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Detailed and comprehensive, the second volume of the Venns' directory, in six parts, includes all known alumni until 1900.
The demand for oil to light and lubricate the industrial world changed the face of much of the planet. Newfoundland was part of this widespread transformation as migratory cod fishermen settled here in the early 1800s in order to hunt seals in late winter and early spring. The seal fishery brought prosperity and growth and shaped this new society, but seal hunters and their families paid a heavy human cost in lives lost and suffering experienced. The traditional oil industries were doomed with the discovery of mineral oils and the ha essing of electricity, and Newfoundland-along with other societies-faced painful adjustments while searching for alte ative industries. However while its place ...
What did the Edwardians know about Spain and what was that knowledge worth? This book explores a vast store of largely unstudied primary source material to trace Spain's transformation in the British popular and economic imagination during the decades either side of the turn of the twentieth century.
King George’s Army: British Regiments and the Men who Led Them 1793–1815 will contain five volumes, with coverage given to cavalry regiments (Volume 1), infantry regiments (Volumes 2–4), and Ordnance and other regiments (Volume 5). It is the natural extension to the web series of the same name by the same author which existed one Napoleon Series from 2009 until 2019, but greatly expanded to include substantially more biographical information including biographies of leading political gures concerned with the administration of the army as well as commanders in chief of all major commands. Volume 1 covers in great detail the cavalry regiments that comprised the army of King George III fo...
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Reprint of a history of Spanish literature, originally produced in 1893 by Henry Butler Clarke, an accepted expert in the history and language of Spain.