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An Empire of Magnetism

Global Science and the British Magnetic Enterprise in the Age of Imperialism

de Edward J. Gillin ...

During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just philosophical, but engendered urgent concerns over accurate navigation, on which Britain's commercial and colonial power relied. The ... Leer más

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During the 1840s and 1850s, the British government financed a world-wide investigation into how the Earth's magnetic phenomena operated, consisting of a network of naval expeditions and colonial observatories. Questions surrounding terrestrial magnetism were not just philosophical, but engendered urgent concerns over accurate navigation, on which Britain's commercial and colonial power relied. The
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Entente Imperial

British and French Power in the Age of Empire

de Edward J. Gillin ...

Today’s arguments over Britain’s relationship with Europe and its place in the world are shaped by its imperial history. The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where, thanks to unrivalled industry and an expansive empire, Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. This book shows how this is fundamentally wrong by exploring British ... Leer más

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Today’s arguments over Britain’s relationship with Europe and its place in the world are shaped by its imperial history. The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where, thanks to unrivalled industry and an expansive empire, Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. This book shows how this is fundamentally wrong by exploring British
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Sound Authorities

Scientific and Musical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Britain

de Edward J. Gillin ...

Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain.In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality in Victorian Britain, claiming that the development of the natural sciences in this era cannot be understood without attending to the study of sound and music.During this time, scientific ... Leer más

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Sound Authorities shows how experiences of music and sound played a crucial role in nineteenth-century scientific inquiry in Britain.In Sound Authorities, Edward J. Gillin focuses on hearing and aurality in Victorian Britain, claiming that the development of the natural sciences in this era cannot be understood without attending to the study of sound and music.During this time, scientific
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The Victorian Palace of Science

Scientific Knowledge and the Building of the Houses of Parliament

de Edward J. Gillin ...

Series series Science in History
The Palace of Westminster, home to Britain's Houses of Parliament, is one of the most studied buildings in the world. What is less well known is that while Parliament was primarily a political building, when built between 1834 and 1860, it was also a place of scientific activity. The construction of Britain's legislature presents an extraordinary story in which politicians and officials laboured ... Leer más

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The Palace of Westminster, home to Britain's Houses of Parliament, is one of the most studied buildings in the world. What is less well known is that while Parliament was primarily a political building, when built between 1834 and 1860, it was also a place of scientific activity. The construction of Britain's legislature presents an extraordinary story in which politicians and officials laboured
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F. Scott Fitzgerald in the Twenty-First Century

de Milton R. Stern, Mary McAleer Balkun, M. T. Inge, Christopher Ames, Stanley Brodwin, Kirk Curnutt, Anne M. Daniel, Morris Dickstein0, Edward Gillin1, Janet Giltrow2, D.G. Kehl3, Veronica Makowsky4, Toshifumi Miyawaki5, Michael Nowlin6, Tim Prchal7, Walter Raubicheck8, David Stouck9, Stephen L. Tanner0, Frederick Wegener1, Dr. Horst H. Kruse2 ...

This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.“Edited by three eminent Fitzgerald scholars, this fine book comprises nineteen incisive and provocative essays (most written for this collection) by . . . well-known Fitzgerald critics. The content is as varied as the international origins of its authors.” —ChoiceAs the author ... Leer más

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This thought-provoking collection explores significant new facets of an American author of lasting international stature.“Edited by three eminent Fitzgerald scholars, this fine book comprises nineteen incisive and provocative essays (most written for this collection) by . . . well-known Fitzgerald critics. The content is as varied as the international origins of its authors.” —ChoiceAs the author
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Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses

de 1st Baron Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton; J. B. Smith; Edward Stanley ...

"Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses" presents a vivid and compelling narrative of the Peterloo Massacre, an event that marked a significant moment in British history. The book compiles firsthand accounts from three notable eyewitnesses: 1st Baron Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton, J. B. Smith, and Edward Stanley. Their testimonies provide unique perspectives on the tragic events ... Leer más

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"Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses" presents a vivid and compelling narrative of the Peterloo Massacre, an event that marked a significant moment in British history. The book compiles firsthand accounts from three notable eyewitnesses: 1st Baron Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton, J. B. Smith, and Edward Stanley. Their testimonies provide unique perspectives on the tragic events
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Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses

Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith; with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial

de J. B. Smith, Edward Stanley, 1st Baron Sir William George Hylton Jolliffe Hylton ...

Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses presents a raw and evocative portrayal of a pivotal moment in British history, the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. Through an amalgamation of vivid narratives, this collection captures the upheavals and societal tensions that characterized the event. Compiled with meticulous attention to historical authenticity, the anthology showcases a diversity of literary ... Leer más

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Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses presents a raw and evocative portrayal of a pivotal moment in British history, the Peterloo Massacre of 1819. Through an amalgamation of vivid narratives, this collection captures the upheavals and societal tensions that characterized the event. Compiled with meticulous attention to historical authenticity, the anthology showcases a diversity of literary
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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate

A Treasury of Fairy Tales, Adventures, Nature Studies, Myths, and Moral Classics

de C. E. Smith, Louey Chisholm, Harrison Weir, Harriet Putnam, Thomas Lambert Sappington, Carl Sandburg, Patten Beard, Margaret Warner Morley, Hector Malot, Charles Dickens, Catharine Shaw, Evelyn Sharp, Johanna Spyri, Heinrich Hoffmann, Roy Rutherford Bailey, Pamela Grey, E. Nesbit, Edward Stratemeyer, Loïs Bates, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Josephine Daskam Bacon, John Habberton, James Otis, Padraic Colum, Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, E. Louise Smythe, F. J. Cross, Vesta J. Farnsworth, Douglas English, Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Ella Rodman Church, H. Lee M. Pike, Luna May Ennis, Claire Martha Coburn, Florence Emma Voigt Mendel, Mary F. Nixon-Roulet, Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade, Wm. H. Meadowcroft, Etta Blaisdell McDonald, James H. Shaw, Georgia Eldridge Hanley, W. Harcourt Bath, Paul B. Du Chaillu, Norman F. Langford, Jean M. Thompson, W. Warde Fowler, Katharine Elizabeth Dopp, Joseph Grinnell, Elizabeth Grinnell, Alfred John Church, Homer, A. L. O. E., C. M. Stevens, Francis La Flesche, Karl Friedrich Becker, George P. Upton, Paul Hume, Ruth Fox Hume, Rebecca Deming Moore, Helen Mildred Owen, L. WÃ¼rdig, Elisha Noyce, Julia Dalrymple, Henry C. McCook, Jim Kjelgaard, William Shakespeare, Mary Elting, Edith M. Patch, Mary Proctor, Olive Thorne Miller, Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne, H. R. Hall, Ray Stannard Baker, Bernadine Bailey, E. F. Buckley, Rupert Sargent Holland, Benjamin Brewster, Neltje Blanchan, Burren Laughlin, L. L. Flood, Sarath Kumar Ghosh, Dorothy Crain, Oliver Optic, Dillon Wallace, Charles H. L. Johnston, G. E. Mitton, Mary Macgregor, John Bunyan, Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, Josephine Pollard, May Farinholt Jones, Harriet Pearl Skinner ...

Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical ... Leer más

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Kid's Treasury: 99 Classic Children's Books to Enlighten and Educate surveys the capacious educational imagination of children's literature, bringing together moral tales, folklore, adventure narratives, animal studies, historical retellings, poetry, drama, and popular fiction. Its range moves from domestic realism and cautionary fantasy to natural-history writing and inherited classical
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Prison Breaks: 13 Books of Prisoner-of-War Narratives

Thirteen Prisoner-of-War Narratives of Escape, Endurance, Resistance, and Survival

de Edward Edwards, George Pearson, Kenneth Darlaston Yearsley, Maurice Andrew Brackenreed Johnston, John Alan Lyde Caunter, Mervin C. Simmons, Nellie L. McClung, Jean Martin, Pat O'Brien, A. J. Evans, Gunther PlÃ¼schow, E. H. Jones, Eric A. Keith, Horace Gray Gilliland, H. G. Durnford, W. H. Newlin ...

