Author: Thomas PennantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clwyd (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The History of the Parishes of Whiteford, and Holywell
Author: Thomas PennantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clwyd (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Slave Wales
Author: Chris EvansPublisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783161205
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, such as woollens from Montgomeryshire, were an important feature of plantation life in the West Indies. In turn, the profits of plantation agriculture flowed back into Wales, to be invested in new industries or to be lavished on country mansions. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1650 and 1850, bringing the most up-to-date scholarship on Atlantic slavery to bear on the Welsh experience. New research by Chris Evans casts light on previously unknown episodes, such as Welsh involvement with slave-based copper mining in nineteenth-century Cuba, and illuminates in new and disturbing ways familiar features of Welsh history - like the woollen industry - that have previously unsuspected 'slave dimensions'. Many Welsh people turned against slavery in the late eighteenth century, but Welsh abolitionism was never a particularly powerful force. Indeed, Chris Evans demonstrates that Welsh participation the slave Atlantic lasted well beyond the abolition of Britain's slave trade in 1807 and the ending of slavery in Britain's Caribbean empire in 1834.
Pennant Race
Author: Jim BrosnanPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062454897
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
“Brosnan obviously knows his baseball, writes about it wittily, informally and with irony. He is a cynical, tough professional athlete and his book makes wonderful reading.”—New Yorker From the author of The Long Season—considered by many to be the greatest baseball book of all time—comes another classic sports memoir by legendary pitcher Jim Brosnan, which chronicles how his team, the Cincinnati Reds, went on to win the 1961 National League pennant. In Pennant Race, Brosnan—with his trademark wise-guy wit and plain-spoken practicality—once again offers a refreshingly candid alternative to hackneyed baseball mythologizing. Day by day, game by game, Brosnan reveals the real lives of professional ballplayers: their exhilaration and frustration, hope and despair, chronic worry over job security, playful camaraderie, world-weary cynicism, and boyish—if cautious—optimism. Although the Reds would ultimately lose the World Series to the Yankees, for Brosnan and his teammates, this was a winning season. Pennant Race vividly captures a remarkable year in the life of a ball club and the golden age of one of Major League Baseball’s most memorable eras.
A Tour in Scotland 1769
Author: Thomas PennantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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The History of the Hawtrey Family
Author: Florence Molesworth HawtreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Quiver
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 978
Book Description
V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.
The academy
Author: The Family Creative Workshop
Author: Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Esgobaeth Llanelwy
Author: David Richard ThomasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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