Letters on the Study and Use of History ... A new edition corrected
Author | : Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) |
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1770 |
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Author | : Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) |
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Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1770 |
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Author | : Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) |
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Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1791 |
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Author | : Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount) |
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Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 1791 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : The National Archives |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2018-09-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 184486524X |
Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the immediate and much more distant past. The book includes letters from: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lucien Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Nelson Mandela, Caitlin Thomas, Mary Whitehouse, Gandhi, George Washington among many others. Subjects covered include suffragette disturbances, obscene publications, relations between international leaders, child emigration including the Kindertransport. The book features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3000 word introduction. There are 150 images in the book: 55 of the letters themselves, and a further 95 supplementary images.
Author | : Johanna Drucker |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2022-07-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226815811 |
"Though there are many books about the history of the alphabet, virtually none address how that history came to be. In Inventing the Alphabet, Johanna Drucker guides readers from antiquity to the present to show how humans have shaped and reshaped their own understanding of this transformative writing tool. From ancient beliefs in the alphabet as a divine gift to growing awareness of its empirical origins through the study of scripts and inscriptions, Drucker describes the frameworks-classical, textual, biblical, graphical, antiquarian, archaeological, paleographic, and political-within which the alphabet's history has been and continues to be constructed. Drucker's book begins in ancient Greece, with the earliest writings on the alphabet's origins. She then explores biblical sources on the topic and medieval preoccupations with the magical properties of individual letters. She later delves into the development of modern archaeological and paleographic tools, and she concludes with the role of alphabetic characters in the digital era. Throughout, she argues that, as a shared form of knowledge technology integrated into every aspect of our lives, the alphabet performs complex cultural, ideological, and technical functions, and her carefully curated selection of images demonstrates how closely the letters we use today still resemble their original appearance millennia ago"--
Author | : Christopher Hager |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2018-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674981812 |
When North and South went to war, millions of American families endured their first long separation. For men in the armies—and their wives, children, parents, and siblings at home—letter writing was the sole means to communicate. Yet for many of these Union and Confederate families, taking pen to paper was a new and daunting task. I Remain Yours narrates the Civil War from the perspective of ordinary people who had to figure out how to salve the emotional strain of war and sustain their closest relationships using only the written word. Christopher Hager presents an intimate history of the Civil War through the interlaced stories of common soldiers and their families. The previously overlooked words of a carpenter from Indiana, an illiterate teenager from Connecticut, a grieving mother in the mountains of North Carolina, and a blacksmith’s daughter on the Iowa prairie reveal through their awkward script and expression the personal toll of war. Is my son alive or dead? Returning soon or never? Can I find words for the horrors I’ve seen or the loneliness I feel? Fear, loss, and upheaval stalked the lives of Americans straining to connect the battlefront to those they left behind. Hager shows how relatively uneducated men and women made this new means of communication their own, turning writing into an essential medium for sustaining relationships and a sense of belonging. Letter writing changed them and they in turn transformed the culture of letters into a popular, democratic mode of communication.
Author | : Society of Solicitors before the Supreme Courts of Scotland. Library |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1871 |
Genre | : Law |
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Author | : Lindsay A. H. Parker |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2013-07-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 019993102X |
Writing the Revolution challenges the thesis that exclusion defined women's experiences of the French Revolution by exploring the life of a middle-class wife and mother of revolutionary elites, Rosalie Jullien.
Author | : Henry St. John Bolingbroke (1st.Viscount) |
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Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 1788 |
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