The African

The African
Author: Olaudah Equiano
Publisher: Black Classics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Slaves
ISBN: 9781874509622

The first book ever to be published by a black man in Britain, this story of Equiano's life from freedom in Africa through slavery and back to freedom was a best-seller when first issued in 1789.

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia

The Cambridge History of Scandinavia
Author: Knut Helle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 942
Release: 2003-09-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521472999

This volume presents a comprehensive exposition of both the prehistory and medieval history of the whole of Scandinavia. The first part of the volume surveys the prehistoric and historic Scandinavian landscape and its natural resources, and tells how man took possession of this landscape, adapting culturally to changing natural conditions and developing various types of community throughout the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. The rest - and most substantial part of the volume - deals with the history of Scandinavia from the Viking Age to the end of the Scandinavian Middle Ages (c. 1520). The external Viking expansion opened Scandinavia to European influence to a hitherto unknown degree. A Christian church organisation was established, the first towns came into being, and the unification of the three medieval kingdoms of Scandinavia began, coinciding with the formation of the unique Icelandic 'Free State'.

Gustavus Vasa

Gustavus Vasa
Author: Henry Brooke
Publisher: Gale Ncco, Print Editions
Total Pages:
Release: 2017-07-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781375035835

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of the most spectacular discoveries of the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection comprises one of the most important collections of Romantic era writing in existence anywhere -- including fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry, and more -- with a focus on especially difficult-to-find works by lesser-known, historically neglected writers. The Corvey library was built during the last half of the 19th century by Victor and his wife Elise, both bibliophiles with varied interests. The collection thus contains everything from novels and short stories to belles lettres and more populist works, and includes many exceedingly rare works not available in any other collection from the period. These invaluable, sometimes previously unknown works are of particular interest to scholars and researchers. European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes: * Novels and Gothic Novels * Short Stories * Belles-Lettres * Short Prose Forms * Dramatic Works * Poetry * Anthologies * And more Selected with the guidance of an international team of expert advisors, these primary sources are invaluable for a wide range of academic disciplines and areas of study, providing never before possible research opportunities for one of the most studied historical periods. Additional Metadata Primary Id: B0053500 PSM Id: NCCOF0063-C00000-B0053500 DVI Collection Id: NCCOC0062 Bibliographic Id: NCCO001492 Reel: 74 MCODE: 4UVC Original Publisher: Printed for and under the direction of George Cawthorn, British Library Original Publication Year: 1796 Original Publication Place: London

Myths and Legends of China

Myths and Legends of China
Author: E. T. C. Werner
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 566
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 177541440X

The West's first encounters with the folk tales and myths of the East proved to be a heady experience, as they were based on an entirely different value system and worldview than those that are reflected in the Greek myths and most subsequent Western folk tales. In Myths and Legends of China, author E.T.C. Werner offers up a rich tapestry of Chinese folk narratives. A must-read for fans of world myths, fairy tales, and legends.

Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697

Charles XI and Swedish Absolutism, 1660-1697
Author: Anthony F. Upton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1998-06-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521573900

The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the dramatic and short-lived era in the seventeenth century when Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus became a major European power by her intervention in the Thirty Years War. In the last decades of the seventeenth century another Swedish king, Charles XI, launched a less dramatic but remarkable bid to stabilize and secure Sweden's position as a major power in northern Europe and as master of the Baltic Sea. This project, which is almost unknown to students of history outside Sweden, involved a comprehensive overhaul of the government and institutions of the kingdom, on the basis of establishing Sweden as a model of absolute monarchy. This 1998 book gives an account of what was achieved under the absolutist direction of a distinctly unglamorous, but pious and conscientious ruler.