A Journey Through England And Scotland To The Hebrides In 1784
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A Journey Through England And Scotland To The Hebrides In 1784
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Author : Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1907
A Journey Through England And Scotland To The Hebrides In 1784 written by Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with categories.
The French geologist Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819) abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural history, working at the museum of natural history in Paris and as royal commissioner of mines. His enthusiasm for geology took him in 1784 to Britain, to investigate the basalt formations on the Hebridean island of Staffa described by Sir Joseph Banks in Pennant's Tour in Scotland (also reissued in this series). His subsequent account was published in France in 1797, and first translated into English in an abridged form in 1814. This two-volume annotated translation by the well-known geologist Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), prefaced by a short biography of Faujas, was published in 1907. The work is interesting for its social as well as its geological observations. Volume 1 describes life in scientific circles in London, before recounting Faujas' journey to the Highlands of Scotland via Edinburgh and Glasgow.
A Journey Through England And Scotland To The Hebrides In 1784 A Revised Edition Of The English Translation
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Author : Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy)
language : en
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Release Date : 1907
A Journey Through England And Scotland To The Hebrides In 1784 A Revised Edition Of The English Translation written by Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with Great Britain categories.
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Author : Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy)
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Release Date : 1907
A Journey Through England And Scotland To The Hebrides In 1784 written by Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1907 with categories.
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Author : Barthlemy Faujas De St-Fond
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Library Collection
Release Date : 2014-03-25
A Journey Through England And Scotland To The Hebrides In 1784 written by Barthlemy Faujas De St-Fond and has been published by Cambridge Library Collection this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-25 with History categories.
Documents Of The Industrial Revolution 1750 1850
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Author : Richard L. Tames
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Documents Of The Industrial Revolution 1750 1850 written by Richard L. Tames and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Business & Economics categories.
This fascinating collection presents industrialization as a total historical process involving the destruction of one world simultaneously with the creation of another. Divided into two sections, it deals with elements of life such as the organization of labour, the health of the nation, rural and industrial societies, and poverty. The first section (The Expanding Economy) outlines the process by which economic growth took place and the second (The Social Impact) shows the impact this growth had on the society which both promoted and resisted it.
History Of Drinking
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Author : Anthony Cooke
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-19
History Of Drinking written by Anthony Cooke and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-19 with History categories.
What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common? They all toured Scotland and left accounts of their experiences in Scottish inns, ale houses, taverns and hotels. Similarly, poets and writers from Robert Burns and Walter Scott to Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh have left vivid descriptions of the pleasures and pains of Scottish drinking places. Pubs also provided public spaces for occupational groups to meet, for commercial transactions, for literary and cultural activities and for everyday life and work rituals such as births, marriages and deaths and events linked with the agricultural year. These and other historical issues such as temperance, together with contemporary issues, like the liberalization of licensing laws and the changing nature of Scottish pubs, are discussed in this fascinating book. The book is bought up to the present day by a case study of present day licensees, based on interviews with a range of licensees across Scotland, looking at their experience of the trade and how it has changed in their working lives.
The Industrial Revolutionaries
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Author : Gavin Weightman
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2010-05-18
The Industrial Revolutionaries written by Gavin Weightman and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-18 with History categories.
“Anyone with a passing interest in economic history will thoroughly enjoy” this account of how industry transformed the world (The Seattle Times). In less than one hundred and fifty years, an unlikely band of scientists, spies, entrepreneurs, and political refugees took a world made of wood and powered by animals, wind, and water, and made it into something entirely new, forged of steel and iron, and powered by steam and fossil fuels. This “entertaining and informative” account weaves together the dramatic stories of giants such as Edison, Watt, Wedgwood, and Daimler with lesser-known or entirely forgotten characters, including a group of Japanese samurai who risked their lives to learn the secrets of the West, and John “Iron Mad” Wilkinson, who didn’t let war between England and France stop him from plumbing Paris (The Wall Street Journal). “Integrating lively biography with technological clarity, Weightman converts the Industrial Revolution into an enjoyably readable period of history.” —Booklist “Skillfully stitching together thumbnail sketches of a large number of inventors, architects, engineers, and visionaries. . . . Weightman expertly marshals his cast of characters across continents and centuries, forging a genuinely global history that brings the collaborative, if competitive, business of industrial innovation to life.” —The New York Times Book Review
James Watt
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Author : Ben Russell
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2014-08-15
James Watt written by Ben Russell and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer James Watt (1736–1819) is best known for his pioneering work on the steam engine that became fundamental to the incredible changes and developments wrought by the Industrial Revolution. But in this new biography, Ben Russell tells a much bigger, richer story, peering over Watt’s shoulder to more fully explore the processes he used and how his ephemeral ideas were transformed into tangible artifacts. Over the course of the book, Russell reveals as much about the life of James Watt as he does a history of Britain’s early industrial transformation and the birth of professional engineering. To record this fascinating narrative, Russell draws on a wide range of resources—from archival material to three-dimensional objects to scholarship in a diversity of fields from ceramics to antique machine-making. He explores Watt’s early years and interest in chemistry and examines Watt’s partnership with Matthew Boulton, with whom he would become a successful and wealthy man. In addition to discussing Watt’s work and incredible contributions that changed societies around the world, Russell looks at Britain’s early industrial transformation. Published in association with the Science Museum London, and with seventy illustrations, James Watt is not only an intriguing exploration of the engineer’s life, but also an illuminating journey into the broader practices of invention in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Published in association with the Science Museum, London
Romantic Rocks Aesthetic Geology
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Author : Noah Heringman
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-23
Romantic Rocks Aesthetic Geology written by Noah Heringman and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why are rocks and landforms so prominent in British Romantic poetry? Why, for example, does Shelley choose a mountain as the locus of a "voice... to repeal / large codes of fraud and woe"? Why does a cliff, in the boat-stealing episode of Wordsworth's Prelude, chastise the young thief? Why is petrifaction, or "stonifying," in Blake's coinage, the ultimate figure of dehumanization? Noah Heringman maintains that British literary culture was fundamentally shaped by many of the same forces that created geology as a science in the period 1770–1820. He shows that landscape aesthetics—the verbal and social idiom of landscape gardening, natural history, the scenic tour, and other forms of outdoor "improvement"—provided a shared vernacular for geology and Romanticism in their formative stages.Romantic Rocks, Aesthetic Geology reexamines a wide range of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century poetry to discover its relationship to a broad cultural consensus on the nature and value of rocks and landforms. Equally interested in the initial surge of curiosity about the earth and the ensuing process of specialization, Heringman contributes to a new understanding of literature as a key forum for the modern reorganization of knowledge.
Documentary Archaeology In The New World
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Author : Mary C. Beaudry
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1988
Documentary Archaeology In The New World written by Mary C. Beaudry and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
It outlines a fresh approach to the archaeological study of the historic cultures of North America.