Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks. Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain. by Edward Wortley Montagu, Esq. the Fourth Edition
Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republicks. Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain. by Edward Wortley Montagu, Esq. the Fourth Edition

Author: EDWARD WORTLEY. MONTAGU

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-20

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 9781379861393

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T073412 With a half-title. London: printed for J. Rivington and Sons, T. Longman S. Crowder, T. Cadell, T. Becket, and W. Fox, 1778. [6],392p.; 8°

Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republics. Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain. by Edward Wortley Montague, Esq
Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Republics. Adapted to the Present State of Great Britain. by Edward Wortley Montague, Esq

Author: EDWARD WORTLEY. MONTAGU

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-22

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9781385154366

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T220140 Basil: printed and sold by J. J. Tourneisen, 1793. [4],352p.; 8°

Possession
Possession

Author: Erin L. Thompson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2016-01-01

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0300208529

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A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present Whether it's the discovery of $1.6 billion in Nazi-looted art or the news that Syrian rebels are looting UNESCO archaeological sites to buy arms, art crime commands headlines. Erin Thompson, America's only professor of art crime, explores the dark history of looting, smuggling, and forgery that lies at the heart of many private art collections and many of the world's most renowned museums. Enlivened by fascinating personalities and scandalous events, Possession shows how collecting antiquities has been a way of creating identity, informed by a desire to annex the past while providing an illicit thrill along the way. Thompson's accounts of history's most infamous collectors--from the Roman Emperor Tiberius, who stole a life-sized nude Greek statue for his bedroom, to Queen Christina of Sweden, who habitually pilfered small antiquities from her fellow aristocrats, to Sir William Hamilton, who forced his mistress to enact poses from his collection of Greek vases--are as mesmerizing as they are revealing.