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Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2013-05-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1408831716 |
On 11 May 1812 Spencer Perceval, the British Prime Minister, was fatally shot at close range in the lobby of the House of Commons. In the confused aftermath, his assailant, John Bellingham, made no effort to escape. A week later, before his motives could be examined, he was tried and hanged.Here, for the first time, the historian Andro Linklater looks past the conventional image of Bellingham as a 'deranged businessman' and portrays him as an individual, driven by personal anxieties and by the raw emotions that convulsed his home town of Liverpool. But as the evidence accumulates, a wider, darker picture emerges - John Bellignham was not alone in hating the prime minister.Two hundred years later, Andro Linklater examines the ecidence and brilliantly deconstructs the assassination of Spencer Perceval - the only British Prime Minister ever to have suffered that fate - to offer a fresh perspective on Britain and the Western world at a critical moment in history.
Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1408815745 |
Barely two centuries ago, most of the world's productive land still belonged either communally to traditional societies or to the higher powers of monarch or church. But that pattern, and the ways of life that went with it, were consigned to history as a result of the most creative - and, at the same time, destructive - cultural force in the modern era: the idea of individual, exclusive ownership of land. This notion laid waste to traditional communal civilisations, displacing entire peoples from their homelands, and brought into being a unique concept of individual freedom and a distinct form of representative government and democratic institutions. Other great civilizations, in Russia, China, and the Islamic world, evolved very different structures of land ownership, and thus very different forms of government and social responsibility.The seventeenth-century English surveyor William Petty was the first man to recognise the connection between private property and free-market capitalism; the American radical Wolf Ladejinsky redistributed land in Japan, Taiwan and South Korea after the Second World War to make possible the emergence of Asian tiger economies. Through the eyes of these remarkable individuals and many more, including Chinese emperors and German peasants, Andro Linklater here presents the evolution of land ownership to offer a radically new view of mankind's place on the planet.
Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2003-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0452284597 |
In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2010-09-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0802777716 |
James Wilkinson was a consummate contradiction during the Revolutionary War era. In this modern biography of the greatest traitor--and one of the most colorful characters--in American history, Linklater examines the extraordinary double life of Wilkinson.
Author | : Jacqueline Reiter |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781473856950 |
John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham is one of the most enigmatic and overlooked figures of early nineteenth century British history. The elder brother of Pitt the Younger, he has long been consigned to history as 'the late Lord Chatham', the lazy commander-in-chief of the 1809 Walcheren expedition, whose inactivity and incompetence turned what should have been an easy victory into a disaster. Chatham's poor reputation obscures a fascinating and complex man. During a twenty-year career at the heart of government, he served in several important cabinet posts such as First Lord of the Admiralty and Master-General of the Ordnance. Yet despite his closeness to the Prime Minister and friendship with the Royal Family, political rivalries and private tragedy hampered his ascendance. Paradoxically for a man of widely admired diplomatic skills, his downfall owed as much to his personal insecurities and penchant for making enemies as it did to military failure. Using a variety of manuscript sources to tease Chatham from the records, this biography peels away the myths and places him for the first time in proper familial, political, and military context. It breathes life into a much-maligned member of one of Britain's greatest political dynasties, revealing a deeply flawed man trapped in the shadow of his illustrious relatives.
Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publisher | : Atlantic Monthly Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1994-01-25 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780871134776 |
The author describes his experiences living among the Iban, and recounts his attempts to understand their culture.
Author | : Eli Filip Heckscher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Continental System (Economic blockade) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Herbert Spencer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 718 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Sociology |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sir Francis Galton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Genius |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publisher | : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Air pilots, Military |
ISBN | : 9781587241772 |
The remarkable true story of a love that survives separation, madness and war,.The code of love is Andro Linklater's portrait of a woman's search, for over fifty years, to discover the truth about the man to whom she had devoted her life.