The Age Of Cunard

Author : Daniel Allen Butler
Publisher : ProStar Publications
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1577853482

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The Age of Cunard by Daniel Allen Butler Pdf

For a century and a half, the single most important sea lane in the world was the transatlantic route linking the Old World with the New. For three hundred years, sailing ships sufficed to carry cargoes and people, but the demands of Steam Age business and commerce demanded more regularity. Just as the steam engine had allowed railroads to replace the unpredictability of stagecoaches on land with dependable schedules, steamships promised to bring this reliability to crossing the Atlantic. This is where the story of the Cunard Line began. The greatest influence Cunard would ever have on world events would be the leading role during the last half of the 19th century, when the great migration of millions of emigrants transformed the populations of Europe, the United States, and Canada. Wars devastation came to the Cunard Line with WW1 and WW2, as the power of the German submarine fleet -- built with one purpose in mind, to sever the North Atlantic shipping lanes -- threatened Great Britains very existence. By 1963, more people chose to travel by airplane than by steamship -- and it was the beginning of the end. Sir Winston Churchill observed, "You came into great things by the accident of sea power... By an accident of air power, you will probably cease to exist."

Author : Chris Frame,Rachelle Cross
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0750990023

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The Cunard Colouring Book by Chris Frame,Rachelle Cross Pdf

Stunning illustrations to colour in, charting the history and heritage of the Cunard Line

Author : Nils Schwerdtner
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1591141052

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The New Cunard Queens by Nils Schwerdtner Pdf

"With a fascinating mixture of maritime history and contemporary analysis, the author describes the history of the Cunard Line, before saying farewell to the QE2, which will retire to Dubai as a floating hotel in November 2009."--Global Books in Print.

Author : John A. Butler
Publisher : Potomac Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1574885219

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Atlantic Kingdom by John A. Butler Pdf

Atlantic Kingdom pays tribute to the Americans who challenged Cunard, the shipping company that held a monopoly on North Atlantic trade routes in the nineteenth century. In an era when civilisation first grappled with large-scale technology and creative industries promised a new standard of living, competition for control over maritime trade was fierce. Cornelius Vanderbilt and P. T. Barnum were among those who battled like mythical gods for control of their domains. These titans of the Atlantic left behind them a wreckage of human lives, lost ships, and squandered fortunes in their failed bids for supremacy of the seas. This book is a clear, succinct, lively, and sure-handed evocation of American maritime enterprise at its zenith.

Author : Simon Bliss
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501326813

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Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918-1940 by Simon Bliss Pdf

Why has jewellery and body adornment often been marginalized in studies of modernist art and design? This study explores the relationship between jewellery, modernism and modernity from the 'jazz age' to the second world war in order to challenge the view that these portable art forms have only a minor role to play in histories of modernism. From the masterworks of the Parisian jewellery houses to the film and photography of Man Ray, this study seeks to present jewellery in a new light, where issues of representation and display are considered to be as important in the creation of a modern 'jewellery culture' as the objects themselves. Drawing on material from museums, archives, contemporary journals, memoirs, literary and theoretical texts, this study shows how the emergence of modern jewellery began to seriously question conventional notions of body adornment.

Author : Lois Gordon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231511377

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Nancy Cunard by Lois Gordon Pdf

