Armstrong S River Empire
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Armstrong S River Empire
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Author : Richard E. Keys
language : en
Publisher: Newcastle Libraries & Information Service
Release Date : 2010
Armstrong S River Empire written by Richard E. Keys and has been published by Newcastle Libraries & Information Service this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Shipbuilding categories.
Lord W G Armstrong's River Tyne shipyards at Elswick and Low Walker achieved worldwide fame for turning out well-built vessels of many types. From cruisers and battleships to icebreakers and oil tankers, the combined output of the two yards ships to owners throughout the globe spanned nearly a century. This book offers a celebration of Armstrong.
The Early Empire Builders Of The Great West
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Author : Moses Kimball Armstrong
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
The Early Empire Builders Of The Great West written by Moses Kimball Armstrong and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with History categories.
"This volume is compiled from the author's 'Early History of Dakota Territory, ' published in 1866, to which are here added other pioneer sketches of early adventures, Indian wars, overland journeys, and pen pictures of pioneer law makers in the legislature and in congress thirty and forty years ago. All the historical and descriptive sketches herein were written at the time and place wherein the scenes are laid, by the author, who was an actual participant and a personal witness."--Preface.
The Armstrongs
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Author : Derek James Stewart
language : en
Publisher: American Academic Press
Release Date : 2017-07-11
The Armstrongs written by Derek James Stewart and has been published by American Academic Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-11 with Fiction categories.
The Armstrongs were the number one “Riding” family on the Anglo/Scots Border during the 16th century. They were the most destructive of the Border reivers... and can arguably be called Britain’s worst ever family. The book follows two narratives... The first delves into the history of the Armstrongs; origins, where they lived, their society and how they survived across a violent frontier... The second narrative is a gazetteer of family biographies – A who’s who of raiders and marauders based on court cases and criminal trials. Tales of ransom, murder, arson, blackmail and theft are explored, drawing out the family’s story during this unique period.
The Settlers Empire
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Author : Bethel Saler
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015
The Settlers Empire written by Bethel Saler and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
The 1783 Treaty of Paris, which officially recognized the United States as a sovereign republic, also doubled the territorial girth of the original thirteen colonies. The fledgling nation now stretched from the coast of Maine to the Mississippi River and up to the Great Lakes. With this dramatic expansion, argues author Bethel Saler, the United States simultaneously became a postcolonial republic and gained a domestic empire. The competing demands of governing an empire and a republic inevitably collided in the early American West. The Settlers' Empire traces the first federal endeavor to build states wholesale out of the Northwest Territory, a process that relied on overlapping colonial rule over Euro-American settlers and the multiple Indian nations in the territory. These entwined administrations involved both formal institution building and the articulation of dominant cultural customs that, in turn, served also to establish boundaries of citizenship and racial difference. In the Northwest Territory, diverse populations of newcomers and Natives struggled over the region's geographical and cultural definition in areas such as religion, marriage, family, gender roles, and economy. The success or failure of state formation in the territory thus ultimately depended on what took place not only in the halls of government but also on the ground and in the everyday lives of the region's Indians, Francophone creoles, Euro- and African Americans, and European immigrants. In this way, The Settlers' Empire speaks to historians of women, gender, and culture, as well as to those interested in the early national state, the early West, settler colonialism, and Native history.
Over Empires And Oceans
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Author : Robert Bluffield
language : en
Publisher: Tattered Flag
Release Date : 2014-11-19
Over Empires And Oceans written by Robert Bluffield and has been published by Tattered Flag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-19 with History categories.
