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“lucy stuart sutherland”

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  • A London Merchant 1695-1774

    by Lucy Stuart Sutherland ...
    First published in 1962. This volume is a collection of the papers from the Mercantile College that preserved as examples of the 'accounts of many distinguished and eminent merchants deceased ... who trod the Royal Exchange with supreme credit and dignity'. They bring together the commercial pride which was reached in the eighteenth century, before the challenge of industry and an economic ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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    by James S Donnelly ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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  • Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors

    A Guide for Family Historians

    by Ian Maxwell ...
    Series series Tracing Your Ancestors
    "The most definitive guide yet in print of researching Ulster based Ancestry" from the Irish genealogy expert and author (Discover My Past, England and Scotland).Tracing Your Northern Irish Ancestors is an expert introduction for the family historian to the wealth of material available to researchers in archives throughout Northern Ireland. Many records, like the early twentieth-century census ... Read more

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  • The Inner Life of Empires

    An Eighteenth-Century History

    by Emma Rothschild ...
    The birth of the modern world as told through the remarkable story of one eighteenth-century familyThey were abolitionists, speculators, slave owners, government officials, and occasional politicians. They were observers of the anxieties and dramas of empire. And they were from one family. The Inner Life of Empires tells the intimate history of the Johnstones--four sisters and seven brothers who ... Read more

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  • The Ulster Plantation in the Counties of Armagh and Cavan 1608-1641

    by R. J Hunter ...
    Published for the first time is R.J. Hunter's MLitt dissertation, a fascinating study of two counties that were an integral part of the Plantation of Ulster. In his penetrating analysis of the impact of Plantation in Armagh and Cavan, R.J. Hunter demonstrates his mastery of the sources, his eye for detail and his succintness of presentation. Hunter's command of his subject - in places magisterial ... Read more

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  • The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853

    Personalities, Profits and Politics

    by Robert C. Lee ...
    The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C. Lee focuses his attention on the extensive parcel of land on the shores of Lake Huron that became known as the Huron Tract. His comprehensive research explores the underlying forces leading to the formation of the Company, the intriguing mix of people charged with ... Read more

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  • The Zong

    A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery

    by James Walvin ...
    "A lucid, fluent and fascinating account of the Zong. The book details the horror of the mass killing of enslaved Africans on board the ship in 1781."—Gad Heuman, co-editor of The Routledge History of SlaveryOn November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. The ... Read more

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  • Surplus People

    by Jim Rees ...
    The Great Famine in Ireland was a catastrophe of immense proportions. Eviction, emigration and death from starvation were widespread. Landlords, eager to dispose of 'surplus' tenants, engaged in 'assisted passages', whereby tenants were given financial incentives to emigrate. The clearances of uneconomic tenants from the 85,000-acre Coolattin Estate in County Wicklow by Lord Fitzwilliam were the ... Read more

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  • Dragons

    Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain

    by Liam Byrne ...
    Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century owed as much to the vision and creativity of traders, industrialists and bankers as it did to wars of conquest fought by military men.DRAGONS tells the story of British business endeavour through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England's economy via trade with the New World, Liam Byrne ... Read more

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  • Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

    Colonial Slavery and the Formation of Victorian Britain

    by Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Rachel Lang, Nicholas Draper, Katie Donington ...
    This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, ... Read more

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  • New World, Inc.

    The Making of America by England's Merchant Adventurers

    by John Butman, Simon Targett ...
    Three generations of English merchant adventurers-not the Pilgrims, as we have so long believed-were the earliest founders of America. Profit-not piety-was their primary motive.Some seventy years before the Mayflower sailed, a small group of English merchants formed "The Mysterie, Company, and Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers for the Discovery of Regions, Dominions, Islands, and Places Unknown," ... Read more

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  • Strabane Barony during the Ulster Plantation 1607-1641

    by Robert J Hunter ...
    The Ulster Plantation of the early seventeenth century is widely accepted as a period of critical importance in the shaping of modern Ulster and one of the most significant projects of colonisation in the early modern world. However, there have been relatively few studies that have looked in detail at the impact of the Plantation scheme at local level.This publication brings together the work of a ... Read more

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