Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
British Builder
Author: A key to civil architecture; or, The universal British builder ... The third edition, corrected, etc
Author: Thomas SKAIFE (Carpenter)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Builders of Empire
Author: Jessica L. Harland-JacobsPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469606658
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges. Their public rituals drew dense crowds from Montreal to Madras. The Ancient Free and Accepted Masons were quintessential builders of empire, argues Jessica Harland-Jacobs. In this first study of the relationship between Freemasonry and British imperialism, Harland-Jacobs takes readers on a journey across two centuries and five continents, demonstrating that from the moment it left Britain's shores, Freemasonry proved central to the building and cohesion of the British Empire. The organization formally emerged in 1717 as a fraternity identified with the ideals of Enlightenment cosmopolitanism, such as universal brotherhood, sociability, tolerance, and benevolence. As Freemasonry spread to Europe, the Americas, Asia, Australasia, and Africa, the group's claims of cosmopolitan brotherhood were put to the test. Harland-Jacobs examines the brotherhood's role in diverse colonial settings and the impact of the empire on the brotherhood; in the process, she addresses issues of globalization, supranational identities, imperial power, fraternalism, and masculinity. By tracking an important, identifiable institution across the wide chronological and geographical expanse of the British Empire, Builders of Empire makes a significant contribution to transnational history as well as the history of the Freemasons and imperial Britain.
Report on the Conditions and Prospects of British Trade in India
Author: Great Britain. Department of Overseas TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 1284
Book Description
Papers Read Before the Institute of British Carriage Manufacturers, 1883-1901
Author: Institute of British Carriage and Automobile ManufacturersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carriage and wagon making
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The Builder
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Conditions and Prospects of United Kingdom Trade in India
Author: Great Britain. Dept. of Overseas TradePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Willing's Press Guide
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
"A guide to the press of the United Kingdom and to the principal publications of Europe, Australia, the Far East, Gulf States, and the U.S.A.
Coach & Motor Body Builder for Australia and New Zealand
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Carriage and wagon making
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Home Improvement in Aotearoa New Zealand and the UK
Author: Rosie CoxPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000181804
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book examines experiences of home improvement in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand, providing valuable insight into the ways in which people make and maintain home in social, material and economic context. Drawing on in-depth interviews, examining both DIY projects and projects carried out by professional handymen, Rosie Cox explores how home improvement fits into wider social relationships and structures of inequality. Consideration is given to the importance of such work for gender and national identities, and how these identities are related to material contexts and the forms and fabric of homes. The book also highlights how home improvement can be a rewarding and valuable form of work, as well as an unrewarding and alienating endeavour. It will be of interest to scholars from a range of disciplines including anthropology, sociology and human geography.