This a story of pioneers, intrepid aviators, adventurers, tycoons and innovators. It is also a story of dedication and determination, for despite fixed-wing aircraft proving their value over the battlefields of the Western Front during the First World War, convincing governments and public alike that they had a role in peacetime proved far more challenging. The Americans, as inventors of heavier-than-air powered flight, had briefly courted with a passenger airline across Tampa Bay in 1914, yet it took a further nine years for mail to be flown coast-to-coast. In 1919 a British company made the first international scheduled flight between London and Paris, but the continuation of regular services was thwarted by a less-than-enthusiastic government that allowed its generously subsidised French competition, for a short time at least, to fly cross-Channel passenger schedules unimpeded. The British eventually realzed that fast links with their Empire were vital, followed the example of the French and Dutch who had forged air links with their cousins in North Africa and the Far East. Meanwhile, in South America, the Germans, forbidden under the Versailles Treaty from any major aircraft-building, were establishing cunning supremacy by forming airlines throughout South America and in China. While America awaited a transcontinental passenger service, Juan Trippe's Pan American Airways was crossing swords with Ralph O'Neill of New York, Rio & Buenos Aires Line (NYRBA) for air supremacy between the US, Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America that led to the formation of arguably the world's greatest airline. In Russia, Igor Sikorsky had built a vast passenger-carrying aircraft, the Il'ya Muromets, and politicians debated whether giant airships or fixed-wing aircraft should rule the skies _ an issue that was put firmly to bed when the mighty German airship Hindenburg exploded while mooring at Lakehurst in 1937. Robert BluffieldÍs highly researched and detailed account tells the dramatic stories of explorers such as Kingsford Smith, Lindbergh and Cobham, and flamboyant entrepreneurs, some well known, others forgotten, who risked fortunes and reputations to follow their dreams of reaching and ruling the skies over empires, continents and oceans. Against bewildering adversity, corruption, underhanded deals and dwindling resources, these tenacious individuals braved the elements using primitive, entirely unsuitable equipment to establish earth-shrinking aerial services that criss-crossed the great oceans and the globe's most inhospitable territories. These are the stories of those pioneers _ of A_ropostale, CNAC, Air Orient, Imperial Airways, KLM, Deutsche Luft Hansa, Pan Am, SCADTA, The Condor Syndicat, Qantas and others that had a far-reaching impact on the way the modern world would travel.
At The Edge Of Empire
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Author : Eric Hinderaker
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003-05-09
At The Edge Of Empire written by Eric Hinderaker and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-09 with History categories.
During the 17th century, the Western border region of North America which existed just beyond the British imperial reach became an area of opportunity, intrigue and conflict for the diverse peoples - Europeans and Indians alike - who lived there. This book examines the complex society there.
The Road To Wigan Pier
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Author : George Orwell
language : en
Publisher: Modernista
Release Date : 2024-04-26
The Road To Wigan Pier written by George Orwell and has been published by Modernista this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-26 with categories.
George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.
When Money Grew On Trees
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Author : Greg Gordon
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2014-04-02
When Money Grew On Trees written by Greg Gordon and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California—from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron. Although he began his career as a pioneer entrepreneur, Hammond, unlike many of his associates, successfully negotiated the transition to corporate businessman. Against the backdrop of western expansion and nation-building, his life dramatically demonstrates how individuals—more than the impersonal forces of political economy—shaped capitalism in this country, and in doing so, transformed the forests of the West from functioning natural ecosystems into industrial landscapes. In revealing Hammond’s instrumental role in converting the nation’s public domain into private wealth, historian Greg Gordon also shows how the struggle over natural resources gave rise to the two most pervasive forces in modern American life: the federal government and the modern corporation. Combining environmental, labor, and business history with biography, When Money Grew on Trees challenges the conventional view that the development and exploitation of the western United States was dictated from the East Coast. The West, Gordon suggests, was perfectly capable of exploiting itself, and in his book we see how Hammond and other regional entrepreneurs dammed rivers, logged forests, and leveled mountains in just a few decades. Hammond and his like also built cities, towns, and a vast transportation network of steamships and railroads to export natural resources and import manufactured goods. In short, they established much of the modern American state and economy.
Armstrongs Of Elswick
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Author : Kenneth Warren
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1989-12-11
Armstrongs Of Elswick written by Kenneth Warren and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-12-11 with Business & Economics categories.
Armstrong, the engineers, armament makers and naval shipbuilders was set up in 1847 by William Armstrong at Elswick, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. This book analyzes Armstrong's 80 years rise, decline and reorganization, treating it, in some ways, as a case study of British industrial malaise.
The Spirit Of 76
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Spirit Of 76 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with United States categories.