The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)
The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)

Author: Alexander J. P. Raat

Publisher: Uitgeverij Verloren

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13: 9087041519

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Details Loten's personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem -- a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, cover early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic, the exotic Dutch East Indies, and cosmopolitan London in the latter part of the century.

Madam Britannia
Madam Britannia

Author: Emma Major

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0199699372

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Using Britannia as a central figure, this book explores the neglected relationship between women, church, and nation. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript, printed, and graphic material, Emma Major argues that Britannia became established as an emblem of nation from 1688 and gained in importance over the following century.