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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'
Thematically, the seventeen journals contained in this collection can be subdivided into three different categories, namely journals preoccupied with missionary information and a missiological discourse; publications...
"In Scotland the political impetus that carried the polity into union with England came from an old-fashioned dynastic crisis. When her only surviving child…"
To any seasoned historian, the seventeen journals presented in digitised form by Gale, a Cengage Company embody a long-cherished dream come true. The digital collection represents the near-totality of journals produced in the English medium in China between 1817 and 1949, not counting ephemeral publications or daily newspapers.
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 public will have henceforth under their glance, and within their grasp, the very form and presence of events as they transpire,” and the journal would…"
"One of the many fascinating aspects of British eighteenth century history was the emergence of the nation as a European power of the first order…"
"During the nineteenth century there was a dramatic increase in the number of periodicals published for children, especially in the final third of the century…"
Beginning as small-circulation, text-based magazines, heavy with political content, they expanded dramatically through the century to offer a mixture of politics, social comment and pure fun, delivered through a range of illustrated magazines and comics, to a host of new readers.
"The first thing to understand about the sources that you can read in State Papers Online is that they really belong together. Over four hundred years ago…"
"After relatively modest increases in immigration up to 1827, economic expansion in the United States and worsening conditions in Europe—particularly in Ireland…"