Author: New Zealand. Parliament. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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In the Land of the Romanovs
Author: Anthony CrossPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1783740574
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony Cross’s ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of 1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.
A Concordance to the Works of Alexander Pope
Author: Edwin AbbottPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Notes on the War
Author: Friedrich EngelsPrefacion perioca [to an edition of “Varones ilustres del Nuevo Mundo,” etc.].
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Author: Fernando Pizarro y OrellanaPublisher:
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Languages : es
Pages : 22
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An Historical Account of the British Trade Over the Caspian Sea
Author: Jonas HanwayPublisher: London : sold by Dodsley ; Cornhill [Eng. : sold by] Willock
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 456
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Notes on Hospitals
Author: Florence NightingalePublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Peter the Great Through British Eyes
Author: Anthony CrossPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521782982
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Peter the Great's visit to England in the first months of 1698 has been called 'the most picturesque episode in the history of Anglo-Russian relations', and lives on most vividly in popular memory for the devastation caused at Sayes Court, John Evelyn's house and garden in Deptford. Recent celebrations of the tercentenary of that visit have refocused attention on the most famous of Russian tsars, but the story of Britain's love-hate relationship with him over the intervening centuries has never before been told. This study analyses changing British reactions to Peter in an extremely wide variety of printed sources - newspapers and journals, letters and collections of anecdotes, histories and biographies, novels, poems and plays. A final innovative chapter is devoted to images of the tsar as interpreted by British painters from Godfrey Kneller to Daniel Maclise, and by a whole cohort of engravers, illustrating biographies and travel accounts.
Virtues of the Indian/Virtudes del indio
Author: Bishop Juan de Palafox y MendozaPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 0742557073
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
This important book is the first complete seventeenth-century treatise on Native Americans to be introduced, annotated, and translated into English. Presented in a parallel text translation, it brings the work of the controversial and powerful Bishop Juan de Palafox to non-Spanish speakers for the first time. A seminal document in the history of colonial Mexico and imperial Spain, Virtues of the Indian tells us as much about the Mexican natives as about the ideas, images, and representations upon which the Spanish Empire in America was built. Taken as a whole, this book will raise questions about the Spanish empire and the governance of New Spain's Indians. Even more significantly, it will complicate the prevailing view of Spanish imperialism and colonial society as one dominated by a unified and coherent ruling elite with common goals. The deeply-informed introduction, biographical essay, and annotations that accompany this vivid translation further explore the thoughts and actions of the dynamic and complex Palafox, contributing to a better knowledge of a key figure in the history of Spanish colonialism in the New World.
Changing Russia
Author: Stephen GrahamPublisher:
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Category : Russia
Languages : en
Pages : 378
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