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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author: Prices of Books
Author: Henry Benjamin WheatleyPublisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Fine Books
Author: Alfred William PollardPublisher:
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Category : Illustrated books
Languages : en
Pages : 516
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A Book for a Rainy Day: Or, Recollections of the Events of the Years 1766-1833
Author: John Thomas SmithPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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A History of Tasmania, from Its Discovery in 1642 to the Present Time
Author: James FentonPublisher:
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Category : Tasmania
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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James Fenton (1820-1901) was born in Ireland and emigrated to Tasmania (then known as Van Diemen's Land) with his family in 1833. He became a pioneer settler in an area on the Forth River and published this history of the island in 1884. The book begins with the discovery of the island in 1642 and concludes with the deaths of some significant public figures in the colony in 1884. The establishment of the colony on the island, and the involvement of convicts in its building, is documented. A chapter on the native aborigines gives a fascinating insight into the attitudes of the colonising people, and a detailed account of the removal of the native Tasmanians to Flinders Island, in an effort to separate them from the colonists. The book also contains portraits of some aboriginal people, as well as a glossary of their language.
Machines as the Measure of Men
Author: Michael AdasPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801497605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.
Visit to the Falls of Niagara in 1800
Author: John MaudePublisher: London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green ; Wakefield [England] : R. Nichols
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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Visit to the falls is a diary of his journey from New York city to Albany, Niagara Falls, Kingston, Ont., Montreal, and Quebec.
A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)
Author: George SaintsburyPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Author: George Milbry GouldPublisher:
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Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Pandaemonium 1660–1886
Author: Humphrey JenningsPublisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848315864
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Collecting texts taken from letters, diaries, literature, scientific journals and reports, Pandæmonium gathers a beguiling narrative as it traces the development of the machine age in Britain. Covering the years between 1660 and 1886, it offers a rich tapestry of human experience, from eyewitness reports of the Luddite Riots and the Peterloo Massacre to more intimate accounts of child labour, Utopian communities, the desecration of the natural world, ground-breaking scientific experiments, and the coming of the railways. Humphrey Jennings, co-founder of the Mass Observation movement of the 1930s and acclaimed documentary film-maker, assembled an enthralling narrative of this key period in Britain's national consciousness. The result is a highly original artistic achievement in its own right. Thanks to the efforts of his daughter, Marie-Louise Jennings, Pandæmonium was originally published in 1985, and in 2012 it was the inspiration behind Danny Boyle's electrifying Opening Ceremony for the London Olympic Games. Frank Cottrell Boyce, who wrote the scenario for the ceremony, contributes a revealing new foreword for this edition.