Author: Tim Hitchcock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
London Lives
Author: Tim Hitchcock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025273
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
Town Life in Australia
Author: Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Australia the Hard Way
Author: David Pyle
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9780340105108
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9780340105108
Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Made in England
Author: David Malouf
Publisher: Quarterly Essay
ISBN: 9781863953955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2003, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the Westminster system, as the irreducible ground on which any Australian achievement is based. Britain has always been the tolerant parent, and an older Australia could be both intensely patriotic and see itself as what it was, a transplantation of Britain. This relationship did not exclude America but it made for a sometimes complicated threesome of nations. This is a brilliant, deeply meditated essay by one of our finest writers about the traditions that shaped Australia and which connect it to one of the mightier traditions in world history. '... Made in England is ... a case of one of Australia's most eminent novelists allowing himself to imagine, and by imagining to analyse, the hopes and glories, once and future, that were part of this new Britannia.' - Peter Craven, Introduction'Any argument for the republic based on the need to make a final break with Britain will fail.' - David Malouf, Made In England
Publisher: Quarterly Essay
ISBN: 9781863953955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
In the fourth Quarterly Essay of 2003, David Malouf looks at Australia's bond with Britain and wonders whether it wasn't the Mother Country which did most of the giving. This is an essay which presents British civilisation, the civilisation of Shakespeare and the Enlightenment and the Westminster system, as the irreducible ground on which any Australian achievement is based. Britain has always been the tolerant parent, and an older Australia could be both intensely patriotic and see itself as what it was, a transplantation of Britain. This relationship did not exclude America but it made for a sometimes complicated threesome of nations. This is a brilliant, deeply meditated essay by one of our finest writers about the traditions that shaped Australia and which connect it to one of the mightier traditions in world history. '... Made in England is ... a case of one of Australia's most eminent novelists allowing himself to imagine, and by imagining to analyse, the hopes and glories, once and future, that were part of this new Britannia.' - Peter Craven, Introduction'Any argument for the republic based on the need to make a final break with Britain will fail.' - David Malouf, Made In England
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)
Author: James Hawes
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1615198156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1615198156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.
The Lincolnshire Wolds in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Charles K. Rawding
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wolds, The (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wolds, The (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Life's Work as it Is, Or, The Emigrant's Home in Australia
Author: Colonist
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aboriginal Australians
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Australian Autobiographical Narratives
Author: Kay Walsh
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642107947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.
Publisher: National Library Australia
ISBN: 9780642107947
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Australian Autobiographical Narratives Volume 2 and its partner Volume 1 provide researchers with detailed annotations of published Australian autobiographical writing. Both volumes are a rich resource of the European settlement of Australia. Theis selection concentrates on the post-gold rush period, providing portraits of 533 individuals, from amateur explorers to politicians, from pioneer settlers to sportsmen. Like Volume 1, it offers an intimate and absorbing insight into nineteenth-century Australia.
Australia and Britain
Author: A. F. Madden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135780730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
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Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135780730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This title available in eBook format. Click here for more information. Visit our eBookstore at: www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk.
The Life You Can Save
Author: Peter Singer
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812981561
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812981561
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Argues that for the first time in history we're in a position to end extreme poverty throughout the world, both because of our unprecedented wealth and advances in technology, therefore we can no longer consider ourselves good people unless we give more to the poor. Reprint.