wyszukanych pozycji: 6
James Anthony Froude: An Intellectual Biography of a Victorian Prophet
ISBN: 9780198726531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals. Known to intellectual historians as the author of a monumental History of England in the sixteenth century and as a key exponent of Victorian religious doubt, he is also frequently referenced as the author of a series of scandalously provocative novels and of a hugely controversial biography of Thomas Carlyle. Historians of the British Empire and of Ireland have frequently been compelled to address his sometimes outrageous (but often representative) historical writings....
James Anthony Froude remains one of the most commonly referenced and frequently cited of Victorian public intellectuals. Known to intellectual histori...
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213,83 zł |
The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536-1588
ISBN: 9780521520041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and military confrontation. It argues that reform rather than conquest was the aim of Tudor policy-makers, but shows that the immense difficulties faced by the reformers in pursuing their objectives forced them to make administrative innovations that ultimately contradicted and undermined their original policy.
This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and...
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181,87 zł |
A Viceroy's Vindication: Sir Henry Sidney's Memoir, 1583
ISBN: 9781859181805 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Three times Viceroy, Sir Henry Sidney was a key figure in the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. Sidney's account of his public career in Ireland, written in the winter of 1582-3, is one of the earliest political memoirs in English literature. It is unique among early memoirs in its size, richness of detail, and apparent fidelity to the factual record.
Composed in plain prose and consciously shorn of decoration and classical allusion, his narrative presents an individual with attitudes and preoccupations at odds with the zealous advocates of military conquest and religious... Three times Viceroy, Sir Henry Sidney was a key figure in the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland. Sidney's account of his public career in Ireland, writt...
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63,29 zł |
The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536-1588
ISBN: 9780521461764 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and military confrontation. It argues that reform rather than conquest was the aim of Tudor policy-makers, but shows that the immense difficulties faced by the reformers in pursuing their objectives forced them to make administrative innovations that ultimately contradicted and undermined their original policy.
This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and...
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569,73 zł |
British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland
ISBN: 9780521835305 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this book leading historians challenge traditional views about the British conquest and colonization of Ireland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They reveal the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. Notably, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they originally sought to exploit.
In this book leading historians challenge traditional views about the British conquest and colonization of Ireland during the sixteenth and seventeent...
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525,25 zł |
British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland
ISBN: 9780521154604 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this book leading historians challenge traditional views about the British conquest and colonization of Ireland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They reveal the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. Notably, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they originally sought to exploit.
In this book leading historians challenge traditional views about the British conquest and colonization of Ireland during the sixteenth and seventeent...
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327,42 zł |