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Book Crowds and History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mark Harrison
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2002-06-20
  • ISBN : 9780521520133
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Crowds and History written by Mark Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the crowd in relation to the urbanising process and the civic culture it inspired.

Book The Book of British Topography

Download or read book The Book of British Topography written by John Parker Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of British Topography  A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book The Book of British Topography A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by John Parker Anderson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Book Topographical

Download or read book Topographical written by Sir James Allanson Picton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lancashire Library

Download or read book The Lancashire Library written by Henry Fishwick and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Description of surveying marks and monuments used in making topographic survey of Ohio

Download or read book Description of surveying marks and monuments used in making topographic survey of Ohio written by Ohio. Co-operative Topographic Survey and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scouse

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  • Author : Tony Crowley
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2012-01-01
  • ISBN : 1846318394
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book Scouse written by Tony Crowley and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No place in Britain is more closely associated with a distinct dialect than Liverpool, yet the complex and fascinating history of language in Liverpool has been obscured by misrepresentation and myth. Scouse presents a groundbreaking and iconoclastic account of language in Liverpool, offering a new alternative to currently accepted history. Drawing on a huge breadth of sources—from plays to newspaper accounts to reports to little-known essays—and informed by recent developments in linguistic anthropology and sociolinguistics, Tony Crowley charts the complex relationship between language and place.

Book Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother

Download or read book Mrs Brown is a Man and a Brother written by Krista Cowman and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text draws on a variety of sources including branch records, personal papers and local newspapers to offer a detailed regional study of women's politics in the United Kingdom in the period before the First World War.

Book The harem  slavery and British imperial culture

Download or read book The harem slavery and British imperial culture written by Diane Robinson-Dunn and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on British efforts to suppress the traffic in female slaves destined for Egyptian harems during the late-nineteenth century. It considers this campaign in relation to gender debates in England, and examines the ways in which the assumptions and dominant imperialist discourses of these abolitionists were challenged by the newly-established Muslim communities in England, as well as by English people who converted to or were sympathetic with Islam. While previous scholars have treated antislavery activity in Egypt first and foremost as an extension of earlier efforts to abolish plantation slavery in the New World, this book considers it in terms of encounters with Islam during a period which it argues marked a new departure in Anglo-Muslim relations. This approach illuminates the role of Islam in the creation of English national identities within the global cultural system of the British Empire. This book would appeal to those with an interest in British imperial history; Islam; gender, feminism, and women’s studies; slavery and race; the formation of national identities; global processes; Orientalism; and Middle Eastern studies.

Book The Persistence of Memory

Download or read book The Persistence of Memory written by Jessica Moody and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Persistence of Memory is a history of the public memory of transatlantic slavery in the largest slave-trading port city in Europe, from the end of the 18th century into the 21st century; from history to memory. Mapping this public memory over more than two centuries reveals the ways in which dissonant pasts, rather than being 'forgotten histories', persist over time as a contested public debate. This public memory, intimately intertwined with constructions of 'place' and 'identity', has been shaped by legacies of transatlantic slavery itself, as well as other events, contexts and phenomena along its trajectory, revealing the ways in which current narratives and debate around difficult histories have histories of their own. By the 21st century, Liverpool, once the 'slaving capital of the world', had more permanent and long-lasting memory work relating to transatlantic slavery than any other British city. The long history of how Liverpool, home to Britain's oldest continuous black presence, has publicly 'remembered' its own slaving past, how this has changed over time and why, is of central significance and relevance to current and ongoing efforts to face contested histories, particularly those surrounding race, slavery and empire.

Book A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

Download or read book A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution written by Theodore Cardwell Barker and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution

Download or read book A Merseyside Town in the Industrial Revolution written by T.C. Barker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1994. This book is an outstanding product of St Helens, as remarkable in its way as sheetglass and Beechams pills. It is the first full scale nineteenth century history of a small industrial town as distinct from the bigger and better-known cities and as such it deserves to be very widely read and studied.

Book Letters of Robert MacKay to His Wife

Download or read book Letters of Robert MacKay to His Wife written by Walter Charlton Hartridge and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1949, this selection of letters between Robert Mackay, and his wife, Eliza Anne Mackay, provide unique insight into the life of a southern merchant during the early part of the nineteenth century. The Mackay's correspondence covers business, friendships, social life, and family, in addition to historical events unfolding at the time. The letters in this volume were sent from the Mackay's hometown of Savannah and from such port cities as Norfolk, Charleston, New York, London, and Liverpool.

Book The Earles of Liverpool

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Earle
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 1781381739
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Earles of Liverpool written by Peter Earle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a great port, from 1688 to 1840. The focus is on six members of this successful family, John who came to Liverpool as apprentice to a merchant in 1688, his three sons, Ralph, Thomas and William, who all became merchants specializing in different branches of the trade of the port, and William's two sons, another Thomas and another William, who consolidated the fortunes of the family and began the process of converting their wealth into gentility. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and the aim throughout has been to make the book entertaining as well as informative. Where sources permit, the book describes the businesses run by these men, often in considerable detail. Trading in slaves was an important part of the business of three of them, but they and other members of the family also engaged in a variety of other trades, such as the import-export business with Leghorn (Livorno) in Italy, fishing in Newfoundland and the Shetland Islands, the wine and fruit trades of Spain, Portugal and the Azores, the import of raw cotton for the industries of the Industrial Revolution and the Russia trade. Other family interests included privateering, art collection and the trade in art, a sugar plantation in Guyana, and the emigrant trade. While the book is mainly a work of economic history, there is also much on the merchants' wives and families and on the social history of both Liverpool and Livorno.

Book The Common Wind

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  • Author : Julius S. Scott
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2018-11-27
  • ISBN : 1788732502
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book The Common Wind written by Julius S. Scott and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful “history from below.” Scott follows the spread of “rumors of emancipation” and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution. By tracking the colliding worlds of buccaneers, military deserters, and maroon communards from Venezuela to Virginia, Scott records the transmission of contagious mutinies and insurrections in unparalleled detail, providing readers with an intellectual history of the enslaved. Though The Common Wind is credited with having “opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words,” the manuscript remained unpublished for thirty-two years. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the New World, it has been published by Verso for the first time, with a foreword by the academic and author Marcus Rediker.

Book The Gladstones

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  • Author : S. G. Checkland
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 1971-09-30
  • ISBN : 9780521079662
  • Pages : 486 pages

Download or read book The Gladstones written by S. G. Checkland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-09-30 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrates on John Gladstone and his politician son William.

Book British Tramp Shipping  1750 1914

Download or read book British Tramp Shipping 1750 1914 written by Robin Craig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the history of tramp-shipping in the United Kingdom, between 1750 and 1914. It defines 'tramp' as steamships exclusively hulled with iron or steel. The purpose of the journal is to keep the history of tramp-shipping from fading into obscurity, as the author believes the tramp steamer does not invoke sentimentality nor provide enough glamour to sustain the same level of maritime interest enjoyed by sailing ships or ocean liners. The study is split into four major sections, the first concerning tramp-shipping, ownership, and capital formation; the second concerning trade, specifically copper ore and African guano; the third studies tramp seamen - particularly sea masters; and the final and largest section considers individual tramp-shipping regions, further subdivided by region - Wales, the Northwest, the West Country, the Northeast, the Southeast, and Canada. The volume is punctuated with statistics, tables, charts, glossaries, and concludes with a bibliography of author Robin Craig's further maritime writing.