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Author: Chris Barber
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-11-15
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1445663295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of its closure, Chris Barber offers a fascinating insight into the history behind this picturesque railway line.
Author: Mark Casson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2009-09-10
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 0199213976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first history of the British railway system written from a modern economic perspective. It uses conterfactual analysis to construct an alternative network to represent the most efficient alternative rail network that could have been constructed given what was known at the time - the first time this has been done.
Author: Alan Lester
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-17
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1139915878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow did those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century settler empire render colonization compatible with humanitarianism? Avoiding a cynical or celebratory response, this book takes seriously the humane disposition of colonial officials, examining the relationship between humanitarian governance and empire. The story of 'humane' colonial governance connects projects of emancipation, amelioration, conciliation, protection and development in sites ranging from British Honduras through Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales, New Zealand and Canada to India. It is seen in the lives of governors like George Arthur and George Grey, whose careers saw the violent and destructive colonization of indigenous peoples at the hands of British emigrants. The story challenges the exclusion of officials' humanitarian sensibilities from colonial history and places the settler colonies within the larger historical context of Western humanitarianism.
Author: Gwyn Briwnant-Jones
Publisher:
Published: 1998-12-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781859026762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gwyn Campbell
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2012-04-03
Total Pages: 1202
ISBN-13: 9004195181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1838, William Ellis of the LMS published a History of Madagascar―considered a key primary source for nineteenth-century Malagasy history. Four years later, David Griffiths, longest serving member of the Madagascar Mission, published Hanes Madagascar (“History of Madagascar”) in Welsh. Campbell’s study explores the intriguing relationship between these works and their authors. It analyses the role of Griffiths; presents evidence that much of Ellis’ History derived from Griffiths’ research; and presents the first ever translation of Hanes Madagascar (with extensive annotations). This study suggests that the tensions arising from the different cultural perceptions of Welsh and English missionaries moulded the destiny of the Madagascar mission. It will hopefully inspire re-evaluation of other missions and their relationship to British imperial policy.
Author: John Garrett
Publisher: [email protected]
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9782825406922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David St. John Thomas
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gwyn Briwnant-Jones
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781859026717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fully illustrated comprehensive and fascinating account of the origins and development of the railways which foreran the London, Midland and Scottish (LMS) railway through South Wales as far as the Swansea Valley, 1845-1945. Over 400 black-and-white and colour photographs, together with maps, diagrams and 4 paintings by one of the authors.
Author: Ken R. Manley
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2006-06-01
Total Pages: 467
ISBN-13: 159752719X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering study describes the quest of Baptists in the different colonies (later states) to develop their identity as Australians and Baptists. The first comprehensive history of Baptists in Australia with a national focus, the Baptist story is traced from their beginnings in 1831 with the first baptisms in Woolloomooloo Bay (Sydney) in 1832 down to modern times. Changes and continuities, achievements and failures are carefully analyzed and related to the wider social, political and cultural context.The first volume covers the period from 1831 until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 and shows how a strong sense of becoming an Australian Church shaped much of their development from the various types of British Baptists who began the movement in the new nation. What it meant to be an Australian Baptist is described using denominational newspapers, church records and personal memoirs.
Author: Zoe Laidlaw
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780719069185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. By the 1830s the conviction that personal connections were the best way of exerting influence within the imperial sphere went well beyond the metropolitan government, as lobbyists, settlers and missionaries also developed personal connections to advance their causes.
