1820 1914

Author : William C. Lubenow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0521572134

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The Cambridge Apostles, 1820-1914 by William C. Lubenow Pdf

This book offers a highly engaging history of the world's most famous secret society, the Cambridge 'Apostles', based upon the lives, careers and correspondence of the 255 Apostles elected to the Cambridge Conversazione Society between 1820 and 1914. It examines the way in which the Apostles recruited their membership, the Society's discussions and its intellectual preoccupations. From its pages emerge such figures as F. D. Maurice, John Sterling, John Mitchell Kemble, Richard Trench, Fenton Hort, James Clerk Maxwell, Henry Sidgwick, Lytton Strachey, E. M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes. The careers of these and many other leading Apostles are traced, through parliament, government, letters, and in public school and university reform. The book also makes an important contribution in discussing the role of liberalism, imagination and friendship at the intersection of the life of learning and public life. This is a major contribution to the intellectual and social history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and to the history of the University of Cambridge. It demonstrates in impressive depth just how and why the Apostles forged original themes in modern intellectual life.

Author : Gabriele Esposito
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472855398

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Ottoman Armies 1820–1914 by Gabriele Esposito Pdf

This book describes and illustrates the armies of the embattled Ottoman Turkish Empire involved in 19th-century wars during the Empire's long spiral of decline. During the so called 'long 19th century', between the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the difficulties faced by the Ottoman Turkish Empire were a recurrent factor in international geopolitics. Against a background of Russian–Ottoman rivalry, France and Britain supported the Empire during the Crimean War (1854–56), but not in the Russo–Turkish War (1877–78). Portraying the uniforms, arms and appearance of Ottoman troops during this period, this book traces the history of the Ottoman Empire throughout this period, when no fewer than ten wars of regional insurgency and foreign expansion against the Empire were fought in territories in south-eastern Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. Using rare photos and illustrations from Turkish, Balkan and other sources, author, Gabriele Esposito details the history of the multi-ethnic Ottoman armies periodic attempts to modernize which enabled them to win some victories at a tactical level. But the Empire – 'the sick man of Europe' – lacked a coherent strategy or sufficient resources, and failed attempts to crush regional uprisings and to defend borders, saw the steady loss of territories. Due to misgovernment and economic failure, unrest finally boiled over in 1908–09, reducing the sultan's court to a largely ceremonial role, and installing a military government by the 'Young Turks' led by the general Enver Pasha. This book is a vivid description of the organization, operations, uniforms and equipment of one of the most active and varied armies of the 'long 19th century' and paints a detailed picture of the Ottoman Empire's struggle to maintain control of its territories.

Author : Jonathan Sperber
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191515866

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Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914 by Jonathan Sperber Pdf

Historians have often employed the concept of civil society, an intermediary realm between the family and the state, to analyse nineteenth-century Europe and North America. They have concentrated on voluntary associations, the press and public meetings, the constituent elements of Jürgen Habermas's 'public sphere', in doing so overlooking a central element of nineteenth-century civil society: property and its disposition, whether within the family or in the marketplace. This book examines the place of property in the society of south-western Germany during property's nineteenth-century golden age. It analyses the culture of property ownership and property transactions within families, among business partners and competitors, and among creditors and debtors. The work considers the boundaries of property, outlining relationships between neighbouring property owners, and showing how property ownership helped shape social distinctions between men and women, Christians and Jews, the upper and lower classes, the sane and the insane, and between honourable and dishonourable actions. It traces the development of property relations and property transactions from the end of the Napoleonic era to the eve of the First World War. The book's conclusion compares conditions in south-western Germany with those elsewhere in Europe and North America, and considers changes in property relations occurring in Germany during the age of total war and in the post-1945 period in the light of structures and developments in the nineteenth century. Based on extensive documentation from civil court records, Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany presents its results through the recounting of intriguing, sometimes bizarre, but always revealing stories of legal disputes. A reconsideration of the nature of civil society, an analysis of nineteenth-century social development and social conflict, a study of the nature and action of the law in everyday life, the book is also an ironic and bemused look at the past human condition.

Author : Lance E. Davis,Robert J. Cull
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521526442

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International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914 by Lance E. Davis,Robert J. Cull Pdf

This book is a study of the capital transfers to the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and, for the latter decades of that period, of the transfers from the United States to the rest of the worldMparticularly Canada, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central and South America. It provides a quantitative estimate of the level and industrial composition of those transfers, and qualitative descriptions of the sources and uses of those funds; and it attempts to assess the role of those foreign transfers on the economic development of the recipient economies. In the process, it describes the evolution of the American domestic capital market. Finally, it explores the issue of domestic political response to foreign investment, attempting to explain why, given the obvious benefits of such investment, the political reaction was so negative and so intense in Latin America and in the American West, but so positive in Canada and the eastern United States.

Author : Jonathan Sperber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199284757

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Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914 by Jonathan Sperber Pdf

Based on extensive documentation from original court records, this study on the uses of property in 19th century Germany provides new insights into the nature of civil society. Social attitudes and beliefs are revealed in the intriguing, and sometimes bizarre, stories of legal disputes.

