Adventurous Empires
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Author |
: Phillip E. Sims |
Publisher |
: Pen and Sword |
Total Pages |
: 729 |
Release |
: 2013-01-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781783468836 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1783468831 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adventurous Empires by : Phillip E. Sims
This is a story from a bygone age recalling the most successful flying-boat airliner ever built. Designed to a specification for Imperial Airways, then Britains national airline, it carried passengers and, more importantly, mail throughout the British Empire. The airliner offered luxurious travel for the privileged few, every journey being an adventure shared by passengers and crew.Short Brothers built 42 Empires at their factory in Rochester during the late 1930s. Imperial Airways were expanding their network to the furthermost outposts of the British Empire, whilst laying down the principles of scheduled airline operation.This is the tale of the realization of a dream and the efforts of those who made it possible. During World War II, the military Sunderland version became an icon.
Author |
: David T. Courtwright |
Publisher |
: Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1585444197 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781585444199 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sky As Frontier by : David T. Courtwright
A look at how aviation's frontier lasted only a scant 3 decades, then vanished as commercial and military imperatives made flying routine.
Author |
: Rudyard Kipling |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1853756601 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781853756603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis British Empire Adventure Stories by : Rudyard Kipling
Three stirring tales of heroism from the age of empire: Rudyard Kipling's 'The Man Who Would Be King', 'King Solomon's Mines' by Sir Henry Rider Haggard and 'With Clive of India' by G A Henty.
Author |
: Joseph Bristow |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 2015-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317365594 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317365593 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World by : Joseph Bristow
Originally published in 1991. Focusing on ‘boys' own’ literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain many kinds of writing, from the popular juvenile weeklies to parliamentary reports, celebrated boys of all classes as the heroes of their day. Fighting fit, morally upright, and proudly patriotic - these adventurous young men were set forth on imperial missions, civilizing a savage world. Such noble heroes included the strapping lads who brought an end to cannibalism on Ballantyne's "Coral Island" who came into their own in the highly respectable "Boys' Own Paper", and who eventually grew up into the men of Haggard's romances, advancing into the Dark Continent. The author here demonstrates why these young heroes have enjoyed a lasting appeal to readers of children's classics by Stevenson, Kipling and Henty, among many others. He shows why the political intent of many of these stories has been obscured by traditional literary criticism, a form of criticism itself moulded by ideals of empire and ‘Englishness’. Throughout, imperial boyhood is related to wide-ranging debates about culture, literacy, realism and romance. This is a book of interest to students of literature, social history and education.
Author |
: David Narrett |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 390 |
Release |
: 2015-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469618340 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469618346 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Adventurism and Empire by : David Narrett
In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades--from the close of the Seven Years War through the Louisiana Purchase--Narrett sheds new light on individual colonial adventurers and schemers who shaped history through cross-border trade, settlement projects involving slave and free labor, and military incursions aimed at Spanish and Indian territories. Narrett examines the clash of empires and nationalities from diverse perspectives. He weighs the challenges facing Native Americans along with the competition between Spanish, French, British, and U.S. interests. In a turbulent era, the Louisiana and Florida borderlands were shaken by tremors from the American Revolutionary War and the French Revolution. By demonstrating pervasive intrigue and subterfuge in borderland rivalries, Narrett shows that U.S. Manifest Destiny was not a linear or inevitable progression. He offers a fresh interpretation of how events in the Louisiana and Florida borderlands altered the North American balance of power, and affected the history of the Atlantic world.
Author |
: Joseph Bristow |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 242 |
Release |
: 2015-08-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317365600 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317365607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire Boys: Adventures in a Man's World by : Joseph Bristow
Originally published in 1991. Focusing on ‘boys' own’ literature, this book examines the reasons why such a distinct type of combative masculinity developed during the heyday of the British Empire. This book reveals the motives that produced this obsessive focus on boyhood. In Victorian Britain many kinds of writing, from the popular juvenile weeklies to parliamentary reports, celebrated boys of all classes as the heroes of their day. Fighting fit, morally upright, and proudly patriotic - these adventurous young men were set forth on imperial missions, civilizing a savage world. Such noble heroes included the strapping lads who brought an end to cannibalism on Ballantyne's "Coral Island" who came into their own in the highly respectable "Boys' Own Paper", and who eventually grew up into the men of Haggard's romances, advancing into the Dark Continent. The author here demonstrates why these young heroes have enjoyed a lasting appeal to readers of children's classics by Stevenson, Kipling and Henty, among many others. He shows why the political intent of many of these stories has been obscured by traditional literary criticism, a form of criticism itself moulded by ideals of empire and ‘Englishness’. Throughout, imperial boyhood is related to wide-ranging debates about culture, literacy, realism and romance. This is a book of interest to students of literature, social history and education.
Author |
: Bayard Taylor |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Library |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 1859 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOMDLP:ajl3473:0001.001 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Eldorado, Or, Adventures in the Path of Empire by : Bayard Taylor
Author |
: Bayard Taylor |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 470 |
Release |
: 1861 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Eldorado; Or, Adventure In The Path Of Empire by : Bayard Taylor
Author |
: William J. Conaway |
Publisher |
: William J Conaway |
Total Pages |
: 61 |
Release |
: 2009-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Driving Adventure: Michoacan: Touring the Tarascan Empire by : William J. Conaway
A 56 page coffe table style guidebook with the history, and instructions for driving the state of Michoacán with stops in: Ihuatzio, Tzintzuntzan, Santa Clara del Cobre, Pátzcuaro, Janitzio, Zrahuén, Santiago Tingambato, Uruapan, Paricutín, and Paracho with lots of historic and full-color pictures.
Author |
: Gordon Doherty |
Publisher |
: Gordon Doherty |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2014-05-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781493719457 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1493719459 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Legionary - An epic military adventure set in the late Roman Empire. (Legionary #1) by : Gordon Doherty
The Roman Empire is crumbling, and a shadow looms in the east… 376 AD: the Eastern Roman Empire is alone against the tide of barbarians swelling on her borders. Emperor Valens juggles the paltry border defences to stave off invasion from the Goths north of the Danube. Meanwhile, in Constantinople, a pact between faith and politics spawns a lethal plot that will bring the dark and massive hordes from the east crashing down on these struggling borders. The fates conspire to see Numerius Vitellius Pavo, enslaved as a boy after the death of his legionary father, thrust into the limitanei, the border legions, just before they are sent to recapture the long-lost eastern Kingdom of Bosporus. He is cast into the jaws of this plot, so twisted that the survival of the entire Roman world hangs in the balance…