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The History of the London Water Industry, 1580–1820
Author | : Leslie Tomory |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2017-04-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1421422042 |
"Beginning in 1580, London companies sold water to consumers through a large network of wooden mains in the expanding metropolis. This new water industry flourished throughout the 1600s, eventually expanding to serve tens of thousands of homes. By the late eighteenth century, more than 80 percent of the city's houses had water connections-making London the best-served metropolis in the world while demonstrating that it was legally, commercially, and technologically possible to run an infrastructure network within the largest city on earth. Leslie Tomory shows how new technologies imported from the Continent, including waterwheel-driven piston pumps, spurred the rapid growth of London's water industry. The business was further sustained by an explosion in consumer demand. Meanwhile, several key local innovations reshaped the industry by enlarging the size of the supply network. By 1800, the success of London's water industry made it a model for other cities in Europe and beyond as they began to build their own water networks, and it inspired builders of other large-scale urban projects, including gas and sewage supply networks."--Provided by the publisher.
The Pilgrim Fathers, Or, The Founders of New England in the Reign of James the First
Author | : William Henry Bartlett |
Publisher | : London : Arthur Hall, Virtue, & Company |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1853 |
Genre | : Massachusetts |
ISBN | : |
History and Genealogy of the Carpenter Family in America
Author | : Daniel Hoogland Carpenter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840
Author | : Geoffrey W. Beard |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1088 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A reference work on furniture makers active in England between 1660 and 1840. It lists makers in alphabetical order, recording biographical details, commissions, and information about signed or documented pieces, together with full supporting references.
Streets with a Story
Author | : Eric A. Willats |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Islington (London, England) |
ISBN | : 9780951187104 |
Portrait of a Patriot: The Southern journal (1773)
Author | : Josiah Quincy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Commonplace-books |
ISBN | : 9780979466205 |
Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into the extraordinary mind of a patriot in the period immediately preceding the Revolution, the Portrait of a Patriot series presents the major papers of the Boston lawyer and patriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). In this, the third of five volumes, we meet Quincy as a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, making a tour of the Southern colonies to assess the depth of commitment to the patriot cause there. While cautious of the political leanings of his hosts, Quincy was clearly dazzled by the opulence and sophistication of late-eighteenth-century Charleston society. As he traveled northward, he continued to record candid observations on Southern manners, womenfolk, and the institution of slavery in his journal, thus creating a unique portrait of American society on the eve of the American Revolution.
Observations on the Act of Parliament Commonly Called the Boston Port-bill
Author | : Josiah Quincy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1774 |
Genre | : Boston Port Bill, 1774 |
ISBN | : |
The Greek Revolution
Author | : Paschalis M. Kitromilides |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 825 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674259319 |
Winner of the 2022 London Hellenic Prize On the bicentennial of the Greek Revolution, an essential guide to the momentous war for independence of the Greeks from the Ottoman Empire. The Greek war for independence (1821–1830) often goes missing from discussion of the Age of Revolutions. Yet the rebellion against Ottoman rule was enormously influential in its time, and its resonances are felt across modern history. The Greeks inspired others to throw off the oppression that developed in the backlash to the French Revolution. And Europeans in general were hardly blind to the sight of Christian subjects toppling Muslim rulers. In this collection of essays, Paschalis Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas bring together scholars writing on the many facets of the Greek Revolution and placing it squarely within the revolutionary age. An impressive roster of contributors traces the revolution as it unfolded and analyzes its regional and transnational repercussions, including the Romanian and Serbian revolts that spread the spirit of the Greek uprising through the Balkans. The essays also elucidate religious and cultural dimensions of Greek nationalism, including the power of the Orthodox church. One essay looks at the triumph of the idea of a Greek “homeland,” which bound the Greek diaspora—and its financial contributions—to the revolutionary cause. Another essay examines the Ottoman response, involving a series of reforms to the imperial military and allegiance system. Noted scholars cover major figures of the revolution; events as they were interpreted in the press, art, literature, and music; and the impact of intellectual movements such as philhellenism and the Enlightenment. Authoritative and accessible, The Greek Revolution confirms the profound political significance and long-lasting cultural legacies of a pivotal event in world history.
A History of the French in London
Author | : Debra Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781905165865 |
This book examines, for the first time, the history of the social, cultural, political and economic presence of the French in London, and explores the multiple ways in which this presence has contributed to the life of the city. The capital has often provided a place of refuge, from the Huguenots in the 17th century, through the period of the French Revolution, to various exile communities during the 19th century, and on to the Free French in the Second World War.It also considers the generation of French citizens who settled in post-war London, and goes on to provide insights into the contemporary French presence by assessing the motives and lives of French people seeking new opportunities in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. It analyses the impact that the French have had historically, and continue to have, on London life in the arts, gastronomy, business, industry and education, manifest in diverse places and institutions from the religious to the political via the educational, to the commercial and creative industries.