Author: Thomas CunninghamPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Journal of Thomas Cuningham of Campvere, 1640-1654
Author: Thomas CunninghamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The Navigator
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004189335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Captain John Anderson served in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as ‘Pilot-Major’ in a fleet of ships that set sail from Europe in December 1640, and returned with his ships in July 1643. This was Anderson’s fourth voyage to the East Indies. His journey took three years during which time he safely brought a VOC fleet to Java and home again through tempests and full-scale battles with the Portuguese at sea. In this, the first-ever edition of Anderson’s Journal, the editors have complemented his own words with chapters discussing the author’s contributions to the History of Warfare in Asia, Maritime Navigation and Early Modern Travel Writing.
Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Author: Keith L. SprungerPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004477020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Prisoners of the '45
Author: Sir Bruce Gordon Seton (bart.)Publisher:
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Category : Jacobite Rebellion, 1745-1746
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The Royalist Republic
Author: Helmer J. HelmersPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316240940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
In 1649, Charles I was executed before Whitehall Palace in London. This event had a major impact not only in the British Isles, but also on the continent, where British exiles, diplomats and agents waged propaganda battles to conquer the minds of foreign audiences. In the Dutch Republic, above all, their efforts had a significant impact on public opinion, and succeeded in triggering violent debate. This is the first book-length study devoted to the continental backlash of the English Civil Wars. Interdisciplinary in scope and drawing on a wide range of sources, from pamphlets to paintings, Helmer Helmers shows how the royalist cause managed to triumph in one of the most unlikely places in early modern Europe. In doing so, Helmers transforms our understanding of both British and Dutch political culture, and provides new contexts for major literary works by Milton, Marvell, Huygens, and many others.
British Diaries
Author: William MatthewsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520320719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
An Unofficial Alliance, Scotland and Sweden 1569-1654
Author: Alexia GrosjeanPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047402537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This work reveals the hitherto unrepresented relationship that developed between Scotland and Sweden during the second half of the sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth centuries. Sweden's emergence as an independent Nordic, and indeed European, power required continual military and economic growth, which in turn necessitated a constant supply of manpower. The initially piecemeal migration of private individuals from Scotland bringing both martial and mercantile skills to Sweden gradually grew into an informal alliance, albeit officially sanctioned by the Swedes, based on personal networks. Equally the impact of Sweden's support for the Scottish Covenanting movement on British state-formation is scrutinized. This fresh perspective on Scottish-Swedish connections is aimed at those interested in state-formation, migration studies, diplomatic developments, and military history.
British Travellers in Holland during the Stuart Period
Author: C.D. van StrienPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004246940
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
The book is a comprehensive study of British travel in the United Provinces during the Stuart Period and largely based on journals and correspondence never before published. After a discussion of travel journals and correspondence as a literary genre with conventions of its own, the book focuses on the more concrete activities of the tourist: transport, accommodation and sightseeing. A large number of guidebooks provided the necessary information and helped the tourist to write his observations on Holland and the Dutch. Letters by Edward Browne (1644-1708), passages from the journal of John Locke (1632-1704) and the financial accounts of the third Earl of Orrery (1670-1703) take the reader through most of the provinces and give a first-hand impression of what travel was like for various categories of tourists in those days. This book is indispensable for all scholars of Anglo-Dutch relations in this period who are interested in learning about day to day experiences of Britons visiting Holland.
John Lambert, Parliamentary Soldier and Cromwellian Major-general, 1619-1684
Author: David FarrPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 9781843830047
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The biography of one of the most prominent soldiers in the New Model Army, John Lambert (1619-1684) who made Cromwell Lord Protector but prevented him from becoming king.
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