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Managing the British Empire
The Crown Agents Office played a crucial role in colonial development. Acting in the United Kingdom as the commercial and financial agent for the crown colonies, the Agency supplied all non-locally manufactured stores required by colonial governments, issued their London loans, managed their UK investments, and supervised the construction of their railways, harbours and other public works. In addition, the Office supervised the award of colonial land and mineral concessions, monitored the colonial banking and currency system, and performed a personnel role, paying colonial service salaries and pensions, recruiting technical officers, and arranging the transport of officers, troops and Indian indentured labour. In this important book, the first in-depth investigation of the Agency, David Sunderland examines each of these services in turn, determining in each case whether the Crown Agents' performance benefited their clients, the UK economy or themselves. His book is thus both an account of a remarkable and unique organisation and a fascinating examination of the 'nuts and bolts' of nineteenth-century development. DAVID SUNDERLAND is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.
High Performance Long-Distance Running
"High Performance Long Distance Running" is a book for long-distance runners (5,000 metres to the Marathon) and their coaches. The book is practically based on sound principles, which have been tried and tested repeatedly. Progression, planning, preparation and peaking are all important parts of the complete performance.
High Performance Middle-distance Running
Aimed at both athletes involved in competitive middle-distance running and their coaches, this invaluable volume, based on the author’s 40 years of experience in athletics, is essential reading for all those who wish to improve their performance. Throughout the book the author adopts a practical coaching approach based on sound principles and on the belief that nothing be left to chance and that "perfect preparation makes for perfect practice."
An Economic History of London 1800-1914
This is the first comprehensive survey of the economic development of the world's first great industrial metropolis. Modern theories of urban economics are used to shed new light on the process of change in the city.
Park Homes
Incorporating HC 1865-i-iv, session 2010-12. Additional written evidence is contained in Volume 3, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/clgcom
Social Capital, Trust and the Industrial Revolution
The first text to examine the concept of trust and the role that it played on the Industrial Revolution, this book is a key resource for students studying nineteenth century British history as well as historically minded sociologists.Analytical in style and comprehensive in approach, Social Capital, Trust and the Industrial Revolution covers a ran
London
As people crowded into British cities in the nineteenth century, industrial and biological waste byproducts and then epidemic followed them. Britons died by the thousands in recurring plagues. Figures like Edwin Chadwick and John Snow pleaded for measures that could save lives and preserve the social fabric. The solution that prevailed was the novel idea that British towns must build public water supplies, replacing private companies. But the idea was not an obvious or inevitable one. Those who promoted new waterworks argued that they could use water to realize a new kind of British society—a productive social machine, a new moral community, and a modern civilization. They did not merely c...
The Squashed Man Who Married a Dragon
The book that has already been seen on Good Morning Britain, The One Show, talked about in The Daily Mail, The Daily Express and The Sun. Anthony Blackie knows what he’s talking about when he comes to marriage... Drawing upon his own experiences in his long marriage, Anthony Blackie reveals how we can survive married life in his debut, true story The Squashed Man Who Married A Dragon. “Argue not, praise her often, second-guess her every command and shower her with compliments as you rush to do her every bidding.” For some, marriage is painless and natural, but for Antony, known as the squashed man, who has fought every inch of the way, happiness is hard to find. Although his wife, Vick...
