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Kenneth Morgan
Winter has arrived in the Woodmont Valley. Maple Pond is frozen, and the ice surface is as smooth as glass. The Seever family of beavers are warm in their lodge…
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This book is a social, economic, political, and cultural assessment of Jamaica over the past millennium. Exploring themes such as race, slavery, empire, poverty, and colonialism in an accessible way…
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Kenneth O. Morgan
The eventful life, scholarly work and political and personal experience of Wales’s leading historian, reflecting on the challenges and achievements which have peppered his long and successful career.
Do beavers wear braces? No, silly! Follow the Seever family's adventures and discover that beavers' teeth never stop growing. Therefore, you'll never see a beaver in braces. Beavers are called…
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This two-volume work provides the first edited publication of Matthew Flinders’s fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ‘Memoir’ he wrote to…
The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.
The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society…
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A memoir in which the author literally embraces the figure of death and disappears into his shroud.
This clear and comprehensive study of the social impact of early industrialisation will be an indispensable introduction to one of the defining and most widely studied periods of British history.
Personally enigmatic and often described as difficult to work with, Fritz Reiner was nevertheless renowned for the dynamic galvanization of the orchestras he led, a nearly unrivalled technical ability, and…
Designed specially for undergraduate course use, this textbook is both an introduction to the study of American slavery and a reader of core texts on the subject. No other volume…
The first Reader and Guide on the subject of slavery in America. It combines both an introduction to the field and a selection of core primary and secondary readings, covering…
The Routledge History of the Modern Maritime World provides a wide-ranging set of chapters, covering the sixteenth century to the present, which represent the main lines of current enquiry in…
These documents illuminate the conduct of British trade in the Caribbean when slavery was at its height and Jamaica was the wealthiest territory in Britain’s Atlantic empire. Detailing the commercial…
Originally published: Chambersburg, Pa.: Anima, c1990.
This is an introduction to the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, which especially focuses on the two centuries from 1650, and covers the Atlantic…
A textbook introduction to one of the most important areas of early American history.
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This title shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the 17th and 18th centuries. It covers all aspects of the two labour systems, including their…
A two-volume work that provides an edited publication of Matthew Flinders’ fair journals from the circumnavigation of Australia in 1801-1803 in HMS Investigator, and of the ‘Memoir’ he wrote to…
Kenneth Morgan (Brunel University)
Morgan investigates five key areas concerning the impact of slavery and Atlantic trade on British economic development: the profits of the slave trade; slavery, capital accumulation and British economic development…
Kenneth L. Morgan
God Is Still Speaking is a book that will encourage you in the times that we are now faced with, when it seems as if our lives have been turned…
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Highly experienced in evaluating water distribution system components, Morgan describes causes of leaks in drinking water mains, how to identify them, the effective use of information documented from main breaks…
Kenneth Morgan (Professor of History, Brunel University)
An introduction to the entire history of British involvement with slavery and the slave trade, with an especial focus on the two centuries from 1650, and covering the Atlantic world…
Kenneth Morgan (Professor of History at Brunel University)
In this Very Short Introduction, Kenneth Morgan provides a wide-ranging and thematic introduction to modern Australia; examining the main features of its history, geography, and culture and drawing attention to…
This book argues that civil wars in Africa stem from the contradictions and crises that have been generated by the post-colonial state as the result of the adverse effects of…
Kenneth Morgan (West London Institute of Higher Education)
Dr Morgan compares the performance of Bristol as a port during the eighteenth century with the growth of other out ports, especially Liverpool and Glasgow, and shows that, paradoxically, the…
The British Left has developed a long way since the early days of electoral reform signalled by the Great Reform Act of 1832. In this book, the author, one of…
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This work inquires into those aspects of the career and ideas of David Lloyd George that have had special relevance to Wales. It deals primarily with his place in the…
Kenneth L Morgan
More Than Just Words…
Life is full of all types of experiences, some we would like to hold on to, and others we would like to forget. We live every day looking for a…
Originally published in 1971, this book traces the revival, triumph, division and decline of the British Liberal Party in the late 19th & 20th centuries. It does so by focusing…
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Kenneth Morgan’s Very Short Introduction to Twentieth-Century Britain is a crisp analysis of the forces of consensus and of conflict in modern Britain since the First World War.
This comprehensive analysis of modern Welsh history by historian Kenneth O. Morgan, takes as its starting-point 1880, covering all aspects of the nation’s history from political, social, economic and religious…
A study of British history from 1945 to 1989, examining the transformation of post-war Britain from the planning enthusiasm of 1945 to the ethic of Thatcherism. The author examines the…
This book examines the pattern of political and social change in Britain during the period of the Lloyd George coalition government 1918-22, and provides a reassessment of this major administration…
The first updated new edition in almost twenty years of this best-selling and beautifully illustrated history of Britain, from Roman times to the 21st century.
Pathways: Local Mission for All Kinds of Churches uses seven developmental steps to help you focus your attention and organise your resources. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples, it sets…
A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.
This is an integrated range of studies focusing on Wales by a long-established and internationally-recognised academic authority and member of the House of Lords on the advance of democracy and…
Professor Kenneth Morgan (Brunel University London, UK)
This book provides a thoroughly researched biography of the naval career of Matthew Flinders, with particular emphasis on his importance for the maritime discovery of Australia. Sailing in the wake…
