biddle nicholas mcneal (5 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.35.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : No Dust Jacket. Very light shelfwear else fine. ; 243pp.; 243 pages.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Etat de la jaquette : New. 1st Edition. Pennsylvania State Press, 1993. First edition. First printing. Travel. Brand New. Mint/Mint. Follows his sojourn to Greece, then part of the Ottoman Empire, his reflections on the politics and personalities of Napoleon's Europe, the conditions of Greece and its ancient monuments, and the American naval war against the Barbary pirates. Hardbound, Photos. 243 pages. Brand new, removed from shrink-wrap only to check bibliographical information. SALE.

hardcover. Etat : very good(-). Etat de la jaquette : very good(-). Ed. by R.A. McNeal. Illus. 8vo, black cloth, d.w. lightly soiled and with a small tear. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, (1993). From the library of Wendell Garrett with his ownership signature and his pencil marks in a few margins.

Etat : Sehr gut. 243 p.: ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag etwas abgenutzt, sonst sehr guter Zustand / Dust jacket somewhat worn, otherwise in very good condition. - Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) was a noted politician and financier in early nineteenthcentury America. At eighteen, he went to Europe as the secretary of the American minister to France. He also made the acquaintance of James Monroe when Monroe was the American ambassador to London. He was later elected to the state legislature and senate of Pennsylvania. Ultimately he became a director and then the president of the Bank of the United States. In the course of a sojourn to Europe, Biddle sailed to Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Half of the journal he kept on the trip has only recently been discovered, and the other half is known to only a few people because it is still in private hands. Taken together, these two journals (plus the four extant letters that Biddle wrote to his family in Philadelphia) are a mine of information about the formative influences on his career, about the politics and personalities of Napoleon's Europe, about the condition of Greece and its ancient monuments under the Turkocratia, and even about the American naval war against the Barbary pirates. Despite being written by a twenty-year-old, these journals are remarkable for their literary quality and their general liveliness. Perhaps because they were not written to be published, they have a freshness and honesty lacking in more formal works of travel. McNeal's extensive introduction illuminates the early nineteenth-century background of Biddle's journals. ISBN 9780271009148 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 900 Hardcover mit Schutzumschlag / Hardcover with dust jacket.