Author: John CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Memoirs of the Lives and Conduct of Those Illustrious Heroes Prince Eugene of Savoy, and John Duke of Marlborough
Author: John CampbellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Memoirs of the Lives and Conduct of Those Illustrious Heroes Prince Eugene of Savoy, and John, Duke of Marlborough ...
Author: John CampbellThe Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Author: Tobias George SmollettPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346012
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
First published in 1753, this experimental work explores the relations between history and fiction while introducing episodes of Gothic melodrama. Filled with satiric thrusts at the legal, medical, and military establishments of mid-eighteenth-century Europe, the novel reveals Smollett's capacities as a commentator on contemporary life.
Catalogue of the valuable library of Henry B. Humphrey
Author: Leonard and Co.Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382135272
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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.
Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Henry B. Humphrey, Esq
Author: Henry B. HumphreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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The Counter-Revolution of 1776
Author: Gerald HornePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479808725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1776 revolt against British rule in North America has been hailed almost universally as a great step forward for humanity. But the Africans then living in the colonies overwhelmingly sided with the British. In this trailblazing book, Gerald Horne shows that in the prelude to 1776, the abolition of slavery seemed all but inevitable in London, delighting Africans as much as it outraged slaveholders, and sparking the colonial revolt. Prior to 1776, anti-slavery sentiments were deepening throughout Britain and in the Caribbean, rebellious Africans were in revolt. For European colonists in America, the major threat to their security was a foreign invasion combined with an insurrection of the enslaved. It was a real and threatening possibility that London would impose abolition throughout the colonies—a possibility the founding fathers feared would bring slave rebellions to their shores. To forestall it, they went to war. The so-called Revolutionary War, Horne writes, was in part a counter-revolution, a conservative movement that the founding fathers fought in order to preserve their right to enslave others. The Counter-Revolution of 1776 brings us to a radical new understanding of the traditional heroic creation myth of the United States.
A Catalogue of New and Old Books
Author: Davey and Muskett (Firm)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Military History of Prince Eugene & Duke of Marlborough
Author: John CampbellThe Eighteenth Century
Author: Catalogue
Author: Bloomsbury Book Auctions (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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