After the Rebellion
After the Rebellion

Author: Lilian F. Gates

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 1996-07-25

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 1554880696

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This comprehensive book on William Lyon Mackenzie’s later life focuses first on the period 1838-1849, Mackenzie’s years in exile in the United States. It examines his contribution to the American political scene, including his role in writing the constitution of the State of New York. The book also chronicles Mackenzie’s life from 1849, when he was granted amnesty and returned to Canada, to his death in 1861. In this, the only comprehensive look at Mackenzie’s life, Lillian Gates offers a meticulous account of one of Canada’s liveliest nineteenth century politicians.

Slavemaster President
Slavemaster President

Author: William Dusinberre

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2003-03-27

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0195157354

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Yet Polk was in some respects an enlightened owner, instituting an unusual incentive plan for his slaves and granting extensive privileges to his most favored slave.".

Early Merchant Families of Sydney
Early Merchant Families of Sydney

Author: Janette Holcomb

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2014-08-01

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1783081252

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Establishing business enterprise in a tiny, remote penal settlement appears to defy the principles of sustainable demand and supply. Yet early Sydney attracted a number of business entrepreneurs, including Campbell, Riley and Walker. If the development of private enterprise in early colonial Australia is counterintuitive, an understanding of its rationale, nature and risk strategies is the more imperative. This book traces the development of private enterprise in Australia through a study of the antecedents, connections and commercial activities of early Sydney merchants.

Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919
Literature and the Irish Famine 1845-1919

Author: Melissa Fegan

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 2002-08-08

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0191555002

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The impact of the Irish famine of 1845-1852 was unparalleled in both political and psychological terms. The effects of famine-related mortality and emigration were devastating, in the field of literature no less than in other areas. In this incisive new study, Melissa Fegan explores the famine's legacy to literature, tracing it in the work of contemporary writers and their successors, down to 1919. Dr Fegan examines both fiction and non-fiction, including journalism, travel-narratives and the Irish novels of Anthony Trollope. She argues that an examination of famine literature that simply categorizes it as 'minor' or views it only as a silence or an absence misses the very real contribution that it makes to our understanding of the period. This is an important contribution to the study of Irish history and literature, sharply illuminating contemporary Irish mentalities.