Author: J. G. CoadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Historic Architecture of Chatham Dockyard, 1700-1850
Author: J. G. CoadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
English Architecture Public & Private
Author: John F. BoldPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826421415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
This book brings together twenty-four original essays by colleagues, pupils and friends of Kerry Downes. The essays range from the late middle ages to the twentieth century but are concentrated on the period to the study of which Kerry Downes has contributed so much: that of Wren, Vanbrugh and Hawksmoor. Taken together these essays display the different approaches taken by architectural historians and the rich variety of English architecture.
English/British Naval History to 1815
Author: Eugene L. RasorPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313073112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
The English/British have always been known as the sailor race with hearts of oak: the Royal Navy as the Senior Service and First Line of Defense. It facilitated the motto: The sun never set on the British Empire. The Royal Navy has exerted a powerful influence on Great Britain, its Empire, Europe, and, ultimately, the world. This superior annotated bibliography supplies entries that explore the influence of the English/British Navy through its history. This survey will provide a major reference guide for students and scholars at all levels. It incorporates evaluative, qualitative, and critical analysis processes, the essence of historical scholarship. Each one of the 4,124 annotated entries is evaluated, assessed, analyzed, integrated, and incorporated into the historiographical scholarship.
British and Irish Archaeology
Author: Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719018756
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
The Seaforth Bibliography
Author: Eugene RasorPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473812399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 951
Book Description
This remarkable work is a comprehensive historiographical and bibliographical survey of the most important scholarly and printed materials about the naval and maritime history of England and Great Britain from the earliest times to 1815. More than 4,000 popular, standard and official histories, important articles in journals and periodicals, anthologies, conference, symposium and seminar papers, guides, documents and doctoral theses are covered so that the emphasis is the broadest possible. But the work is far, far more than a listing. The works are all evaluated, assessed and analysed and then integrated into an historical narrative that makes the book a hugely useful reference work for student, scholar, and enthusiast alike. It is divided into twenty-one chapters which cover resource centres, significant naval writers, pre-eminent and general histories, the chronological periods from Julius Caesar through the Vikings, Tudors and Stuarts to Nelson and Bligh, major naval personalities, warships, piracy, strategy and tactics, exploration, discovery and navigation, archaeology and even naval fiction. Quite simply, no-one with an interest and enthusiasm for naval history can afford to be without this book at their side.
The British Navy, Economy and Society in the Seven Years War
Author: Christian BuchetPublisher:
ISBN: 184383801X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
An analysis of how Britain developed a superb supply system for the navy, with beneficial consequences both for victory in war and for Britain's economic development.
Southern England
Author: R. A. OtterPublisher: Thomas Telford
ISBN: 9780727719713
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This guide covers from Cornwall to Kent, including Somerset and parts of Wiltshire and Surrey. It provides an informative look at some of the internationally renowned examples of historic development and engineering skills throughout southern England, including such examples as: Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse.
The Fighting Temeraire
Author: Sam WillisPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1605982105
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.
Historical Abstracts
Author: The Mariner's Mirror
Author: Leonard George Carr LaughtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description