Britain Divided

Author : Pat Thane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040914
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Kingdom written by Pat Thane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-02 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A clear, comprehensive survey of British history from 1900 to the present, integrating political, economic, social and cultural history.

Author : Rupert Thomson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408833131
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Kingdom written by Rupert Thomson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is winter, somewhere in the United Kingdom, and an eight-year-old boy is removed from his home and family in the middle of the night. He learns that he is the victim of an extraordinary experiment. In an attempt to reform society, the government has divided the population into four groups, each representing a different personality type. The land, too, has been divided into quarters. Borders have been established, reinforced by concrete walls, armed guards and rolls of razor wire. Plunged headlong into this brave new world, the boy tries to make the best of things, unaware that ahead of him lies a truly explosive moment, a revelation that will challenge everything he believes in and will, in the end, put his very life in jeopardy ...

Author : Richard J. M. Blackett
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807126455
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Hearts written by Richard J. M. Blackett and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2000-12-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided Hearts explores the passionate political strife that raged in Britain as a result of the American Civil War. Moving beyond Mary Ellison's 1972 landmark regional study of Lancashire cotton workers' reactions, R. J. M. Blackett opens the subject to a new, wider transatlantic context of influence and undertakes a deftly researched and written sociological, intellectual, and political examination of who in Britain supported the Union, who the Confederacy, and why. The American Civil War had a profound effect on Britain's political culture; no other event during that period -- not in Poland, Hungary, Italy, or British colonies -- compared. Blackett argues that the traditional historiographical assessments of British partisanship along class and economic lines must be reevaluated in light of the nature and changing contours of transatlantic abolitionist connections, the ways in which nationalism framed the debate, and the effect that race -- among other issues -- exerted over the British public's perception of conditions in America. Divided Hearts presents a compelling and innovative thesis, one sure to engage scholars in many fields of history.

Author : Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293398
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Empire Divided written by Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There were 26—not 13—British colonies in America in 1776. Of these, the six colonies in the Caribbean—Jamaica, Barbados, the Leeward Islands, Grenada and Tobago, St. Vincent; and Dominica—were among the wealthiest. These island colonies were closely related to the mainland by social ties and tightly connected by trade. In a period when most British colonists in North America lived less than 200 miles inland and the major cities were all situated along the coast, the ocean often acted as a highway between islands and mainland rather than a barrier. The plantation system of the islands was so similar to that of the southern mainland colonies that these regions had more in common with each other, some historians argue, than either had with New England. Political developments in all the colonies moved along parallel tracks, with elected assemblies in the Caribbean, like their mainland counterparts, seeking to increase their authority at the expense of colonial executives. Yet when revolution came, the majority of the white island colonists did not side with their compatriots on the mainland. A major contribution to the history of the American Revolution, An Empire Divided traces a split in the politics of the mainland and island colonies after the Stamp Act Crisis of 1765-66, when the colonists on the islands chose not to emulate the resistance of the patriots on the mainland. Once war came, it was increasingly unpopular in the British Caribbean; nonetheless, the white colonists cooperated with the British in defense of their islands. O'Shaughnessy decisively refutes the widespread belief that there was broad backing among the Caribbean colonists for the American Revolution and deftly reconstructs the history of how the island colonies followed an increasingly divergent course from the former colonies to the north.

Author : Christopher Davies
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547350288
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided by a Common Language written by Christopher Davies and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to the language differences between the United States and United Kingdom is “a fascinating collection full of all kinds of surprises” (Minneapolis Star Tribune). Taxi rank . . . toad in the hole . . . dustman . . . fancy dress . . . American visitors to London (or viewers of British TV shows) might be confused by these terms. But most Britons would be equally puzzled by words like caboose, bleachers, and busboy. In Divided by a Common Language, Christopher Davies explains these expressions and discusses the many differences in pronunciation, spelling, and vocabulary between British and American English. He compares the customs, manners, and practical details of daily life in the United Kingdom and the United States, and American readers will enjoy his account of American culture as seen through an Englishman’s eyes. Davies tops it off with an amusing list of expressions that sound innocent enough in one country but make quite the opposite impression in the other. Two large glossaries help travelers translate from one variety of English to the other, and additional lists explain the distinctive words of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. This delightful book is the ideal companion for travelers—or anyone who enjoys the many nuances of language.

