Описание: Born in Philadelphia, James Peller Malcolm (1767–1815) travelled to London in 1787, remaining there until his death. Initially hoping for a career as a landscape painter, he became well known for his engravings, which appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine from 1792, and for his books on history that made extensive use of original local records. First published in 1808, Anecdotes gives a typically personal and often light-hearted account of the history and customs of Malcolm's adopted city. Illustrated with his engravings, the work ranges from considering the diet and dress of the ancient Britons to suggesting that the Great Fire of London was state-sanctioned to rid the city of plague. This is the 1811 second edition of a valuable and often entertaining insight into English social history. The volumes cover such topics as the origin of English character, religion and superstition, and amusements and popular pastimes.
Автор: Edited by Andrzej Olechnowicz Название: The monarchy and the british nation, 1780 to the present ISBN: 0521606357 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521606356 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6653.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book addresses two fundamental questions about the British monarchy in the modern period. What has been its function in the political and social life of the nation? Why, for much but by no means all of the modern period, has it been so popular with its subjects?
Автор: Wheatley Название: London Past and Present ISBN: 1108028071 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108028073 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Published in 1891 in three volumes, this is a fascinating topographical dictionary covering a thousand years of history. Many of London`s historic streets and buildings were being redeveloped during the rapid urban expansion of the Victorian period, and Wheatley mines historical, literary and architectural sources to preserve their memory.
Автор: Wheatley Название: London Past and Present ISBN: 110802808X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108028080 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Published in 1891 in three volumes, this is a fascinating topographical dictionary covering a thousand years of history. Many of London`s historic streets and buildings were being redeveloped during the rapid urban expansion of the Victorian period, and Wheatley mines historical, literary and architectural sources to preserve their memory.
Автор: Prothero Название: English Farming, Past and Present ISBN: 1108062482 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108062480 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Rowland Edmund Prothero (1851-1937) was an English author and politician. Published in 1912, his influential survey of English farming since the middle ages is a revised and expanded version of a book originally published in 1888 as The Pioneers and Progress of English Farming. It remains a classic text.
Автор: Wheatley Название: Hogarth`s London ISBN: 1108070256 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108070256 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 7286.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: First published in 1909, this illustrated study considers the work of the artist and satirist William Hogarth (1697-1764), focusing on his depiction of London and its inhabitants. Written by the bibliographer and editor Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838-1917), it skilfully unveils the many facets of life in eighteenth-century London.
Описание: A professional author of art and literary criticism as well as travel writing, Anna Jameson (1794-1860) published this book on the great private art collections of London in 1844. With an introductory essay and a catalogue raisonnee for each collection, this is a fascinating guide to mid-nineteenth-century taste in art.
Описание: Published in 1773, this three-volume work proved a bestseller in its day. Taken from journals and including Cook`s first voyage to the southern hemisphere, these are the accounts of leading British navigators. Later taken aboard the Beagle with Darwin, this work still speaks to scholars and students of nautical exploration.
Описание: Published in 1773, this three-volume work proved a bestseller in its day. Taken from journals and including Cook`s first voyage to the southern hemisphere, these are the accounts of leading British navigators. Later taken aboard the Beagle with Darwin, this work still speaks to scholars and students of nautical exploration.
Описание: Published in 1773, this three-volume work proved a bestseller in its day. Taken from journals and including Cook`s first voyage to the southern hemisphere, these are the accounts of leading British navigators. Later taken aboard the Beagle with Darwin, this work still speaks to scholars and students of nautical exploration.
Описание: Compiled by French knight Jean de Wavrin in the fifteenth century, this is the first history of England of this magnitude. This volume, published in 1879, begins with the death of Henry V and ends with the trial of Joan of Arc.
Описание: In this 1850 account of the history of Arctic exploration, John Shillinglaw both gives a historical perspective and describes the most recent efforts being made to discover the fate of Franklin`s 1845 expedition, offering a useful synthesis of the first-hand accounts published in the first half of the nineteenth century.
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