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Punic wars. --- Punische Kriege. --- Punic wars
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Indians of North America --- Wars. --- Wars
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"Begun as a short story in October 1921, two months before Conrad's sixty-fourth birthday, The Rover (1923) turned out to be the writer's last completed novel. After a slow beginning plagued by bouts of ill-health, Conrad discovered, as had happened several times throughout his career, that his subject invited more expansive treatment. The short story about an ageing French seaman returning 'home' after a lifetime of adventure and vicissitude slowly evolved into a short novel, and then into a full-length one. Once Conrad got into his stride, he completed it rapidly, by dictation, between January and mid-July 1922. For it, he laid aside his work in hand, Suspense (1925), with which he was already encountering difficulties and which would remain unfinished upon his death. Escaping a troubled work that had been on his desk for some time in favour of a much smaller canvas must have had immediate appeal. It also promised a consolidation of effort: the new story draws upon roughly the same historical epoch as Suspense--the French Revolution and Napoleonic periods--eras that Conrad had read about widely and had already mined for his short stories 'The Duel' (1908) and 'The Warrior's Soul' (1917)"-- "Set in the South of France during the waning days of the French Revolution and the early years of Napoleonic rule, The Rover (1923) is the last novel that Conrad completed in his lifetime. A popular success on its publication, it explores, against the backdrop of dramatic political change and the Anglo-French hostilities leading up to the Battle of Trafalgar, the themes of personal and national identity, loyalty and love. The 'Introduction' situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its sources and contemporary reception. Explanatory notes illuminate literary and historical references and indicate Conrad's sources. The essay on the text and the apparatus lay out the history of the work's composition and publication, detail the interventions in the text by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors and explain editorial policy. This edition of The Rover, established through modern textual scholarship, presents the novel in a form more authoritative than any so far printed."--
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These extracts from the personal journal of Sir James Outram (1803-63), which he kept while serving with the 23rd Regiment in the British Army of the Indus, describe the British campaigns in Sindh and Afghanistan in 1838-9. In the preface to the book, originally published in 1840, the author explains that his 'rough notes' are not attempting a narrative of the military operations but have been printed 'for the perusal of valued friends'. The work begins in Sindh, where the author joins the campaign that aims to restore Shah Shuja to the throne of Kabul, the ultimately disastrous First Anglo-Afghan War. It is dedicated to Sir William Macnaghten, who was later killed during negotiations with an Afghan chief. Outram himself later clashed with the Napier family over Sir William Napier's account of the Conquest of Scinde, and both books are also reissued in this series.
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Jérôme Bonaparte, der jüngste Bruder Napoleons, lenkte für sieben Jahre die Geschicke eines neuen und modernen Staates auf deutschem Terrain - des Königreichs Westphalen (1807-1813). Für die deutschsprachige Publizistik des 19. Jahrhunderts war diese französische Vergangenheit ein ungeliebtes Kapitel der eigenen Geschichte. Dennoch blieben vor allem in den betroffenen Gebieten Hessen, Braunschweig, Hannover und Westfalen zahlreiche Formen der Erinnerungen jahrzehntelang lebendig. Wie lassen sich diese Spuren heute nachzeichnen? Welche Bedeutung hatte die westphälische Vergangenheit für die Bevölkerung und welche Rolle spielte die englisch- und französischsprachige Geschichtsschreibung bei diesen Erinnerungsprozessen?.
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Paul Auguste Marie Adam1, né le 6 décembre 1862 à Paris où il est mort le 2 janvier 1920, est un écrivain français et critique d'art. Partisan du général Boulanger, il milite dans les mouvements nationalistes et traditionalistes et, pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, il se rend auprès des troupes pour soutenir leur moral et fonde la Ligue intellectuelle de fraternité latine. Parallèlement, il publie de très nombreux ouvrages : essais, romans, nouvelles, récits de voyage, parmi lesquels on peut citer les romans de son cycle napoléonien : La Force (1899), L'Enfant d'Austerlitz (1901), Au soleil de juillet (1903), ainsi que La Ruse (1903) et Stéphanie (1913).
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Spain --- Punic wars --- History
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