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Book Chronicles of London Bridge

Download or read book Chronicles of London Bridge written by Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book When William IV was King

Download or read book When William IV was King written by John Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Police in England

Download or read book A History of Police in England written by William Lauriston Melville Lee and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne

Download or read book Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne written by John Ashton and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Coaches

Download or read book The History of Coaches written by George Athelstane Thrupp and published by London, Kerby & Endean. This book was released on 1877 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of coaches and carriages.

Book Customs in Common

    Book Details:
  • Author : E. P. Thompson
  • Publisher : New Press/ORIM
  • Release : 2015-09-22
  • ISBN : 1620972166
  • Pages : 558 pages

Download or read book Customs in Common written by E. P. Thompson and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “meticulously researched, elegantly argued and deeply humane” sequel to the landmark volume of social history, The Making of the English Working Class (The New York Times Book Review). This remarkable study investigates the gradual disappearance of a range of cultural customs against the backdrop of the great upheavals of the eighteenth century. As villagers were subjected to a legal system increasingly hostile to custom, they tried both to resist and to preserve tradition, becoming, as E. P. Thompson explains, “rebellious, but rebellious in defense of custom.” Although some historians have written of riotous peasants of England and Wales as if they were mainly a problem for magistrates and governments, for Thompson it is the rulers, landowners, and governments who were a problem for the people, whose exuberant culture preceded the formation of working-class institutions and consciousness. Essential reading for all those intrigued by English history, Customs in Common has a special relevance today, as traditional economies are being replaced by market economies throughout the world. The rich scholarship and depth of insight in Thompson’s work offer many clues to understanding contemporary changes around the globe. “[This] long-awaited collection . . . is a signal contribution . . . [from] the person most responsible for inspiring the revival of American labor history during the past thirty years.” —The Nation “This book signals the return to historical writing of one of the most eloquent, powerful and independent voices of our time. At his best he is capable of a passionate, sardonic eloquence which is unequalled.” —The Observer

Book Eastward Hoe

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Chapman
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book Eastward Hoe written by George Chapman and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lives of Eminent Serjeants at law of the English Bar

Download or read book Lives of Eminent Serjeants at law of the English Bar written by Humphry William Woolrych and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Works of John Marston

Download or read book The Works of John Marston written by John Marston and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Antiquarian Magazine   Bibliographer

Download or read book The Antiquarian Magazine Bibliographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life in London

Download or read book Life in London written by Pierce Egan and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the Castles  Mansions  and Manors of Western Sussex

Download or read book A History of the Castles Mansions and Manors of Western Sussex written by Dudley George Cary Elwes and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Law  Labour  and Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maria Fusaro
  • Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
  • Release : 2015-05-05
  • ISBN : 9781137447456
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Law Labour and Empire written by Maria Fusaro and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seafarers were the first workers to inhabit a truly international labour market, a sector of industry which, throughout the early modern period, drove European economic and imperial expansion, technological and scientific development, and cultural and material exchanges around the world. This volume adopts a comparative perspective, presenting current research about maritime labourers across three centuries, in the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, to understand how seafarers contributed to legal and economic transformation within Europe and across the world. Focusing on the three related themes of legal systems, labouring conditions, and imperial power, these essays explore the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between seafarers' individual and collective agency, and the social and economic frameworks which structured their lives.

Book Fonthill Recovered

    Book Details:
  • Author : Caroline Dakers
  • Publisher : UCL Press
  • Release : 2018-05-16
  • ISBN : 1787350452
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Fonthill Recovered written by Caroline Dakers and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-16 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.