To Seize a Crown
Author: Lawrence E Mannion
Publisher:
Published: 1998-08-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781552563069
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Publisher:
Published: 1998-08-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781552563069
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Richard Kluger
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2008-08-12
Total Pages: 674
ISBN-13: 0375712984
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Less than 100 years after its creation as a fragile republic, the United States more than quadrupled its size, making it the world's third largest nation. No other country or sovereign power had ever grown so big so fast or become so rich and so powerful. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Kluger chronicles this epic achievement in a compelling narrative, celebrating the energy, daring, and statecraft behind America's insatiable land hunger while exploring the moral lapses that accompanied it. Comprehensive and balanced, Seizing Destiny is a revelatory, often surprising reexamination of the nation's breathless expansion, dwelling on both great accomplishments and the American people's tendency to confuse opportunistic success with heaven-sent entitlement that came to be called manifest destiny.
Author: Harold M. Hays
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 755
ISBN-13: 9004218653
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The oldest substantial body of religious texts from ancient Egypt consists of the Pyramid Texts. These are hieroglyphic religious texts inscribed upon the interior walls of the pyramid tombs of kings and queens beginning around 2345 BCE. This book explores the Pyramid Texts.
Author: Ontario. Royal Commission on Forest Reservation and National Park
Publisher:
Published: 1893
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dan Forth
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2006-10-01
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1430300175
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This novel of the Revolutionary War on Lake Champlain puts you in the middle of the exciting first months of action on the lake as bands of American volunteers seize Fort Ticonderoga from the British and then take the war north into Canada. It is nautical fiction, a story of ships and small boats and brave men challenging the mightiest empire in the world. This is the first book of a series set in the first year of the Revolution along the traditional lake and river passageways between the American settlements along the Hudson River and the British forces north of the lake. The hero is just who he should be: a young man who finds himself and his country in the confusion and danger of a stirring time in American history.
Author: Richard L. Kagan
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2009-11-01
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 1421401657
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Monarchs throughout the ages have commissioned official histories that cast their reigns in a favorable light for future generations. These accounts, sanctioned and supported by the ruling government, often gloss over the more controversial aspects of a king's or queen’s time on the throne. Instead, they present highly selective and positive readings of a monarch’s contribution to national identity and global affairs. In Clio and the Crown, Richard L. Kagan examines the official histories of Spanish monarchs from medieval times to the middle of the 18th century. He expertly guides readers through the different kinds of official histories commissioned: those whose primary focus was the monarch; those that centered on the Spanish kingdom as a whole; and those that celebrated Spain’s conquest of the New World. In doing so, Kagan also documents the life and work of individual court chroniclers, examines changes in the practice of official history, and highlights the political machinations that influenced the redaction of such histories. Just as world leaders today rely on fast-talking press officers to explain their sometimes questionable actions to the public, so too did the kings and queens of medieval and early modern Spain. Monarchs often went to great lengths to exert complete control over the official history of their reign, physically intimidating historians, destroying and seizing manuscripts and books, rewriting past histories, and restricting history writing to authorized persons. Still, the larger practice of history writing—as conducted by nonroyalist historians, various scholars and writers, and even church historians—provided a corrective to official histories. Kagan concludes that despite its blemishes, the writing of official histories contributed, however imperfectly, to the practice of historiography itself.
Author: New Brunswick. House of Assembly
Publisher:
Published: 1870
Total Pages: 1002
ISBN-13:
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