This is the description of de l la idiotidiots. These were rebound, published later in the nineteenth century. But what they document is Napoleons Campaign in egypt and artists rendering of the landscape of egypt, pyramids, architecture, architectural elements, elements of the hieroglyphs, egyptian pottery, maps, diagrams of the layouts of pyramids, different historical sites around egypt. This is an era where there was no photography. This was a way to document and detailed the things napoleon and his army were capturing and a way to account for the riches of egypt that napoleon was hoping to bring back into france to the empire and also used as points of study for french architects and artists. This piece was another in a set from 1792 published during the french republic. About the history of louis the sixteenth. This is talking about the history of king louis and the start of the revolution. This kind of material gives us a perspective how the contemporaries, people who lived durin
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Next on booktv, Tom Angelique and the American Revolution from assorted 18th Century Newspapers. Mr. Anderlecht contains newspapers from 1763 to 1783 examines reports ranging from the sugar of 18,642,000 concorde and bunker hill. Its an hour and 15. Its an honor to be speaking at the old state house. Thank you for coming. Thank you to the tv and cspan for joining us here. About three weeks into the design of reporting the revolutionary war, we realized we were on pace to producing 800 page from a twoinch thick volume and so we quickly cut corners and retrace our steps and decided to scale back and produce what is now a 400 page fullcolor book for you. Similarly, i prepare to fight our presentation for this evening and decided to scale back back to him are manageable 45 minutes. So ill start by saying that without these papers, there would have been no American Revolution. Newspapers are what fan the flames of rebellion, sustained loyalty to the cause, provide critical correspondence du
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