262 resultados para British Naval History
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The University of Chicago Library has some volumes in microfilm.
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Has added, engraved title page.
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Sir Walter Scott is often regarded as the first historical novelist. Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical fiction written in the late 18th and early 19th century. For the first time placing these works in the context of British politics and British history writing, this book redefines the historical novel, revealing a genre which seeks to manage political change through historiographical experimentation. It explores how historical novelists participated in a contentious debate concerning the nature of commercial modernity, the formulation of political progress and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty uncovers how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as ‘land of liberty’. Reading Scott in relation to this tradition, Reinventing Liberty demonstrates the genre’s troubled role in the construction of the myth of Britain as a nation of gradual, safe political change.
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Vol. 2 has title: An account of travels into the interior of Southern Africa; in which is considered, the importance of the Cape of Good Hope to the different European powers, as a naval and military station ; as a territorial acquisition and commercial emporium in time of peace : with a statistical sketch of the whole colony ; comp. from authentic documents.
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v. 1 Religion & its history.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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"The illustrations are fine copies from rare prints and the second volume contains [engravings] by Albert Durer, printed from the original blocks, preserved in the British Museum." -- H.C. Levis, Art & history of engraving (1912), p. 54.
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Erratum slip inserted.
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v. 1 (viii, 224 p.) : v. 2 (viii, 256 p.)
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Added title-pages engr.
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"This work is part of the Society's larger treatise of Political philosophy."
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The first 3 editions of this work appeared under the name of the original author, P.W. Buckham. cf. British Mus. General cat. of printed books.
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Vol. 1 by John Corry; v. 2 by John Evans.
Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British museum. Pt. I. Testudinata (tortoises)
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Accompanied by "Supplement to the Catalogue of shield reptiles in the collection of the British museum. Pt. I. Testudinata (tortoises). With figures of the skulls of 36 genera. By John Edward Gray." (ix, [1], 120 p. illus. 31 x 25 cm.) Published: London, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1870.
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By Edward Doubleday.