Testament to Union

Testament to Union
Author: Kathryn Allamong Jacob
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1998-10-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780801858611

This book tells the stories behind the many District of Columbia statues that honor participants in the Civil War. Organized geographically for easy use on walking or driving tours, the entries list the subject and title of each memorial along with its sculptor, medium, date, and location. 92 photos.

Sailing to Australia

Sailing to Australia
Author: Andrew Hassam
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1994
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780719045462

Between 1788 and 1880 some 1.3 million free emigrants arrived in Australia from the British Isles. It was a huge transition, both geographically and culturally, and one way of dealing with this appears to have been to write a diary. The surviving diaries offer snapshots of the lives of and experiences of many ordinary people who emigrated.

Colonial Lives Across the British Empire

Colonial Lives Across the British Empire
Author: David Lambert
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2006-11-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0521847702

A series of portraits of 'imperial lives' to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.

Black Robinson

Black Robinson
Author: Vivienne Rae-Ellis
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780522847444

A greedy, vain and unscrupulous man bent on self-aggrandisment. This controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia, reveals a man long held to be the worthy civilizer and Christianizer of Tasmanian Aborigines to have been a monster of deceit and a betrayer of those it was his role to protect-a man who made perhaps the most repellent contribution of all to what was to become the decimation of Tasmania's Aborigines.

Britannia's Children

Britannia's Children
Author: Eric Richards
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2004-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781852854416

The stories behind the mass exodus from Great Brittan from 1600 to modern times