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Author : Sir Sidney Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2088 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Sidney Lee and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 2088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fergus Fleming
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 080219754X
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Killing Dragons written by Fergus Fleming and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “dramatic and masterful” account of early alpine explorers and the challenges they faced to scale the summits (Anthony Brandt, National Geographic Adventure). In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history’s greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks of the Alps. Fleming recounts the incredible exploits of the men whose centuries-old fear of the mountain range turned quickly to curiosity, then to obsession, as they explored Europe’s frozen wilderness. In the late eighteenth century, French and Swiss scientists became interested in the Alps as a research destination, but in the 1850s the focus changed: the icy mountains now offered an all-out competition for British climbers who wanted to conquer ever higher and more impossible heights, and explorers fought each other on the peaks and in the press, entertaining a vast public smitten with their bravery, delighted by their personal animosities, and horrified by the disasters that befell them. “Fleming attacks his theme with verve, mining entertainment from eccentric Alpinists, sensational ascents and grisly accidents.” —Food and Travel Magazine
Author : Betty Rizzo
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820332186
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Companions Without Vows written by Betty Rizzo and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Companions Without Vows is the first detailed study of the companionate relationship among women in eighteenth-century England--a type of relationship so prevalent that it was nearly institutionalized. Drawing extensively upon primary documents and fictional narratives, Betty Rizzo describes the socioeconomic conditions that forced women to take on or to become companions and examines a number of actual companionate relationships. Several factors fostered such relationships. Husbands and wives of the period lived largely separate social lives, yet decorum prohibited genteel women from attending engagements unaccompanied. Also, women of position insisted on having social consultants and confidantes. Filling this need were the many well-born young women without sufficient funds to live independently. Because family money and property were concentrated in the hands of eldest sons, these women frequently had to seek the protection of female benefactors for whom they performed unpaid, nonmenial tasks, such as providing a hand at cards or simply offering pleasant company. The companionate relationship between women could assume many forms, Rizzo notes. It was often analogous to marriage, with one partner dominant and the other subservient, while some women experimented in establishing partnerships that were truly egalitarian. Rizzo explores these various types of relationships both in real life and in fiction, noting that much of the period's discourse about women's relationships can be seen as a tacit commentary on marriage. Provocative and engagingly written, this authoritative work casts new light on women's attempts to deal with a patriarchal power structure and offers new insight into eighteenth-century social history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2094 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Spitalfields Genius written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lesley Richmond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351884298
Total Pages : 589 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book The Pharmaceutical Industry written by Lesley Richmond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pharmaceutical industry has changed beyond all recognition in the past 100 years. The modern industry is constantly in the news as new breakthroughs in medical treatment are announced, often provoking ethical and social debates about the implications of new technologies. This volume facilitates the study of the industry by providing information on the present location of pharmaceutical archives. The core of the book consists of a business-by-business guide to the industry's records. Each entry includes a brief history of the company, a summary of its surviving archives and a bibliography of related publications. Similar entries exist for trade associations and schools of pharmacy associated with the industry and there are two appendices listing small collections of records held and relevant public records. The historical compendium is supplemented by three introductory essays, written by leading academics in the field, outlining the history of the industry and describing the nature and uses of the archival records which it has created. These essays are supplemented by a select chronology of pharmaceutical legislation and a select bibliography of histories relating to the pharmaceutical industry in general. A users guide helps readers understand how the business entries were constructed and is supplemented by a glossary of terms used in this book As such, this book will no doubt prove an invaluable resource to researchers undertaking comparative studies of the pharmaceutical industry, the history of medicine and the retailing of medical drugs.
Author : Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Publisher : London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Khalifate of the West written by Donald Alexander Mackenzie and published by London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent. This book was released on 1911 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139868012
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century written by Fiona Ritchie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare's reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period's perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, Susannah Cibber, Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons), female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald), had a profound effect on Shakespeare's reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources, this book's analysis of criticism, performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare's significance for themselves and for society, women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature, theatre, culture and society in the eighteenth century and beyond.
Author : Joseph Herbert Tritton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Tritton written by Joseph Herbert Tritton and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Colin Archibald Russell
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 9780854045990
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Chemistry, Society and Environment written by Colin Archibald Russell and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been several attempts to write the history of Britain's chemical industry as a whole, and countless others concentrating on individual companies. Some have looked at the technical aspects of the industry, whilst others have addressed economic issues. Few have, however, attempted to analyse the effects of the chemical industry on society in general. The current environmental crisis can only be fully understood in the light of its history. This is the first such book to look critically at the whole development of industrial chemistry in the UK in the context of its effects on the environment. No one from industry, government or academia can afford to be unaware of the historical roots of our present dilemma. Industrial chemists can take heart from the realization that their predecessors were remarkably aware of the problems and often found satisfactory solutions. Industrial chemistry has traditionally been seen as the great 'polluter'. Without any attempts at 'whitewash' this book puts the record straight. From academic chemist to industrialist to politician, Chemistry, Society and Environment: A New History of the British Chemical Industry will be of relevance to all those concerned with the social and environmental impact of the chemical industry.
Author : Robynne Rogers Healey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271096233
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Quaker Women, 1800–1920 written by Robynne Rogers Healey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection investigates the world of nineteenth-century Quaker women, bringing to light the issues and challenges Quaker women experienced and the dynamic ways in which they were active agents of social change, cultural contestation, and gender transgression in the nineteenth century. New research illuminates the complexities of Quaker testimonies of equality, slavery, and peace and how they were informed by questions of gender, race, ethnicity, and culture. The essays in this volume challenge the view that Quaker women were always treated equally with men and that people of color were welcomed into white Quaker activities. The contributors explore how diverse groups of Quaker women navigated the intersection of their theological positions and social conventions, asking how they challenged and supported traditional ideals of gender, race, and class. In doing so, this volume highlights the complexity of nineteenth-century Quakerism and the ways Quaker women put their faith to both expansive and limiting ends. Reaching beyond existing national studies focused solely on white American or British Quaker women, this interdisciplinary volume presents the most current research, providing a necessary and foundational resource for scholars, libraries, and universities. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Joan Allen, Richard C. Allen, Stephen W. Angell, Jennifer M. Buck, Nancy Jiwon Cho, Isabelle Cosgrave, Thomas D. Hamm, Julie L. Holcomb, Anna Vaughan Kett, Emma Lapsansky-Werner, Linda Palfreeman, Hannah Rumball, and Janet Scott.
Author : Leslie Stephen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2086 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 2086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alain Kerherve
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000419851
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Mary Delany (1700–1788) and the Court of George III written by Alain Kerherve and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though she failed to become a handmaiden to Queen Anne, Mary Delany went on to become a figure at Court, eventually lodging at Windsor. This new edition of her correspondence during her years at Windsor presents previously unpublished letters as well as applying modern standards of editorial principles to her correspondence. The letters show the daily rituals of living at Court, document the first social steps of Fanny Burney and Mary Georgina Port, and supply new information on the family life of the royal family - including material on the assassination attempt against George III by Margaret Nicholson. Volume 2 of the Memoirs of the Court of George III.
Author : Emil Henry
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848765789
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (487 download)
Download or read book Triumph and Tragedy written by Emil Henry and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triumph and Tragedy: the Life of Edward Whymper is an engrossing account of the extraordinary life of Edward Whymper (1840-1911), the best known but perhaps least understood mountain climber of the 19th century. Acclaimed as the first to scale the Matterhorn, Whymper personifies the spirited amateurism of the Golden Age of Mountaineering (1854-1865).Triumph and Tragedy accompanies a young but supremely confident Whymper on exhilarating ascents and narrow escapes amid beautiful, often dangerous Alpine peaks. The book lays bare the trauma of his companions’ deaths on the Matterhorn, and empathizes with him during the intense pressures of the accident’s aftermath. Emil Henry’s thoroughly researched biography then moves on to Whymper’s post-Matterhorn years. Following the publication of his classic Scrambles Amongst the Alps, Whymper travels first to Greenland’s unexplored interior and then to the high Andes mountains of South America where he becomes the first westerner to reach a 20,000 foot summit. In later life he is recognized as a noted explorer and the author of two best-selling books illustrated with drawings from a sketch-pad kept always in his shirt pocket. Triumph and Tragedy: the Life of Edward Whymper offers new and refreshing insights into the life of this notable Victorian personality. Spread throughout the book are examples of Whymper’s accomplishments as an author, artist, natural scientist, pioneering photographer, lecturer, and raconteur.
Author : John Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the landed gentry of Great Britain and Ireland written by John Burke and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Petty Bentley
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 0806309830
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Virginia Marriage Records written by Elizabeth Petty Bentley and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1982 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ther Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly.
