Cole, Richard Cargill: Thomas Mante

Writer, Soldier, Adventurer. A full-fledged biography, focusing on Mante the writer because this is where his most significant achievement lies. Mante's writings and his military service in Britain and America, his career in France as civil servant, estate manager, and double spy make him a mirror of tensions between Britain and France in the 18th century. Thomas Mante (1733-c. 1802) wrote the influential History of the Late War in North-America (1772), which with its three companion volumes represents an epic-like portrayal of men at war. The themes and style of this tetralogy are continued in Mante's three novels, his treatise in French on agriculture, and his monumental Naval and Military History of the Wars of England in eight volumes. XVII,213 Seiten, gebunden (American University Studies. Series IX: History; Vol. 148/Peter Lang Verlag 1993) Mängelexemplar/near mint