This fascinating and moving book brings to life the industrial and immigrant experience which gave birth to Manchester in the nineteenth century and continued to shape the city's destiny well into the twentieth century. More than a hundred years ago; thousands of immigrants from Europe and Canada were drawn to the mills of Manchester by the promise of a better life. In stirring photographs and text; Manchester: The Mill and the Immigrant Experience examines the aspirations; the struggles; and the everyday adventures of Manchester's immigrant families. Reaffirming the power of photography to move and inform us; Manchester: The Mills and the Immigrant Experience creates a vivid picture of life during nearly a century of rapid industrial change. We join the bustle of Elm and Hanover Streets in the 1880s; witness children working at the mighty Amoskeag Manufacturing Company; enter a Greek coffeehouse in the early 1900s; get caught up in the bitter labor strikes of the 1920s; and meet unusual local figures such as the Hermit of Mosquito Pond.
#2806692 in Books Manchester Univ Pr 1992-06Ingredients: Example IngredientsOriginal language:English 9.00 x 5.75 x 1.00l; #File Name: 0719036062256 pages
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Excellent workBy Gary92Hall has written a superb account of British strategy during this period using a collection of primary and secondary sources. This is a well documented work. It is useful for those with any level of knowledge of this period; but particularly for those who have not read much about the Napoleonic Wars.It is divided into eight chapters with three interesting appendices. Hall starts by giving the readers a chapter on the manpower and finances the government was facing. The second chapter is The Sinews of War or about all the necessities for conducting a war. Logistics provides the sinews and this chapter covers everything from food to transports. One particularly interesting fact is that in the first two years of the U.S.-British war of 1812 the U.S. still provided Wellington's army with 938;000 and 972;500 barrels of grain respectively.Chapter 3 is about political situation in Britain. Hall tells the reader that: "The notion of national unity in the face of external threat was not an alien one to early nineteenth-century Britain; but it never took shape after 1803." This is an interesting point particularly for anyone not familiar with British politics of that time.Chapter 4 is about the strategic options the various British governments believed they had and the varying pressures they felt to pursue those options.The final four chapters concern the different ministries that held power during 1803 to 1815. These include Addington; Pitt; the so-called Ministry of All the Talents; Portland; Perceval; and Liverpool.Overall this is a fascinating account of this period all packed into a book of only slightly over 200 pages.5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. The Bones and Sinews of War...By HMS WarspiteTwo hundred years on; coverage of the British participation in the Napoleonic Wars tends to center on Waterloo; Trafalgar; and Wellington's Peninsular Campaigns. Yet behind those admittedly fascinating military events was a long struggle by the British government to build; deploy;and employ forces against Imperial France.Christopher D. Hall's superbly readable 1992 book; "British Strategy in the Napoleonic War 1803-1815"; is a brisk survey by topic and by prime ministry of that struggle. In just over 200 pages; backed by a still excellent bibliography; Hall discusses how successive British governments raised troops and money; turned out armies and fleets; and made the best of their respective strategic options. Hall's narrative addresses the challenges of finding and maintaining allies in a global struggle against a much larger Imperial France.For the reader who has some background in the Napoleonic Wars; Hall's survey should provide some measure of redemption for the succession of British prime ministers who struggled to apply Britain's limited resources to the goal of defeating Napoleon. Hall includes some explanation for the long series of often ineffectual forays into Northwest Europe."British Strategy In The Napoleonic War 1803-1815" is very highly recommended to students of expeditionary warfare and of the Napoleonic Wars.
