Author: Francis Bazley LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Genealogical and Memorial History of the State of New Jersey ...
Author: Francis Bazley LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Jersey
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
The History of Greenock
Author: Robert Murray SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greenock (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Greenock Libraries: a Development and Social History, 1635-1967
Author: James Tait HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greenock (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Scottish Town in the Age of the Enlightenment 1740-1820
Author: Bob HarrisPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748692584
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This heavily illustrated and innovative study is founded upon personal documents, town council minutes, legal cases, inventories, travellers' tales, plans and drawings relating to some 30 Scots burghs of the Georgian period. It establishes a distinctive and much-needed history for the development of Georgian Scots burghs.
The history of Scotland
Author: Thomas ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
A Maritime History of Scotland, 1650-1790
Author: Eric J. GrahamPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788853903
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island. Colourful characters abound in a story teeming with incident and excitement: John Paul Jones descends upon the Scottish coast creating widespread panic; press gangs prowl the coastal towns; wartime conditions turn merchantmen into privateers fighting the French, the Spanish and the American Colonists – almost anyone flying a different flag; quaintly named vessels like The Provoked Cheesemaker are on the lookout for trouble. And the stakes were high. Glasgow became wealthy through the tobacco trade. Glasgow merchantmen could beat the English ships and sail to Chesapeake Bay in record time. Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events. He charts Scotland's frustrated attempts to join England in the Atlantic economy and so secure her prosperity – an often bitter relationship that culminated in the Darien Disaster. In the years that followed, maritime affairs were central to the move to embrace the full incorporating Act of 1707. After 1707, Scottish maritime aspirations flourished under the protection of the British Navigation Acts and the windfalls of the endemic warfare at sea.
A History of the Donaldson Family and Its Connections
Author: Warren A. DonaldsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
History of the Town of Greenock
Author: Daniel WeirPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Greenock (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Greenock & Gourock Through Time
Author: Bill ClarkPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445628465
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Greenock and Gourock have changed and developed over the last century.
The History of the County of Bruce and of the Minor Municipalities Therein, Province of Ontario, Canada
Author: Norman RobertsonPublisher: W. Briggs
ISBN:
Category : Bruce (Ont. : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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