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A Guide to Stage Coaches, Diligences, Waggons, Carts, Coasting Vessels, Barges, and Boats, Which Carry Passengers and Merchandize from London, Westminster, and Southwark, to the Different Towns in Great Britain.
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Maritime Enterprise and Empire
The 19C roots of globalisation demonstrated through an account of the enterprise network created by the Scottish merchant, William Mackinnon. WINNER OF THE 2004 WADSWORTH PRIZE. …
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement
This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement.
Pestilence, Insanity, and Trees
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven …
A Journal, Kept on a Journey from Bassora to Bagdad; Over the Little Desert, to Aleppo, Cyprus, Rhodes, Zante, Corfu; And Otranto, in Italy; In the Year 1779.
Slavery and Forced Migration in the Antebellum South
American slavery in the antebellum period was characterized by a massive wave of forced migration as millions of slaves were moved across state lines to the expanding southwest, …
History of the Province of Cat (Caithness and Sutherland)
Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with …
Environment, Power, and Injustice
This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods - Tswana agropastoral …
Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor
First published in 1805, this work summarises the vast array of laws at the time on the relief of the poor in Great Britain. Split across two volumes, it not only condenses the …
The Life and Adventures of Matthew Bishop of Deddington in Oxfordshire. Containing an Account of Several Actions by sea, Battles and Sieges by Land, ... From 1701 to 1711, ... Written by Himself
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its …
Reading and Writing History from Bruni to Windschuttle
Featuring work by researchers in the fields of early modern studies, Italian studies, ecclesiastical history and historiography, this volume of essays adds to a rich corpus of …