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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385389410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Yorkshire Archaeological Journal
Author: Aymer de Valence
Author: J. R. S. PhillipsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192534610
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Aymer de Valence
Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture
Author: Rory RapplePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521843537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Examines the careers and political thinking of Elizabethan martial men, whose military ambitions were thwarted by a quietist foreign policy.
The Rural World 1780-1850
Author: Pamela HornPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351739840
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In this book, first published in 1980, the author draws a vivid picture of what country life was like for the vast majority of English villagers – agricultural labourers, craftsmen and small farmers – during a period of rapid agricultural development. This study analyses the influence of the enclosure movement on farming methods and on the structure of village life, and examines the devastating effects of the Napoleonic wars on English society. The Rural World is based on a wide range of sources, including parliamentary papers, contemporary letters, diaries and account books, and official records such as those relating to the Poor Law and the courts. It provides a fascinating overview of all aspects of rural life – from employment to home conditions, education, charity, crime, the role of religion and the influence of politics – during a critical period in English history.
Early Secular Effigies in England
Author: Henricus Augustinus TummersPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004610162
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Charles Waterton
Author: Brian W. EdgintonPublisher: James Clarke & Co.
ISBN: 9780718829247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Charles Waterton (1782-1865) n a true English eccentric, ironically self-styled 'the most commonplace of men'. He talked to insects, fought with snakes, rode an alligator and lived like a monk. He was made famous in his own lifetime by publication of hiswide-ranging travels and natural history observations - always fun, often perceptive, and unfailingly individual. One of his more notable contributions to science was the introduction into Europe of curare, now an invaluable drug in surgical operations. He turned his family estate into an extensive nature reserve; long before such things were heard of, and threw open his gates to the local populace as long as they understood that birds and animals had security of tenure. Waterton wrote three volumes of Essays on Natural History and the best-selling Wanderings in South America, which has never been out of print since the first publication in 1825. He was a fearsome satirist and pamphleteer, attacking prominent figures of his day both with his powerful penand with his taxidermy skills. His simple charm made a mockery of all those enemies who tried to capitalise on his human failings. Unlike previous biographies, this book is an unabashed celebration of his eccentricity, a fond salute to a fine old Englishgentleman. In the centenary year of the Canadian national park which is named after him, the life of Charles Waterton should encourage the preservation of what remains of his kind of world, and remind us of what the world has lost to insensitivity and greed.
Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
A review of history, antiquities and topography in the county.
Credit and Debt in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Alexander WakelamPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429647921
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain witnessed industrialisation, market growth, and the increasing sophistication of commerce, as the debtors’ prisons proved surprisingly effective. Due to insufficient early modern currency, almost every exchange was reliant upon the use of credit based upon personal reputation rather than defined collateral, making the lives of traders inherently precarious as they struggled to extract payments based on little more than promises. This book shows how traders turned to debtors’ prisons to give those promises defined consequences, the system functioning as a tool of coercive contract enforcement rather than oppression of the poor. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy and reveals how traders made use of existing institutions to alleviate the instabilities of commerce in the context of unprecedented market growth. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economic history and early modern British history.