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Author : Adrian J. Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780902152212
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (522 download)
Download or read book A Maritime History of Somerset: Trade & commerce written by Adrian J. Webb and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian J. Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780902152304
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (523 download)
Download or read book A Maritime History of Somerset written by Adrian J. Webb and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice Fells
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750990252
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Little Book of Somerset written by Maurice Fells and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know? The town of Wincanton is twinned with a place that does not exist. William Gibbs of Tyntesfield House made his fortune by importing bird droppings from Peru. A song by 'Scrumpy and Western' singer Adge Cutler was banned by the BBC for being too raunchy. Nine villages in Somerset are known as the 'Thankful Villages'. From seaside to countryside and villages to towns, Somerset is a county where it's difficult to separate history and mystery. This fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and trivia reveals all sorts of answers to questions you might have wondered about – and some you didn't. The facts, stats and anecdotes will surprise even those familiar with this beautiful and historic county.
Author : David M. Williams
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1786949342
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)
Download or read book A Select Bibliography of British and Irish University Theses about Maritime History, 1792-1990 written by David M. Williams and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a bibliography of a wide scope of British and Irish post-graduate theses of maritime economic and social history. Its intent is to make these informative, under-utilised texts more accessible for scholars, in response to the deep expansion of subject as a historical discipline. It aims to keep these texts, often unpublished, from lapsing into obscurity. The author takes a broad approach to the subject area, including strands more particular to science than the humanities, and history as recent as the year of publication, intending the resource to be as comprehensive as possible, and of maximum use to present and future scholars. The material is primarily gathered and cross-referenced from Roger R. Bilboul’s Restrospective Index to Theses of Great Britain and Ireland 1716-1950, the ASLIB Index, and the Institute of Historical Research of the University of London. Each entry comprises Surname, Thesis Title (truncated for length where necessary), Degree Awarded, Awarding Institution, and Date. The database comprises 2500 entries, subdivided into twenty-five sections concerning:- the shipping business and all commercial/mercantile aspects of operation; exploration, cartography, and navigation; shipping and shipbuilding technologies; docks and harbours; maritime labour; maritime medical issues; naval history, piracy, privateering; international relations; maritime law; pollution and the maritime environment; fishing; sea-port communities; culture, literature, and art; maritime economics; marine architecture; coastal planning; tourism; and off-shore oil. The sections are further subdivided by location, and a geographical index is included for ease of reference. The author assures that the majority of theses are readily accessible.
Author : Theodore Corbett
Publisher : Pen and Sword Maritime
ISBN 13 : 1399040456
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book A Maritime History of the American Revolutionary War written by Theodore Corbett and published by Pen and Sword Maritime. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While many books have been written on the naval history of the Revolution, this is one of the first to treat it in its entirety as an Atlantic-wide conflict. While its geographical scope is vast, it features overlooked aspects of the war in which sloops and barges fought, actions which proved to be as decisive as the familiar ship of the line confrontations. It is also history from the bottom up, emphasizing the role of the crew as much the not always heroic officers. From naval perspective the rebellious colonies did not gain a military victory, though Benjamin Franklin was able to secure their independence at the peace table in Europe. The final chapter on the Royal Navy’s evacuation of white and black loyalists, will be examined in more detail in the author’s forthcoming Pen & Sword book.
Author : William A. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region written by William A. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. L. Wedlake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857043177
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (431 download)
Download or read book A History of Watchet written by A. L. Wedlake and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, Leslie Wedlake published A History of Watchet ¿ a thorough, comprehensive,well-resourced and very readable account of the town¿s past which hadnever been attempted before. It was soon out of print and a second edition withsome updating was published in 1973. Both books are now difficult to obtain.This reprint of Wedlake¿s work includes much new material and many morephotographs. Paul Upton provides new material to bring the history up to thepresent day; adds a biographical chapter on Leslie Wedlake himself; and supportsthe original, unaltered text with additional notes.A. L. Wedlake¿s original book proceeds readably and in easy stages fromgeology and pre-history, through Saxon times and the middle ages the industrialperiod and the twentieth century.
