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Author : James Mudie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Medals
ISBN : ONB:+Z181453802
Author : James Mudie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1843425262
The medals, which are the subject of this book, were designed as a private venture by James Mudie, to commemorate and provide a permanent record of the great series of victories over the most powerful enemy with whom this country has ever contended --Napoleon. The book is dedicated to George IV, who ascended the throne in the year of its publication . It is not only the battles that are commemorated but also national heroes and other events. There are forty medals illustrated, showing both obverse and reverse sides, and subjects include personalities such as Howe, Nelson, Moore and Wellington; battles such as Vimiera, Salamanca, Toulouse and Waterloo; occasions such as the Peace of Europe, Visit of Prussian and Russian Sovereigns to England and the Surrender of Napoleon. For each medal there is an explanatory text. In his introduction the author proudly claims that they are the only series upon a given subject in honour of England, ever published by an English subject, and they are the only one that ranks high as a work of art. A rare find!
Author : Luke Reynolds
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192864994
After the Battle of Waterloo, Britain actively incorporated the victory into their national identity. 'Who Owned Waterloo?' demonstrates that Waterloo's significance to Britain's national psyche resulted in a different battle: one in which civilian and military groups fought to establish claims on different aspects of the battle and its remembrance.--
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : HARVARD:32044098366966
Proceedings of the Numismatic Society form a separately paged section of each vol.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11659917
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z180193602
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081648069
Author : Bernard Quaritch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN : OSU:32435005259239
Author : William Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080262496
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Questions and answers
ISBN : UVA:X030221927
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556022455109
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z252725406
Author : Timothy Alborn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190603533
During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world's supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation's emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy. In this rich and broad-ranging work, Timothy Alborn argues for a close connection between gold and Britain's national identity. Beginning with Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, which validated Britain's position as an economic powerhouse, and running through the mid-nineteenth century gold rushes in California and Australia, Alborn draws on contemporary descriptions of gold's value to highlight its role in financial, political, and cultural realms. He begins by narrating British interests in gold mining globally to enable the smooth operation of the gold standard. In addition to explaining the metal's function in finance, he explores its uses in war expenditure, foreign trade, religious observance, and ornamentation at home and abroad. Britons criticized foreign cultures for their wasteful and inappropriate uses of gold, even as it became a prominent symbol of status in more traditional features of British society, including its royal family, aristocracy, and military. Although Britain had been ambivalent in its embrace of gold, ultimately it enabled the nation to become the world's most modern economy and to extend its imperial reach around the globe. All That Glittered tells the story of gold as both a marker of value and a valuable commodity, while providing a new window onto Britain's ascendance after the 1750s.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : English essays
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005668004
Author : William Jerdan,William Ring Workman,Frederick Arnold,John Morley,Charles Wycliffe Goodwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015030329760