Author: Alceste shipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alceste (Frigate)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Shipwreck of the Alceste, an English Frigate, in the Straits of Gaspar
Author: Alceste shipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alceste (Frigate)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Shipwreck of the Alceste, an English Frigate in the Straits of Gaspar; Also, the Shipwreck of the Medusa, a French Frigate on the Coast of Africa, Etc
Author: Frigate ALCESTEThe Shipwreck of the Alceste, an English Frigate, in the Straits of Gasper
Author: The Wreck of the Medusa
Author: Jonathan MilesPublisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802143921
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This spellbinding account of the most famous shipwreck before the "Titanic" draws on published accounts and journals of survivors. Historian Miles brilliantly reconstructs the ill-fated voyage and the events that inspired Theodore Gericaults painting "The Raft of the Medusa."
Notes and Queries
Author: A history of Useful Arts and Manufactures
Author: Britain’s Second Embassy to China
Author: Caroline StevensonPublisher: ANU Press
ISBN: 1760464090
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Lord Amherst’s diplomatic mission to the Qing Court in 1816 was the second British embassy to China. The first led by Lord Macartney in 1793 had failed to achieve its goals. It was thought that Amherst had better prospects of success, but the intense diplomatic encounter that greeted his arrival ended badly. Amherst never appeared before the Jiaqing emperor and his embassy was expelled from Peking on the day it arrived. Historians have blamed Amherst for this outcome, citing his over-reliance on the advice of his Second Commissioner, Sir George Thomas Staunton, not to kowtow before the emperor. Detailed analysis of British sources reveal that Amherst was well informed on the kowtow issue and made his own decision for which he took full responsibility. Success was always unlikely because of irreconcilable differences in approach. China’s conduct of foreign relations based on the tributary system required submission to the emperor, thus relegating all foreign emissaries and the rulers they represented to vassal status, whereas British diplomatic practice was centred on negotiation and Westphalian principles of equality between nations. The Amherst embassy’s failure revised British assessments of China and led some observers to believe that force, rather than diplomacy, might be required in future to achieve British goals. The Opium War of 1840 that followed set a precedent for foreign interference in China, resulting in a century of ‘humiliation’. This resonates today in President Xi Jinping’s call for ‘National Rejuvenation’ to restore China’s historic place at the centre of a new Sino-centric global order.
nos. 1-4087. Books printed in Dublin by known printers, 1602-1882. List of printers and booksellers in Dublin.- v.2. nos. 4088-8743. Books printed in Dublin without printer's name. Provincial towns. The works of Irish authors printed elsewhere, arranged alphabetically. Books printed elsewhere which relate to Ireland, arranged chronologically. App. I. Books and documents relating to the papacy. Deposited in the University library by the Rev. Robert James M'Ghee, A. M., A. D. 1840. App. II. List of books added during the compilation of the catalogue. Addenda. Notes and corrigenda.- v.3. Index
Author: Cambridge University Library. Bradshaw Irish CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library Cambridge
Author: Charles SaylePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108073514
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 707
Book Description
A 1916 three-volume catalogue of over 8,000 books and pamphlets from or about Ireland, printed between 1600 and 1900.
A Catalogue of the Bradshaw Collection of Irish Books in the University Library, Cambridge
Author: Cambridge University Library. Bradshaw Irish CollectionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description