Описание: This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from the early years of telecommunications to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles over Western Union`s monopoly illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of the American political economy.
Автор: Bennett, Joshua (junior Research Fellow In History, Christ Church, Oxford) Название: God and progress ISBN: 0198837720 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198837725 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 15682.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This volume recovers the Victorian relationship between historical thought and religious debate to provide a new interpretation of intellectual life in nineteenth-century Britain. It argues that the rise of ideas of historical progress transformed religious culture, while theological controversy profoundly shaped how Victorians understood the past.
Автор: Ciar?n ? Murchadha Название: The Great Famine: Ireland`s Agony 1845-1852 ISBN: 1472507789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472507785 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 3800.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Great Famine: Ireland’s Agony examines this enormous human calamity anew. Beginning with the coming of the potato blight in 1845 and the resulting harvest failures that left the country’s impoverished population numb with shock as well as foodless, it explores government relief measures that so often failed to meet the needs of the poor, leading in fact to many more deaths.The book charts the horrific realities of Ireland’s pauper-crammed workhouses, the mass clearances of the later Famine period and the great waves of panic-driven emigration that in a few short years combined to empty the country of its once teeming population. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, official reports, newspapers and private diaries, the focus of the book rests on the experiences of those who suffered and died during the Famine, and on those who suffered and survived. This is an important book for anyone who wants to understand Europe’s greatest nineteenth century population disaster and its long term consequences.
Until recently little attention was paid to the role of art in constructing the “story” of the Irish nation. This wide-ranging study of Irish pictures and sculpture opens up the subject by providing a fresh interdisciplinary approach. Each work is analyzed beyond its strictly art historical relevance. A deeper investigation into the context in which a work was produced reveals much about the aspirations and ideological ambitions of artists, those commissioning works, and the viewing public. The study of such diverse topics as the representation of the Irish peasant, the behind-the-scenes tensions in setting up a national gallery for Ireland, the erecting of political monuments, Church art, West of Ireland landscape painting, and the difference in nationalistic fervor among artists as diverse as Albert G. Power and Jack B. Yeats unveil fascinating testimony about Ireland’s collective national “needs” and its constructs of identity.
Описание: The Turner Letters cover the years 1830-45 and give a lively view of life in a rural village in times of upheaval.
Автор: Anderson, Neil (brigham Young University) Название: Active skills for reading 2 ISBN: 1133308031 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781133308034 Издательство: Cengage Learning Рейтинг: Цена: 6257.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: A guides that develops learners` reading comprehension and vocabulary skills. It uses an Active approach to help learners become confident, independent - and active-readers.
Описание: During the pivotal 19th-century `decade of reform`, British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence - branded as `outrages` - as well as how their decisions might influence wider imperial concerns. This book demonstrates Ireland`s profound influence on British political culture in the 1830s and beyond.
Автор: Rubinstein, Hilary Название: The Durham Papers ISBN: 1032178078 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032178073 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5970.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Franklin Northwest Passage Expedition of 1845 is perhaps the greatest disaster in the history of exploration--all 129 men vanished, as did the expedition's two ships, HMS Erebus and Terror. Over the next 150 years, searchers found bones, clothing and a variety of relics. Inuit narratives provided some of the details of what happened to the frozen, starving sailors after they deserted their ice-locked ships in 1848. Then, in 2014 and 2016, Canadian researchers found the sunken wrecks themselves, not far from the bleak, windswept King William Island in the Arctic. At last, the mystery of the Franklin Expedition would be solved. Or would it?
This book pulls together the various searchers' discoveries; the many recent scientific studies that shed light on when, how and why the men died (and whether, in extremis, they ate each other); and illuminates what we know, and what we don't and may never know, about the fate of the expedition, a mystery that may never be fully solved.
Описание: This work chronicles the rise of Western Union Telegraph from the early years of telecommunications to its apogee as the first corporation to monopolize an industry on a national scale. The battles over Western Union`s monopoly illuminate the fierce tensions over the rising power of corporations after the Civil War and the reshaping of the American political economy.
Автор: Taylor Steven Название: Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907 ISBN: 1349956066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349956067 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 3492.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of sources from Victorian institutions to explore regional differences, rural and urban comparisons, and categories of mental illness and mental disability. The discussion of diverse pathways in and out of the asylum offers an opportunity to reassess nineteenth-century child mental impairment in a broad social-cultural context, and its conclusions widen the parameters of a ‘mixed economy of care’ by introducing multiple sites of treatment and confinement. Through its expansive scope the analysis intersects with topics such as the history of childhood, institutional culture, urbanisation, regional economic development, welfare history, and philanthropy.
Автор: Renshaw, Daniel Название: The Discourse of Repatriation in Britain, 1845-2016 ISBN: 0367708299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367708290 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 6583.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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