The Clumsiest People in Europe, Or, Mrs. Mortimer's Bad Tempered Guide to the Victorian World
Author: Favell Lee Mortimer
Publisher:
Published: 1849
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780739462119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Favell Lee Mortimer
Publisher:
Published: 1849
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780739462119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Todd Pruzan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2006-06-13
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1596911506
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Based on the real-life observations, prejudices, and opinions of Mrs. Favrell Lee Mortimer, a Victorian woman and children's book writer who rarely left her own home, a hilarious look at foreign countries and their customs during the era describes the evils of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Reprint.
Author: Megan A. Norcia
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2010-03-30
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0821443534
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the nineteenth century, geography primers shaped the worldviews of Britain’s ruling classes and laid the foundation for an increasingly globalized world. Written by middle-class women who mapped the world that they had neither funds nor freedom to traverse, the primers employed rhetorical tropes such as the Family of Man or discussions of food and customs in order to plot other cultures along an imperial hierarchy. Cross-disciplinary in nature, X Marks the Spot is an analysis of previously unknown material that examines the interplay between gender, imperial duty, and pedagogy. Megan A. Norcia offers an alternative map for traversing the landscape of nineteenth-century female history by reintroducing the primers into the dominant historical record. This is the first full-length study of the genre as a distinct tradition of writing produced on the fringes of professional geographic discourse before the high imperial period.
Author: Alma Bennett
Publisher: Clemson University Press
Published: 2023-10-23
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 163804113X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Thomas Green Clemson (1807-1888), the founder of Clemson University, was a complex man of broad and varied interests. To introduce us to this man, specialists of history, science, agriculture, engineering, music, art, diplomacy, law, and communications come together to address Clemson's multifaceted life and issues that helped shape him.
Author: Jane Ledwell
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2013-04
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0773588582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →New perspectives on the literary classic that enchants and engages readers across times and cultures.
Author: Nancy Pearl
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1570617015
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Adventure is just a book away as bestselling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations — both worldly and imagined — around the globe. From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades to suggest titles that effortlessly capture the different eras that make up a region’s unique history. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting guide includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. From fiction to memoir, poetry to history, Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust to Go takes the reader on a globetrotting adventure — no passport required.
Author: Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2018-12-27
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 1438474369
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography. Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500–1800 uses the innovative approach of “connected histories” to address a series of questions regarding the early modern world in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. The period between 1500 and 1800 was one of intense inter-imperial competition involving the Iberians, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the British, and other actors. Rather than understand these imperial entities separately, Sanjay Subrahmanyam reads their archives and texts together to show unexpected connections and refractions. He further proposes, in this set of closely argued studies, that these empires often borrowed from each other, or built their projects with knowledge of other competing visions of empire. The emphasis on connections is also crucial for an understanding of how a variety of genres of imperial and global history writing developed in the early modern world. The book moves creatively between political, economic, intellectual, and cultural themes to suggest a fresh geographical conception for the epoch. Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor and Irving and Jean Stone Chair in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500–1650.
Author: Emer O'Sullivan
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-31
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1137461691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book investigates how cultural sameness and difference has been presented in a variety of forms and genres of children’s literature from Denmark, Germany, France, Russia, Britain, and the United States; ranging from English caricatures of the 1780s to dynamic representations of contemporary cosmopolitan childhood. The chapters address different models of presenting foreigners using examples from children’s educational prints, dramatic performances, travel narratives, comics, and picture books. Contributors illuminate the ways in which the texts negotiate the tensions between the Enlightenment ideal of internationalism and discrete national or ethnic identities cultivated since the Romantic era, providing examples of ethnocentric cultural perspectives and of cultural relativism, as well as instances where discussions of child reader agency indicate how they might participate eventually in a tolerant transnational community.
Author: Melanie C. Hawthorne
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2021-01-23
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1789622735
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A survey of the history of women's claims to their own citizenship in Europe and the US from the nineteenth century to the present, illustrated through the transnational lives of three expatriate, sexually non-conforming women (Renée Vivien, Romaine Brooks, and Natalie Barney).