This Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people enslaved and taken to Havana during the era of the Atlantic ...slave trade. Richly situating Prieto's story within the context of colonial Cuba, Henry B. Lovejoy illuminates the vast process by which thousands of Yoruba speakers were forced into life-and-death struggles in a strange land. In Havana, Prieto and most of the people of the Yoruba diaspora were identified by the colonial authorities as Lucumi. Prieto's evolving identity becomes the fascinating fulcrum of the book. Drafted as an enslaved soldier for Spain, Prieto achieved self-manumission while still in the military. Rising steadily in his dangerous new world, he became the religious leader of Havana's most famous Lucumicabildo, where he contributed to the development of the Afro-Cuban religion of Santeria. Then he was arrested on suspicion of fomenting slave rebellion. Trial testimony shows that he fell ill, but his ultimate fate is unknown. Despite the silences and contradictions that will never be fully resolved, Prieto's life opens a window onto how Africans creatively developed multiple forms of identity and resistance in Cuba and in the Atlantic world more broadly.
For more than four and a half centuries, the Jesuits in Hungary were forced to repeatedly recommence their activities due to wars, uprisings, and political conflicts. The Society of Jesus first ...settled in Hungary in 1561 during the period of Ottoman conquest. Despite their difficulties in a war-torn country, a network of Jesuit colleges was established as part of the Austrian Province, and the eighteenth century was a period of cultural and scientific prosperity for the Jesuits in Hungary. The Suppression of 1773, however, abruptly suspended this tradition for eighty years. After they resettled in Hungary in 1853, the Jesuits searched for new ways of apostolic work. The independent Hungarian Jesuit Province was established in 1909. The totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century posed fresh challenges. During the Communist period, the Hungarian Jesuit Province was forced to split up into two sections. The Jesuits in exile and those who remained in Hungary were reunited in 1990.
La historiografía es una ciencia del Renacimiento y consiste en detectar la bibliografía de las bibliografías desarrolladas por una institución dedicada a las letras, las ciencias y las artes. El ...presente estudio se centra en la visión jesuítica de la bibliografía de las bibliografías desarrollas en el mundo hispánico desde 1773 hasta 1999 ya que se convierte en la carta de navegar para poder interpretar ese complicado mundo.
Funkcjonowanie Trybunału Koronnego zostało przerwane w marcu 1769 r. i pozostawał on bezczynny przez kolejne pięć i pół roku z powodu trwającej konfederacji barskiej, a następnie rozpoczęcia się ...sejmu rozbiorowego. Sprawa wznowienia prac tej instytucji została podniesiona w maju 1774 r. z inicjatywy Stanisława Augusta i była elementem rozgrywki między monarchą a marszałkiem konfederacji sejmowej Adamem Ponińskim, dzierżącym z tego tytułu władzę sądowniczą. Autor artykułu dokonał analizy znanych mu redakcji projektu konstytucji o Trybunale Koronnym, pokazując przy tym kierunek ewolucji zawartych w niej koncepcji, oraz omówił przebieg dyskusji na forum delegacji sejmowej. Następnie przedstawił rywalizację monarchy z Ponińskim o podział kompetencji między jurysdykcję trybunalską a konfederację, toczącą się w drugiej połowie czerwca, i rolę, jaką w wydarzeniach tych odegrał Otto Magnus von Stackelberg.
The activity of the Crown Tribunal was interrupted in March 1769 and, with the results of the course of the confederation, the beginning of the Sejm – in the next five-and-a-half consecutive years – the results of the Bar Confederation. Resuming the work of this institution was the initiative of Stanisław August, handed over in May 1774, and it was carried out between the monarch and the parliamentary confederation of Adam Poniński, who therefore wielded the power of the judiciary on its basis. The author of the article made the analysis of the editing of the draft constitution of the Crown Tribunal, showing the direction of evolution of the concepts it contains, and he described the course of the discussion at the forum of the parliamentary delegation. The author examines the establishment of the monarchy with Poniński and the degree of competence of the jurisdiction and the confederation in the longer term, and the role played in the events of those who wanted to achieve this.
