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The Portrayal Of Life Stages In English Literature 1500 1800
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Book Synopsis The Portrayal of Life Stages in English Literature, 1500-1800 by : Jeanie Watson
Download or read book The Portrayal of Life Stages in English Literature, 1500-1800 written by Jeanie Watson and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering the years 1500 to 1800, these essays which portray life stages in English literature include studies of Erasmus, Fulke Greville, Johnson and Thomas More. They examine how the many ages of man are treated in the literature of this period.
Book Synopsis The Life and Times of Edward McHugh (1853-1915), Land Reformer, Trade Unionist, and Labour Activist by : Andrew G. Newby
Download or read book The Life and Times of Edward McHugh (1853-1915), Land Reformer, Trade Unionist, and Labour Activist written by Andrew G. Newby and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward McHugh (1853-1915) spent a great deal of his lifetime engaged in the struggle for social reform not only in Great Britain and Ireland, but also further afield, including spells in America and the Antipodes. Born in rural County Tyrone to a smallholding family, before emigrating through economic necessity to the overcrowded industrial landscape of Greenock, and then Glasgow, McHugh shared with his friend, Michael Davitt, experience of both sides of the land question. It is not surprising that, having witnessed rural and urban poverty at an early age, McHugh would become firmly committed to the ideals of Henry George, and convinced that land, and its inequitable distribution, should lie at the root of all social ills. After moving to Glasgow as a teenager to find work as a compositor, McHugh found himself in a city with various possibilities for developing his education as a social reformer. The Irish who had fled to the city in such numbers after the Great Famine were finally starting to organise themselves politically. Highlands as a result either of the Clearances or the region's own famine in the 1840s, were contemplating the conditions in which the working classes of Glasgow, and other towns in Scotland, were forced to live. As a member of the Glasgow Home Rule Association, and then the secretary of the Glasgow branch of the Irish Land League, McHugh was singled out as a speaker and organiser of ability, and was chosen to lead a Land League mission to the Scottish Highlands in order to direct the nascent crofters' agitation along radical lines. After the death of the Land League, McHugh toured Scotland with Henry George himself, and helped to found the Scottish Land Restoration League, a body dedicated to taxing land values to their full extent, thereby abolishing landlordism. The ability shown by McHugh was then harnessed by the Trades Union movement, as he and his old friend Richard McGhee formed and ran the National Union of Dock Labourers, sustaining them through bitter strikes in Glasgow (1889), and Liverpool (1890). This latter strike was a turning point in McHugh's domestic life, as he settled then in Birkenhead. McHugh remained active in the Trade Unionism, spending the years 1896-1899 in New York, organising the American Longshoremen's Union, and preaching the 'Single Tax Gospel.' The fact that McHugh was with Henry George at the time of the latter's untimely death in 1897 gave the Ulsterman a great cache in Single Tax circles for the rest of his life, and on returning to Birkenhead he settled down and spent the rest of his life striving for social reform through the propagation of the George's theories.
Book Synopsis The Later Life of Lord Curzon of Kedleston--aristocrat, Writer, Politician, Statesman by : George Henry Bennett
Download or read book The Later Life of Lord Curzon of Kedleston--aristocrat, Writer, Politician, Statesman written by George Henry Bennett and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Curzon was one of the most significant figures in British politics in the early 20th century. This text examines a comparatively neglected period of his life: the period 1906 to 1925. During this last phase of his life he struggled to rebuild his career and life after suffering the humiliation of resigning as Viceroy of India in 1905, and the death of his wife in 1906. This study examines various facets of his life in detail, including his roles as husband and father, aristocrat, member of the Conservative party, leader of the Government in the House of Lords, statesman and politician. It casts new light on his career as a writer. It also seeks to make a contribution to the growing debate about how biography is written.
Book Synopsis The Politics of English Elementary School Finance, 1833-1870 by : Norman Morris
Download or read book The Politics of English Elementary School Finance, 1833-1870 written by Norman Morris and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialized examination - not of the history of elementary schools in the mid-19th century - but of the technology of their revenue and the ways in which operational development was influenced by the sources and methodology of receipts.
Book Synopsis Changes and Expansion in the English Cloth Trade in the Seventeenth Century by : Joel D. Benson
Download or read book Changes and Expansion in the English Cloth Trade in the Seventeenth Century written by Joel D. Benson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Joseph Burgess (1853-1934) and the Founding of the Independent Labour Party by : Kevin McPhillips
Download or read book Joseph Burgess (1853-1934) and the Founding of the Independent Labour Party written by Kevin McPhillips and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an account of the life of Joseph Burgess (1853-1934), one of the founder members of the Independent Labour Party. This book tells how Burgess moved from a Lancashire working class background to become an important figure in late the 19th century political arena, and played an important role in the early development of the Labour Party.
