Alexander the Great by Philip Freeman (108 results)

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants over the snowy Alps to invade the very heart of Rome's growing empire. But what kind of person would dare to face the most relentless imperial power of the ancient world? How could Hannibal, consistently outnumbered and always deep in enemy territory, win battle after battle until he held the very fate of Rome within his grasp? Hannibal appeals to many as the ultimate underdoga Carthaginian David against the Goliath of Romebut it wasn't just his genius on the battlefield that set him apart. As a boy and then a man, his self-discipline and determination were legendary. As a military leader, like Alexander the Great before him and Julius Caesar after, he understood the hearts of men and had an uncanny ability to read the unseen weaknesses of his enemy. As a commander in war, Hannibal has few equals in history and has long been held as a model of strategic and tactical genius. But Hannibal was much more than just a great general. He was a practiced statesman, a skilled diplomat, and a man deeply devoted to his family and country. Roman historianson whom we rely for almost all our information on Hannibalportray him as a cruel barbarian, but how does the story change if we look at Hannibal from the Carthaginian point of view? Can we search beneath the accounts of Roman writers who were eager to portray Hannibal as a monster and find a more human figure? Can we use the life of Hannibal to look at the Romans themselves in an unfamiliar way not as the noble and benign defenders of civilization but as ruthless conquerors motivated by greed and conquest? Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Silk. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Thus. New York: Colonial, 1900. Revised edition with special introduction by Starkweather. 8vo. Ribbed green silk, gilt decoration to spine, teg, 447, 456 pp. Series title, frontispieces, captioned tissue, plus seven additional illustrations in the two volumes. This collections contains a broad series of essays, excellent for study, including Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas Fuller, John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Sir William Temple, John Dryden, John Locke, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, William Shenstone, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, William Cowper, George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, Henry Mackenzie, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Jeffrey, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas De Quincy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Douglas Jerrold, William Makepeace Thackeray, Arthur Helps, James Anthony Froude, John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, Edward Augustus Freeman, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Sir John Lubbock. Minimal library markings, very readable books in very good condition.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Chapters: E. P. Thompson, Eric Hobsbawm, C. Wright Mills, Philip S. Foner, Selig Perlman, James Green, Ruth Milkman, Herbert Gutman, Sidney Webb, 1st Baron Passfield, Richard T. Ely, Edwin E. Witte, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Gregg Andrews, Melvyn Dubofsky, David J. Saposs, Gary Chaison, John R. Commons, Beatrice Webb, Leon Fink, Ellen Dannin, Sherry Wolf, Seymour Martin Lipset, Peter Kellman, Melech Epstein, Richard Schneirov, Bruce Nissen, Kevin Boyle, Kim Voss, Joshua Freeman, Tom Juravich, Philip Taft, Walter Galenson, Alexander Tarasov, Julius Getman, Irving Bernstein, Bruce Nelson, Tom Bramble, Rick Kuhn, David Roediger, Rachel Sherman, James A. Gross, Mick Armstrong, David Brody, Elaine Bernard, Michael Yates, Mark Starr, Paul Clark, Stanley Aronowitz, Jean Maitron, Boris Kagarlitsky, Peter Linebaugh, Thomas Sugrue, Staughton Lynd, Nelson Lichtenstein, Lizabeth Cohen, Brian Kelly, Joseph McCartin, Robert Zieger, Tore Pryser, Nina Fishman, Labor history, Jack D. Foner, Richard Hurd, Terence E. Carroll, Liz Ross, George Hilton, David Montgomery, Sandra Bloodworth, Dorothy Thompson, Henry Kraus, Charles Morris, Tom O'Lincoln, Arne Kokkvoll, Boris Ponomarev, John A. Fitch, John Thomas Dunlop, Mark Leier, Irving Abella, J. Bernard Hogg, Øyvind Bjørnson, Rick Fantasia, Alice Kessler-Harris, Brian Brivati, Joseph Rayback, Mary Blewett, Tamara Hareven, Craig Heron. Excerpt: Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm (usually known as 'Eric Hobsbawm' or 'E. J. Hobsbawm'), CH, FBA, (born 9 June 1917) is a British Marxist historian, public intellectual, and author. His best known works include the trilogy about the long 19th century: The Age of Revolution: Europe 1789-1848, The Age of Capital: 1848-1875 and The