Author: John MacdiarmidPublisher:
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Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Lives of British Statesmen
Author: John FORSTERLives of British Statesmen
Author: John MACDIARMID (of Weem, Perthshire.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Evil Necessity
Author: Denver Alexander BrunsmanPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393351X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 615
Book Description
A fundamental component of Britain's early success, naval impressment not only kept the Royal Navy afloat--it helped to make an empire. In total numbers, impressed seamen were second only to enslaved Africans as the largest group of forced laborers in the eighteenth century. In The Evil Necessity, Denver Brunsman describes in vivid detail the experience of impressment for Atlantic seafarers and their families. Brunsman reveals how forced service robbed approximately 250,000 mariners of their livelihoods, and, not infrequently, their lives, while also devastating Atlantic seaport communities and the loved ones who were left behind. Press gangs, consisting of a navy officer backed by sailors and occasionally local toughs, often used violence or the threat of violence to supply the skilled manpower necessary to establish and maintain British naval supremacy. Moreover, impressments helped to unite Britain and its Atlantic coastal territories in a common system of maritime defense unmatched by any other European empire. Drawing on ships' logs, merchants' papers, personal letters and diaries, as well as engravings, political texts, and sea ballads, Brunsman shows how ultimately the controversy over impressment contributed to the American Revolution and served as a leading cause of the War of 1812. Early American HistoriesWinner of the Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an Outstanding Work of Scholarship in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Lives of British Statesmen. Lord Aberdeen, Russell, Palmerston, Gladstone, &c. [With Portraits.]
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Author: British StatesmenLives of British Statesmen. [With a Portrait.]
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Author: John Macdiarmid (of Weem, Perthshire.)Publisher:
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Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Lives of Eminent British Statesmen
Author: John Forster (Barrister-at-Law, of the Inner Temple.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Lives of Eminent British Statesmen
Author: John ForsterMr Churchill's Profession
Author: Peter ClarkePublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408831236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
In 1953, Winston Churchill received the Nobel Prize for Literature. In fact, Churchill was a professional writer before he was a politician, and published a stream of books and articles over the course of two intertwined careers. Now historian Peter Clarke traces the writing of the magisterial work that occupied Churchill for a quarter century, his four-volume History of the English-Speaking Peoples.As an author, Churchill faced woes familiar to many others; chronically short of funds, late on deadlines, scrambling to sell new projects or cajoling his publishers for more advance money. He signed a contract for the English-Speaking project in 1932, a time when his political career seemed over. The magnum opus was to be delivered in 1939, but in that year, history overtook history-writing. When the Nazis swept across Europe, Churchill was summoned from political exile to become Prime Minister. The English-Speaking Peoples would have to wait.The book would indeed be written and become a bestseller, after Churchill left public life. But even before he took office, the massive project was shaping his worldview, his speeches and his leadership. In these pages, Peter Clarke follows Churchill's monumental quest to chronicle the English-Speaking Peoples - a quest that helped to define the enduring 'special relationship' between Britain and America. In the process, Clarke gives us not just an untold chapter in literary history, but a fresh perspective on this iconic figure: a life of Churchill the author.
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Author: Cornwallis
Author: Richard MiddletonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300265506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
The first biography of Charles Cornwallis in forty years—the soldier, governor, and statesman whose career covered America, India, Britain, and Ireland Charles, First Marquis of Cornwallis (1738–1805), was a leading figure in late eighteenth-century Britain. His career spanned the American War of Independence, Irish Union, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the building of the Second British Empire in India—and he has long been associated with the unacceptable face of Britain’s colonial past. In this vivid new biography, Richard Middleton shows that this portrait is far from accurate. Cornwallis emerges as a reformer who had deep empathy for those under his authority, and was clear about his obligation to govern justly. He sought to protect the population of Bengal with a constitution of written laws, insisted on Catholic emancipation in Ireland, and recognized the limitations of British power after the American war. Middleton reveals how Cornwallis’ rewarding of merit, search for economy, and elimination of corruption helped improve the machinery of British government into the nineteenth century.