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Author : Francis Frith
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Victorian Maritime Album written by Francis Frith and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Quintin Colville
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611383X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book A new naval history written by Quintin Colville and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-17 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a diverse selection of the latest academic research in the field of naval history. No longer confined to analyses of ships and battles, it is the first publication to capture a new form naval history that engages with race, sexuality, gender, material culture, popular culture and fine art. Edited by two leading historians of the Royal Navy, it will become a defining book in the field.
Author : Francis Frith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book A Victorian Maritime Album written by Francis Frith and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Abulafia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195323343
Total Pages : 849 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Great Sea written by David Abulafia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain in 2011 by Allen Lane"--T.p. verso.
Author : Margarita Russell
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004617574
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Visions of the Sea written by Margarita Russell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane Robinson
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472144902
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Mary Seacole written by Jane Robinson and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. "The Times" called her a heroine, Florence Nightingale called her a brothel-keeping quack, and Queen Victoria's nephew called her, simply, 'Mammy' - Mary Seacole was one of the most eccentric and charismatic women of her era. Born at her mother's hotel in Jamaica in 1805, she became an independent 'doctress' combining the herbal remedies of her African ancestry with sound surgical techniques. On the outbreak of the Crimean War, she arrived in London desperate to join Florence Nightingale at the Front, but the authorities refused to see her. Being black, nearly 50, rather stout, and gloriously loud in every way, she was obviously unsuitable. Undaunted, Mary travelled to Balaklava under her own steam to build the 'British Hotel', just behind the lines. It was an outrageous venture, and a huge success - she became known and loved by everyone from the rank and file to the royal family. For more than a century after her death this remarkable woman was all but forgotten. This, the first full-length biography of a Victorian celebrity recently voted the greatest black Briton in history, brings Mary Seacole centre stage at last.
Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612519563
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)
Download or read book British Cruisers of the Victorian Era written by Norman Friedman and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last armoured cruisers.
Author : Roger Parkinson
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843833727
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (337 download)
Download or read book The Late Victorian Navy written by Roger Parkinson and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reappraisal of the late Victorian Navy, the so-called `Dark Ages', showing how the period was crucial to the emergence of new technology defined by steel and electricity. In purely naval terms, the period from 1889 to 1906 is often referred to (and indeed passed over) as the `pre-Dreadnought era', merely a prelude to the lead-up to the First World War, and thus of relatively little importance; it has therefore received little consideration from historians, a gap which this book remedies by reviewing the late Victorian Navy from a radically new perspective. It starts with the Great Near East crisis of 1878 and shows how itsaftermath in the Carnarvon Commission and its evidence produced a profound shift in strategic thinking, culminating in the Naval Defence Act of 1889; this evidence, from the ship owners, provides the definitive explanation of whythe Victorian Navy gave up on convoy as the primary means of trade protection in wartime, a fundamental question at the time. The book also overturns many assumptions about the era, especially the perception that the navy was weak, and clearly shows that the 1870s and early 1880s brought in crucial technological developments that made the Dreadnought possible.
Author : Nicholas Roe
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300124651
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book John Keats written by Nicholas Roe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a biography of the nineteenth century poet, offering insights into the details of his early life in London, the torments that affected him, and the imaginative sources of his works.
Author : Christopher Deakes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493077627
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A Postcard History of the Passenger Liner written by Christopher Deakes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From around 1880, for almost a hundred years, shipowners commissioned a wealth of paintings that depicted their magnificent liners as well as the routes they travelled, their exotic destinations, and life onboard. These paintings, rich in imagination and atmosphere, appeared on postcards and posters of the day and were used to advertise the companies and their ships; and so was born a whole genre that produced tens of thousands of paintings which formed a wonderful record of the great era of the passenger liner. In 1900, there were over thirty shipping companies operating passenger liners across the North Atlantic. Other oceans were similarly served. But now, with just a few exceptions, the companies and their liners have disappeared along with the art they once inspired. Little remains to recall this aspect of our maritime past except the postcards; and they tell an evocative story of the vanished world of elegant ships and leisurely travel, of social and political times much changed by the history of the past century. Here, brought vividly to life in more than 500 colourful postcards, are the ships on which so many of our predecessors sailed—as emigrants, soldiers, administrators, or simply as tourists—in days long past. These cards, which are now highly collectable, show how steamships developed over the years, but they are also a fine tribute to the artists who painted them. This volume also includes a glossary of some 170 illustrators, which forms an important reference section, and advice on collecting.
Author : Hilary Davidson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218729
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Dress in the Age of Jane Austen written by Hilary Davidson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated book explores the rich complexity of Regency clothing through the lens of the collected writings of Jane Austen.
Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192678140
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea written by David Cressy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shipwrecks and the Bounty of the Sea is a work of social history examining community relationships, law, and seafaring over the long early modern period. It explores the politics of the coastline, the economy of scavenging, and the law of 'wreck of the sea' from the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the reign of George II. England's coastlines were heavily trafficked by naval and commercial shipping, but an unfortunate percentage was cast away or lost. Shipwrecks were disasters for merchants and mariners, but opportunities for shore dwellers. As the proverb said, it was an ill wind that blew nobody any good. Lords of manors, local officials, officers of the Admiralty, and coastal commoners competed for maritime cargoes and the windfall of wreckage, which they regarded as providential godsends or entitlements by right. A varied haul of commodities, wines, furnishings, and bullion came ashore, much of it claimed by the crown. The people engaged in salvaging these wrecks came to be called 'wreckers', and gained a reputation as violent and barbarous plunderers. Close attention to statements of witnesses and reports of survivors shows this image to be largely undeserved. Dramatic evidence from previously unexplored manuscript sources reveals coastal communities in action, collaborating as well as competing, as they harvested the bounty of the sea.
Author : Harry Alder
Publisher : How To Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781857038286
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Tracking Down Your Ancestors written by Harry Alder and published by How To Books Ltd. This book was released on 2002 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching your family history can be an absorbing hobby, or a one-off project that your whole family will value and build on. This book is packed with ideas about the different aspects of genealogy and the main free or low cost resources available to help you in your quest. CONTENTS: Getting started - online family searching - harnessing internet sources - tearless transcribing - organised support - vital public records - interpreting old records - getting to know your ancestors About the author Dr Harry Alder is a prolific writer and long-time researcher. Here he passes on his passion for genealogy, his first-hand experience, lots of practical tips and key websites to support your research.
