Author: Mark Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A fresh look at the crowd in relation to the urbanising process and the civic culture it inspired.
Crowds and History
Author: Mark Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A fresh look at the crowd in relation to the urbanising process and the civic culture it inspired.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521520133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
A fresh look at the crowd in relation to the urbanising process and the civic culture it inspired.
Memorials of Liverpool, Historical and Topographical: Topographical
Author: Sir James Allanson Picton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Historical
Author: Sir James Allanson Picton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Liverpool (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Earles of Liverpool
Author: Peter Earle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781381739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a great port, from 1688 to 1840. The focus is on six members of this successful family, John who came to Liverpool as apprentice to a merchant in 1688, his three sons, Ralph, Thomas and William, who all became merchants specializing in different branches of the trade of the port, and William's two sons, another Thomas and another William, who consolidated the fortunes of the family and began the process of converting their wealth into gentility. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and the aim throughout has been to make the book entertaining as well as informative. Where sources permit, the book describes the businesses run by these men, often in considerable detail. Trading in slaves was an important part of the business of three of them, but they and other members of the family also engaged in a variety of other trades, such as the import-export business with Leghorn (Livorno) in Italy, fishing in Newfoundland and the Shetland Islands, the wine and fruit trades of Spain, Portugal and the Azores, the import of raw cotton for the industries of the Industrial Revolution and the Russia trade. Other family interests included privateering, art collection and the trade in art, a sugar plantation in Guyana, and the emigrant trade. While the book is mainly a work of economic history, there is also much on the merchants' wives and families and on the social history of both Liverpool and Livorno.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 1781381739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book uses the experience of three generations of the Earle family to throw light on the social and economic history of Liverpool during its rise to prominence as a great port, from 1688 to 1840. The focus is on six members of this successful family, John who came to Liverpool as apprentice to a merchant in 1688, his three sons, Ralph, Thomas and William, who all became merchants specializing in different branches of the trade of the port, and William's two sons, another Thomas and another William, who consolidated the fortunes of the family and began the process of converting their wealth into gentility. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical, and the aim throughout has been to make the book entertaining as well as informative. Where sources permit, the book describes the businesses run by these men, often in considerable detail. Trading in slaves was an important part of the business of three of them, but they and other members of the family also engaged in a variety of other trades, such as the import-export business with Leghorn (Livorno) in Italy, fishing in Newfoundland and the Shetland Islands, the wine and fruit trades of Spain, Portugal and the Azores, the import of raw cotton for the industries of the Industrial Revolution and the Russia trade. Other family interests included privateering, art collection and the trade in art, a sugar plantation in Guyana, and the emigrant trade. While the book is mainly a work of economic history, there is also much on the merchants' wives and families and on the social history of both Liverpool and Livorno.
Harvard Historical Studies
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A Bibliography of British Municipal History
Author: Charles Gross
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
A Guide for the Study of British Caribbean History, 1763-1834
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
The Common Wind
Author: Julius S. Scott
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788732472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful “history from below.” Scott follows the spread of “rumors of emancipation” and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution.By tracking the colliding worlds of buccaneers, military deserters, and maroon communards from Venezuela to Virginia, Scott records the transmission of contagious mutinies and insurrections in unparalleled detail, providing readers with an intellectual history of the enslaved. Though The Common Wind is credited with having “opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words,” the manuscript remained unpublished for thirty-two years. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the New World, it has been published by Verso for the first time, with a foreword by the academic and author Marcus Rediker.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788732472
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Winner of the 2019 Stone Book Award, Museum of African American History A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World. Having delved deep into the gray obscurity of official eighteenth-century records in Spanish, English, and French, Julius S. Scott has written a powerful “history from below.” Scott follows the spread of “rumors of emancipation” and the people behind them, bringing to life the protagonists in the slave revolution.By tracking the colliding worlds of buccaneers, military deserters, and maroon communards from Venezuela to Virginia, Scott records the transmission of contagious mutinies and insurrections in unparalleled detail, providing readers with an intellectual history of the enslaved. Though The Common Wind is credited with having “opened up the Black Atlantic with a rigor and a commitment to the power of written words,” the manuscript remained unpublished for thirty-two years. Now, after receiving wide acclaim from leading historians of slavery and the New World, it has been published by Verso for the first time, with a foreword by the academic and author Marcus Rediker.
Class List of Best Books
Author: Library Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Class List of Best Books and Annual of Bibliography
Author: Library Association (Great Britain).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description