The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy
The Voyage Alone in the Yawl Rob Roy

Author: John MacGregor

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2013-04-25

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 0486147975

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Lively record of a 1,500-mile voyage, from London to Paris, on a 21-foot sailboat in 1867 led legions of readers to set out on small-boat adventures of their own. Introduction.

Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said

Author: Lucia Carminati

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-08-08

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 0520385500

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Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labor's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's northern harbor, and 1906, when a railway connected it to the rest of Egypt. Through groundbreaking research, Lucia Carminati provides a ground-level perspective on the key processes touching late nineteenth-century Egypt: heightened domestic mobility and immigration, intensified urbanization, changing urban governance, and growing foreign encroachment. By privileging migrants' prosaic lives, Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said shows how unevenness and inequality laid the groundwork for the Suez Canal's making.

Democracy and Religion
Democracy and Religion

Author: J. P. Parry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-03-02

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780521367837

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An account of how the various religious and educational issues tackled by politicians led to the fall of Gladstone's first liberal party government in 1874 and to an identity crisis for British Liberalism.