Автор: Morrow John Название: British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 ISBN: 1474277675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474277679 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: During the French wars (1793-1801, 1803-1815) the system of promotion to flag rank in the Royal Navy produced a cadre of admirals numbering more than two hundred at its peak. These officers competed vigorously for a limited number of appointments at sea and for the high honours and significant financial rewards open to successful naval commanders. When on active service admirals faced formidable challenges arising from the Navy's critical role in a global conflict, from the extraordinary scope of their responsibilities, and from intense political, public and professional expectations. While a great deal has been written about admirals' roles in naval operations, other aspects of their professional lives have not been explored systematically.
British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 considers the professional lives of well-known and more obscure admirals, vice-admirals and rear-admirals. It examines the demands of naval command, flag officers' understanding of their authority and their approach to exercising it, their ambitions and failures, their professional interactions, and their lives afloat and onshore. In exploring these themes, it draws on a wide range of correspondence and other primary source material.
By taking a broad thematic approach, this book provides a multi-faceted account of admirals' professional lives that extends beyond the insights that are found in biographical studies of individual flag officers. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of British naval history.
Описание: Dogopolis suggests a surprising source of urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships.
Автор: Plutarch, Erskine Andrew Название: Hellenistic Lives: Including Alexander the Great ISBN: 0199664331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199664337 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2374.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: These ten Lives trace the history of Hellenistic Greece from the rise of Macedon and Alexander`s conquest of the Persian empire to the arrival of the Romans. Plutarch`s biographies of eminent politicians, rulers, and soldiers combine vivid portraits with a wealth of historical information.
The Canadian West and the American Northwest offer a valuable setting for considering issues of borders and borderlands. The regions contain certain similarities, and during the first half of the nineteenth century they were even grouped together as a distinct political and economic unit, called the "Oregon Country" by Americans and the "Columbia Department" of the Hudson's Bay Company by the British.
The essays in this volume -- which grew out of a conference commemorating the Oregon Treaty of 1846 -- view the boundary between Canada and the United States as a dividing line and also as a regional backbone, with people on each side of the border having key experiences and attitudes in common. In their eloquence and scope, they illustrate how historical study of Canadian-American relations in the West calls into question the parameters of the nation-state.
The border has not had a single constant meaning; rather, its significance has changed over time and varied from group to group. The essays in Part One concern the movement of peoples and capital across a relatively permeable boundary during the nineteenth century. Many people in this era--especially Natives, miners, immigrants, and capitalists--did not regard the international boundary as particularly important. Part Two considers how the United States and Canada took pains to strengthen and enforce the international boundary during the twentieth century. In this era, the nation-state became more assertive about defining and defending the borderline. Part Three offers considerations of the distinctions, both real and imagined, that emerged during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries between Canada and the United States. Its essays examine different schools of history, divergent ideas toward wilderness, and the influence of anti-Americanism on Canadians' view of national development in North America.
Автор: Nancy McGown Minor, William Chebahtah Название: Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herma ISBN: 0803227868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803227866 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 3259.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Here is the oral history of the Apache warrior Chevato, who captured eleven-year-old Herman Lehmann from his Texas homestead in May 1870. Lehmann called him “Bill Chiwat” and referred to him as both his captor and his friend. Chevato provides a Native American point of view on both the Apache and Comanche capture of children and specifics regarding the captivity of Lehmann known only to the Apache participants. Yet the capture of Lehmann was only one episode in Chevato’s life.
Born in Mexico, Chevato was a Lipan Apache whose parents had been killed in a massacre by Mexican troops. He and his siblings fled across the Rio Grande and were taken in by the Mescalero Apaches of New Mexico. Chevato became a shaman and was responsible for introducing the Lipan form of the peyote ritual to both the Mescalero Apaches and later to the Comanches and the Kiowas. He went on to become one of the founders of the Native American Church in Oklahoma.
The story of Chevato reveals important details regarding Lipan Apache shamanism and the origin and spread of the type of peyote rituals practiced today in the Native American community. This book also provides a rare glimpse into Lipan and Mescalero Apache life in the late nineteenth century, when the Lipans faced annihilation and the Mescaleros faced the reservation.
Автор: Kent Название: Wesley and the Wesleyans ISBN: 0521455324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521455329 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 9187.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book shows how the search for personal supernatural power lay at the heart of the so-called eighteenth-century English evangelical revival, and rejects the view that the Wesleys rescued the British from moral and spiritual decay by reviving primitive Christianity.
Автор: Turner, Cole & Sharpless Название: Texas Women ISBN: 0820337447 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820337449 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 11920.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The biographies and essays in this collection illustrate an uncommon diversity among Texas women, reflecting experiences ranging from those of dispossessed enslaved women to wealthy patrons of the arts. That history also captures the ways in which women`s lives reflect both personal autonomy and opportunities to engage in the public sphere.
Автор: Wood, David Название: On Angels and Devils and Stages Between ISBN: 9057550776 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789057550775 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Fuentes Marisa J. Название: Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive ISBN: 0812248228 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812248227 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 12534.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Fuentes takes us through the streets of Bridgetown with an enslaved runaway; inside a brothel run by a freed woman of color; in the midst of a white urban household in sexual chaos; to the gallows where enslaved people were executed; and within violent scenes of enslaved women's punishments. In the process, Fuentes interrogates the archive and its historical production to expose the ongoing effects of white colonial power that constrain what can be known about these women. Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women's bodies, in life and in death. By vividly recounting enslaved life through the experiences of individual women and illuminating their conditions of confinement through the legal, sexual, and representational power wielded by slave owners, colonial authorities, and the archive, Fuentes challenges the way we write histories of vulnerable and often invisible subjects.
Автор: Block Lawrence Название: Gangsters, swindlers, killers, and thieves ISBN: 0195169522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195169522 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Fifty biographical profiles of American villains - from the colorful to the unsettling - selected from the American National Biography and introduced by popular crime novelist Lawrence Block.
Автор: Baughman, Karl (prairie View A&m University, Texas, Usa.) Poston, Brook (stephen F. Austin State University, Texas, Usa.) Название: Parallel lives ISBN: 1032030747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032030746 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5511.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book compares selected Romans of the late Republic with American Founders in the style of Plutarch in a previously unexplored area of study. Suitable for those interested in the late Roman and early American Republics and those studying connections between the ancient and modern worlds.
Автор: Dorandi Tiziano Название: Diogenes Laertius: Lives of Eminent Philosophers ISBN: 1316642852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316642856 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8078.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A new critical edition of Diogenes Laertius` Lives of Eminent Philosophers, a unique work which has had a profound influence on European literature and philosophy. A lengthy introduction lists all the manuscripts of the Lives and discusses its transmission in late antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
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