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Author : Ralph E. Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0678013179
Author : Ralph Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015002994211
Author : James Silk Buckingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108038577
This two-volume autobiography of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), traveller, writer and social idealist, was published in 1855.
Author : Ralph Turner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:34024328
Author : James Silk Buckingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1108032524
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) was a writer who travelled extensively throughout the world and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. In addition, he was a supporter of political reform and served as the first MP for Sheffield, from 1832 to 1837. On retiring from Parliament, he left for North America, where he spent nearly four years, saying, 'I had a strong desire to add to the knowledge ... acquired of the Old World, by examining for myself the most favoured portion of the New'. He recounts part of his time in America - during which he visited every state in the Union except Florida and Arkansas, as well as some of the provinces of Canada - in this three-volume work, published in 1841. Volume 2 follows his travels through Pennsylvania, Delaware, and upstate New York before he heads to Niagara Falls.
Author : James Silk Buckingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1108033458
The Cornish-born traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) campaigned energetically for social reform while a Member of Parliament during the 1830s. He later spent four years in the United States, and in 1839 travelled across the Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Alabama to observe at first hand the inhumane treatment of slaves in a system that showed 'reckless indifference to human life'. Originally published in 1842, and dedicated to Prince Albert, this two-volume work documents Buckingham's findings and argues that the USA should follow Britain's example in abolishing slavery. Within the framework of a travel narrative recording climate, geography, flora and fauna, Buckingham describes the use of slaves in industries as diverse as gold mining, cotton manufacturing, railways, canals, and agriculture. He highlights the social and political issues surrounding free labour, and relations between the slaves and their employers. Volume 1 includes descriptions of Charleston, Augusta, and New Orleans.
Author : James Silk Buckingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108038584
This two-volume autobiography of James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), traveller, writer and social idealist, was published in 1855.
Author : Sandra Mayer,Ruth Scobie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501392351
Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide range of socio-political concerns. This book is the first to explore – through history, criticism and creative interventions – the relationship between authorship, political activism and celebrity culture across historical periods, cultures, literatures and media. It brings together scholars, industry stakeholders and prominent writer-activists to engage in a conversation on literary fame and public authority. These scholarly essays, interviews, conversations and opinion pieces interrogate the topos of the artist as prophet and acute critic of the zeitgeist; analyse the ideological dimension of literary celebrity; and highlight the fault lines between public and private authorial selves, 'pure' art, political commitment and marketplace imperatives. In case studies ranging from the 18th century to present-day controversies, authors illuminate the complex relationship between literature, politics, celebrity culture and market activism, bringing together vivid current debates on the function and responsibility of literature in increasingly fractured societies.
Author : Isadora Duncan,James Silk Buckingham,Marietta Holley,Wilhelm Dilthey,William Seward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1799
Category : Biography
ISBN : LCCN:21002562
Author : Lars U. Scholl
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786949165
This book presents twelve essays by historian David M. Williams, in order to pay tribute to his career. The essays stretch from 1807 through to the end of the nineteenth century, and address both economic and social themes. Topics include maritime trade, deployment of merchant ships, the state regulations concerning shipping, shipwrecks and loss of life, passenger cargoes, slavery, cotton, timber and coffee trades, and the working conditions of seamen over the course of the century. The plight of the maritime labourer is at the core of this collection. The essays primarily focus on British shipping, and firmly places it within an international context. The book is introduced by Lars U. Scholl, followed by two tributes to Williams’ career, one by Peter N. Davies, the other by Lewis R. Fischer. Scholl concludes the volume with a thorough bibliography of Williams’ maritime writings: books, chapters, and articles.
Author : Mark Towsey,Kyle B. Roberts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004348677
Before the Public Library explores the emergence of community-based lending libraries in the Atlantic World in the two centuries before the advent of the Public Library movement in the mid-nineteenth century through essays by eighteen leading scholars.
Author : James Silk Buckingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1108046452
Originally published between 1824 and 1853, these four pieces by James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) illuminate the concerns of a broad-minded traveller and the problems of governing an empire. A newspaperman, social reformer and fierce critic of the East India Company, Buckingham published the Calcutta Journal until his expulsion from India in 1823 for attacking vested interests. The first and second pieces reissued here are his open letters, written anonymously in 1824, to the M.P. Sir Charles Forbes regarding press freedom and the expulsion, without trial, of himself and another editor. These are followed by an 1830 account of the reception of his public lecture tour on the East India Company's monopoly, and an 1853 outline for the future government of India. Together, these polemical texts provide great insight into contemporary colonial debates surrounding British rule in India.
Author : María Dolores Elizalde,Wang Jianlang
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527504172
For a long time, the idea of China as a culture and society which was voluntarily secluding itself from the rest of the world was dominant. But, in reality, China has always been part of the world, just as the world has always sought to penetrate China. The relationship between China and the world was, in the past, sometimes smooth, and at other times it was difficult, but nevertheless the bond remained alive. This collection presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the dynamics developed with the countries of the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and Japan, and the gradual path of Europeans and Americans towards China. The book reviews the development of diplomatic relations, the signing of agreements and alliances, and the rise and resolution of conflicts. It also analyses the forging of economic relations, the establishment of commercial exchanges and the creation of companies, professional bodies and institutions of collaboration.
Author : Sue Appleby
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789017137
The first book to look specifically at the movement of Cornish men and women to and from the Caribbean from the early days of colonialism. A fascinating subject for those with an interest in all things Cornish, be they in Cornwall, in the Caribbean, or in the wider Cornish diaspora. The Cornish in the Caribbean is the first study to tell the stories of some of the many Cornish men and women who went to the Caribbean. Some became wealthy plantation owners, while others came as indentured servants and labourers. Cornish men were active in the armed services, taking part in the numerous sea and land battles fought by the competing European powers throughout the region. Cornish officers and crew sailed on the ships of the Falmouth Packet Service which took the mail to and from the Caribbean. Methodism was strong in Cornwall and Methodist missionaries and their wives came to the Caribbean to evangelise both the enslaved and the newly free. The most striking transfer of Cornish skills to the Caribbean was to be found in mining. As Cornish mining declined, and the Great Emigration of miners and their families got underway, Cornish mining engineers, captains and miners went out to mines throughout the Caribbean. “Meticulously researched and highly readable” Bridget Brereton, Professor Emerita, University of the West Indies.
Author : Jack S. Blocker Jr.,David M. Fahey,Ian R. Tyrrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 805 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781576078341
A comprehensive encyclopedia on all aspects of the production, consumption, and social impact of alcohol. Alcohol and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia spans the history of alcohol production and consumption from the development of distilled spirits and modern manufacturing and distribution methods to the present. Authoritative and unbiased, it brings together the work of hundreds of experts from a variety of disciplines with an emphasis on the extraordinary wealth of scholarship developed in the past several decades. Its nearly 500 alphabetically organized entries range beyond the principal alcoholic beverages and major producers and retailers to explore attitudes toward alcohol in various countries and religions, traditional drinking occasions and rituals, and images of drinking and temperance in art, painting, literature, and drama. Other entries describe international treaties and organizations related to alcohol production and distribution, global consumption patterns, and research and treatment institutions, as well as temperance, prohibition, and antiprohibitionist efforts worldwide.