event, interpreted in the light of global history. Each part opens with an introduction, offering a perspective of the period in question. The three Editors, five Scientific Coordinators (João Luís Cardoso, Carlos Fabião, Bernardo Vasconcelos e Sousa, Catia Antunes and António Costa Pinto) and ninety Contributors offer a critical and analytical synthesis of the history that originated in Portuguese territory or passed through it, stimulating the process of encounter and dis-encounter in todays global world. The history presented gives special attention to the world that moulded Portugal and the Portuguese, and to the ways Portugal configured the world. It seeks to identify and understand the transversal entanglements of historic impact and the impulses these gave to the construction of Portugal and the world. Contemporary reflection and academic scholarship on the global history of leading nations has stimulated a rethinking of the past and a more comprehensive recognition of legacy. Historians can no longer overlook the wider world with which their country of investigation has interacted. Portugal's role in the dynamic circulation of peoples and ideas makes it global history not only unique by way of what took place but also in terms of a potential academic template for better understanding of how the past shapes the present, and more particularly the importance of acknowledging a country's past historic mis-steps and how these are dealt with by contemporary populations.

Book Empire Adrift

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  • Author : Patrick Wilcken
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury UK
  • Release : 2004-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780747556725
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Empire Adrift written by Patrick Wilcken and published by Bloomsbury UK. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1807, at the height of the Napoleonic wars, the Portuguese prince regent Dom João made an extraordinary decision. Although horrified by the idea of sea travel, he opted to transplant his entire court and government to Portugal's largest colony, Brazil. With French troops closing in on Lisbon, aristocrats, ministers, priests and servants - a staggering 10,000 in all - clambered on board the rickety Portuguese fleet. After a rough transatlantic passage they spilled off their ships bedraggled, lice-ridden and dressed in rags, to the astonishment of their new world subjects. Thus began a unique 13-year period of imperial rule from the tropics. Rio de Janeiro was soon graced with a new opera house, lush botanical gardens and a royal palace - a 'tropical Versailles' set against the city's stunning jungle-clad mountains. But this metropolitan façade only partially obscured the brutal workings of what was then the largest slaving port in the Americas. While the court grappled with the dark side of its own empire, Brazil, with its eclectic mix of African, European and indigenous influences, was coming of age. Patrick Wilcken brings this remarkable period to the page, blending vivid contemporary testament with a rich evocation of the one time in history when European royalty went native.

Book Europeans and Africans

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  • Author : Michał Tymowski
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2020-09-07
  • ISBN : 900442850X
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Europeans and Africans written by Michał Tymowski and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Europeans and Africans Michał Tymowski analyses the cultural and organizational aspects of contacts of both sides on the West African coast in the 15th and early 16th centuries, and the creation of the image of ‘other’ – African for Europeans, and European for Africans.

Book Catalogue of the Miscellaneous Portion of the Barton Collection

Download or read book Catalogue of the Miscellaneous Portion of the Barton Collection written by Boston Public Library. Barton Collection and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: