Author: Neville Thompson
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 0850526450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst Family archives.This biography also throws fresh light on other leading figures of the period notably The Duke of Wellington and The Prince Regent.
Earl Bathurst and British Empire
Author: Neville Thompson
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 0850526450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst Family archives.This biography also throws fresh light on other leading figures of the period notably The Duke of Wellington and The Prince Regent.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 0850526450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst Family archives.This biography also throws fresh light on other leading figures of the period notably The Duke of Wellington and The Prince Regent.
The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing
Author: Edmund Lodge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
The British Imperial Pyramid of Power: Manning an Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1800-1914
Author: Colin Newbury
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621967441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This study aims at revising past and current emphasis on central and official British imperial establishments in the metropolis. The focus, rather, incorporates both central and peripheral manning techniques in London and in overseas territories. By using archival and published sources for the military, technical, medical and other professional cadres, plus the manpower enslaved, indentured or employed in executive categories, the study is intended to broaden our understanding of the base and middle strata of the imperial "pyramid". This book is an essential revaluation of British imperial methods that has a place in university and public libraries alongside works on Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Ceylon, the Pacific, and British North America.
Publisher: Cambria Press
ISBN: 1621967441
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This study aims at revising past and current emphasis on central and official British imperial establishments in the metropolis. The focus, rather, incorporates both central and peripheral manning techniques in London and in overseas territories. By using archival and published sources for the military, technical, medical and other professional cadres, plus the manpower enslaved, indentured or employed in executive categories, the study is intended to broaden our understanding of the base and middle strata of the imperial "pyramid". This book is an essential revaluation of British imperial methods that has a place in university and public libraries alongside works on Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Ceylon, the Pacific, and British North America.
The Baronetage and Knightage of the British Empire for 1882
Author: Joseph Foster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
The British Seaborne Empire
Author: Jeremy Black
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, climaxing in the fascination with the Pacific in the age of Captain Cook, and continuing into the nineteenth century, with Franklin in the Arctic and Ross in the Antarctic. The oceans offered much more than fascination. In England, from the late sixteenth century, maritime conflict and imperial strength were seen as important to national morale and reputation and without it there would have been no empire, or at least not in the form it actually took."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300103861
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
"Britain's seaborne tradition is used to throw light on the British themselves, the people with whom they came into contact and the British perception of empire. The oceans and their shores, rather than the mysterious interiors of continents, certainly dominated the English perception of the transoceanic world in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, climaxing in the fascination with the Pacific in the age of Captain Cook, and continuing into the nineteenth century, with Franklin in the Arctic and Ross in the Antarctic. The oceans offered much more than fascination. In England, from the late sixteenth century, maritime conflict and imperial strength were seen as important to national morale and reputation and without it there would have been no empire, or at least not in the form it actually took."--BOOK JACKET.
How Britain Won the War of 1812
Author: Brian Arthur
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843836653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The book demonstrates the effectiveness of British maritime blockades, both naval blockade, which handicapped the American Navy, and commercial blockade, which restricted US overseas trade. The commercial blockade severely reduced US government income, which was heavily dependent on customs duties, forcing it to borrow, eventually without success. Actually insolvent, the US government abandoned its war aims.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843836653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The book demonstrates the effectiveness of British maritime blockades, both naval blockade, which handicapped the American Navy, and commercial blockade, which restricted US overseas trade. The commercial blockade severely reduced US government income, which was heavily dependent on customs duties, forcing it to borrow, eventually without success. Actually insolvent, the US government abandoned its war aims.
Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 1562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heraldry
Languages : en
Pages : 1562
Book Description
The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage & Companionage of the British Empire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nobility
Languages : en
Pages : 1060
Book Description
Considering Conservative Women in the Gendering of Modern British Politics
Author: Clarisse Berthezène
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000225429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This volume examines how the British Conservative Party has appealed to women, the roles that women have played in the party, and the tense relationship between women’s activism on the Right and feminism. Covering the period since the early 20th century, the contributions each question assumptions about the reactionary response of the British Right, Margaret Thatcher’s party, to women’s issues and to their political aspirations. How have women been mobilized by the Conservative Party? What kind of party appeals has the British Conservative Party designed to attract women as party workers and as voters? Developing successful strategies to attract women voters since 1918, and appealing to certain notional women’s issues, and having produced the only two women Prime Minters of the UK, the Conservative Party has its own special relationship with women in the modern period. The shifting status of women and opportunities for women in politics in modern Britain has been garnering more scholarly attention recently, and the centenary of women’s partial suffrage in 2018 and Astor 100 in 2019 has done much to excite wider attention and public interest in these debates. However, the role of Conservative women has too often been seen as problematic, especially because of general assumption that feminism is only allied to leftist movements and political positions. This volume explores these themes through a range of case studies, covering the period from the early 20th to the 21st century. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Women’s History Review.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000225429
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This volume examines how the British Conservative Party has appealed to women, the roles that women have played in the party, and the tense relationship between women’s activism on the Right and feminism. Covering the period since the early 20th century, the contributions each question assumptions about the reactionary response of the British Right, Margaret Thatcher’s party, to women’s issues and to their political aspirations. How have women been mobilized by the Conservative Party? What kind of party appeals has the British Conservative Party designed to attract women as party workers and as voters? Developing successful strategies to attract women voters since 1918, and appealing to certain notional women’s issues, and having produced the only two women Prime Minters of the UK, the Conservative Party has its own special relationship with women in the modern period. The shifting status of women and opportunities for women in politics in modern Britain has been garnering more scholarly attention recently, and the centenary of women’s partial suffrage in 2018 and Astor 100 in 2019 has done much to excite wider attention and public interest in these debates. However, the role of Conservative women has too often been seen as problematic, especially because of general assumption that feminism is only allied to leftist movements and political positions. This volume explores these themes through a range of case studies, covering the period from the early 20th to the 21st century. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal, Women’s History Review.
Imperial Immigrants
Author: Michael E. Vance
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459704002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The impact of the British Empire on the history of the Upper Ottawa Valley is explored through the experiences of early emigration-assisted 19th-century Scottish immigrants. Between 1815 and 1832, Great Britain settled more than 3,500 individuals, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, in the Ottawa Valley. These government-assisted emigrations, which began immediately after the Napoleonic Wars, are explored to reveal their impact on Upper Canada. Seeking to transform their lives and their society, early Scots settlers crossed the Atlantic for their own purposes. Although they did not blindly serve the interests of empire builders, their settlement led to the dispossession of the original First Nation inhabitants, thus supporting the British imperial government’s strategic military goals. After transferring homeland religious and political conflict to the colony, Scottish settlers led the demand for political reform that emerged in the 1830s. As a consequence, their migration and settlement reveals as much about the depth of social conflict in the homeland and in the colonies as it does about the preoccupations of the British imperial state.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459704002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The impact of the British Empire on the history of the Upper Ottawa Valley is explored through the experiences of early emigration-assisted 19th-century Scottish immigrants. Between 1815 and 1832, Great Britain settled more than 3,500 individuals, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, in the Ottawa Valley. These government-assisted emigrations, which began immediately after the Napoleonic Wars, are explored to reveal their impact on Upper Canada. Seeking to transform their lives and their society, early Scots settlers crossed the Atlantic for their own purposes. Although they did not blindly serve the interests of empire builders, their settlement led to the dispossession of the original First Nation inhabitants, thus supporting the British imperial government’s strategic military goals. After transferring homeland religious and political conflict to the colony, Scottish settlers led the demand for political reform that emerged in the 1830s. As a consequence, their migration and settlement reveals as much about the depth of social conflict in the homeland and in the colonies as it does about the preoccupations of the British imperial state.