"'Germany' in the eighteenth century was a geographical, as opposed to political, expression. The area that includes the modern Federal republic, Austria…"
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The Promised Land and Land Without Thunder.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for An Answer from the Silence and Man in the Holocene.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for Cranford and Wives and Daughters.
"What follows is not a comprehensive survey of Punch's dealings with America, but a roadmap for how this might be pursued now that the magazine has been…"
Biographies, overviews and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring some of the most prominent authors associated with Southern Asian literature.
Biography, overview and critical analysis drawn from journals and periodicals in Gale Databases, exploring the author best known for The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.
"Crime, justice and punishment were major topics in eighteenth-century newspapers. Not only were they a constant and inexpensive source of content…"
"From 1933 to the outbreak of the Second World War, the persecution of Jews, the Roma, homosexuals, and political opponents to National Socialism…"
Stuart government in the later seventeenth and early eighteenth century rested upon a number of constitutional pillars re-established at the Restoration in 1660. They came under some strain in 1688, and in the 1690s, but essentially survived in the same form into the eighteenth-century.
During the nineteenth century, fire was perhaps the most severe environmental threat faced by Americans, especially in urban areas. Before the Civil War, hundreds of large fires destroyed property worth over 200 million dollars in the nation’s principal cities.
"V.S. Pritchett was to tell Alan Pryce-Jones that he had turned the TLS into "by far, far the best literary periodical in England". Never before had the paper…"
Fearless, flamboyant, and somewhat rackety, Ashmead-Bartlett came from a well-connected family. A colleague once described him as ‘a chap with an exceedingly nice nature but vilely brought up in the sort of wild selfish third rate society that surrounded his father’.
In his Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands (1668), the English ambassador, Sir William Temple, enumerated the achievements of the young state, and concluded that the Dutch Republic had become 'the Envy of some, the Fear of others, and the Wonder of all their Neighbours'
"The Times, the most influential newspaper of nineteenth century Britain, and Punch, the comic periodical which became a cultural institution, were…"
"Sport for the well-to-do gentleman in mid-nineteenth century London and the Home Counties embraced news and comment on hunting, fishing…"
"The State Papers are excellent sources for the foreign policy of Britain and other states and, indirectly, for the processes of policy formation and government…"
During the seventeenth century Portugal had faced severe challenges. Much of its eastern empire had been lost and, although independence from Spain had been declared in 1640, a prolonged war had followed that only finally came to an end in 1668.
"The comic images published in Punch have proved to be both relentlessly entertaining and endlessly informative to generations of readers…"
"Like Holland, Flanders was one of a group of provinces, those of the southern Netherlands where the revolt against Habsburg misrule had started…"