Author: Charlotte Erickson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501734261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The British Isles provided more overseas settlers than any country in continental Europe during the nineteenth century, but English emigrants to North America have remained largely invisible, partly for lack of records about their departure or their experiences. Here Charlotte Erickson uses new sources to understand this long-neglected group and the nature of their lives in a new land.
Leaving England
Author: Charlotte Erickson
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501734261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The British Isles provided more overseas settlers than any country in continental Europe during the nineteenth century, but English emigrants to North America have remained largely invisible, partly for lack of records about their departure or their experiences. Here Charlotte Erickson uses new sources to understand this long-neglected group and the nature of their lives in a new land.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501734261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
The British Isles provided more overseas settlers than any country in continental Europe during the nineteenth century, but English emigrants to North America have remained largely invisible, partly for lack of records about their departure or their experiences. Here Charlotte Erickson uses new sources to understand this long-neglected group and the nature of their lives in a new land.
At Hawthorn Time
Author: Melissa Harrison
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408859068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Four-thirty on a May morning: the black fading to blue, dawn gathering somewhere below the treeline in the east. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields to the little village of Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked and ravished, violence gathered about them in the silent air. One wheel, upturned, still spins. Howard and Kitty have recently moved to Lodeshill after a life spent in London; now, their marriage is wordlessly falling apart. Custom car enthusiast Jamie has lived in the village for all of his nineteen years and dreams of leaving it behind, while Jack, a vagrant farm-worker and mystic in flight from a bail hostel, arrives in the village on foot one spring morning, bringing change. All four of them are struggling to find a life in the modern countryside; all are trying to find ways to belong. Building to an extraordinary climax over the course of one spring month, At Hawthorn Time is both a clear-eyed picture of rural Britain, and a heartbreaking exploration of love, land and loss.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408859068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2015 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 Four-thirty on a May morning: the black fading to blue, dawn gathering somewhere below the treeline in the east. A long, straight road runs between sleeping fields to the little village of Lodeshill, and on it two cars lie wrecked and ravished, violence gathered about them in the silent air. One wheel, upturned, still spins. Howard and Kitty have recently moved to Lodeshill after a life spent in London; now, their marriage is wordlessly falling apart. Custom car enthusiast Jamie has lived in the village for all of his nineteen years and dreams of leaving it behind, while Jack, a vagrant farm-worker and mystic in flight from a bail hostel, arrives in the village on foot one spring morning, bringing change. All four of them are struggling to find a life in the modern countryside; all are trying to find ways to belong. Building to an extraordinary climax over the course of one spring month, At Hawthorn Time is both a clear-eyed picture of rural Britain, and a heartbreaking exploration of love, land and loss.
England's Jews
Author: John Tolan
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512824003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512824003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Britain to America
Author: William E. Van Vugt
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067570
Category : British Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From 1820 to 1860, the United States and Great Britain were the two most closely interconnected countries in the world in terms of culture and economic growth. In an important addition to immigration history, William Van Vugt explores who came to America from Great Britain during this period and why. Disruptions and economic hardships, such as the repeal of Britain's protective Corn Laws, the potato famine, and technological displacement, do not account for the great mid-century surge of British migration to America. Rather than desperation and impoverishment, Van Vugt finds that immigrants were motivated by energy, tenacity, and ambition to improve their lives by taking advantage of opportunities in America. Drawing on county histories, passenger lists of immigrant ships, census data, and manuscript collections in Great Britain and the United States, Van Vugt sketches the lives and fortunes of dozens of immigrant farmers, miners, artisans, skilled and unskilled laborers, professionals, and religious nonconformists.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252067570
Category : British Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
From 1820 to 1860, the United States and Great Britain were the two most closely interconnected countries in the world in terms of culture and economic growth. In an important addition to immigration history, William Van Vugt explores who came to America from Great Britain during this period and why. Disruptions and economic hardships, such as the repeal of Britain's protective Corn Laws, the potato famine, and technological displacement, do not account for the great mid-century surge of British migration to America. Rather than desperation and impoverishment, Van Vugt finds that immigrants were motivated by energy, tenacity, and ambition to improve their lives by taking advantage of opportunities in America. Drawing on county histories, passenger lists of immigrant ships, census data, and manuscript collections in Great Britain and the United States, Van Vugt sketches the lives and fortunes of dozens of immigrant farmers, miners, artisans, skilled and unskilled laborers, professionals, and religious nonconformists.
Understanding Ingeborg Bachmann
Author: Karen Achberger
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872499942
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Bachmann & her critique of postwar Europe.
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9780872499942
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Bachmann & her critique of postwar Europe.
The Oxford Reformers
Author: Frederic Seebohm
Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh
ISBN: 3846055832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
Publisher: Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh
ISBN: 3846055832
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1869.
The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke ...
Author: Thomas Macknight
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The poetical writings of Orson F. Whitney
Author: O.F. Whitney
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879514889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5879514889
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The Life of Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Secretary of State in the Reign of Queen Anne
Author: Thomas Macknight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
Report of the Committee
Author: Baptist Missionary Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description