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Languages : fr
Pages : 140
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Dessins de l'école française des XVIIe-XVIIIe et XIXe siècles
Author: Tableaux et dessins anciens des XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles des écoles françaises et étrangères
Author: Hôtel DrouotDessins des écoles françaises, italiennes, flamandes, hollandaises des XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles [Millon & Jutheau, 1986].
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Author: Dessins des écoles françaises et italiennes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles; bel ensemble de dessins par Eugène Delacroix provenant de la Collection de Launay; paysagistes du XIXe siècle
Author: Dessins des écoles françaises et italiennes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, bel ensemble de dessins par Eugène Delacroix provenant de la collection de Launay. Paysagistes du XIXe siècle
Author: Making Peoples
Author: James BelichPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825171
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Now in paper This immensely readable book, full of drama and humor as well as scholarship, is a watershed in the writing of New Zealand history. In making many new assertions and challenging many historical myths, it seeks to reinterpret our approach to the past. Given New Zealand's small population, short history, and great isolation, the history of the archipelago has been saddled with a reputation for mundanity. According to James Belich, however, it is just these characteristics that make New Zealand "a historian's paradise: a laboratory whose isolation, size, and recency is an advantage, in which the grand themes of world history are often played out more rapidly, more separately, and therefore more discernably, than elsewhere." The first of two planned volumes, Making Peoples begins with the Polynesian settlement and its development into the Maori tribes in the eleventh century. It traces the great encounter between independent Maoridom and expanding Europe from 1642 to 1916, including the foundation of the Pakeha, the neo-Europeans of New Zealand, between the 1830s and the 1880s. It describes the forging of a neo-Polynesia and a neo-Britain and the traumatic interaction between them. The author carefully examines the myths and realities that drove the colonialization process and suggests a new "living" version of one of the most critical and controversial documents in New Zealand's history, the Treaty of Waitangi, frequently descibed as New Zealand's Magna Carta. The construction of peoples, Maori and Pakeha, is a recurring theme: the response of each to the great shift from extractive to sustainable economics; their relationship with their Hawaikis, or ancestors, with each other, and with myth. Essential reading for anyone interested in New Zealand history and in the history of new societies in general.
Travels Into Spain
Author: Madame D'AulnoyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134285787
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Madame D'Aulnoy was one of the most widely-read and most popular authors of her time. Seeing Spain at a strange moment in her history, it is the end of a great age. The reader can judge the Spanish character from a witness who saw it.
Old Families of Louisiana
Author: Stanley Clisby ArthurPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806346884
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Originally published in 1931, Old Families of Louisiana was compiled in response to a demand for a comprehensive series of genealogical records of the foundation families of the state--families whose ancestors settled with Bienville in New Orleans at the time the famous old city was laid out in the crescent bend of the Mississippi River. This book also answers the call for information on those who came to Louisiana when the golden lilies of France, the castellated banner of Spain, the Union Jack of Great Britain, or the flag of fifteen stars and fifteen stripes waved over the land.During the compilation of the original data it became apparent that the present book would be greatly augmented in interest and value by the addition of genealogical records of other prominent foundation families besides the French and Spanish. For this reason, information was included on the English, Scottish, and Irish lineages whose representatives now form an integral part of the present-day population of Louisiana.In the seventy years since its first publication, Old Families of Louisiana has exceeded the original scope intended. In order to set a limit to its range, it was agreed that only those families settling in Louisiana before and up to the time of the beginning of the American domination in 1803 should be included. Old Families of Louisiana traces the genealogy of such traditional Louisiana families as Fortier, Claiborne, Kenner, Percy, Wiltz, Chalmette, Landry, Derbigny, Butler, St. Martin, and Wilkinson.
The Voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman
Author: Andrew SharpPublisher: London : Clarendon P.
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Brief references to Aborigines encountered on voyage.
The Penguin History of New Zealand
Author: Michael KingPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1459623754
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
New Zealand was the last country in the world to be discovered and settled by humankind. It was also the first to introduce full democracy. Between those events, and in the century that followed the franchise, the movements and the conflicts of human history have been played out more intensively and more rapidly in New Zealand than anywhere else on Earth. The Penguin History of New Zealand, a new book for a new century, tells that story in all its colour and drama. The narrative that emerges in an inclusive one about men and women, Maori and Pakeha. It shows that British motives in colonising New Zealand were essentially humane; and that Maori, far from being passive victims of a 'fatal impact', coped heroically with colonisation and survived by selectively accepting and adapting what Western technology and culture had to offer. This book, a triumphant fruit of careful research, wide reading and judicious assessment, was an unprecedented best-seller from the time of its first publication in 2003.