Author: Alexander Meyrick Broadley
Publisher: New York : F.A. Stokes Company
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Chats on Autographs
Author: Alexander Meyrick Broadley
Publisher: New York : F.A. Stokes Company
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: New York : F.A. Stokes Company
ISBN:
Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Leaves from the Note-books of Lady Dorothy Nevill
Author: Lady Dorothy Nevill
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Company, limited
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher: London, Macmillan and Company, limited
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The History of "Punch"
Author: Marion Harry Spielmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Journalism
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Works of Walter Bagehot ...
Author: Walter Bagehot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
The Waterloo Roll Call
Author: Charles Dalton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The Life of Richard Cobden
Author: John Morley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844
Author: Frederick Engels
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3730964852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Condition of the Working Class in England is one of the best-known works of Friedrich Engels. Originally written in German as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, it is a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels' first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution, and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. Engels argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for example, that in large industrial cities mortality from disease, as well as death-rates for workers were higher than in the countryside. In cities like Manchester and Liverpool mortality from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough was four times as high as in the surrounding countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high as in the countryside. The overall death-rate in Manchester and Liverpool was significantly higher than the national average (one in 32.72 and one in 31.90 and even one in 29.90, compared with one in 45 or one in 46). An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle where before the introduction of mills (1779–1787), 4,408 out of 10,000 children died before reaching the age of five, and after their introduction the figure rose to 4,738. Before the introduction of mills, 1,006 out of 10,000 adults died before reaching 39 years old, and after their introduction the death rate rose to 1,261 out of 10,000.
Publisher: BookRix
ISBN: 3730964852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
The Condition of the Working Class in England is one of the best-known works of Friedrich Engels. Originally written in German as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England, it is a study of the working class in Victorian England. It was also Engels' first book, written during his stay in Manchester from 1842 to 1844. Manchester was then at the very heart of the Industrial Revolution, and Engels compiled his study from his own observations and detailed contemporary reports. Engels argues that the Industrial Revolution made workers worse off. He shows, for example, that in large industrial cities mortality from disease, as well as death-rates for workers were higher than in the countryside. In cities like Manchester and Liverpool mortality from smallpox, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough was four times as high as in the surrounding countryside, and mortality from convulsions was ten times as high as in the countryside. The overall death-rate in Manchester and Liverpool was significantly higher than the national average (one in 32.72 and one in 31.90 and even one in 29.90, compared with one in 45 or one in 46). An interesting example shows the increase in the overall death-rates in the industrial town of Carlisle where before the introduction of mills (1779–1787), 4,408 out of 10,000 children died before reaching the age of five, and after their introduction the figure rose to 4,738. Before the introduction of mills, 1,006 out of 10,000 adults died before reaching 39 years old, and after their introduction the death rate rose to 1,261 out of 10,000.
The Secret of the League
Author: Ernest Bramah
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A secret organization of upper class dissenters, called The League, is not happy with their weak government and wants to overthrow it. In a clever plan they bring about a civil war in Britain by manipulating the coal strike with foreign help and plant a fascist regime in its place. What comes about is a total breakdown giving an accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism, as George Orwell famously noted. Superficially the novel (also alternately known as What Might Have Been) seems like it is promoting the cause of The League but it is in fact a bleary take on what might end up happening if such a thing comes to pass when the government is overtaken by the conservatives. Who becomes a hero and who becomes a villain is only a matter of seizing absolute power! In fact Orwell credited this novel as his inspiration behind his own successful dystopian classic 1984. Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) was an English author and a recluse who wrote the famous Kai Lung and Max Carrados series. Interestingly Bramah's humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A secret organization of upper class dissenters, called The League, is not happy with their weak government and wants to overthrow it. In a clever plan they bring about a civil war in Britain by manipulating the coal strike with foreign help and plant a fascist regime in its place. What comes about is a total breakdown giving an accurate prediction of the rise of Fascism, as George Orwell famously noted. Superficially the novel (also alternately known as What Might Have Been) seems like it is promoting the cause of The League but it is in fact a bleary take on what might end up happening if such a thing comes to pass when the government is overtaken by the conservatives. Who becomes a hero and who becomes a villain is only a matter of seizing absolute power! In fact Orwell credited this novel as his inspiration behind his own successful dystopian classic 1984. Ernest Bramah (1868–1942) was an English author and a recluse who wrote the famous Kai Lung and Max Carrados series. Interestingly Bramah's humorous works were ranked with Jerome K Jerome and W. W. Jacobs, his detective stories with Conan Doyle, his politico-science fiction with H. G. Wells and his supernatural stories with Algernon Blackwood.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Author: Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814206387
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Peopled with literary figures such as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864-65 and 1878, an ample selection of her most interesting letters and a number of significant letters written to her. Because only a third of each journal has been previously published, this collection presents a valuable document of Ritchie's inner life, especially the account of her response to her father's death.
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814206387
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Peopled with literary figures such as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864-65 and 1878, an ample selection of her most interesting letters and a number of significant letters written to her. Because only a third of each journal has been previously published, this collection presents a valuable document of Ritchie's inner life, especially the account of her response to her father's death.
The History of the Catnach Press
Author: Charles Hindley
Publisher: London : Hindley
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Publisher: London : Hindley
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description