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Author: Annie Tindley Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351255266 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 225
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This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902). Dufferin was a landowner in Ulster, an urbane diplomat, literary sensation, courtier, politician, colonial governor, collector, son, husband and father. The book draws on episodes from Dufferin’s career to link the landowning and aristocratic culture he was born into with his experience of governing across the British Empire, in Canada, Egypt, Syria and India. This book argues that there was a defined conception of aristocratic governance and purpose that infused the political and imperial world, and was based on two elements: the inheritance and management of a landed estate, and a well-defined sense of ‘rule by the best’. It identifies a particular kind of atmosphere of empire and aristocracy, one that was riven with tensions and angst, as those who saw themselves as the hereditary leaders of Britain and Ireland were challenged by a rising democracy and, in Ireland, by a powerful new definition of what Irishness was. It offers a new perspective on both empire and aristocracy in the nineteenth century, and will appeal to a broad scholarly audience and the wider public.
Author: John Thomas Publisher: ISBN: 9781899863211 Category : Languages : en Pages : 192
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One of a series of books telling the story of the railways of the Scottish Highlands, this book deals specifically with the West Highland Railway. It tells the story of the struggle to construct the line through mountain passes, across deep ravines and over the wilderness of the Moor of Rannoch.
Author: David Gwyn Publisher: RCAHMW ISBN: 187118455X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 291
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Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development and then its massive expansion in the nineteenth century – as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.
Author: John A. McGregor Publisher: John Donald Publishers ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 330
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"With a 1860s-1914 perspective and centred on the West Highland Railway (which opened to Fort William in 1894 and to Mallaig in 1901) the book examines the late-19th century 'railway mania in the Highlands' - politics of promotion, controversy over state assistance, expectations and disappointments."--BOOK JACKET.