Lois Gordon's absorbing biography tells the story of a writer, activist, and cultural icon who embodied the dazzling energy and tumultuous spirit of her age, and whom William Carlos Williams once called "one of the major phenomena of history." Nancy Cunard (1896-1965) led a life that surpasses Hollywood fantasy. The only child of an English baronet (and heir to the Cunard shipping fortune) and an American beauty, Cunard abandoned the world of a celebrated socialite and Jazz Age icon to pursue a lifelong battle against social injustice as a wartime journalist, humanitarian aid worker, and civil rights champion. Cunard fought fascism on the battlefields of Spain and reported firsthand on the atrocities of the French concentration camps. Intelligent and beautiful, she romanced the great writers of her era, including three Nobel Prize winners, and was the inspiration for characters in the works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Pablo Neruda, Samuel Beckett, and Ernest Hemingway, among others. Cunard was also a prolific poet, publisher, and translator and, after falling in love with a black American jazz pianist, became deeply committed to fighting for black rights. She edited the controversial anthology Negro, the first comprehensive study of the achievement and plight of blacks around the world. Her contributors included Langston Hughes, W. E. B. Du Bois, and Zora Neale Hurston, among scores of others. Cunard's personal life was as complex as her public persona. Her involvement with the civil rights movement led her to be ridiculed and rejected by both family and friends. Throughout her life, she was plagued by insecurities and suffered a series of breakdowns, struggling with a sense of guilt over her promiscuous behavior and her ability to survive so much war and tragedy. Yet Cunard's writings also reveal an immense kindness and wit, as well as her renowned, often flamboyant defiance of prejudiced social conventions. Drawing on diaries, correspondence, historical accounts, and the remembrances of others, Lois Gordon revisits the major movements of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of a truly gifted and extraordinary woman. She also returns Nancy Cunard to her rightful place as a major figure in the historical, social, and artistic events of a critical era.

Author : Anne Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : OCLC:1150861688

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Nancy Cunard by Anne Chisholm Pdf

Author : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0714633879

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Business in the Age of Depression and War by Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines Pdf

First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Jane Marcus
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781949979305

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Nancy Cunard by Jane Marcus Pdf

In the wake of inadequate histories of radical writing and activism, Nancy Cunard: Perfect Stranger rejects stereotypes of Cunard as spoiled heiress and “sexually dangerous New Woman,” offering instead a bold, unapologetic, evidence-based portrait of a woman and her significant contributions to 21st century considerations of gender, race, and class.

Author : William Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-22
Category : Ocean liners
ISBN : 1781555672

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Maritime Royalty by William Miller Pdf

The Cunard QUEENS are known to millions.; The the most famous liners of all. They attract attention wherever they sailed, but the QUEEN MARY is possibly the most beloved. She sailed for 31 years, carried millions of passengers and made over 1000 trips across the North Atlantic. She is a ship of great memories--passengers on crossings, officer & crew

Author : Elspeth Wills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Celebrities
ISBN : 0954245121

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Stars Aboard by Elspeth Wills Pdf

Author : Frank Osborn Braynard,William H. Miller
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780486265506

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Picture History of the Cunard Line, 1840-1990 by Frank Osborn Braynard,William H. Miller Pdf

Photographs, prints, and text portray Cunard ships, inside and out, from the earliest steamships, through the great liners of the earlier twentieth century, to modern cruise ships

Author : Francis E. Hyde
Publisher : Springer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1975-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349023905

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Cunard and the North Atlantic 1840–1973 by Francis E. Hyde Pdf

Author : Chris Frame,Rachelle Cross
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0750993766

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180 Years of Cunard by Chris Frame,Rachelle Cross Pdf

This new paperback edition is updated with events over the last 5 years since the 175th anniversary hardback was produced, and includes many colorful new photos. On July 4, 2020, the Cunard Line turned 180. It is without question the most famous transatlantic shipping company and much beloved on both sides of the Atlantic. Throughout its history Cunard has been instrumental in creating the American dream, transporting millions of immigrants to the new world. During both world wars, the Cunard ships answered the call of duty and transported thousands of troops to fight on the sides of the allies. After the Great Depression, Cunard merged with the famous White Star Line to form Cunard-White Star, and the enduring history of this great shipping line has carried on into the 21st century, with the three current Queens celebrating Cunard's heritage.

Author : Niels Eichhorn
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030276409

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Atlantic History in the Nineteenth Century by Niels Eichhorn Pdf

This book argues that a vibrant, ever-changing Atlantic community persisted into the nineteenth century. As in the early modern Atlantic world, nineteenth-century interactions between the Americas, Africa, and Europe centered on exchange: exchange of people, commodities, and ideas. From 1789 to 1914, new means of transportation and communication allowed revolutionaries, migrants, merchants, settlers, and tourists to crisscross the ocean, share their experiences, and spread knowledge. Extending the conventional chronology of Atlantic world history up to the start of the First World War, Niels Eichhorn uncovers the complex dynamics of transition and transformation that marked the nineteenth-century Atlantic world.