A major new history of the race between two geniuses to
decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, set against the backdrop of
nineteenth-century Europe In 1799, a French Army officer
was rebuilding the ...defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when
he discovered an ancient stele fragment bearing a decree inscribed
in three different scripts. So begins one of the most familiar
tales in Egyptology-that of the Rosetta Stone and the decipherment
of Egyptian hieroglyphs. This book draws on fresh archival evidence
to provide a major new account of how the English polymath Thomas
Young and the French philologist Jean-Fran??ois Champollion vied to
be the first to solve the riddle of the Rosetta. Jed Buchwald and
Diane Greco Josefowicz bring to life a bygone age of intellectual
adventure. Much more than a decoding exercise centered on a single
artifact, the race to decipher the Rosetta Stone reflected broader
disputes about language, historical evidence, biblical truth, and
the value of classical learning. Buchwald and Josefowicz paint
compelling portraits of Young and Champollion, two gifted
intellects with altogether different motivations. Young disdained
Egyptian culture and saw Egyptian writing as a means to greater
knowledge about Greco-Roman antiquity. Champollion, swept up in the
political chaos of Restoration France and fiercely opposed to the
scholars aligned with throne and altar, admired ancient Egypt and
was prepared to upend conventional wisdom to solve the mystery of
the hieroglyphs. Taking readers from the hushed lecture rooms of
the Institut de France to the windswept monuments of the Valley of
the Kings, The Riddle of the Rosetta reveals the untold
story behind one of the nineteenth century's most thrilling
discoveries.
Wolfram Siemann tells a new story of Clemens von Metternich, the Austrian at the center of nineteenth-century European diplomacy. Known as a conservative and an uncompromising practitioner of ...realpolitik, in fact Metternich accommodated new ideas of liberalism and nationalism insofar as they served the goal of peace. And he promoted reform at home.
The subject of the analysis is a lesser-known study by Rudo Brtáň (1907 – 1998) about Slovak classicist Juraj Rohoň (1773 – 1831), originally from the Turiec region, who spent most of his life in Low ...Land. The study titled Juraj Rohoň was published by R. Brtáň in a literature and culture magazine of Yugoslavian Slovaks called Nový život/New Life in 1965, which is produced in Serbia, this is why it remained less accessible and known to a significant part of Slovak literary science. Brtáň´s paper has fundamental importance for understanding of J. Rohoň´s life and work, his findings are confronted with several recent investigations (S. Čelovský, E. Brtáňová, M. Babiak) in the study. A significant part of Brtáň´s research is focused on genealogy, where besides Rohoň´s immediate relatives he tracked other notable figures of this national revivalist, intelectual and artistic family. He also describes in more detail Rohoň´s main literary works: so-called apologias Chvála Slováků/Apotheosis of Slovaks and Palma/A Palm Tree, a collection of neoclassical poems Kratochvílne zpěvy pro mládež rolníckou/Leisure Time Songs for the Farming Youth, and also a collection of Slovak folk songs Starodávne zpěvy lidu slovenského v Uhrách/Ancient Songs of Slovak Folk in Hungary, which became a part of Kollár´s Národnie spievanky/National Songs. The works which defended Slovaks and Slavs earned Rohoň a place in Ján Kollár´s poem Slávy dcera/The Daughter of Sláva – Kollár placed him alongside other authors who had published apologias in the Slavic heaven.
Counterposing The Travels of Hildebrand Bowman (1778) with John Hawkesworth's "official" account of Pacific encounter (1773), this essay examines the potential of fiction to critique British ...exploration narratives and the readers who consumed them. Bowman's distinctive representation of the Pacific and narrative of stadial progression highlight the fictional nature of the voyage accounts that would claim to be factual. As the eponymous sailor details his interactions with Indigenous peoples of the Pacific, the novel displays various modes of authority over experience that undermine the perspective of traditional records of encounter and expose readers' complicity in perpetuating such accounts. In placing factual information within allegorical and fictional settings, the novel emphasises not only the ways the popular understanding of the Pacific is a product of the imperial imagination and the British print matrix, but also that this same imagination is essential for confronting the corrupting effects of global trade and expansion.
In his study of William Henry Harrison, David Curtis Skaggs sheds light on the role of citizen-soldiers in taming the wilderness of the old Northwest. Perhaps best known for the Whig slogan in ...1840—Tippecanoe and Tyler Too—Harrison used his efforts to pacify Native Americans and defeat the British in the War of 1812 as a means to promote a political career that eventually elevated him to the presidency.
Harrison exemplified the citizen-soldier on the Ohio frontier in the days when white men only settled on the western side of the Appalachian Mountains at their peril. Punctuated by almost continuous small-scale operations and sporadic larger engagements, warfare in this region revolved around a shifting system of alliances among various Indian tribes, government figures, white settlers, and business leaders.
Skaggs focuses on Harrison’s early life and military exploits, especially his role on Major General Anthony Wayne's staff during the Fallen Timbers campaign and Harrison's leadership of the Tippecanoe campaign. He explores how the military and its leaders performed in the age of a small standing army and part-time, Cincinnatus-like forces. This richly detailed work reveals how the military and Indian policies of the early republic played out on the frontier, freshly revisiting a subject central to American history: how white settlers tamed the west—and at what cost.
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