Hamilton Letters

The Naples Dispatches of Sir William Hamilton

Autor: John A. Davis, Giovanni Capuano

Limbă:

Legare: Copertă tare

Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing

Disponibilitate: La editor doar la comandă

Expediem în 17-26 zile

491.33 lei

Sir William Hamilton personified the age of the Enlightenment - a collector and connoisseur, amateur...

Informații despre carte

Autor

John A. Davis, Giovanni Capuano

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2008

Pagini

272

EAN

9781845116118

ISBN

1845116119

Enbook ID

05096309

Editura

Bloomsbury Publishing

Greutate

582

Dimensiuni

162 x 239 x 25

Descriere completă

Sir William Hamilton personified the age of the Enlightenment - a collector and connoisseur, amateur scientist and archaeologist, vulcanologist, anthropologist and above all a gentleman of taste and intellectual curiosity - and in Naples, one of the most fascinating stations on the Grand Tour, he had found his ideal setting.As King George III's ambassador to the Kingdom of Naples from 1764-1800, Sir William was witness to some pivotal events in European history. "The Hamilton Letters" is the first collection of his complete correspondence with the English court between 1797 and 1799. It sheds vivid light on the history of the kingdom of Naples on the cusp of the Napoleonic Wars as France and Spain jostled for control in the region as well as on the nature of power and government at the end of the 18th century. Included here is Sir William's own account of Nelson's betrayal of the Neapolitan Republic when, rather than granting the royalist leaders safe passage back to France as agreed, Nelson turned his guns on them - a hugely controversial decision, both for contemporary audiences and ever since, and one in which Sir William's own role is still hotly contested." The Hamilton Letters" offers an engaging portrait of a complex and sophisticated figure and brings a dynamic period of history to life. It is an invaluable guide to the period which will enthrall anyone interested in the colourful world of 19th-century European history.

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Cele mai căutate

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produse

Produse

Hamilton Letters

The Naples Dispatches of Sir William Hamilton

Informații despre carte

Descriere completă

S-ar putea să te intereseze

Conformist

Trade Unions and Politics in the 1980s

Newborn Mothers

U-Boat! (Vol. XII)

Exiles

Environmental Expressive Therapies

Rebuilding Coventry

Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn

Environment, Society and Natural Resource Manage - Theoretical Perspectives from Australasia and the Americas

Volume 11, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Philosophy

Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts

Salvation of Atheists and Catholic Dogmatic Theology

Tokamaks

Nuclear Shapes and Nuclear Structure at Low Excitation Energies

Monetary Policy and the German Unemployment Problem in Macroeconomic Models

Clienții care au cumpărat această carte au mai cumpărat și

Wieso? Weshalb? Warum? ProfiWissen, Band 12: Dinosaurier

Lui in der Draußenwelt

Youth: Yunost'

Reisen in der Regentschaft Algier in den Jahren 1836, 1837 und 1838. Bd.2

Hissedilen Zaman

Italština konverzace

The Routledge Companion to Migration Literature