1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391933603316

Autore

Brooks Thomas <1608-1680.>

Titolo

The glorious day of the saints appearance; [[electronic resource] ] : calling for a glorious conversation from all beleevers. / / Delivered in a sermon by Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Gospel at Thomas Apostles, at the interment of the corps of that renowned commander, Colonell Thomas Rainsborough. Who was treacherously murthered on the Lords day in the morning at Doncaster, October 29. 1648. and honourably interred the 14th of November following, in the chappell at Wapping neare London

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed by M.S. for Rapha Harford, and Matthew Simmons, and are to be sold at the Bible in Queens-head Alley in Pater-noster-row, and in Aldersgate-streete, 1648

Descrizione fisica

[8], 23, [1] p

Soggetti

Sermons, English - 17th century

Funeral sermons

Funeral sermons - 17th century

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Sermons Early works to 1800

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Annotation on Thomason copy: "Nou: 30th".

Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910778174203321

Autore

Malia Martin E (Martin Edward)

Titolo

Russia under western eyes [[electronic resource] ] : from the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum / / Martin MAlia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-674-04048-1

Descrizione fisica

xii, 514 p

Disciplina

947

Soggetti

HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Russia History

Russia Civilization

Soviet Union Civilization

Russia Foreign public opinion

Soviet Union Foreign public opinion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-482) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Prologue: In Scythia -- Introduction: The Russian Riddle -- 1 Russia as Enlightened Despotism: 1700–1815 -- 2 Russia as Oriental Despotism: 1815–1855 -- 3 Russia as Europe Regained: 1855–1914 -- 4 War and Revolution: 1914–1917 -- 5 Through the Soviet-Russian Looking-Glass, and What the West Found There: 1917–1991 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

A dazzling work of intellectual history by a world-renowned scholar, spanning the years from Peter the Great to the fall of the Soviet Union, this book gives us a clear and sweeping view of Russia not as an eternal barbarian menace but as an outermost, if laggard, member in the continuum of European nations.