Exploration and mortification: Fragile infrastructures, imperial narratives, and the self-sufficiency of British naval "discovery" vessels, 1760-1815. [PDF]
Hist Sci, 2023 Caputo S.
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Late 18th-century and very early 19th-century British writings on Napoleon: myth and history
Napoleonica La Revue, 2010 Des 1797, des auteurs britanniques s’interesserent a la vie de Napoleon. Et ce n’etait pas que des textes gorges de calomnies destinees a salir son nom. Ainsi, William Vincent Barre et Lodewyck van Ess publierent des ouvrages en plusieurs volumes rassemblant des « details authentiques » sur « l’elevation sans parallele » du general et homme d’Etat ...
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The worldwide economic impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars [PDF]
The years between 1793 and 1815 saw an unusually bloody, lengthy and widespread conflict between Great Britain and France, which widened to include many of the other leading powers of the day.
Kevin O'Rourke
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Beyond categorisation: refining the relationship between subjects and objects in health research regulation. [PDF]
Law Innov Technol, 2021 McMillan C +5 more
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Misuse of Myth: Conscious Adherence or Authoritative Control Mechanism [PDF]
, 2005 Myths are significant in explaining the existential questions of life, but when they are adopted uncritically, they may generate more harm than good. Admittedly, there is no way out of myth; we are the mythical creature.
Averhart, Henry H., Jr.
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Military surgery as national romance: the memory of British heroic fortitude at Waterloo. [PDF]
War Soc, 2020 Kennaway J.
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“Friends? or enemies? Deconstructing the enemy"
, 2015 English: An analysis of a part of the Peninsular war that has been little studied, that of the Spanish prisoners in France, is here presented. Within the scope of a needed revision, how the image that some military engineers had of the French people (as ...
Zozaya-Montes, Maria
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The significance of myth for curriculum development [PDF]
, 1981 This dissertation explores the question of whether myth represents a kind of knowledge and a way of knowing useful to children at particular stages of development.
Stohler, Sara McClendon +1 more
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Emotional processes, collective behavior, and social movements: A meta-analytic review of collective effervescence outcomes during collective gatherings and demonstrations. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2022 Pizarro JJ +7 more
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Romanticism, Republicanism, and the Swiss Myth
, 2023 The first detailed treatment of Switzerland in British literature and culture from Joseph Addison to John Ruskin, this book analyzes the aesthetic and political uses of what is commonly called the “Swiss myth” in the parallel development of Romanticism ...
Vincent, Patrick
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