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Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel
Brokering Culture radically recontextualizes conventional views of the relationship between the British Empire and the emergence of the nineteenth-century historical novel. The book focuses on how literary translations of eighteenth-century experiences of empire established the genre as a site of critique for nationalism and historical progress.
Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel
Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American “romancers” and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain’s diffused, tenuous, and often accidental authority. Salyer argues that this cultural experience, more than what Lukács had in mind when he wrote of a mass historical consciousness after Napoleon, gave rise to the Romantic historiographical approach of writers such as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Brockden Brown and Frederick Marryat. This book traces the ...
The Salyer Family
Zachariah Sallyer (ca. 1730-ca. 1789) lived in Tryon County, North Carolina. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Indiana, Illinois and elsewhere. This is an indepth research on the Salyer family and those related to them.
Samuel Salyer, 1812-1890, of Magoffin County, Kentucky, and Related Salyer Families of Eastern Kentucky
Samuel Salyer, nicknamed "The Legislator," was a descendant of William M. Salyer and Nancy Raney of North Carolina. Samuel married Malinda Arnett. Their Salyer descendants and related Salyers lived primarily in Eastern Kentucky.
The Invention of Medicine
Longlisted for the RUNCIMAN AWARD, 2021 Medicine is one of the great fields of achievement of the Ancient Greeks. Hippocrates is celebrated worldwide as the father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented. Robin Lane Fox's remarkable book puts their invention of medicine in a wider context, from the epic poems of Homer to the first doctors known to have been active in the Greek world. He examines what we do and do not know about Hippocrates and his Oath and the many writings that survive under his name. He ...
Congressional Record
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