Author : Eric W. Sager
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773515232

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Seafaring Labour by Eric W. Sager Pdf

Sager argues that sailors were not misfits or outcasts but were divorced from society only by virtue of their occupation. The wooden ships were small communities at sea, fragments of normal society where workers lived, struggled, and often died. With the coming of the age of steam, the sailor became part of a new division of labour and a new social hierarchy at sea. Sager shows that the sailor was as integral to the transition to industrial capitalism as any land worker.

Author : Charles Hou,Cynthia Hou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0968001610

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Great Canadian Political Cartoons, 1820 to 1914 by Charles Hou,Cynthia Hou Pdf

Grade level: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, i, s, t.

Author : Susan Belasco,Theresa Strouth Gaul,Linck Johnson,Michael Soto
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1864 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119653356

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A Companion to American Literature by Susan Belasco,Theresa Strouth Gaul,Linck Johnson,Michael Soto Pdf

A comprehensive, chronological overview of American literature in three scholarly and authoritative volumes A Companion to American Literature traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the field. Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period. Volume One is an inclusive and geographically expansive examination of early American literature, applying a range of cultural and historical approaches and theoretical models to a dramatically expanded canon of texts. Volume Two covers American literature between 1820 and 1914, focusing on the development of print culture and the literary marketplace, the emergence of various literary movements, and the impact of social and historical events on writers and writings of the period. Spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries, Volume Three studies traditional areas of American literature as well as the literature from previously marginalized groups and contemporary writers often overlooked by scholars. This inclusive and comprehensive study of American literature: Examines the influences of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and disability on American literature Discusses the role of technology in book production and circulation, the rise of literacy, and changing reading practices and literary forms Explores a wide range of writings in multiple genres, including novels, short stories, dramas, and a variety of poetic forms, as well as autobiographies, essays, lectures, diaries, journals, letters, sermons, histories, and graphic narratives. Provides a thematic index that groups chapters by contexts and illustrates their links across different traditional chronological boundaries A Companion to American Literature is a valuable resource for students coming to the subject for the first time or preparing for field examinations, instructors in American literature courses, and scholars with more specialized interests in specific authors, genres, movements, or periods.

Author : Robert John Morris,Richard Rodger
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004393992

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The Victorian City by Robert John Morris,Richard Rodger Pdf

Author : Eric W. Sager,Gerald E. Panting
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0773515208

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Maritime Capital by Eric W. Sager,Gerald E. Panting Pdf

In this final volume of the Atlantic Canada Shipping Project, Sager and Panting argue that the decline of the shipping industry was not, as has commonly been assumed, the inevitable result of the conversion from wood and sail to iron and steam. They show that the merchant class, in failing to maintain a merchant marine built and owned in their region, contributed in no small way to the Maritimes' present state of underdevelopment. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Alan Metcalfe
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0415356970

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Leisure and Recreation in a Victorian Mining Community by Alan Metcalfe Pdf

This text explores recreational life during a period of economic and social change which was important to bring meaning and pleasure to the lives, often described as 'horrendous', of Victorian miners in the north-east of England.

Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139828291

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The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914 by Joanne Shattock Pdf

The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the 1830s, and the roots of modernism in the years leading up to the First World War. The Companion demonstrates how science, medicine and theology influenced creative writing and emphasizes the importance of the visual in painting, book illustration and in technological innovations from the kaleidoscope to the cinema. Essays also chart the complex and fruitful interchanges with writers in America, Europe and the Empire, highlighting the geographical expansion of literature in English. This Companion brings together the most important aspects of this prolific and popular period of English literature.

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Administration,Robert B. Matchette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 936 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Public records
ISBN : IND:30000042428965

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Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States by United States. National Archives and Records Administration,Robert B. Matchette Pdf

Author : Avraham Barkai
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0841911525

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Branching Out by Avraham Barkai Pdf

The narrative chronicles their experiences in the goldfields of California, on Indian reservations, and during the Civil War, in which German-Jewish soldiers in the Union and Confederate armies struggled against bigotry to assert their civil rights.

Author : Mark Hewitson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1107611997

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Germany and the Modern World, 1880-1914 by Mark Hewitson Pdf

The German Empire before 1914 had the fastest growing economy in Europe and was the strongest military power in the world. Yet it appeared, from a reading of many contemporaries' accounts, to be lagging behind other nation-states and to be losing the race to divide up the rest of the globe. This book is an ambitious re-assessment of how Wilhelmine Germans conceived of themselves and the German Empire's place in the world in the lead-up to the First World War. Mark Hewitson re-examines the varying forms of national identification, allegiance and politics following the creation and consolidation of a German nation-state in light of contemporary debates about modernity, race, industrialization, colonialism and military power. Despite the new claims being made for the importance of empire to Germany's development, he reveals that the majority of transnational networks and contemporaries' interactions and horizons remained intra-European or transatlantic rather than truly global.