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Book Captain Swing

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  • Author : Francis Brett Young
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Captain Swing written by Francis Brett Young and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Captain Swing

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  • Author : Eric Hobsbawm
  • Publisher : Verso Books
  • Release : 2014-08-12
  • ISBN : 1781685339
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Captain Swing written by Eric Hobsbawm and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet done as ye ought - Swing In our increasingly mechanized age, the Swing revolts are a timely record of the relationship between technological advance, labour and poverty. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, and tensions mounted between agricultural workers and employers. From 1830 on, a series of revolts, known as the "Swing" shook England to its core. Landowners wanting to make their land more profitable started to use machinery to harvest crops, causing widespread misery among rural communities. Captain Swing reveals the background to that upheaval, from its rise to its fall, and shines a light on the people who tried to change the world and save their livelihoods.

Book Captain Swing

Download or read book Captain Swing written by Eric J. Hobsbawm and published by New York : Pantheon Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Heads Together 1972 2014

Download or read book Heads Together 1972 2014 written by T.G. McEwan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Songwriting as sensemaking" is the approach taken by TG McEwan. This book contains the lyrics of all of the songs he sang during a fulltime career in the 1980s, and more recent work, along with the chords to most of them

Book Promises

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  • Author : T.G. McEwan
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2017-12-29
  • ISBN : 0244058377
  • Pages : 82 pages

Download or read book Promises written by T.G. McEwan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The songbook to accompany TG McEwan's seventh album of original music. It contains full chords and lyrics to the released songs, details of previous releases and videos available online, and a list of over a thousand live performances

Book Eighteenth century Europe  Tradition and Progress  1715 1789

Download or read book Eighteenth century Europe Tradition and Progress 1715 1789 written by Isser Woloch and published by New York : Norton. This book was released on 1982 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Night Watch

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  • Author : Terry Pratchett
  • Publisher : A&C Black
  • Release : 2014-02-14
  • ISBN : 1472537238
  • Pages : 88 pages

Download or read book Night Watch written by Terry Pratchett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-14 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels Set in Ankh-Morpork one of the most thoroughly imagined cities in fantasy, Night Watch is the story of Sam Vimes, running hero of the Guards sequence, who finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth. With a psychopath from his own time rising in the vile ranks of the Cable Street Unmentionables complicating things, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that he will have the right future to go back to, and to keep his younger self alive."One of the funniest English authors alive" (Independent)

Book Captain Swing

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  • Author : Francis Brett Young
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780755110179
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Captain Swing written by Francis Brett Young and published by . This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rural Conflict  Crime  and Protest

Download or read book Rural Conflict Crime and Protest written by Timothy Shakesheff and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence from the west of England balances that already available from the eastern regions of England. Rural Conflict, Crime and Protest makes a major contribution to the historiography of nineteenth century crime. The work presents a new analysis of several important and controversial themes: the concept of social crime, petty crime and protest in the English countryside between 1800 and 1860. The bulk of the research into rural crime has traditionally emanated from East Anglia, the south and the east; however, the bulk of the evidence for this bookhas come from Herefordshire, in the west of England, adding to the historiography of nineteenth century rural crime. Based upon a rich vein of primary source material and liberally interspersed with court room revelations and newspaper reports this work is both informative and scholarly and would make a useful addition to the bookshelves of academics and students alike, without excluding the casual reader. TIMOTHY SHAKESHEFF is lecturer in modern British social history at the University College, Worcester.

Book Captain Swing

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Captain Swing written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Australian People

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  • Author : James Jupp
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2001-10
  • ISBN : 0521807891
  • Pages : 1014 pages

Download or read book The Australian People written by James Jupp and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia is one of the most ethnically diverse societies in the world today. From its ancient indigenous origins to British colonisation followed by waves of European then international migration in the twentieth century, the island continent is home to people from all over the globe. Each new wave of settlers has had a profound impact on Australian society and culture. The Australian People documents the dramatic history of Australian settlement and describes the rich ethnic and cultural inheritance of the nation through the contributions of its people. It is one of the largest reference works of its kind, with approximately 250 expert contributors and almost one million words. Illustrated in colour and black and white, the book is both a comprehensive encyclopedia and a survey of the controversial debates about citizenship and multiculturalism now that Australia has attained the centenary of its federation.

Book Writing the History of Crime

Download or read book Writing the History of Crime written by Paul Knepper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing the History of Crime investigates the development of historical writing on the subject of crime and its wider place in social and cultural history. It examines long-standing and emerging traditions in history writing, with separate chapters on legal and scientific approaches, as well as on urban, Marxist, gender and empire history. Each chapter then explores these historical approaches in relation to crime, paying particular attention to the relationship between theory and the interpretation of evidence. Rather than a timeline for the historical appearance of ideas about crime or a catalogue of the range of topics that comprise the subject matter, Writing the History of Crime reveals the ideas behind crime as a subject of historical investigation; it looks at how these ideas generate questions that may be asked about the past and the way in which these questions are answered. This is a crucial analysis for anyone interested in the history of crime, the historiography of social history or the art of history writing more broadly.

