Author: Bolton Glanvill CorneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe González in the Ship of the Line San Lorenzo, with the Frigate Santa Rosalia in Company, to Easter Island in 1770-1
Author: Bolton Glanvill CorneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Early Modern English Lives
Author: Ronald BedfordPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351942409
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
How did early modern English people write about themselves, and how do we listen to their voices four centuries later? The authors of Early Modern English Lives: Autobiography and Self-Representation 1500-1660 argue that identity is depicted through complex, subtle, and often contradictory social interactions and literary forms. Diaries, letters, daily spiritual reckonings, household journals, travel journals, accounts of warfare, incidental meditations on the nature of time, death and self-reflection, as well as life stories themselves: these are just some of the texts that allow us to address the social and historical conditions that influenced early modern self-writing. The texts explored in Early Modern English Lives do not automatically speak to our familiar patterns of introspection and self-inquiry. Often formal, highly metaphorical and emotionally restrained, they are very different in both tone and purpose from the autobiographies that crowd bookshelves today. Does the lack of emotional description suggest that complex emotions themselves, in all the depth and variety that we now understand (and expect of) them, are a relatively modern phenomenon? This is one of the questions addressed by Early Modern English Lives. The authors bring to our attention the kinds of rhetorical and generic features of early modern self-representation that can help us to appreciate people living four hundred years ago as the complicated, composite figures they were: people whose expression of identity involved an elaborate interplay of roles and discourses, and for whom the notion of privacy itself was a wholly different phenomenon.
The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667
Author: Lt. Col. Sir Richard Carnac TemplePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 131701314X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1915
Book Description
From the Rawlinson MS. A. 315 in the Bodleian Library, with facsimile of original t.-p.: Itinerarium mundi, that is A memoriall or sundry relations of certain voiages,journeies ettc. ... By: Peter Mundy. With an appendix of extracts from the writings of seventeenth-century travellers to the Levant. Continued in Second Series 35, 45, 46, 55, and 78. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1907.
Proceedings in Parliament, 1626: House of Commons
Author: William B. BidwellPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 9780300054606
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Presents the debates in the Lower House in preparation for the impeachment proceedings against George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham and favourite of Charles I. This work is the second book of a four-volume edition of Proceedings in Parliament 1626.
Life and times of General Sir Edward Cecil ...
Author: Charles DaltonA Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217 to 1688
Author: David HannayPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Short History of the Royal Navy, 1217 to 1688" by David Hannay. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
English Warfare, 1511-1642
Author: Mark Charles FissellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136349138
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
English Warfare 1511-1642 chronicles and analyses military operations from the reign of Henry VIII to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Tudor and Stuart periods laid the foundations of modern English military power. Henry VIII's expeditions, the Elizabethan contest with Catholic Europe, and the subsequent commitment of English troops to the Protestant cause by James I and Charles I, constituted a sustained military experience that shaped English armies for subsequent generations. Drawing largely from manuscript sources, English Warfare 1511-1642 includes coverage of: *the military adventures of Henry VIII in France, Scotland and Ireland *Elizabeth I's interventions on the continent after 1572, and how arms were perfected *conflict in Ireland *the production and use of artillery *the development of logistics *early Stuart military actions and the descent into civil war. English Warfare 1511-1642 demolishes the myth of an inexpert English military prior to the upheavals of the 1640s.
Publications of the Navy Records Society
Author: The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson in Six Books
Author: Sir William MonsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson
Author: Sir William MonsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description