The Unfortunate Colonel Despard
The remarkable life of Colonel Edward Despard, comrade-in-arms of Nelson and a man who championed the rights of freed slaves, but who was executed in Britain for high treason in 1803.
| Autor: | Jay, Mike |
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| ISBN: | 9781472144072 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Verlag: | Little, Brown and Company |
| Veröffentlicht: | 01.08.2019 |
| Untertitel: | And the British Revolution that Never Happened |
| Schlagworte: | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical Biography: historical, political & military Biography: historical, political and military HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837) HISTORY / Military / Revolutions & Wars of Independence Napoleonic Wars Specific wars and campaigns c 1800 to c 1809 c 1800 to c 1900 |
MIKE JAY is the author of The Air Loom Gang, Emperors of Dreams: Drugs in the Nineteenth Century, Blue Tide: The Search for Soma and Artificial Paradise: A Drugs Reader, and editor of 1900: A Fin-de-Siècle Reader. Mike's latest book, which will be published in May by Yale, is a global history of mescaline - you can find out more about this and his other work at https://mikejay.net