Author: Charles ChapmanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368162993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
A Voyage from Southampton to Cape Town, in the Union Company's Mail Steamer "Syria"
Author: Charles ChapmanPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368162993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
A Voyage from Southampton to Cape Town, in the Union Company's Mail Steamer "Syria", the Quickest Passage Out on Record, One Thousand Miles Cruise Along Coast, Two Thousand Miles Journey Through Kaffir-land, Etc., Etc
Author: Charles ChapmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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Author: The Book Buyer
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
A review and record of current literature.
A Brilliant Commodity
Author: Saskia Coenen SnyderPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197610471
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Following diamonds from African mines to the necklines of high society women, this international history shows why Jews were central to the transatlantic gem trade and its growth into a global industry. During the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of diggers, prospectors, merchants, and dealers extracted and shipped over 50 million carats of diamonds from South Africa to London. The primary supplier to the world, South Africa's diamond fields became one of the formative sites of modern capitalist production. At each stage of the diamond's route through the British empire and beyond-from Cape Town to London, from Amsterdam to New York City-carbon gems were primarily mined, processed, appraised, and sold by Jews. In A Brilliant Commodity, historian Saskia Coenen Snyder traces how once-peripheral Jewish populations became the central architects of a new, global exchange of diamonds that connected African sites of supply, European manufacturing centers, American retailers, and western consumers. Centuries of restrictions had limited Jews to trade and finance, businesses that often heavily relied on internal networks. Jews were well-positioned to become key players in the earliest stage of the diamond trade and its growth into a global industry, a development fueled by technological advancements, a dramatic rise in the demand of luxury goods, and an abundance of rough stones. Relying on mercantile and familial ties across continents, Jews created a highly successful commodity chain that included buyers, brokers, cutters, factory owners, financiers, and retailers. Working within a diasporic ethnic community that bridged city and countryside, metropole and colony, Jews helped build a flourishing diamond industry, notably Hatton Garden in London and the Diamond District of New York City, and a place for themselves in the modern world.
All That Glitters
Author: Shelagh MazeyPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1800468865
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
All That Glitters is the fifth book in the Heart of Stone Series, following on from The Golden Fleece. Set in the late 19th century it charts the heroic adventures of two women who decide to leave their homes and nurturing families to travel abroad seeking romance, love and new futures.
The Irish Assassins
Author: Julie KavanaghPublisher: Grove Atlantic
ISBN: 0802149383
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A brilliant true crime account of the assassinations that altered the course of Irish history from the “compulsively readable” writer (The Guardian). One sunlit evening, May 6, 1882, Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke, Chief Secretary and Undersecretary for Ireland, were ambushed and stabbed to death while strolling through Phoenix Park in Dublin. The murders were funded by American supporters of Irish independence and carried out by the Invincibles, a militant faction of republicans armed with specially made surgeon’s blades. They put an end to the new spirit of goodwill that had been burgeoning between British Prime Minister William Gladstone and Ireland’s leader Charles Stewart Parnell as the men forged a secret pact to achieve peace and independence in Ireland—with the newly appointed Cavendish, Gladstone’s protégé, to play an instrumental role in helping to do so. In a story that spans Donegal, Dublin, London, Paris, New York, Cannes, and Cape Town, Julie Kavanagh thrillingly traces the crucial events that came before and after the murders. From the adulterous affair that caused Parnell’s downfall; to Queen Victoria’s prurient obsession with the assassinations; to the investigation spearheaded by Superintendent John Mallon, also known as the “Irish Sherlock Holmes,” culminating in the eventual betrayal and clandestine escape of leading Invincible James Carey and his murder on the high seas, The Irish Assassins brings us intimately into this fascinating story that shaped Irish politics and engulfed an Empire. Praise for Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life “Easily the best biography of the year.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “The definitive biography of ballet’s greatest star whose ego was as supersized as his talent.” —Tina Brown, award-winning journalist and author
Mailships of the Union-Castle Line
Author: C. J. HarrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
This absorbing account of the ocean mail service that plied between Britain and southern Africa between 1857 to 1977 captures the spirit of an era now gone.
The Fairbridge Library
Author: Charles Aken FairbridgePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africana
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
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