Age of Empire: 1875-1914. Hobsbawm was born in 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt, to Leopold Percy Obstbaum and Nelly Grün, both Jewish, and he grew up in Vienna and Berlin. A clerical error at birth altered his surname from Obstbaum to Hobsbawm. Although the family lived in German-speaking countries, his parents spoke to him and his younger sister Nancy in English. His father died in 1929, and he started working as an au pair and English tutor. He became an orphan at age 14 upon the death of his mother. Subsequently, he and Nancy were adopted by his maternal aunt, Gretl, and paternal uncle, Sidney, who married and had a son named Peter. They all moved to London in 1933 where he attended St Marylebone Grammar School. Hobsbawm married twice. His first wife was Muriel Seaman, whom he married in 1943 and divorced in 1951. His second marriage was to Marlene Schwarz, with whom he has two children, Julia Hobsbawm and Andy Hobsbawm. Julia is chief executive of Hobsbawm Media and Marketing and a visiting professor of public relations at the College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He also has a son, Joshua, from a previous relationship. He is a Marxist and was a long-standing member of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain and the associated Communist Party Historians Group. He is president of Birkbeck, University of London. He was appointed a Companion of Honour in 1998. In 2003 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for European History since 1900 'For his brilliant analysis of the troubled history of twentieth-century Europe and for his ability to combine in-depth historical research with great literary talent.' Hobsbawm joined the Sozialist 84 pp. Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. Over two thousand years ago one of the greatest military leaders in history almost destroyed Rome. Hannibal, a daring African general from the city of Carthage, led an army of warriors and battle elephants over the snowy Alps to invade the very heart of Rome's growing empire. But what kind of person would dare to face the most relentless imperial power of the ancient world? How could Hannibal, consistently outnumbered and always deep in enemy territory, win battle after battle until he held the very fate of Rome within his grasp? Hannibal appeals to many as the ultimate underdoga Carthaginian David against the Goliath of Romebut it wasn't just his genius on the battlefield that set him apart. As a boy and then a man, his self-discipline and determination were legendary. As a military leader, like Alexander the Great before him and Julius Caesar after, he understood the hearts of men and had an uncanny ability to read the unseen weaknesses of his enemy. As a commander in war, Hannibal has few equals in history and has long been held as a model of strategic and tactical genius. But Hannibal was much more than just a great general. He was a practiced statesman, a skilled diplomat, and a man deeply devoted to his family and country. Roman historianson whom we rely for almost all our information on Hannibalportray him as a cruel barbarian, but how does the story change if we look at Hannibal from the Carthaginian point of view? Can we search beneath the accounts of Roman writers who were eager to portray Hannibal as a monster and find a more human figure? Can we use the life of Hannibal to look at the Romans themselves in an unfamiliar way not as the noble and benign defenders of civilization but as ruthless conquerors motivated by greed and conquest? Telling the story of a man who stood against the overwhelming power of the mighty Roman empire, Hannibal is the biography of a man who, against all odds, dared to change the course of history. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. green c w/paper labels; lite rubbing; Top edge gilt; 447+456 clean, unmarked, some uncut pages; includes Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas Fuller, John Milton, Abraham Cowley, Sir William Temple, John Dryden, John Locke, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison, Alexander Pope, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, William Shenstone, Thomas Gray, Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, William Cowper, George Colman and Bonnell Thornton, Henry Mackenzie, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Francis Jeffrey, Charles Lamb, Walter Savage Landor, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Thomas De Quincy, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Douglas Jerrold, William Makepeace Thackeray, Arthur Helps, James Anthony Froude, John Ruskin, Charles Kingsley, Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, Edward Augustus Freeman, Thomas Henry Huxley, and Sir John Lubbock Size: 8 Vo; 5 Pounds.

