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Author: William Nickerson Bates Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781333477677 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 28
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Excerpt from Nicholas Biddle's Journey to Greece in 1806 Nicholas Biddle was born in Philadelphia in 1786. He was apparently very precocious for he entered the University of Pennsylvania with the class of 17 99. He was, however, taken out of college because of his extreme youth and later entered Princeton from which he graduated in 1801. In 1804 he went to France as secretary of the American legation, and was abroad for three years. On his return from Greece he became secretary of the legation in London. I need not speak of his later life. He became a prominent banker and died in 1844. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William Nickerson Bates Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9781333477677 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 28
Book Description
Excerpt from Nicholas Biddle's Journey to Greece in 1806 Nicholas Biddle was born in Philadelphia in 1786. He was apparently very precocious for he entered the University of Pennsylvania with the class of 17 99. He was, however, taken out of college because of his extreme youth and later entered Princeton from which he graduated in 1801. In 1804 he went to France as secretary of the American legation, and was abroad for three years. On his return from Greece he became secretary of the legation in London. I need not speak of his later life. He became a prominent banker and died in 1844. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: R. A. McNeal Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 027104165X Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 258
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Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) was a noted politician and financier in early nineteenth-century America. At eighteen, he went to Europe as the secretary of the American minister to France. He also made the acquaintance of James Monroe when Monroe was the American ambassador to London. He was later elected to the state legislature and senate of Pennsylvania. Ultimately he became a director and then the president of the Bank of the United States. In the course of a sojourn to Europe, Biddle sailed to Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Half of the journal he kept on the trip has only recently been discovered, and the other half is known to only a few people because it is still in private hands. Taken together, these two journals (plus the four extant letters that Biddle wrote to his family in Philadelphia) are a mine of information about the formative influences on his career, about the politics and personalities of Napoleon's Europe, about the condition of Greece and its ancient monuments under the Turkocratia, and even about the American naval war against the Barbary pirates. Despite being written by a twenty-year old, these journals are remarkable for their literary quality and their general liveliness. Perhaps because they were not written to be published, they have a freshness and honesty lacking in more formal works of travel. McNeal's extensive introduction illuminates the early nineteenth-century background of Biddle's journals.
Author: Eleftheria Arapoglou Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135052344 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 294
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Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th–21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share a strong central interest in the ways in which the narratives of travel contribute to the imagining of ethnic encounters and how they have acted as sites of transformation and transculturation from the early nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to discussing textual representations of travel and migration, the volume also addresses the ways in which cultural texts themselves travel and are reconstructed in various cultural settings. The analyses are particularly attentive to the issues of globalization and migration, which provide a general frame for interpretation. What distinguishes the volume from existing books is its concern with travel and migration as ways of forging transcultural identities that are able to subvert existing categorizations and binary models of identity formation. In so doing, it pays particular attention to the performance of identity in various spaces of cultural encounter, ranging from North America to the East of Europe, putting particular emphasis on the representation of intercultural and ethnic encounters.
Author: Nicholas Biddle Publisher: Penn State University Press ISBN: 9780271009148 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 243
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In the course of a sojourn to Europe, Biddle sailed to Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Half of the journal he kept on the trip has only recently been discovered, and the other half is known to only a few people because it is still in private hands. Taken together, these two journals (plus the four extant letters that Biddle wrote to his family in Philadelphia) are a mine of information about the formative influences on his career, about the politics and personalities of Napoleon's Europe, about the condition of Greece and its ancient monuments under the Turkocratia, and even about the American naval war against the Barbary pirates. Despite being written by a twenty-year-old, these journals are remarkable for their literary quality and their general liveliness. Perhaps because they were not written to be published, they have a freshness and honesty lacking in more formal works of travel.
Author: Nadine Guilhou Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1784915238 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 400
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In this volume, a pleiade of Egyptologists, Archaeologists, Archaeoastronomers, Archaeoanthropologists, Historians and other scholars from fifteen countries have combined their efforts in order to honour Alicia Maravelia.
Author: Stephen L. Dyson Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812234466 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
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Uncovers the history of classical archaeology as a discipline in the United States from the Revolutionary War to today. Along the way Dyson discusses the development of American museums and the changing perceptions Americans have had of the classical past.
Author: William Nickerson Bates
Author: William Nickerson Bates
Author: R. A. McNeal
Author: American Philological Association
Author: Library of Congress
Author: Eleftheria Arapoglou
Author: Nicholas Biddle
Author: American Philosophical Society
Author: Nadine Guilhou
Author: William Nickerson Bates
Author: Stephen L. Dyson