Author: William Samuel Lilly
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Author: Charles Joseph Singer
Publisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: Peter Ackroyd
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN: 1466880163
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory. In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was—again—at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange; the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the spiritual life of the nation, and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished and the English novel was born. It was an era in which coffee houses and playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely, and in which shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in towns and villages. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly and irrevocably transformed from a country of blue skies and farmland to one of soot and steel and coal. Ackroyd is the author of the first, second, and third volumes of his history of England, Foundation, Tudors, and Rebellion.

Author: Clive Bloom
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750979828
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 491

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From regicides to revolutionaries; from fascists to anarchists; from Tom Paine to Tom Wintringham, this book is a history of noble ideals and crushing failures in which Clive Bloom takes us on a journey through British history, exploring our often rocky relationship with the ruling elite. A History of Britian's Fight for a Republic reveals our surprising legacy of terrorism and revolution, reminding us that Britain has witnessed centuries of revolt. This is a history encompassing three bloody civil wars in Ireland, the bombing campaigns by the IRA, two Welsh uprisings, one Lowland Scottish civil war, uprisings in Derbyshire and Kent, five attempts to assassinate the entire cabinet and seize London, and numerous attempts to murder the royal family. This new and revised edition takes the story of modern monarchy back to its origins in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and forward to the reign of Charles III and includes the story of the continuing struggle for democratic rights and republican values from medieval times up to the present struggle for Scottish and Welsh independence.

Author: Charles Joseph Singer
Publisher:
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Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 824

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Author: William Samuel Lilly
Publisher: London : Chapman and Hall
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Author: David Mabberley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350259357
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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A Cultural History of Plants in the Nineteenth Century covers the period from 1800 to 1920, a time of astonishing growth in industrialization, urbanization, migration, population growth, colonial possessions, and developments in scientific knowledge. As European modes of civilization and cultivation were exported worldwide, botanical study was revolutionized – through the work of Charles Darwin and many others – and the new science of biology was born, based on cells, nuclei and molecules. As Darwinism took hold, plants came to be seen as a way of thinking about the connectivity of nature and life itself. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Plants presents the first comprehensive history of the uses and meanings of plants from prehistory to today. The themes covered in each volume are plants as staple foods; plants as luxury foods; trade and exploration; plant technology and science; plants and medicine; plants in culture; plants as natural ornaments; the representation of plants. David Mabberley is Emeritus Fellow at Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK; Emeritus Professor at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands; and Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Australia. Volume 5 in the Cultural History of Plants set. General Editors: Annette Giesecke, University of Delaware, USA, and David Mabberley, University of Oxford, UK.

Author: W M Verhoeven
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351222961
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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A selection of Anti-Jacobin novels reprinted in full with annotations. The set includes works by male and female writers holding a range of political positions within the Anti-Jacobin camp, and represents the French Revolution, American Revolution, Irish Rebellion and political unrest in Scotland.

Author: Joseph Hatton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368857797
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author: Lady Duffus Hardy
Publisher:
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Category : Florida
Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Sketches of a tour by the author through Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana, with much commentary on the people and places she sees. In Florida, several chapters are devoted to Jacksonville and she also visits Fernandina and Dungeness, St. Augustine, and takes a tour up the St. Johns and Oklawaha Rivers and sees Silver Springs.