Book Synopsis A Selection of Thomas Twining's Letters, 1734-1804 by : Thomas Twining
Download or read book A Selection of Thomas Twining's Letters, 1734-1804 written by Thomas Twining and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Significance of Gardening in British India by : Charles Carlton
Download or read book The Significance of Gardening in British India written by Charles Carlton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a multi-faceted study of the role of gardening in British India with several accompanying illustrations- it is a study of imperial history, environmental history, cultural history and women's history. First, as a study in imperial history that shows how the British used landscape architecture to convey images of power to both themselves and the Indians. Second, as a study in environmental history, this book traces the way in which the British established a whole series of Botanical gardens centered at Kew in London. Tea and cincinchona (an antidote for malaria) were imported to be grown in India, while opium was forcibly exported to China. Without cincinchona, imperialism would have been medically impossible and without tea or opium, imperialism would have not been immensely profitable. Third, this is a study in cultural history, exploring how the British tried to modify India by creating their own cultural retreat - the hill station. Finally, this book deals with women's history. Gardening became a means by which English women occupied themselves, creating a little England to alleviate the intense homesickness.
Book Synopsis Origins and Rise of the British Distillery by : William T. Harper
Download or read book Origins and Rise of the British Distillery written by William T. Harper and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph substantiates the industry's rise and contributions in an age when distilled beverages had much good to contribute to mankind and added to the power of the West, to explore, to trade and to conquer where others sickened and failed. The text contains rich anecdotal material and contempporary observations that illuminate the subject from Tudor times to the mid-18th century.
Book Synopsis The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy, 1940-1943 by : Brian Padair Farrell
Download or read book The Basis and Making of British Grand Strategy, 1940-1943 written by Brian Padair Farrell and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The African Institution (1807-1827) and the Antislavery Movement in Great Britain by : Wayne Ackerson
Download or read book The African Institution (1807-1827) and the Antislavery Movement in Great Britain written by Wayne Ackerson and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The African Institution was a pivotal abolitionist and antislavery group in Britain during the early nineteenth century, and its members included royalty, prominent lawyers, Members of Parliament, and noted reformers such as William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson, and Zachary Macaulay. Focusing on the spread of Western civilization to Africa, the abolition of the foreign slave trade, and improving the lives of slaves in British colonies, the group's influence extended far into Britain's diplomatic relations in addition to the government's domestic affairs. The African Institution carried the torch for antislavery reform for twenty years and paved the way for later humanitarian efforts in Great Britain. This book is the only monograph on the African Institution, and thus the only specific book length analysis of its successes and failures. The 20 year period of its existence was a crucial transitional period for the antislavery movement, and the book adds to a relatively sparse body of research on that particular time period.
Book Synopsis John Meade Falkner, 1858-1932 by : Kenneth Warren
Download or read book John Meade Falkner, 1858-1932 written by Kenneth Warren and published by Lewiston, N.Y. ; Queenston, Ont. : Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Social History of the Jewish East End in London, 1914-1939 by : Joseph Green
Download or read book A Social History of the Jewish East End in London, 1914-1939 written by Joseph Green and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch. 19 (pp. 409-441) discusses the development in 19th-century Europe of socialism, Zionism, and modern antisemitism. Ch. 20 (pp. 442-471) contains a concise history of British antisemitism from 1901 to 1940. It began as an anti-alien movement; after the First World War it was aggravated by the spread of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." In the 1930s the leadership in British antisemitism passed to fascist organizations, particularly Mosley's British Union of Fascists. The Jewish quarters of London's East End became the arena for a harsh conflict between fascists and Jewish leftists.
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Book Synopsis John Wilkinson, 1728-1808 by : Norbert C. Soldon
Download or read book John Wilkinson, 1728-1808 written by Norbert C. Soldon and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldon (history, West Chester U.) gives a detailed biography of a major entrepreneur of the industrial revolution who worked with blast furnaces, steam engines, iron bridges, canons, and cylinders. The work covers family origins, the building of an iron empire, diffusion of Wilkinson's technology to Europe, mineral investments, contemporary opinion of Wilkinson, and the Wilkinson legacy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Ruling Elite of Cambridgeshire, England, C. 1520-1603 by : Eugene J. Bourgeois
Download or read book The Ruling Elite of Cambridgeshire, England, C. 1520-1603 written by Eugene J. Bourgeois and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study suggests that geography, kinship and other communal connections were important factors for the formation of an active political elite, often superseding religion and external or central intervention in significance. Core groups of resident gentry within the broader elite dominated local office holding and more importantly, active participation in shire government throughout the period examined. The dual focus on the myriad connections that impacted the formation of the Cambridgeshire ruling elite together with the detailed analysis of local governmental activity represent two themes that are not widely published for Tudor counties. The Cambridgeshire experience and developments in other countries are compared extensively, while considering the wider national context that includes changes in central government, the progress of the religious reformation, efforts at governmental centralization, and responses to foreign threats.
Book Synopsis John Ashton's Case for James II as Rightful King of England by : Norman A. Coles
Download or read book John Ashton's Case for James II as Rightful King of England written by Norman A. Coles and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