Author : Tom Hazeldine
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786634090
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Northern Question written by Tom Hazeldine and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the UK’s regional inequalities, and why they matter Differences between England’s North and South continue to shape national politics, from attitudes to Brexit and the electoral collapse of Labour’s ‘Red Wall’ to Whitehall’s experimentation with regional pandemic lockdowns. Why is this fault line such a persistent feature of the English landscape? The Northern Question is a history of England seen in the unfamiliar light of a northern perspective. While London is the capital and the centre for trade and finance, the proclaimed leader of the nation, northern England has always seemed like a different country. In the nineteenth century its industrializing society appeared set to bring a political revolution down upon Westminster and the City. Tom Hazeldine recounts how subsequent governments put finance before manufacturing, London ahead of the regions, and austerity before reconstruction.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A TOUR Through the Whole ISLAND of GREAT BRITAIN. Divided Into CIRCUITS Or JOURNIES. Containg I. A DESCRITPION of the Principal Cities and Towns, Their Situation, Government, and Commerce. II. The Customs, Manners, Exercises, Diversions, and Employments of the People. III. The Nature and Virtue of the Many Medicnal Springs with which Both Parts of the United Kingdom Abound; Particularly Those of Bath, Tunbridge, Bristol, Cheltenham, Buxton, &c. IV. An Ample Description of London, Including Westminster and Southwark, Their Bridges, Squares, Hospitals, Churches, Palaces, Markets, Schools, Libraires, Shipping in the Thames, and Trade, by Means of that Noble River, &c. V. The Produce and Improvement of the Lands, the Trade and Manufactures. VI. The Sea Ports and Fortifications, the Course of Rivers, and the Inland Navigation. VII. The Publick Edifices, Seats, and Palaces, of the Nobility and Gentry. VIII. THe Ifles of Wight, Scilly, Portland, Jersey, Guernsey, and the Other English and Scottish Isles of Most Note. Interspersed with Useful OBSERVATIONS. Particularrly Fitted for the Perusal of Such as Desire to Travel Over the ISLAND. Originally Begun by the Celebrated DNAIEL DE FOE, Continued by the Late Mr. RICHARDSON, Author of Clarissa, and Brought Down to the Present Time by a Gentleman of Eminence in the Literary World written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tour Through the Island of Great Britain. Divided Into Circuits Or Journies. Containing 1. A Description of the Principal Cities and Towns, Their Situation, Government, and Commerce ... Originally Begun by the Celebrated Daniel De Foe, Continued by the Late Mr. Richardson... In Four Volumes. Vol. 1. [-4.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A TOUR Through the Whole ISLAND of GREAT BRITAIN. Divided Into CIRCUITS Or JOURNIES. Containg I. A Description of the Principal Cities and Towns, Their Situation, Government, and Commerce. II. The Customs, Manners, Exercises, Diversions, and Employments of the People. III. The Nature and Virtue of the Many Medicnal Springs with which Both Parts of the United Kingdom Abound; Particularly Those of Bath, Tunbridge, Bristol, Cheltenham, Buxton, &c. IV. An Ample Description of London, Including Westminster and Southwark, Their Bridges, Squares, Hospitals, Churches, Palaces, Markets, Schools, Libraires, Shipping in the Thames, and Trade, by Means of that Noble River, &c. V. The Produce and Improvement of the Lands, the Trade and Manufactures. VI. The Sea Ports and Fortifications, the Course of Rivers, and the Inland Navigation. VII. The Publick Edifices, Seats, and Palaces, of the Nobility and Gentry. VIII. THe Ifles of Wight, Scilly, Portland, Jersey, Guernsey, and the Other English and Scottish Isles of Most Note. Interspersed with Useful OBSERVATIONS. Particularrly Fitted for the Perusal of Such as Desire to Travel Over the ISLAND. Originally Begun by the Celebrated DNAIEL DE FOE, Continued by the Late Mr. RICHARDSON, Author of Clarissa, and Brought Down to the Present Time by a Gentleman of Eminence in the Literary World written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. J. Connolly
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191562432
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divided Kingdom written by S. J. Connolly and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-08-28 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political allegiance. Later, after 1688, Ireland became the battlefield for what was otherwise Britain's bloodless (and so Glorious) Revolution. The eighteenth century, by contrast, was a period of peace, permitting Ireland to emerge, first as a dynamic actor in the growing Atlantic economy, then as the breadbasket for industrialising Britain. But at the end of the century, against a background of international revolution, new forms of religious and political conflict came together to produce another period of multi-sided conflict. The Act of Union, hastily introduced in the aftermath of civil war, ensured that Ireland entered the nineteenth century still divided, but no longer a kingdom.