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This is the definitive story of the men who built the railways - the unknown Victorian labourers who blasted, tunnelled, drank and brawled their way across nineteenth-century England. Preached at and plundered, sworn at and swindled, this anarchic elite endured perils and disasters, and carved out of the English countryside an industrial-age architecture unparalleled in grandeur and audacity since the building of the cathedrals.

01 02 This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons—particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage—to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations. Following such comparisons across a variety of contexts over the course of the eighteenth century, David Harvey concludes that by the eve of the French Revolution, thinkers had mobilized cross-cultural comparisons in order to articulate a vision of Europe's identity and place in the world, defining it both as civilized and also as dynamic and progressive. 08 02 \"Highly recommended.\" - CHOICE 31 02 Provides a new view of the French Enlightenment by exploring how cross-cultural comparisons with figures such as the Chinese Mandarin were used to critique and praise aspects of European society 19 02 1) NEW VIEW OF THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT: Harvey's synoptic study undermines the idea of a unique and coherent 'Enlightenment project.' 2) BROAD SCOPE: The book looks not just at major figures such as Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau, but also missionaries, officials, soldiers, and travelers whose descriptions of other cultures provided these thinkers with their primary material. 3) NUANCED ANALYSIS: Harvey provides an account of the ideas at play during this period in all their ambiguity and human complexity, demonstrating how 'admirable' ideas were used to justify 'reprehensible' acts, and vice versa. 13 02 David Allen Harvey is professor of History and chair of the Division of Social Sciences at New College of Florida. A specialist in French cultural history, he is the author of Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace, 1830-1945 (2001) and Beyond Enlightenment: Occultism and Politics in Modern France (2005), as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews. 02 02 This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations. 04 02 Philosophy in the Seraglio The Wisdom of the East The New World and the Noble Savage The Last Frontiers The Varieties of Man An Indelible Stain The Apotheosis of Europe

Bankhurst examines how news regarding the violent struggle to control the borderlands of British North America between 1740 and 1760 resonated among communities in Ireland with familial links to the colonies. This work considers how intense Irish press coverage and American fundraising drives in Ireland produced empathy among Ulster Presbyterians.

This book examines the colonial state's approach to venereal disease and 'vice'-driven health risks in the first half of the nineteenth century. Further, it shows that these decisions had wide-ranging and often surprising consequences not simply for the army itself, but for India and the empire more broadly.

01 02 Napoleon was much more than a warlord consumed by vanity and ambition. He was the very spirit of the militant Revolution. Virtually everything he did during the fifteen years of his preponderance was derived from and linked to the French Revolution. Much of his hold over contemporaries was his embodiment of the aspirations as well as the boundless energy of the Revolution. Even his enemies, foreign and domestic, were fascinated by the man and uniformly saw him as 'the Revolution on horseback'. He fought off vengeful reactionary powers long enough for the Revolution to sink deep and permanent roots in France. The Allies who finally defeated Napoleon found it impossible to undo his subversive work - the genii of the Revolution was out of the bottle, and for good. Through his incessant table talk and dictated autobiography he focused the attention of posterity, inculcating his version of himself, events, and their significance. 08 02 'David Jordan has a clear thesis - that Napoleon not only inherited the political changes made possible by the French Revolution but inadvertantly helped to make them permanent. The book is written with a certain panache, and Napoleon emerges as a more complex figure than has been suggested by many of his biographers' - Professor Alan Forrest, University of York, UK 04 02 Preface Acknowledgements Prologue: Napoleon and the French Revolution Becoming a Revolutionary First Revolutionary Steps Italy the Imperial Revolution Egypt Power Entr'acte: Revolution and Empire The Weapons of Revolution Entr'acte: A Sighting in Jena Napoleon at Zenith Entr'acte: Napoleon and the Political Culture of the French Revolution Catastrophe and Decline Entr'acte: Napoleon Explains the Revolution Napoleon Brought to Bay Ending the Revolution Entr'acte: Reputation The End of the End Game Death and Rebirth Epilogue: Napoleon and the Revolutionary Tradition Appendix: Some Remarks about Arsenic Poisoning Notes Bibliography 02 02 This new study of Napoleon emphasizes his ties to the French Revolution, his embodiment of its militancy, and his rescue of its legacies. Jordan's work illuminates all aspects of his fabulous career, his views of the Revolution and history, the artists who created and embellished his image, and much of his talk about himself and his achievements. 13 02 DAVID P. JORDAN was born in Detroit, Michigan and educated at the University of Michigan and Yale University, USA. He is the author of books on Edward Gibbon, the French Revolution, and Paris, is a passionate chamber music player and lives with his wife and daughter in Chicago, where he taught for many years. 19 02 The book makes the argument for Napoleon as the inadvertent saviour of the French Revolution, a thesis that has not hitherto been argued in this way The story of his fabulous career stressing his cultural achievements as well as his more traditional political and military accomplishments The structure of the book, using topical chapters (the Entr'actes) to interrupt the chronological narrative not only distinguishes the work from the more conventional treatments of Napoleon but explores topics not usually tackled in biographies 31 02 A study of Napoleon that argues he was not merely the heir of the Revolution but its embodiment, and his career, largely inadvertently, preserved its principle achievements