Prison Breaks gathers thirteen prisoner-of-war narratives into a capacious study of captivity, ingenuity, endurance, and the contested ethics of escape. Moving between memoir, adventure chronicle, military testimony, and reflective autobiography, the volume makes confinement a literary as well as political condition. Accounts of audacious flight, clandestine planning, and survival beyond prison ... Leer más

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Prison Breaks gathers thirteen prisoner-of-war narratives into a capacious study of captivity, ingenuity, endurance, and the contested ethics of escape. Moving between memoir, adventure chronicle, military testimony, and reflective autobiography, the volume makes confinement a literary as well as political condition. Accounts of audacious flight, clandestine planning, and survival beyond prison
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The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads

Undersea Adventures, Naval History, Invention, and Wartime Tales from the Victorian Age to World War I

de A. Frederick Collins, Virgil D. Collins, Edward Stratemeyer, Willis J. Abbot, Charles William Sleeman, Thomas W. Corbin, Charles W. Domville-Fife, Georg-GÃ¼nther Freiherr von Forstner, Robert Fulton, Herbert C. Fyfe, Henry John Sir Newbolt, Freiherr von E. Spiegel, Farnham Bishop, Harold Wheeler, William Barclay Parsons, Paul KÃ¶nig, Ajax, Jules Verne, Luis Senarens, T. D. Hallam, Victor G. Durham, Donald Grayson, A. Hyatt Verrill, Clair W. Hayes, H. Irving Hancock, Percy F. Westerman, James R. Driscoll, G. Harvey Ralphson, Elmer Tracey Barnes, John Blaine, Roy Rockwood ...

The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads charts the submarine's emergence as both technological marvel and literary emblem of modernity. Ranging from technical exposition, naval history, and eyewitness-inflected discussion to adventure fiction, juvenile serials, and speculative romance, the volume reveals how undersea navigation inspired dreams of scientific mastery alongside ... Leer más

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The Ultimate Submarine Compendium: 36 Captivating Reads charts the submarine's emergence as both technological marvel and literary emblem of modernity. Ranging from technical exposition, naval history, and eyewitness-inflected discussion to adventure fiction, juvenile serials, and speculative romance, the volume reveals how undersea navigation inspired dreams of scientific mastery alongside
... Leer más
Science and Sound in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Sounds Experimental and Entertaining

Edición de Edward J. Gillin ...

Series series Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as a growing overseas empire, Britain was home to a rich scientific culture in which the ear was as ... Leer más

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Sound and Science in Nineteenth-Century Britain is a four-volume set of primary sources which seeks to define our historical understanding of the relationship between British scientific knowledge and sound between 1815 and 1900. In the context of rapid urbanization and industrialization, as well as a growing overseas empire, Britain was home to a rich scientific culture in which the ear was as
... Leer más
Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century

Buildings and Society in the Modern Age

Edición de Dr Edward Gillin, H. Horatio Joyce ...

Bringing together fourteen original essays, this collection opens up new perspectives on the architectural history of the nineteenth century by examining the buildings of the period through the lens of 'experience'. With a focus on the experience of the ordinary building user – rather than simply on the intentions of the designer – the book shows that new and important insights can be brought to ... Leer más

$38.99 USD

Bringing together fourteen original essays, this collection opens up new perspectives on the architectural history of the nineteenth century by examining the buildings of the period through the lens of 'experience'. With a focus on the experience of the ordinary building user – rather than simply on the intentions of the designer – the book shows that new and important insights can be brought to
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