Book Broadway Swings

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  • Author : J. Austin Eyer
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2015-10-22
  • ISBN : 1472590023
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Broadway Swings written by J. Austin Eyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this textbook for performers, the position of a Swing-an Understudy for the Ensemble-on Broadway is examined from every angle, showing just how vital Swings are to the success of any musical theatre production. Authors J. Austin Eyer and Lyndy Franklin Smith draw on their own experiences as performers, and gather first-hand stories from other Swings about the glories and hardships of their industry. The book features interviews with over 100 Broadway pros-Swing veterans, Stage Managers, Casting Directors, Choreographers, and Directors-including Rob Ashford, Susan Stroman, Jerry Mitchell, Larry Fuller, Tony Stevens, Beverley Randolph, and Frank DiLella. Broadway Swings is the ideal guide for anyone considering a career in this most unique of positions, or anyone curious about what really goes on, behind-the- scenes, in a long-running show.

Book The Rural War

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  • Author : Carl J. Griffin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2015-01-03
  • ISBN : 9780719097270
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book The Rural War written by Carl J. Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in Kent in the summer of 1830 before spreading throughout the country, the Swing Riots were the most dramatic and widespread rising of the English rural poor. Seeking an end to their immiseration, the protestors destroyed machines, demanded higher wages and more generous poor relief, and even frequently resorted to incendiarism to enforce their modest demands. But occurring against a backdrop of revolutions in continental Europe and a political crisis, Swing was perceived to represent a genuine challenge to the existing ruling order, provoking a bitter and bloody repression. This uprising is pivotal in understanding the impacts of industrialisation and commercialisation on rural English society, histories of the changing British state, social welfare, criminality and gender. In the first systematic re-assessment of Swing in over forty years, Carl Griffin deftly analyses it's form and scope, placing the movement into the context of social relations in the early nineteenth-century countryside. Focusing on the south-eastern heartland of Swing - the area where it started and lasted longest - it is shown that protests were more organised, widespread, intensive and politically-motivated than has hitherto been thought. The author shows that Swing was not only an attempt to materially improve the lot of the rural worker but also represented complex statements about the nature of authority and the politics of rural life. Based on meticulous original research, The rural war offers a strikingly new and vivid account of this defining moment in British history. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest both in the history of the English countryside and protest history: specialists, students and general readers alike.

Book Freedom Fighters

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  • Author : Anne Williams
  • Publisher : Canary Press eBooks
  • Release : 2011-08-05
  • ISBN : 1907795723
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book Freedom Fighters written by Anne Williams and published by Canary Press eBooks. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the course of history, freedom fighters have been many and varied as have the motivations and the successes of the revolutions they attempted and inspired. Whether their beliefs were correct or misplaced, the courage to fight for the cause has always been the common denominator. They stood alone frequently in the face of enormous adversity and attempted to change the face of the world around them. Freedom Fighters is a record of inspirational, courageous, determined, and sometimes very dangerous people, and the places they secured for themselves in history. Contents: Ancient Freedom Fighters including Spartacus, Jesus, Boudicca Medieval Freedom Fighters including Robin Hood, William Tell, Joan of Arc Early Freedom Fighters including Martin Luther, Walter Raleigh, Simon Bolivar, Karl Marx Modern Freedom Fighters including The Suffragettes, Russian Revolution, Gandhi, Castro, Mandela

Book Mary Ann Sate  Imbecile

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  • Author : Alice Jolly
  • Publisher : Unbound Publishing
  • Release : 2018-06-14
  • ISBN : 1783525509
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book Mary Ann Sate Imbecile written by Alice Jolly and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019 2019 Walter Scott Prize Academy recommendation If you tell a story oft enough So it become true As the nineteenth century draws towards a close, Mary Ann Sate, an elderly maidservant, sets out to write her truth. She writes of the Valleys that she loves, of the poisonous rivalry between her employer's two sons and of a terrible choice which tore her world apart. Her haunting and poignant story brings to life a period of strife and rapid social change, and evokes the struggles of those who lived in poverty and have been forgotten by history. In this fictional found memoir, novelist Alice Jolly uses the astonishing voice of Mary Ann to recreate history as seen from a woman's perspective and to give joyful, poetic voice to the silenced women of the past.

Book Captain Swing

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  • Author : F. Brett Young
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1830
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 95 pages

Download or read book Captain Swing written by F. Brett Young and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: