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Author : Doris French Shackleton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Ishbel and the Empire written by Doris French Shackleton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Doris French Shackleton
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9781550020380
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Ishbel and Empire written by Doris French Shackleton and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1996-07-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Ishbel, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, was born into an affluent and politically active London family. She came to Ottawa as the wife of Lord Aberdeen, newly appointed Governor General, in 1893. A born leader leader of women, she lent the weight of her position to a multitude of causes – both political and social. Her ardent support for the Leader of the Opposition, Wilfrid Laurier, and the controversial role played by the Governor General in the selection of Canada’s seventh Prime Minister remain intriguing questions today. The Aberdeens served a second viceregal term in Ireland during the troubled years from 1905 to 1916. On their return to England, despite declining family fortunes, Lady Aberdeen continued to work determinedly for both political and social reform.
Author : Doris French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book ISHBEL AND THE EMPIRE:A BIOGRAPHY OF LADY ABERDEEN. written by Doris French and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Lambert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521847702
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Colonial Lives Across the British Empire written by David Lambert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of portraits of 'imperial lives' to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.
Author : Ted Glenn
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459750209
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book A Very Canadian Coup written by Ted Glenn and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh take on the Manitoba schools question and the Conservative Coup that toppled Canada’s fifth prime minister. When Mackenzie Bowell became Canada’s fifth prime minister in December 1894, everyone — including Bowell — expected the job would involve nothing more than keeping the wheels on the Conservative wagon until a spring election. Plans for a quiet caretakership were dashed in January 1895 when the courts ruled that the Manitoba government had violated Roman Catholics’ constitutional rights by abolishing the provincial separate school system. Catholics in Quebec demanded that Bowell force Manitoba to restore the schools, while Ontario Protestants warned him to keep his hands off. Backed into a corner, Bowell tried three times to negotiate a compromise with the Manitoba government over the course of 1895, but to no avail. By January 1896, seven of Bowell’s cabinet ministers had had enough. Convinced that Bowell had tarnished the Conservative brand, the caballers forced the prime minister to resign and make way for a new leader, who they believed could revive party fortunes in time for the coming election—the old Warhorse of Cumberland, Sir Charles Tupper. Ultimately, the coup didn’t matter. Tupper and his conspirators pleaded their case in Parliament and on the hustings, but nothing could stand in the way of Wilfrid Laurier and his Liberals’ historic rise to power in the June 1896 election. A Very Canadian Coup brings fresh sources and new perspectives to bear on the life and times of Canada’s fifth prime minister and his Sixth Ministry.
Author : Maud J. McLean
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1554882354
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)
Download or read book My Dearest Wife written by Maud J. McLean and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1998-08-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The private and public lives of James David Edgar and Matilda Ridout Edgar symbolized the increasingly complex nature of Toronto society as older generations gradually gave way to a new generation of "outsiders" seeking fame and prominence. James David Edgar (1841-1899), a self-made man, born to proud though impoverished Scottish-immigrant parents in Quebec, became a lawyer, an author, a railway promoter, an M.P. and ultimately speaker of the House of Commons in Ottawa. Matilda Ridout Edgar (1845-1910) was one of Canada’s first widely respected female historians and ultimately president of the National Council of Women of Canada from 1906 until her death. This dual biography, revealed through the voices of James and Matilda, as expressed through correspondence, provides insights into 19th-century Canadian history, and presents a mutually supportive marital relationship, each encouraging professional fulfillment for the other – a stance surprising in this era of male dominance.
Author : Naomi E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773591613
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book The Splendid Vision written by Naomi E.S. Griffiths and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993-10-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history traces the ncwc's development and assesses the effectiveness of its many interventions in the political process over the past 100 years. The author shows that through the Council, women have dealt with virtually all the major social and political issues that have faced Canada.
Author : Simon Welfare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 198212864X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Fortune's Many Houses written by Simon Welfare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and fascinating look at Victorian society through the remarkable lives of an enlightened and philanthropic aristocratic couple, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, who tried to change the world for the better but paid a heavy price. This is a true tale of love and loss, fortune and misfortune. In the late 19th century, John and Ishbel Gordon, the Marquess and Marchioness of Aberdeen, were the couple who seemed to have it all: a fortune that ran into the tens of millions, a magnificent stately home in Scotland surrounded by one of Europe’s largest estates, a townhouse in London’s most fashionable square, cattle ranches in Texas and British Columbia, and the governorships of Ireland and Canada where they lived like royalty. Together they won praise for their work as social reformers and pioneers of women’s rights, and enjoyed friendships with many of the most prominent figures of the age, from Britain’s Prime Ministers to Oliver Wendell-Holmes and P.T. Barnum and Queen Victoria herself. Yet by the time they died in the 1930s, this gilded couple’s luck had long since run out: they had faced family tragedies, scandal through their unwitting involvement in one of the “crimes of the century” and, most catastrophically of all, they had lost both their fortune and their lands. This fascinating family quest for the reason for their dramatic downfall is also a moving and colorful exploration of society in Victorian Britain and North America and an inspirational feast for history lovers.
Author : Peter Gray
Publisher : University College Dublin Press
ISBN 13 : 1910820970
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Irish Lord Lieutenancy c 1541-1922 written by Peter Gray and published by University College Dublin Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading historians explore the multiple dimensions of the Irish lord lieutenancy as an institution - political, social and cultural
Author : Ferenc Morton Szasz
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806132532
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Scots in the North American West, 1790-1917 written by Ferenc Morton Szasz and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scots trappers dominated the fur trade, often proving more loyal to clan than to trading company or nation. Relying on centuries of experience raising livestock for British markets, Scottish investors and managers became highly visible in the post-Civil War western cattle industry with thriving outfits such as the Swan Land and Cattle Company in Wyoming. They introduced new breeds to western ranching, such as the Aberdeen Angus, that remain popular today. Similarly, Scots herders dominated the western sheep industry, running herds of over 100,000 animals. Andrew Little's sheep ranch in Idaho was so famous that a letter addressed simply "Andy Little, USA" found its intended recipient.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Quill & Quire written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice Helland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351761188
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935 written by Janice Helland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the most part, studies have focused on the denigration of decorative work by leading male artists, frequently dismissed as fashionably feminine. With few exceptions, women have been cast as consumers rather than producers. The first book to examine the decorative strategies of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century women artists, Women Artists and the Decorative Arts concentrates in particular on women artists who turned to fashion, interior design and artisanal production as ways of critically engaging various aspects of modernity. Women artists and designers played a vital role in developing a broad spectrum of modernist forms. In these essays new light is shed on the practice of such well-known women artists as May Morris, Clarice Cliff, Natacha Rambova, Eileen Gray and Florine Stettheimer, whose decorative practices are linked with a number of fascinating but lesser known figures such as Phoebe Traquair, Mary Watts, Gluck and Laura Nagy.
Author : Maurizio C. Kapsa
Publisher : Edizioni Studio Domenicano
ISBN 13 : 9788870942309
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Evangelium vitae written by Maurizio C. Kapsa and published by Edizioni Studio Domenicano. This book was released on 1996 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book CM written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : N. C. Fleming
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Charles Stewart Parnell and His Times written by N. C. Fleming and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-07-06 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891) wrote remarkably little about himself, but he has attracted the attention of many writers, politicians, and scholars, both during his lifetime and ever since. His controversial and provocative role in Irish and British affairs had him vilified as a murderer in The Times, and afterwards dramatically vindicated by the Westminster Parliament. It cast him as a romantic hero to the young James Joyce, and a self-serving opportunist to the journalists of the Nation. Parnell has been the subject of court cases, parliamentary enquiries and debates, journalism, plays, poems, literary analysis and historical studies. For the first time all these have been collected, catalogued and cross-referenced in one volume, an invaluable resource for scholars of late nineteenth century Ireland and Britain. Divided into fifteen chapters, including a biographical sketch, the volume contains information on manuscript and archival collections, printed primary sources, Parnell's writing, Parnell's speeches in the House of Commons and outside Parliament, contemporary journalism, contemporary writing, and contemporary illustrations on Irish affairs, and a substantial list of scholarly work, including biographies, books, articles, chapters, and theses. This volume offers readers a clear record of the substantial material already available on Parnell, and in doing so offers resources to future research in this area.
Author : Margaret Banks
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077356926X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Sir John George Bourinot, Victorian Canadian written by Margaret Banks and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-04-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As clerk of the House of Commons, Bourinot advised the speaker and other members of the house on parliamentary procedure; he also wrote the standard Canadian work on the subject. A founding member of the Royal Society of Canada, he played a leading role during the Society's first twenty years. Ahead of his time in writing intellectual history, Bourinot was also an early supporter of higher education for women. He was a man of contrasts, an early Canadian nationalist as well as an imperialist. In spite of the constitutional changes of 1982, there is still much in Bourinot's writing that is relevant today.
Author : Lisa Chilton
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442691662
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Agents of Empire written by Lisa Chilton and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2007-05-12 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between the 1860s and the 1920s saw a wave of female migration from Britain to Canada and Australia, much of which was managed by women. In Agents of Empire, Lisa Chilton explores the work of the women who promoted, managed, and ultimately transformed single British women's experiences of migration. Chilton examines the origins of women-run female emigration societies through various aspects of their work and the responses they received from emigrants and settled colonists. Working in the face of apathy in the community, resistance by other (usually male) managers of imperial migration, and agency exerted by the women they sought to manage, the emigrators endeavoured to maintain control over the field until government agencies took it over in the aftermath of the First World War. Agents of Empire highlights the aims and methods behind the emigrators' work, as well as the implications and ramifications of their long-term engagement with this imperialistic feminizing project. Chilton provides tremendous insight into the struggle for control of female migration and female migrants, aiding greatly in the study of gender, migration, and empire.
