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“eric j hewitt”

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  • Capital of Discontent

    Protest and Crime in Manchester's Industrial Revolution

    by Eric J. Hewitt ...
    The Industrial Revolution was a period of exceptional change in Britain, not only in terms of technology but also in law and order. The country's social order was shifting and in some towns the response was violence. In Manchester, the ' capital of discontent', events related to the Plug Plots, Peterloo and the Chartists created a very real fear of revolution on the streets of England. In its ... Read more

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  • Dark Days of Georgian Britain

    Rethinking the Regency

    by James Hobson ...
    A historian reveals the grittier side of Regency England, far from the country houses and costume balls of high society.Often upheld as a period of elegance with many achievements in the fine arts and architecture, the Regency era also encompassed a time of great social, political, and economic upheaval. In this insightful social history, the emphasis is on the lives of those not born into ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    by James S Donnelly Jr ...
    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

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Decadence

    Britain 1880 to 1914

    by Simon Heffer ...
    ‘A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously impressive and enjoyable read.’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times‘A magnificent account of a less than magnificent epoch.’ Jonathan Meades, Literary ReviewThe folk-memory of Britain in the years before the Great War is of a powerful, contented, orderly and thriving country. She commanded a vast empire. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Century of Female Revolution

    From Peterloo to Parliament

    by Glynis Cooper ...
    This dramatic social history follows the struggle for women's rights in England from the Industrial Revolution to the Suffragist victory after WWI.The 100 years from 1819-1919 saw remarkable change for women in England. From the early nineteenth century, when women were not even considered 'persons' under the law, they achieved full legal rights and status. The doors of education and employment ... Read more

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  • Crime and Criminals of Victorian England

    by Adrian Gray ...
    Dark and foggy Victorian streets, the murderous madman, the arsenic-laced evening meal - we all think we know the realities of Victorian crime. Adrian Gray's thrilling book recounts the classic murders, by knife and poison, but it also covers much more, taking the reader into less familiar parts of Victorian life, uncovering the wicked, the vengeful, the foolish and the hopeless amongst the ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The Blackest Streets

    The Life and Death of a Victorian Slum

    by Sarah Wise ...
    'An excellent and intelligent investigation of the realities of urban living that respond to no design or directive... This is a book about the nature of London itself' Peter Ackroyd, The TimesA powerful exploration of the seedy side of Victorian London by one of our most promising young historians.In 1887 government inspectors were sent to investigate the Old Nichol, a notorious slum on the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • This Great Calamity: The Great Irish Famine

    The Irish Famine 1845-52

    by Christime Kinealy ...
    The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century.Christine Kinealy's survey is long established as the most complete, ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bedlam

    London's Hospital for the Mad

    by Paul Chambers ...
    Bethlem Hospital is the oldest mental institution in the world, to many famously known as ' Bedlam': a chaotic madhouse that brutalised its patients. Paul Chambers explores the 800-year history of Bethlem and reveals fascinating details of its ambivalent relationship with London and its inhabitants, the life and times of the hospital's more famous patients, and the rise of a powerful reform ... Read more

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  • Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus

    The Great Scottish Exodus

    by Margery Harper, Dr Marjory Harper ...
    'The Scots have always been a restless people', says leading Scottish historian Marjory Harper 'but in the nineteenth century their restlessness exploded into a sustained surge of emigration that carried Scotland almost to the top of a European league table of emigrant exporting countries.' This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of that 'Great Exodus'. In many ways it challenges ... Read more

    $13.29 CAD

  • Nor Shall My Sword

    The Reinvention of England

    by Simon Heffer ...
    Should England be independent from Scotland?May 1999. The Scots have their first opportunity in 300 years to elect their own parliament. In 2014 that referendum will finally take place.To many in England, the continuing rise of Scottish nationalism causes unease. Scotland could well choose to leave the United Kingdom. In this provocative polemic, Simon Heffer argues that England must let Scotland ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • Enigma A New Life of Charles Stewart Parnell

    by Paul Bew ...
    Charles Stewart Parnell is the most enigmatic figure in Irish history. An Anglo-Irish landlord from a distinguished Wicklow family, he became the most unlikely leader of Irish nationalism imaginable. He hated the colour green. He was not a dynamic speaker. He was cold and aloof and lacked the popular touch. None the less, from the late 1870s until his fall and death in 1891, he held the whole of ... Read more

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