Author: John Nourse (Londres)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Navigation Or, the Art of Sailing Upon the Sea
Author: John Nourse (Londres)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
A New Catalogue of the Circulating Library at No. 39, King Street, Cheapside
Author: John BooseyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catàlegs de llibreters
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Memoir of General Toussaint Louverture
Author: Toussaint LouverturePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199937222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This is the memoir of a Haitian revolutionary written shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. It retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. It provides an alternative perspective to anonymous plantation records, quantitative analyses of slave trading ventures, or slave narratives mediated by white authors.
Navigation, or the art of sailing upon the sea. Containing a demonstration of the fundamental principles of this art ... With ... tables ... Second edition ... enlarged. [By W. E., i.e. William Emerson.]
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Author: W. E.Les élémens de la langue angloise
Author: V. J. PeytonPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Memoir of Toussaint Louverture
Author: Philippe R. GirardPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199393524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Here is an annotated, scholarly, multilingual edition of the only lengthy text personally written by Haitian revolutionary Toussaint Louverture: the memoirs he wrote shortly before his death in the French prison of Fort de Joux. The translation is based on an original copy in Louverture's hand never before published. Historian Philippe Girard begins with an introductory essay that retraces Louverture's career as a slave, rebel, and governor. Girard provides a detailed narrative of the last year of Louverture's life, and analyzes the significance of the memoirs and letters from a historical and linguistic perspective. The book includes a full transcript, in the original French, of Louverture's handwritten memoirs. The English translation appears side by side with the original. The memoirs contain idiosyncrasies and stylistic variations of interest to linguists. Scholarly interest in the Haitian Revolution and the life of Toussaint Louverture has increased over the past decade. Louverture is arguably the most notable man of African descent in history, and the Haitian Revolution was the most radical of the three great revolutions of its time. Haiti's proud revolutionary past and its more recent upheavals indicate that interest in Haiti's history goes far beyond academia; many regard Louverture as a personal hero. Despite this interest, there is a lack of accessible primary sources on Toussaint Louverture. An edited translation of Louverture's memoirs makes his writings accessible to a larger public. Louverture's memoirs provide a vivid alternative perspective to anonymous plantation records, quantitative analyses of slave trading ventures, or slave narratives mediated by white authors. Louverture kept a stoic façade and rarely expressed his innermost thoughts and fears in writing, but his memoirs are unusually emotional. Louverture questioned whether he was targeted due to the color of his skin, bringing racism an issue that Louverture rarely addressed head on with his white interlocutors, to the fore.
The Great Cat Massacre
Author: Robert DarntonPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465010482
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.
Bibliotheca Grammaticorum: no. 1-2. The renaissance (circa 1450-circa 1790)
Author: Florent A. TremblayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grammar, Comparative and general
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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