The Armoury of His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry [PDF]
, 2012 It is rare for an historian to walk into a room and be awestruck by what he finds there. This was the author’s experience on being invited to view the Buccleuch Collection of arms at armour at Boughton House.
Wilcock, Paul
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Ivanhoe and the Making of Britain [PDF]
, 1995 Scott's Ivanhoe is more than a literary landmark or relic.The ideologicai work done by the novel has been underrated. Ivanhoe is a memorable narrative of a national myth: the synthesis of England from Norman and Saxon peoples.
Worth, Chris
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The legend of Rothschild as the “Napoleon of finance” in Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot
Dostoevsky and World Culture. Philological journal., 2020 The article analyzes the Rothschild theme in the novel The Idiot, a motif strictly connected with the myth of Napoleon, in which Dostoevsky was keenly interested during all his artistic life. Both Napoleon’s and Rothschild’s features pertain to Napoleonic heroes such as Ganya Ivolgin and Ippolit Terentev.
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Napoleon Bonaparte as Hero and Saviour: Image, Rhetoric and Behaviour in the Construction of a Legend [PDF]
French History, 2004 The media of the day represented three predominant models around Napoleon: the all-conquering victorious general, the virtuous republican who stood above factions, and the man who brought peace to the Continent. These images became the foundation of a 'hero-saviour' myth that helped Napoleon take power on his return from Egypt at the end of 1799 ...
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The Thread of Migration:A Scottish-French Linen and Jute Works and its Workers in France, c. 1845–c. 1870 [PDF]
, 2016 After 1815, European manufacturers in several sectors sought to reap the benefits of British technical superiority through the acquisition of British machinery and workers who could operate it. France was one of the beneficiaries of this transfer process.
Bensimon, Fabrice, Whatley, Christopher
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Echoing the Past: A Proposal for a Counter-Monument [PDF]
, 2015 To hear an echo is to witness a past event; it is a past event in the here and now. The phenomenon of the echo is not an event cut off from its conception, that first outburst of noise or speech.
Loder, Dave
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The Pleasant and the Useful: Pilgrimage and Tourism in Habsburg Mariazell [PDF]
, 2013 Histor
Frank, Alison
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A young lord passes judgment: National characters in the letters, poems and other writings of Byron’s Mediterranean tour (1809-11) [PDF]
, 2014 On July 2nd, 1809, Lord Byron and his Cambridge friend John C. Hobhouse embarked on their peculiar Grand Tour. With most of Continental Europe in the hands of Napoleon, Byron and Hobhouse’s destination was Constantinople, the capital of a powerful ...
Coletes Blanco, Agustín
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Economic history: On the waterfront : two million immigrants entered the United States via Baltimore in the 19th century [PDF]
Immigrants ; Cities and towns ; Federal Reserve District ...
Betty Joyce Nash
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The little-known history of cleanliness and the forgotten pioneers of handwashing. [PDF]
Front Public Health, 2022 Poczai P, Karvalics LZ.
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