The Courtier And The Governor

Author : W. J. Eccles
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803267509

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Frontenac by W. J. Eccles Pdf

Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac (1622?1698), was a towering figure in North American history. Appointed in 1672 as governor general of New France, he was credited with intimidating the Iroquois, defying British colonial military might, and promoting France?s imperial expansion to the west. W. J. Eccles masterfully debunks these myths, created in part by Francis Parkman, and reveals Frontenac as an anachronism who sought to maintain his privileged status through corruption, favors at court, and the illicit pursuit of commerce in the West. A deft analysis and reexamination of official administrative and military sources have made Frontenac the classic study of a complex and historically misrepresented governor.

Author : Sean Burt
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647550763

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The Courtier and the Governor by Sean Burt Pdf

The Nehemiah Memoir, the narrative of the royal cupbearer sent to rebuild Jerusalem, is central to Ezra-Nehemiah's account of Persian Judah. Yet its emphasis on one individual's efforts makes it a text that ill-fits the book's story of a communal restoration. Sean Burt analyzes the nature of this curious text through the lens of genre criticism and identifies the impact of its use of genres on its early reception in Ezra-Nehemiah. Drawing upon contemporary theorists of literary genre, within the field of biblical studies and beyond, he builds an understanding of genre capable of addressing both its flexibility and its necessarily historical horizon. Burt argues that the Nehemiah Memoir makes use of two ancient genres: the novelistic court tale (e.g. Esther, Ahiqar, and others) and the "official memorial," or "biographical" genre used across the ancient Near East by kings and other governmental officials for individual commemoration. This study contends that the narrative subtly shifts genres as it unfolds, from court tale to memorial. Nehemiah the courtier becomes Nehemiah the governor. While these genres reveal an affinity to one another, they also highlight a central contradiction in the narrative's portrait of Nehemiah. Nehemiah is, like the people of Jerusalem, beholden to the whims of a foreign ruler, but he also simultaneously represents Persia's power over Jerusalem. Burt concludes that the Nehemiah Memoir's combination of these two ultimately incommensurate genres can account for how the writers of Ezra-Nehemiah modified and corrected Nehemiah's problematic story to integrate it into Ezra-Nehemiah's vision of a holistic restoration enacted by a unified people.

Author : W J (William John) Eccles
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014178800

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Frontenac, the Courtier Governor by W J (William John) Eccles Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : W. J. Eccles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:923187209

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Frontenac by W. J. Eccles Pdf

Author : W.J. Eccles
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773595095

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Frontenac, the Courtier Governor by W.J. Eccles Pdf

Author : William J. Eccles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314330047

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Frontenac by William J. Eccles Pdf

Author : William John Eccles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Canada
ISBN : LCCN:59021011

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Frontenac, the Courtier Governor by William John Eccles Pdf

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017465435

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Leila; or the Siege of Granada. Calderon the Courtier, etc by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Pdf

Author : Baldassarre Castiglione
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:248927606

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The Book of the Courtier by Baldassarre Castiglione Pdf

Author : Baldassare Castiglione
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486122403

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The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione Pdf

An insider's view of court life during the Renaissance, here is the handiwork of a 16th-century diplomat who was called upon to resolve the differences in a war of etiquette among the Italian nobility.

Author : Stephen Saunders Webb
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469600017

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The Governors-General by Stephen Saunders Webb Pdf

In this remarkable revisionist study, Webb shows that English imperial policy was shaped by a powerful and sustained militaristic, autocratic tradition that openly defined English empire as the imposition of state control by force on dependent people. He describes the entire military connection that found expression in the garrisoned cities of England, Scotland, and Ireland and ultimately in the palisaded plantations of Jamaica, Virginia, and New England. Originally published in 1987. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074938865

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Calderon, the Courtier by Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton Pdf

Author : Michael C. Batinski
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813119464

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Jonathan Belcher, Colonial Governor by Michael C. Batinski Pdf

As early as the eighteenth century, New England's ministers were decrying public morality in jeremiads aimed at wayward colonists. Evangelical leaders such as Jonathan Edwards called for rulers to become spiritual as well as political leaders who would renew the people's covenant with God. The prosperous merchant Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757) self-consciously strove to become such a leader, an American Nehemiah. As governor of three royal colonies and early patron of the College of New Jersey (later Princeton University), Belcher became an important but controversial figure in colonial America. An insightful blend of social and political history, this biography demands that Belcher be recognized as the embodiment of the Nehemiah, perhaps as important in his own realm as Cotton Mather was in religious circles. Grappling with the contradictions of Belcher's actions, the author explains much about the complexities of the world in which Belcher lived and wielded influence and, by weaving together social, religious, and cultural history, portrays in the career of Jonathan Belcher a richly detailed synthesis of the tumultuous late colonial period.

Author : James Pritchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0521827426

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In Search of Empire by James Pritchard Pdf

Elusive Empire is the first full account of how during 1670 and 1730 French settlers came to the Americas. It examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with Amerindians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. Bringing together much new evidence, the author explores how the newly constructed societies and new economies, without precedent in France, interacted with the growing international violence in the Atlantic world in order to present a fresh perspective of the multifarious French colonizing experience in the Americas.

Author : Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон
Publisher : Litres
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785041331566

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Calderon the Courtier, a Tale by Эдвард Бульвер-Литтон Pdf