Author: Thomas H. BrookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A History of the Island of St. Helena, from its Discovery by the Portuguese ot the year 1806
Author: Thomas H. BrookeA History of the Island of St. Helena
Author: Thomas H. BrookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Saint Helena
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Monthly Repertory of English Literature, ... Or an Impartial Criticism of All the Books Relative to Literature, Arts, Sciences Etc. Forming a Valuable Selection from the ... English Reviews and Magazines. Galignani's Magazine and Paris Monthly Review, (etc.) Paris 1823-25
Author: Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal
Author: Ralph GriffithsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Editors: May 1749-Sept. 1803, Ralph Griffiths; Oct. 1803-Apr. 1825, G. E. Griffiths.
Varieties of English in Writing
Author: Raymond HickeyPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027287783
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This volume is concerned with assessing fictional and non-fictional written texts as linguistic evidence for earlier forms of varieties of English. These range from Scotland to New Zealand, from Canada to South Africa, covering all the major forms of the English language around the world. Central to the volume is the question of how genuine written representations are. Here the emphasis is on the techniques and methodology which can be employed when analysing documents. The vernacular styles found in written documents and the use of these as a window on earlier spoken modes of different varieties represent a focal concern of the book. Studies of language in literature, which were offered in the past, have been revisited and their findings reassessed in the light of recent advances in variationist linguistics.
The Literary panorama
Author: St Helena
Author: Arthur MacGregorPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1837650888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Traces the impact of world events on St Helena's topography, ecology and human population, from the early 1500s to the present day. Since its discovery in the early 1500s, St Helena - though remotely situated - has repeatedly participated in events taking place on a world stage; evidence of those encounters is etched on the topography, ecology and human population of the island. This book examines the impacts of a century of casual but destructive visits from sailing ships of various nations followed by settlement by the East India Company; the fortification and population of the island by the Company, including the importation of an enslaved population; efforts to make it economically self-reliant; its employment a base for scientific observations from Edmond Halley to Joseph Hooker and beyond; its role as a prison-fortress from Napoleon to the twentieth century and as a base for anti-slavery patrols in the South Atlantic following the Abolition of Slavery; its decline since the end of the days of sail; measures taken to reconnect it with the modern world in terms of sea and air travel as well as electronic communication; and efforts to regain to some degree the ecological diversity of the virgin island setting.
Britain's Maritime Empire
Author: John McAleerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107100720
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Analyses the critical role played by the maritime gateway to Asia around the Cape of Good Hope in the development of the British Empire. Focusing on a region that connected the Atlantic and Indian oceans at the centre of a vital maritime chain linking Europe with Asia, the book re-examines and reappraises Britain's oceanic empire.
Author: Saʿdī