Publications : 82
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PublicationLetters to Miranda and Canova on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome and Athens
Letters by Antoine Quatremère de Quincy (1755–1849) to Miranda [written 1796] and Canova [written 1818] on the Abduction of Antiquities from Rome Introduction by Dominique Poulot English translation by Chris Miller and David Gilks Publisher’s presentation: In the 1790s and early 1800s, the art world experienced two big events: First came the military confiscation of masterpieces from Italy […]
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PublicationNapoleon Symphony
First published in 1974. The writer and composer Anthony Burgess was fascinated with Napoleon from a very early age. In 1971 he wrote the beginnings of a novel based on Napoleon's life that Stanley Kubrick hoped to use as the basis for a film. The novel took the formal structure of Beethoven's Third Symphony (the Eroica, […]
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PublicationThe Second Empress: A Novel of Napoleon’s Court
From ther Publisher: “After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon's power is absolute. When eighteen year old Marie-Louise is told that the Emperor has demanded her hand in marriage, her father presents her with a terrible choice: marry the cruel, capricious Napoleon or refuse and plunge her country into war. To save her father's throne, […]
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PublicationIn Full Glory Reflected: Discovering the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake
From the publishers: “…All but forgotten by Americans, the War of 1812 (1812–1815) was a dramatic watershed for the young, groundbreaking United States Republic. Ill-prepared to fight the powerful English nation, the U.S. struggled through three years of conflict but emerged more unified with new patriotic symbols like the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Much of the fighting […]
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PublicationJackson’s Sword, The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1810–1821
From the publishers: Jackson's Sword is the initial volume in a monumental study that provides a sweeping panoramic view of the U.S. Army and its officer corps from the War of 1812 to the War with Mexico, the first such study in more than forty years. Watson's chronicle shows how the officer corps played a […]
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PublicationSeven Years in the Peninsula: The Memoirs of Private Adam Reed, 47th Lancashire Foot 1806-1817
From the publishers: “Adam originally joined the Corps of Royal Artillery Drivers but soon absconded, having found that he did not work well with horse teams. He re-enlisted into the 2nd Battalion 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot with which corps he served at Cadiz (where he fought at the Battle of Barossa); witnessed the end […]
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PublicationDamn His Blood: Being a True and Detailed History of the Most Barbarous and Inhumane Murder at Oddingley and the Quick and Awful Retribution – A Novel
From the publishers: “'Damn him!' he swore. 'There is no more harm in shooting him than a mad dog!' The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 – shot and beaten to death, his body set on fire and left smouldering in his own glebe […]
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PublicationThe War of 1812: A Three-volume Regional Commemoration of the Bicentennial, 2012-14, Vol. 1, The Conflict Ignites
From the publishers: “The Conflict Ignites is volume one of a three-part series of commemorative annuals. Though often forgotten today, the War of 1812 profoundly impacted the United States, Canada and Native peoples on both sides of the border. Nowhere was the fighting more frequent or fierce than along the Niagara River. [This book] examine[s] the […]
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PublicationThe Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
From the publishers: “In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's emphasis on mechanics and questioned the rising power of machines, seeking a […]
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PublicationMadness – The War of 1812 – a novel
From the publishers: “The War of 1812 might be America's worst and least-remembered war. Yet it might have been the nation's most important war, because if the young nation had lost the war, there might not be an America today. The decision by the small, disorganized nation that America was in the early 19th Century to […]