Glasgow A Transport History
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Author | : Michael Meighan |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2024-04-15 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1398115835 |
A portrait of Glasgow’s public transport history from the nineteenth century through to the present day.
Author | : Eric J. Graham |
Publisher | : Birlinn Ltd |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2015-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788853903 |
The period 1650 to 1790 was such a turbulent one for Scottish seafarers that much of this fast-flowing narrative reads like Treasure Island. Colourful characters abound in a story teeming with incident and excitement: John Paul Jones descends upon the Scottish coast creating widespread panic; press gangs prowl the coastal towns; wartime conditions turn merchantmen into privateers fighting the French, the Spanish and the American Colonists – almost anyone flying a different flag; quaintly named vessels like The Provoked Cheesemaker are on the lookout for trouble. And the stakes were high. Glasgow became wealthy through the tobacco trade. Glasgow merchantmen could beat the English ships and sail to Chesapeake Bay in record time. Eric Graham traces the development of the Scottish marine and its institutions during a formative period, when state intervention and warfare at sea in the pursuit of merchantilist goals largely determined the course of events. He charts Scotland's frustrated attempts to join England in the Atlantic economy and so secure her prosperity – an often bitter relationship that culminated in the Darien Disaster. In the years that followed, maritime affairs were central to the move to embrace the full incorporating Act of 1707. After 1707, Scottish maritime aspirations flourished under the protection of the British Navigation Acts and the windfalls of the endemic warfare at sea.
Author | : David Turnock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2005-08-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521892292 |
This is the first book to take a comprehensive view of the historical geography of Scotland since the Union. The period is divided into sections separated by the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, and each section offers a general view followed by detailed studies giving a balanced coverage of regional and urban-rural criteria, and the economic infrastructure. The book contains a number of original researches and Dr Turnock attempts to set the Scottish experience in a framework of general ideas on modernisation.
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Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : Michael Meighan |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781445618869 |
A new history of Glasgow tracing the growth of the city from prehistoric days to its rise as one of the Great Victorian cities.
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Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Transportation |
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Author | : Ian H. Adams |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1978-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0773592296 |
Author | : Andrew Gibb |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2021-06-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1000388751 |
Originally published in 1983, this book sets the phases and elements of Glasgow’s townscape evolution in their historical framework, from the medieval period when Glasgow was a small but important burgh to the growth of the town thanks to its command of the transatlantic tobacco trade in the 18th Century. Examining the solid growth which came with the textile phase of the industrial revolution and subsequent pioneering achievements in ship-building and marine engineering, the book also charts the subsequent collapse of the industrial base and attempts at urban renewal on a massive scale.
Author | : David Turnock |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351958933 |
Although a great deal has been published on the economic, social and engineering history of nineteenth-century railways, the work of historical geographers has been much less conspicuous. This overview by David Turnock goes a long way towards restoring the balance. It details every important aspect of the railway’s influence on spatial distribution of economic and social change, providing a full account of the nineteenth-century geography of the British Isles seen in the context of the railway. The book reviews and explains the shape of the developing railway network, beginning with the pre-steam railways and connections between existing road and water communications and the new rail lines. The author also discusses the impact of the railways on the patterns of industrial, urban and rural change throughout the century. Throughout, the historical geography of Ireland is treated in equal detail to that of Great Britain.
Author | : Ron Windward |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 87 |
Release | : 2010-11-10 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1446665682 |
Funny and uplifting story set in the Glasgow tenements of 1968. Featuring the affluent Nairn family who lose everything and end up in the slums of Bridgeton much to the delight of their new neighbours the Campbells.