Edited Roger Kennedy (5 results)

Trade PAPERBACK. Condition: VG/No Dustjacket. Color, B&W Photographs, Maps (illustrator). First Edition. New York, NY: Stewart, Tabori & Chang. VG/No Dustjacket. (1989). First Edition. Trade PAPERBACK. 8vo., 495pp., Very faint yellowing of cover .

Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Thus. Standard used condition. Reading copy or better. Used Book.

HC. color illustrations (illustrator). 240pp ISBN 0395634164 very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 238 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear, slightly sunned. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** "Roger Kennedy is very much a historian for our time. Never content with a mere sequence of facts, figures, and events, he brings to his subject the voice of an interpreter and storyteller, ranging back and forth in time and space, blending the many and various aspects of human endeavor into the pattern we call history. This fascinating story of the missions of North America traces the long trail of 'the friars [who] went forth from Catholic Europe to gain converts among the American Indians . . . to colonize America for Spain and thereafter to deny its riches to any other power.' The missions themselves represent a unique example of building on a frontier, memorializing a 'grand endeavor': the westward extension of the great Crusades to the East. The book begins with a discussion of the religious context of the mission-building period and goes on to draw vivid historical portraits of the participants, both European and American. Kennedy describes the specific architectural features - domes, cloisters, ribats - that resulted from the merging of cultural forces. Finally, Kennedy serves as a witty and urbane tour guide through each of the most important mission buildings, from the traces of ruins in Florida to the glory of the restoration of La Purisima Concepcion in California." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Part I: the religious mission; Part II: the participants; Part III: the architectural mission; Part IV: along the mission frontier. Size: 4to.

[0-246-64096-0] 1973, 1st edition. (Small 4to) Fine in fine dust jacket. 208pp. Map endpapers, illustrated title page spread, black and white and color photographs and illustrations, maps, bibliography, index. There is a previous owner's name or label. Book about Duke of Wellington & Napoleon I--Emperor of France. Edited by Ludovic Kennedy. Publisher series: British at War, the. Locale: ; Pyrenees. (Military, Peninsular War).