Author: Emeric Essex VidalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-four Views
Author: Emeric Essex VidalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video
Author: Emeric Essex VidalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video
Author: Emerica Essex VidalPicturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views
Author: Emeric Essex VidalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780282471965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Excerpt from Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views: Accompanied With Descriptions of the Scenery, and of the Costumes, Manners, &C. Of the Inhabitants of Those Cities and Their EnvironsLeaving, however, those more abstruse topics to the professed historian and political economist, the author of this work contented himself with sketching, originally without any View to publication, some of the characteristic features presented by the cities of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, and such peculiarities. In the habits, manners, and customs of the people as appeared to him most striking during a residence of three years in the country.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-four Views
Author: Emeric Essex 1791-1861 VidalPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781014208590
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, Consisting of Twenty-Four Views
Author: Emeric Essex VidalPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9780461056181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
The British Invasion of the River Plate, 1806–1807
Author: Ben HughesPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473829925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In 1806 a British expeditionary force captured Buenos Aires. Over the next eighteen months, Britain was sucked into a costly campaign on the far side of the world. The Spaniards were humbled on the battlefield and Montevideo was taken by storm, but the campaign ended in disaster when 6000 redcoats and riflemen surrendered following a bloody battle in the streets of the Argentine capital. So ended one of the most humiliating and neglected episodes of the entire Napoleonic Wars.In The British Invasion of the River Plate Ben Hughes tells the story of this forgotten campaign in graphic detail. His account is based on research carried out across two continents. It draws on contemporary newspaper reports, official documents and the memoirs, letters and journals of the men who were there.He describes the initially successful British invasion, which was stopped when their troops were surrounded in Buenos Aires main square and forced to surrender, and the second British attack which was eventually defeated too. His narrative covers the course of the entire campaign and its aftermath. While focusing on the military and political aspects of the campaign, his book gives an insight into the actions of the main protagonists William Carr Beresford, Sir Home Popham, Santiago de Liniers and Black Bob Craufurd and into the experiences of the forgotten rank and file.He also considers the long-term impact of the campaign on the fortunes of the opposing sides. Many of the British survivors went on to win glory in the Peninsular War. For the Uruguayans and Argentines, their victory gave them a sense of national pride that would eventually encourage them to wrest their independence from Spain.
Yerba Mate
Author: Julia J.S. SarrealPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520379284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Like coffee or tea, yerba mate is one of the world's most beloved caffeinated beverages. Once dubbed a "devil's drink" by Spanish missionaries in South America only to be later hailed by capitalists and politicians as "green gold," it has a long and storied history. And no country consumes and celebrates yerba mate quite like Argentina. Yerba Mate is the first book to explore the extraordinary history of this iconic beverage in Argentina from the precolonial period to the present. From yerba mate's Indigenous origins to its ubiquity during the colonial era, from its association with rural people and the poor in the late nineteenth century to its resurgence in the last years of the twentieth century, Julia Sarreal meticulously documents yerba mate's consumption, production, and cultural importance over time. Yerba Mate is the definitive history of this popular beverage and social practice, and it tells a fascinating story about race, culture, and how a drink helped forge the national identity of one of the world's most dynamic countries.
Travel, Travel Writing, and British Political Economy
Author: Brian P. CooperPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317698010
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
The book draws on the history of economics, literary theory, and the history of science to explore how European travelers like Alexander von Humboldt and their readers, circa 1750–1850, adapted the work of British political economists, such as Adam Smith, to help organize their observations, and, in turn, how political economists used travelers’ observations in their own analyses. Cooper examines journals, letters, books, art, and critical reviews to cast in sharp relief questions raised about political economy by contemporaries over the status of facts and evidence, whether its principles admitted of universal application, and the determination of wealth, value, and happiness in different societies. Travelers citing T.R. Malthus’s population principle blurred the gendered boundaries between domestic economy and British political economy, as embodied in the idealized subjects: domestic woman and economic man. The book opens new realms in the histories of science in its analyses of debates about gender in social scientific observation: Maria Edgeworth, Maria Graham, and Harriet Martineau observe a role associated with women and methodically interpret what they observe, an act reserved, in theory, by men.
Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery
Author: Tessa HauswedellPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. Covering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery investigates the asymmetrical and multi-directional structure of such encounters within Europe as well as in a global context. Exploring subjects from the shores of the Russian Empire to nation-making in Latin America, the international team of contributors demonstrates how, as products of human agency, centre and periphery are conditioned by mutual dependencies; rather than representing absolute categories of analysis, they are subjective constructions determined by a constantly changing discursive context. Through its analysis, the volume develops and implements a conceptual framework for remapping centres and peripheries, based on conceptual history and discourse history. As such, it will appeal to a wide variety of historians, including transnational, cultural and intellectual, and historians of early modern and modern periods.