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Condition: Gut. 391 p., ill., maps. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - A very good and clean copy. - Undefeated in battle, Alexander III conquered lands from Greece, Egypt and Iraq to Iran, Afghanistan and India all before his death at the age of 32. He is regarded as one of the greatest military leaders of all time. In the enthralling new narrative biography Alexander the Great, Philip Freeman reveals how this relentless and driven man was able to win against all odds and shape the world in which we still live today. A professor of classics and the author of St. Patrick of Ireland and Julius Caesar, Freeman set out to write a biography that is "first and foremost a story." Over 12 years of campaigns, Alexander proved himself to be a fearless, unbeatable, brilliant commander. Not only did he unite Greece, he built an empire that spanned from the Adriatic Sea to India. Alexander, contends Freeman, conquered so much of the ancient world simply because he could. The author succeeds in making Alexander accessible as never before. Alexander emerges as a fully fleshed-out figure, and the descriptions of his conquests and battles make for riveting reading. This compelling biography offers new insights into the man and the Macedonian world that shaped him. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630 15,9 x 3,3 x 23,5 cm, Original hardcover with dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Oxford: Printed at the University Press, 1844, Later Edition. Great Primer Octavo. An elegant full morocco binding by Hayday with their stamp to the baseof the front paste down, with gilt titles and fine gilt tooling to the spine and boards. All edges gilt. A neat ink inscription to the front paste down. Pagination: pages unnumbered up to the Forms of Prayer where page numbering is at the base of the page (581-645pp) then unnumbered again for the Psalms. Signatures A to Rr in gatherings of 8, Ss in gathering of 4; Psalms A to E in gatherings of 8, F in gathering of 4. Provenance: inscription to Henry L. Prentice from Catherine, Countess of Caledon, Sept 1850 to the front. Catherine Freeman Yorke (born in April 1786) was the second daughter of Philip Yorke, 3rd Earl of Hardwicke and Elizabeth Lindsay. In 1811 Catherine married Du Pré Alexander, 2nd Earl of Caledon. William Alexander, of Menstrie, Clackmannanshire was first ennobled in 1663. Henry L. Prentice was agent to the Earl of Caledon and showed a humanitarian approach to the Irish famine. Approximately 10 ¼ inches tall (26cm). Condition Report Externally Spine good condition gilt titles, five raised gilt bands, gilt decorated compartments, rubbed and worn. Joints good condition sound. Corners good condition gently bumped and worn. Boards good condition gilt tooling to the boards. Page edges good condition all gilt. See above and photos. Internally Hinges good condition sound. Paste downs good condition yellow paste downs, gilt dentelles, stamped by Hayday to the base of the front paste down. End papers good condition yellow, tanned and signed subsequently. Title good condition tanned. Pages good condition tanned. Binding good condition attractive. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1844 Binding: Hardback.

