Author: George WashingtonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796
Author: George WashingtonA View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France
Author: Thomas Erskine Baron ErskinePublisher: London, J. Debrett
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-French War, 1793-1802
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
The Napoleonic Wars
Author: Alexander MikaberidzePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199394067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
Austerlitz, Wagram, Borodino, Trafalgar, Leipzig, Waterloo: these are the places most closely associated with the era of the Napoleonic Wars. But how did this period of nearly continuous conflict affect the world beyond Europe? The immensity of the fighting waged by France against England, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the immediate consequences of the tremors that spread throughout the world. In this ambitious and far-ranging work, Alexander Mikaberidze argues that the Napoleonic Wars can only be fully understood in an international perspective. France struggled for dominance not only on the plains of Europe but also in the Americas, West and South Africa, Ottoman Empire, Iran, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Mediterranean Sea, and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Taking specific regions in turn, Mikaberidze discusses major political-military events around the world and situates geopolitical decision-making within its long- and short-term contexts. From the British expeditions to Argentina and South Africa to the Franco-Russian maneuvering in the Ottoman Empire, the effects of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars would shape international affairs well into the next century. In Egypt, the wars led to the rise of Mehmed Ali and the emergence of a powerful state; in North America, the period transformed and enlarged the newly established United States; and in South America, the Spanish colonial empire witnessed the start of national-liberation movements that ultimately ended imperial control. Skillfully narrated and deeply researched, here at last is the global history of the period, one that expands our view of the Napoleonic Wars and their role in laying the foundations of the modern world.
The Friends of Peace
Author: J. E. CooksonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521239288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
A study of the war-opposition in England during what has usually been presented as the great patriotic struggle against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France.
View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France
Author: Thomas ErskinePublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
A View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France
Author: Thomas Erskine Baron ErskinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France
Author: Thomas Erskine Baron ErskinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-French War, 1793-1802
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A Powerful Mind
Author: Adrienne M. HarrisonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1612347258
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
His formal schooling abruptly cut off at age eleven, George Washington saw his boyhood dream of joining the British army evaporate and recognized that even his aspiration to rise in colonial Virginian agricultural society would be difficult. Throughout his life he faced challenges for which he lacked the academic foundations shared by his more highly educated contemporaries. Yet Washington’s legacy is clearly not one of failure. Breaking new ground in Washington scholarship and American revolutionary history, Adrienne M. Harrison investigates the first president’s dedicated process of self-directed learning through reading, a facet of his character and leadership long neglected by historians and biographers. In A Powerful Mind, Harrison shows that Washington rose to meet these trials through a committed campaign of highly focused reading, educating himself on exactly what he needed to do and how best to do it. In contrast to other famous figures of the revolution—Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin—Washington did not relish learning for its own sake, viewing self-education instead as a tool for shaping himself into the person he wanted to be. His two highest-profile and highest-risk endeavors—commander in chief of the Continental Army and president of the fledgling United States—are a testament to the success of his strategy.
A View of the Causes and Consequences of the Present War with France
Author: Thomas ErskineA War of Ideas
Author: Emma Vincent MacleodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429841906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The responses of British people to the French Revolution has recently received considerable attention from historians. British commentators often expressed a sense of the novelty and scale of European wars which followed, yet their views on this conflict have not yet attracted such thorough examination. This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of the attitudes of various groups of British people to the conflict during the 1790’s: the Government, their supporters and their opponents inside and outside Parliament, women, churchmen, and the broad mass of British public opinion. It presents the debate in England and Scotland provoked by the war both as the sequel to the French Revolution and as a distinct debate in itself. Emma Vincent Macleod argues that contemporaries saw this conflict as one of the first since the wars of religion to be significantly shaped by ideological hostility rather than solely by a struggle over strategic interests.