The Dawn of Green
The Dawn of Green

Author: Harriet Ritvo

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-09-16

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 0226720845

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Located in the heart of England’s Lake District, the placid waters of Thirlmere seem to be the embodiment of pastoral beauty. But under their calm surface lurks the legacy of a nineteenth-century conflict that pitted industrial progress against natural conservation—and helped launch the environmental movement as we know it. Purchased by the city of Manchester in the 1870s, Thirlmere was dammed and converted into a reservoir, its water piped one hundred miles south to the burgeoning industrial city and its workforce. This feat of civil engineering—and of natural resource diversion—inspired one of the first environmental struggles of modern times. The Dawn of Green re-creates the battle for Thirlmere and the clashes between conservationists who wished to preserve the lake and developers eager to supply the needs of a growing urban population. Bringing to vivid life the colorful and strong-minded characters who populated both sides of the debate, noted historian Harriet Ritvo revisits notions of the natural promulgated by romantic poets, recreationists, resource managers, and industrial developers to establish Thirlmere as the template for subsequent—and continuing—environmental struggles.

A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707
A History of the Modern British Isles, 1603-1707

Author: David Lee Smith

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1998-04-08

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780631194019

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This is a survey of a seminal and intensely controversial period in British history, from the union of the Crowns of England and Scotland in 1603 to the union of the Kingdoms in 1707. The book explores the intersecting histories of the Stuart monarchies and considers how events in each nation were shaped by being part of a multiple kingdom as well as by their own internal dynamics. Throughout, special attention is given to the personalities and political style of successive rulers. Their role in precipitating two revolutions is examined against the background of longer term constitutional, religious and social themes. In particular, the parallels between James I and Charles II, and between Charles I and James II, are clearly drawn out.

The Dawn of Modern Warfare
The Dawn of Modern Warfare

Author: Hans Delbr_ck

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 9780803265868

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Translation of: Geschichte der Kriegskunst im Rahmen der politischen Geschichte.

Boston and the Dawn of American Independence
Boston and the Dawn of American Independence

Author: Brian Deming

Publisher: Westholme Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781594162404

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"In 1760, no one could imagine the American colonies revolting against Great Britain. The colonists were not hungry peasants groaning under the whip of a brute. They lived well. Land was cheap, wages were good, opportunities abounded. While many colonists had been in the New World for generations, they identified with Britain, and England was still "home." Yet in the space of just fifteen years these sturdy bonds snapped. Boston -- a town of just 16,000 -- lit the fire for American Independence. Here the author explains how and why in his deeply researched history." --Page 4 of cover.

Winter King
Winter King

Author: Thomas Penn

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 1439191573

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Originally published in Great Britain by Penguin Books Ltd., 2011.

Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England
Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England

Author: Francis Young

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2017-10-30

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1786722917

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Treason and magic were first linked together during the reign of Edward II. Theories of occult conspiracy then regularly led to major political scandals, such as the trial of Eleanor Cobham Duchess of Gloucester in 1441. While accusations of magical treason against high-ranking figures were indeed a staple of late medieval English power politics, they acquired new significance at the Reformation when the 'superstition' embodied by magic came to be associated with proscribed Catholic belief. Francis Young here offers the first concerted historical analysis of allegations of the use of magic either to harm or kill the monarch, or else manipulate the course of political events in England, between the fourteenth century and the dawn of the Enlightenment. His book addresses a subject usually either passed over or elided with witchcraft: a quite different historical phenomenon. He argues that while charges of treasonable magic certainly were used to destroy reputations or to ensure the convictions of undesirables, magic was also perceived as a genuine threat by English governments into the Civil War era and beyond.