First Dublin Edition. Octavo. XI, 412 pages plus 16 pages of Index and "Table of the Principal Matters". Original Hardcover / Full 18th century calf with new spine-label. The binding firm and in excellent condition. Important: Several strong puncture - wounds to the first 54 and last 60 pages (without loss of text). Some occasional staining but text overall clean. A very rare Sarah Cotter print from 18th century Dublin. Although no sign of it, the book came from the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House). Sarah Cotter (fl. 1751 1792) was an Irish printer and bookseller. Sarah Cotter was possibly the sister or daughter of the bookseller Joseph Cotter, who died around 1751. She took over his business, operating under Dick's Coffee House, Skinner Row, Dublin since 1744 and under her auspices until 1774. Cotter is one of the few women to be admitted into the guild of St Luke the Evangelist as a quarter-brother in 1756, which was usually denied to women as they were not permitted full freedom. She paid quarterage to the guild until 1770. Cotter noticed there was a market for a publisher specialising in legal works, engaging in this work with other printers as she did with Oliver Nelson and Richard Watts (fl. 1745 1762) in the publication of Sir John Strange's Reports of adjudged cases in the courts of Chancery (1756). She established herself as a law publisher and bookseller, issuing a Sale catalogue of law books for 1766, and advertised regularly with newspapers including the Dublin Journal and Freeman's Journal. She fostered links with the book trade in London, importing books and appearing as the Dublin agent on London imprints. Other publications by Cotter included Poems by eminent ladies (1757), Shakespeare's Measure for measure (1761), Philosophical enquiry (4th ed. 1766) by Edmund Burke, and A collection of apothegms and maxims for the good conduct of life by Gorges Edmond Howard (1767). Cotter married Joseph Stringer (fl. 1754 1783) in 1768. He was a Dublin painter-stainer. Cotter continued to trade under her married name, printing The wonder! or a woman keeps a secret a play by Susanna Centlivre the same year. Her husband and former apprentice Charles Ingham (fl. 1747 1792) managed the business from 1768, with Cotter officially retiring in 1774. Cotter wrote to Philip Skelton on 21 September 1784 from Summerhill, Dublin, praising his book 'An appeal to commonsense on the subject of Christianity'. To promote his ideas, she offered and paid for a cheaper edition to be printed to allow for a wider circulation. Later, he gave her permission to have his portrait drawn, on the provision that no copies would be made and Cotter would destroy it before her death. She did so three months before her death in 1792, with her will proved at the Dublin prerogative court the same year. Cotter's books are included in the 1916 "A catalogue of the Bradshaw collection of Irish books in the University of Cambridge 1602 1882". (Wikipedia) Sir Michael Foster (1689 1763) was an English judge. Foster was the son of Michael Foster, an attorney, and was born at Marlborough, Wiltshire, on 16 December 1689. After attending the free school of his native town, he matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford, 7 May 1705. He does not appear to have taken any degree. He was admitted a student of the Middle Temple on 23 May 1707, and was called to the bar in May 1713. Meeting with little success in London, he retired to Marlborough, whence he afterwards removed to Bristol, where as a local counsel he gained a great reputation. In August 1735 he was chosen recorder of Bristol, and in Easter term 1736 became a Serjeant-at-law. He held the post of recorder for many years, and upon his resignation in 1764 was succeeded by Daines Barrington. During Foster's tenure of office several important cases came before him. In the case of Captain Samuel Goodere who was tried for the murder of his brother, Sir John Dineley Goodere, 2nd Baronet, in 1741, the right of the city of Bristol to try capital offences committed within its jurisdiction was fully established. When Alexander Broadfoot was indicted for the murder of Cornelius Calahan, a sailor in the king's service, who boarded the merchantman to which Broadfoot belonged, and was killed in an attempt to press the prisoner for the Navy, Foster delivered an elaborate judgment in support of the legality of impressment, being convinced that "the right of impressing mariners for the publick service is a prerogative inherent in the crown, grounded upon common law, and recognised by many acts of parliament". He, however, directed the jury to find Broadfoot guilty of manslaughter only, as Calahan had acted without legal warrant. Upon the recommendation of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke, Foster was appointed a puisne judge of the King's Bench in succession to Sir William Chapple (c.1676-1745) of Upwey. He was knighted on 21 April, and took his seat in court for the first time on 1 May 1745. During the eighteen years he sat in the king's bench he maintained a high character for his learning as well as for his integrity and independence of judgment. Many years later, Lord Chief Justice De Grey declared that Foster might "be truly called the Magna Charta of liberty of persons as well as fortunes", while Sir William Blackstone pronounced him to be a very great master of the crown law. Thurlow, in a letter dated 11 April 1758, alluded in high terms to Foster's independent conduct in the trial of an indictment for a nuisance in obstructing a common footway through Richmond Park, of which Princess Amelia was then the ranger, and Churchill in his Rosciad sums up Foster's character in one word: "Each judge was true and steady to his trust, As Mansfield wise, and as old Foster just". Foster died on 7 November 1763, in the seventy-fourth year of his age, and was buried in the parish church of Stanton Drew in Somersetshire, where a monument was erected to his memory. In 1725 he married Martha, the.