Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana Et Selectissima
Author: Joseph SabinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of Congress
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
The Book Buyer
Author: The Catalogue of the Public Library of Victoria
Author: Public Library, Museums, and National Gallery (Vic.)Publisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books ...
Author: Dead Men Telling Tales
Author: Matilda GreigPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192649337
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Dead Men Telling Tales is an original account of the lasting cultural impact made by the autobiographies of Napoleonic soldiers over the course of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the nearly three hundred military memoirs published by British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese veterans of the Peninsular War (1808-1814), Matilda Greig charts the histories of these books over the course of a hundred years, around Europe and the Atlantic, and from writing to publication to afterlife. Drawing on extensive archival research in multiple languages, she challenges assumptions made by historians about the reliability of these soldiers' direct eyewitness accounts, revealing the personal and political motives of the authors and uncovering the large cast of characters, from family members to publishers, editors, and translators, involved in production behind the scenes. By including literature from Spain and Portugal, Greig also provides a missing link in current studies of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, showing how the genre of military memoirs developed differently in south-western Europe and led to starkly opposing national narratives of the same war. Her findings tell the history of a publishing phenomenon which gripped readers of all ages across the world in the nineteenth century, made significant profits for those involved, and was fundamental in defining the modern 'soldier's tale'.
Author: G. De Vere
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Author: ![Miller's London Librarian, and Book-buyers Gazette, Jan. 1852-Dec. 1853; Appended [1853] Fly Leaves; Or, Scraps and Sketches, Literary, Bibliographical, and Miscellaneous PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/K2FWAAAAYAAJ?fife=w80-h100)
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