"Queen Anne's death in August 1714 was significant in a variety of ways. In foreign policy terms, her reign had been dominated by conflict with Louis XIV…"
"The weekly issues from 1900 saw a wide range of content and cartoon styles that celebrated the new century and exported English-British culture…"
"The first African slaves appeared in the English colonies in 1619. Native Americans too were often enslaved in the seventeenth century, frequently being shipped…"
イギリス外務省文書を使い、社会経済史の観点から英中関係を分析してこられた早稲田大学教授 本野英一先生をお迎えして、「屈辱の百年」のもう一つの歴史についてご講演いただきます。
The summoning of the two parliaments which met in 1640 was perceived by contemporaries as marking an end to the long period of personal rule by Charles I, but in institutional and archival terms, it was the year 1642 that marked the start of a unique phase in the history of English government.
"The tentacles of Britain’s Indian Empire stretched far beyond its nominal frontiers, which in any case expanded throughout the nineteenth century…"
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"At the beginning of the nineteenth century, in 1800, Britain had been at war with France since 1793, and would remain so (with a small gap) until 1815…"
18世紀の英語・英国の書籍・パンフレットを集成する一大コレクションです。収録タイトル数184,000以上、巻数207,000以上、総ページ数約3300万にのぼります。
月刊誌『National Geographic』をはじめとするナショナルジオグラフィック協会の出版物を集めたバーチャル・ライブラリー