This highly original study brings together the disparate histories of murder and enlightenment, prostitution and the cult of nature, sodomy and sentimentalism in order to retell the story of the making of the modern self. It suggests that the history of the self needs to attend more to its class dimensions, and puts this insight into practice by examining the influence of the criminal courts in spreading and negotiating changing ideas of the self. Using criminal interrogations and witness statem...
This third part illustrates the last years of the Empire; dark years which will see our "Chasseurs" being gobbled up during the Russian disaster. Like a lot of other regiments, the Chasseurs a Cheval were swallowed up in the Russian disaster. Phantom regiments were reformed with considerable difficulty in 1813 and 1814. During the First Restoration, 15 regiments were formed from the debris of the battles in Prussia and in France, fifteen regiments which then took part in the Belgian Campaign and...
Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World c.1410-1800
Practices of Diplomacy in the Early Modern World offers a new contribution to the ongoing reassessment of early modern international relations and diplomatic history. Divided into three parts, it provides an examination of diplomatic culture from the Renaissance into the eighteenth century and presents the development of diplomatic practices as more complex, multifarious and globally interconnected than the traditional state-focussed, national paradigm allows. The volume addresses three central...
The South Sea Bubble (History/18th/19th Century History)
by John Carswell
The South Sea Bubble of 1720-1 was the first and most celebrated of all the great financial scandals. But the failure of the South Sea Company, which had undertaken to take over the National Debt, was to cause more than a catastrophic financial crisis, shattering a confident government. It invaded every aspect of British life. Its enormous international and psychological ramifications, the frenzy of speculation of the South Sea Bubble and its final crash, allow us to see every segment of society...
The Life of St. Edward, King and Confessor. ... By the R.F. Jerome Porter. Revis'd and Corrected
by Jerome Porter
Circulated by the East Kent and Canterbury Association. The reason of man
by Former Professor of Poetry John Jones
T. LIVII Patavini Historiarum Libri Qui Supersunt Omnes Ex Recensione Arn. Drakenborchii. ... of 8; Volume 6
by Livy
In a Single Blow (Emerging Revolutionary War)
by Phillip Greenwalt and Robert Orrison
“I have now nothing to trouble your Lordship with, but an affair that happened on the 19th instant . . .” General Thomas Gage penned the above line to his superiors in London, casually summing up the shots fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775. The history of the Battles of Lexington and Concord were the culmination of years of unrest between those loyal to the British monarchy and those advocating for more autonomy and dreaming of independence from Great Britain in the futre. On th...