John Moss Of Otterspool 1782 1858

Author : Graham Trust
Publisher : Authorhouse UK
ISBN 13 : 9781452004440
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Moss of Otterspool (1782-1858) written by Graham Trust and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one of Liverpool's leading Georgian / Victorian businessmen. John Moss's dealings impacted on the lives of countless thousands on three continents. The recent discovery of 312 of his letters, unseen for over 150 years, has enabled new light to be shed on a lifetime of achievement. Moss's work brought him into dialogue with some of the greatest politicians of his day. Sir John Gladstone, William Ewart Gladstone, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, William Huskisson, William Wilberforce, William Roscoe and many more feature in this beautifully written biography. Railway Pioneer As the first chairman of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, Moss was one of the pioneers who eventually established the supremacy of railways over canals. Working alongside the great engineers George Stephenson and Joseph Locke, he played a major part in bringing a national rail network into being and in exporting the same business model to Continental Europe. Slave Owner As the owner of 1,000 slaves, Moss had to react quickly to the mounting anti-slavery legislation which eventually brought about emancipation. Thereafter, with labour in short supply, he and John Gladstone shipped paid workers all the way from India to their West Indian sugar plantations; an immensely controversial act which proved the ultimate solution to the problem. Banker For more than 50 years, Moss guided his internationally renowned bank through chaotic financial times which make the credit crunch of the 2000s look like a storm in a tea cup.

Author : Catherine Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316061248
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legacies of British Slave-Ownership written by Catherine Hall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery, and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the relationship between past and present.

Author : Christer Petley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315516071
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Fall of the Planter Class written by Christer Petley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late eighteenth century, the planter class of the British Caribbean were faced with challenges stemming from revolutions, war, the rise of abolitionism and social change. By the nineteenth century, this once powerful group within the British Empire found itself struggling to influence an increasingly hostile government in London. By 1807, parliament had voted to abolish the slave trade: an early episode in a wider drama of decline for New World plantation economies. This book brings together chapters by a group of leading scholars to rethink the question of the ‘fall of the planter class’, offering a variety of new approaches to the topic, encompassing economic, political, cultural, and social history and providing a significant new contribution to our rapidly evolving understanding of the end of slavery in the British Atlantic empire. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.

Author : Anthony Dawson
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1473899141
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Liverpool and Manchester Railway written by Anthony Dawson and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What day-to-day life was like for those who traveled and worked on the world’s first intercity railway in early nineteenth-century England. Much has been written about the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, especially how it came into being and the Rainhill Trials, but very little has been said about what happened after the grand opening on 15 September 1830. Drawing on years of research, and practical experience of working with the replica of Stephenson’s Planet at Manchester’s Museum of Science and Industry, this book shows how the Liverpool & Manchester Railway worked in its day-to-day operations, including passenger and goods working, timetabling, signaling, and when things went wrong. Chapters describe what it was like to work and travel on the railway, and study the evolution of passenger accommodation and working and safety practices. Finally the book looks at how the Liverpool & Manchester fits into the wider picture, how its operational practices and rules and regulations became the basis of national practices in 1841.

Author : W. E. Gladstone
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198213703
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gladstone Diaries written by W. E. Gladstone and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1969-02-15 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Stanley Jevons
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134903097X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers and Correspondence of William Stanley Jevons written by William Stanley Jevons and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-02-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ken Pye
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750964456
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Merseyside Tales written by Ken Pye and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-04-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fantastic collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside's history. The fifty stories inside – from the lion in the wheelbarrow on the tightrope to the twelve young women 'smothered by the incurable malady they caught of some sailors', the true tale of the 'man in the iron coffin' and the strange and mysterious disappearance of the Everest mountaineers from Birkenhead – uncover some truly amazing and extraordinary facets of the area's history and heritage. Richly illustrated and compiled by Liverpool's own historian Ken Pye, this book will delight residents and visitors alike.

Author : Ken Pye
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445695944
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liverpool Murders and Misdemeanours written by Ken Pye and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the dark side of life in Liverpool in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Author : Frederic Boase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 936 pages
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Download or read book Modern English Biography written by Frederic Boase and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire written by Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.