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Author : Nathaniel Hawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019577949
Author : Jane Meredith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047129641
There has been much written about James Gandon's great masterpiece, completed in 1791, and plans, paintings, drawings, etchings, photographs, etc. abound. This selection of images, each with its own commentary, takes a detailed look at the Custom House and its surrounds over the last two centuries from the point of view of the changes in the structure of the building itself, dock development and dockside activity, the adjoining buildings in Beresford Place and on the Quays, river traffic and the movement of bridges towards the sea. The title itself evokes the nature the contents which are introduced by noted architectural historian, Maurice Craig.
Author : Andrew Motion
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780571288120
Andrew Motion's new book opens with a sequence of war poems (first published as the pamphlet Laurels and Donkeys, on Armistice Day 2010), drawing on soldiers' experiences of war from 1914 until today - beginning with a story about Siegfried Sassoon and moving via World War Two and Korea to the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of the poems are in the voices of combatants, others are based on memories of the poet's father, who landed at D-day and fought in France and Germany. The poems combine understatement with a clear-eyed and unswerving candour.The Customs House has other rooms: a group of topographies, mapping moments in a marriage against the contingencies of place and family history; and several 'found poems', in which the poet collaborates with his source, mixing what is there already with what is about to be there: whether a remarkable sonnet sequence on the last days of the Baroque genius Francesco Borromini, or in other poems a richly imagined extrapolation from the silent premises of a painting.
Author : USA House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1180 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11037539
Author : Brian Belton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780750952477
This is a history of speedway at the West Ham stadium, from its first-ever dirt track meeting in 1928 to its final season in 1971. Exhaustively researched and supplemented with detailed statistical appendixes, this is a nostalgic but worthy tribute to the track heroes of a bygone era.
Author : Nancy S. Seasholes
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : 9780262194945
Historian Seasholes presents the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created. The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent settlement to the present.
Author : Evie Ybarra
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467140935
Eerie haunts and stories of apparitions stretch along the California coast from Monterey Bay to the Channel Islands. James Dean's presence lingers at the site of his deadly car crash on Highway 46, and a ghost-in-residence presides over the Robert Louis Stevenson house in Monterey. Learn of the ghoulish murders of the Reed family at the San Miguel Mission, the mysterious spirits that haunt the Hearst Castle and the twisted tales of strange occurrences in what was once the Camarillo State Hospital. Join author Evie Ybarra as she explores the unexplained along this infamous coast.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473375871
Jules Gabriel Verne (1828–1905) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist famous for his well-documented novels set in the second half of the nineteenth century, including “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1864) and “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas” (1870). Besides novels, he also produced many short stories, plays, poems, literary studies, and autobiographical accounts. Verne had a significant impact on surrealism and the literary avant-garde in France and Europe, and is considered to be among its most important authors. Part of his “Voyages extraordinaires” series of best-selling adventure novels, “Around the World in Eighty Days” (1872) is the classic tale of Phileas Fogg and his newly-employed French valet Passepartout who embark on a quest to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days for a £20,000 bet. One of Verne's most famous and celebrated work, “Around the World in Eighty Days” has inspired many real-life attempts to follow Fogg's trip as well as numerous plays, films, games, and more. Highly recommended for fans of classic adventure fiction. Read & Co. Classics is proud to be republishing this novel now in a brand new edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.
Author : United States House of Representatives
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11036991
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Finance
ISBN : NYPL:33433022479293
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11547861
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Customhouses
ISBN : LOC:00220790563
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119529035
Author : Isabel Hofmeyr
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781478022367
In Dockside Reading Isabel Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, dockside customs officials would leaf through publications looking for obscenity, politically objectionable materials, or reprints of British copyrighted works, often dumping these condemned goods into the water. These practices, echoing other colonial imaginaries of the ocean as a space for erasing incriminating evidence of the violence of empire, informed later censorship regimes under apartheid in South Africa. By tracking printed matter from ship to shore, Hofmeyr shows how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters. Set in the environmental context of the colonial port city, Dockside Reading explores how imperialism colonizes water. Hofmeyr examines this theme through the concept of hydrocolonialism, which puts together land and sea, empire and environment.
Author : William J. Ashworth
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199259216
This book traces the growth of customs and excise, and their integral role in shaping the framework of industrial England; including state power, technical advance, and the evolution of a consumer society. Central to this structure was the development of two economies - one legal and one illicit. If there was a unique English pathway of industrialization, it was less a distinct entrepreneurial and techno-centric culture, than one predominantly defined within an institutional framework spearheaded by the excise and a wall of tariffs. This process reached its peak by the end of the 1770s. The structure then quickly started to crumble under the weight of the fiscal-military state, and Pitt's calculated policy of concentrating industrial policy around cotton, potteries, and iron - at the expense of other taxed industries. The breakthrough of the new political economy was the erosion of the illicit economy; the smugglers' free trade now became the state's most powerful weapon in the war against non-legal trade. If at the beginning of the period covered by this book state administration was predominantly deregulated and industry regulated, by the close the reverse was the case.
