Author: Roger RudderhamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781904136149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Robber Barons and Fighting Bishops
Author: Roger RudderhamPublisher:
ISBN: 9781904136149
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Bloody British History: Suffolk
Author: Robert LeaderPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075096278X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Death, Danes and disaster in Dark Age Ipswich! The castles are burning! Attacks, rebellions, battles and wars in ancient Suffolk! Queen of Blood and Fire! The dark days of Bloody Mary revealed! Sea of blood! Smugglers, sea battles, U-Boats and invasions along the Suffolk coast! The Zeppelins are coming! Bombs and bodies in the First World War! Suffolk has one of the most amazing histories of any British county. Betrayals, conspiracies and invasions have left their mark on this eastern frontier. Discover how vicious power struggles between the Danes and the Vikings shaped the history of not just the county, but the United Kingdom as a whole. Read of the troublesome Bigod dynasty, the Suffolk city under the sea and the strange story of the thousands of burnt corpses that washed up on the county's beaches during the Second World War. Discover the dark truth inside!
The Bishop and the Butterfly
Author: Michael WolraichPublisher: Union Square & Co.
ISBN: 1454948035
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The riveting story of how the murder of femme fatale Vivian Gordon in 1931 brought about the downfall of the mayor of New York City and led to the end of Tammany Hall’s dominance. Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names—businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else: a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham’s powerful political machine—the infamous Tammany Hall.
The Swiss Monthly
Author: The Bishop's Daughter
Author: Honor MoorePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393059847
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
A daughter of a New York bishop chronicles their turbulent relationship, his journey from robber-baron wealth to work among America's post-war urban poor, and his contributions as a civil rights and peace activist.
The Swiss Monthly
Author: Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse
Author: Robert F. ZeidelPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501748335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Robber Barons and Wretched Refuse explores the connection between the so-called robber barons who led American big businesses during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era and the immigrants who composed many of their workforces. As Robert F. Zeidel argues, attribution of industrial-era class conflict to an "alien" presence supplements nativism—a sociocultural negativity toward foreign-born residents—as a reason for Americans' dislike and distrust of immigrants. And in the era of American industrialization, employers both relied on immigrants to meet their growing labor needs and blamed them for the frequently violent workplace contentions of the time. Through a sweeping narrative, Zeidel uncovers the connection of immigrants to radical "isms" that gave rise to widespread notions of alien subversives whose presence threatened America's domestic tranquility and the well-being of its residents. Employers, rather than looking at their own practices for causes of workplace conflict, wontedly attributed strikes and other unrest to aliens who either spread pernicious "foreign" doctrines or fell victim to their siren messages. These characterizations transcended nationality or ethnic group, applying at different times to all foreign-born workers. Zeidel concludes that, ironically, stigmatizing immigrants as subversives contributed to the passage of the Quota Acts, which effectively stemmed the flow of wanted foreign workers. Post-war employers argued for preserving America's traditional open door, but the negativity that they had assigned to foreign workers contributed to its closing.
Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, with Communications Made to the Society
Author: Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Cambridge, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
An Introduction to Medieval Europe, 300-1500
Author: James Westfall ThompsonPublisher: New York : Norton
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
"First edition.""For this revision of his History of the middle ages, 300-1500 ... (W.W. Norton & company, inc., 1931) Professor Thompson put at my disposal a manuscript in which he made many alterations from the original text. I am deeply obligated to him not only for this opportunity presented, but also for the unlimited freedom he granted me to reorganize, rewrite and expand his manuscript."--Pref., signed: Edgar N. Johnson."References for further reading": pages 1053-1067.
A Short History of France for Young People
Author: Elizabeth Stansbury KirklandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description