Author : Selina Hastings
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1611457041
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham written by Selina Hastings and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a brilliant teller of tales, one of the most widely read authors of the twentieth century, and at one time the most famous writer in the world, yet W. Somerset Maugham’s own true story has never been fully told. At last, the truth is revealed in a landmark biography by the award-winning writer Selina Hastings. Granted unprecedented access to Maugham’s personal correspondence and to newly uncovered interviews with his only child, Hastings portrays the secret loves, betrayals, integrity, and passion that inspired Maugham to create such classics as The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage. Portrayed in full for the first time is Maugham’s disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome, a manipulative society woman who trapped Maugham with a pregnancy and an attempted suicide. Hastings also explores Maugham’s many affairs with men, including his great love, Gerald Haxton, an alcoholic charmer. Maugham’s work in secret intelligence during two world wars is described in fascinating detail—experiences that provided the inspiration for the groundbreaking Ashenden stories. From the West End to Broadway, from China to the South Pacific, Maugham’s remarkably productive life is thrillingly recounted as Hastings uncovers the real stories behind such classics as Rain, The Painted Veil, Cakes & Ale, and other well-known tales.
Author : Allan Bunyan
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838594086
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Somerset: A Troubled Century written by Allan Bunyan and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than a chronology of events this volume looks at the lives, morals and beliefs of people and how they were affected by events that were largely out of their control. Rather than re hash the old stories about the main characters, there are portraits of the forgotten figures from that era, both heroes and villains. People like Peter Easton one of the most successful pirates of that or any other age, Lawrence Chislett, the unsung hero of the first siege of Taunton. John Sheppard, the renegade royalist who had to return to the small settlement of Kilton, in post-Civil war Somerset, and live among those whose lives he had made a misery Otherwise unremarkable people are featured, like Thomas Sesse, whose act of Christian charity spectacularly back fired on him. Then there was the mass hysteria at the “discovery of a Hellish knot of witches”, in Eat Somerset in the 1660's Eye witness accounts are used throughout from a wealth of original documents to try and recreate the sounds sights and experience of not only a county, and a country in a state of turmoil.
Author : Susan Flavin
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843839504
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-century Ireland written by Susan Flavin and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed study of changing patterns of consumption, showing how these related to wider political, social and economic developments.
Author : Michael Oppenheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Maritime History of Devon written by Michael Oppenheim and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Archibald Campbell Denison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book America's Maritime History written by Archibald Campbell Denison and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric J. Graham
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788853903
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book A Maritime History of Scotland, 1650-1790 written by Eric J. Graham and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island. Colourful characters abound in a story teeming with incident and excitement: John Paul Jones descends upon the Scottish coast creating widespread panic; press gangs prowl the coastal towns; wartime conditions turn merchantmen into privateers fighting the French, the Spanish and the American Colonists – almost anyone flying a different flag; quaintly named vessels like The Provoked Cheesemaker are on the lookout for trouble. And the stakes were high. Glasgow became wealthy through the tobacco trade. Glasgow merchantmen could beat the English ships and sail to Chesapeake Bay in record time. Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events. He charts Scotland's frustrated attempts to join England in the Atlantic economy and so secure her prosperity – an often bitter relationship that culminated in the Darien Disaster. In the years that followed, maritime affairs were central to the move to embrace the full incorporating Act of 1707. After 1707, Scottish maritime aspirations flourished under the protection of the British Navigation Acts and the windfalls of the endemic warfare at sea.
Author : William Hutchinson Rowe
Publisher : New York : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Maritime History of Maine written by William Hutchinson Rowe and published by New York : W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1948 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William A. Baker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region written by William A. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoff Body
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750961639
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Any Muddy Bottom written by Geoff Body and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Somerset depended on its harbours and rivers as its lifeblood. This is the story of the county's ports, pills and waterways - the unique vessels and the skilled men that used them, the cargoes they carried and the day-to-day practicalities of their lives.Over 2,000 years of history is explored in this illustrated volume, from the earliest waterborne activity right up to the present day and the enduring preservation, restoration and new-build legacy. Encompassing the whole of the Somerset coast, with detailed explorations of the ports, the vessels and their owners, skippers and crews, and the evolution of the inland distribution process, Any Muddy Bottom presents a comprehensive and vivid portrait of the county's remarkable shipping heritage.
Author : Joe West
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445659662
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Breaker Morant written by Joe West and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kitchener's scapegoat or a murderous war criminal? The truth about Breaker Morant revealed
