London, Paris & New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce & money, art & intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world where ships powered by nothing more than wind, currents & human muscle criss-crossed the sea, carrying with them goods, ideas & above all people: men & women, bewigged aristocrats & lawyers, rough-handed craftworkers, quill-wielding bluestockings & doughty fishwives. But the cities were also home to dangerous criminals, corrupt politicians-
- & slaves. Rebel Cities explores the stormy debate about the nature of cities in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries: were they places of enlightenment, sparkling wells of progress & civilisation, or were they dens of vice, degeneracy & disorder? Against a backdrop of accelerating urban expansion & revolution in both Europe & North America, revolutionary burghers of these extraordinary cities expended ink, paint, breath &, sometimes, blood in their struggle to underst&, control & master the urban world. Drawing on hundreds of letters, travelogues & eye-witness accounts, Mike Rapport vividly evokes the sights, sounds & smells of these cities, masterfully weaving their history with the politics of revolution. When New Yorkers & Parisians experienced their revolution, when their cities went to war, & when Londoners engaged in political protest, they underwent the whole torrent & exhilaration of human emotions. Determining the character of the cities through their inhabitants, as well as their architecture, topography & the events that shaped them, this magnificent book evokes what it was like for all parts of society to live in London, Paris & New York in one of the most transformative periods in the history of civilisation.
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London, Paris & New York in the eighteenth century, as today, were places where political authority, commerce & money, art & intellectual life intersected. They straddled an Atlantic world where ships powered by nothing more than wind, currents & human muscle criss-crossed the sea, carrying with them goods, ideas & above all people: men & women, bewigged aristocrats & lawyers, rough-handed craftworkers, quill-wielding bluestockings & doughty fishwives. But the cities were also home to dangerous criminals, corrupt politicians-
- & slaves. Rebel Cities explores the stormy debate about the nature of cities in the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries: were they places of enlightenment, sparkling wells of progress & civilisation, or were they dens of vice, degeneracy & disorder? Against a backdrop of accelerating urban expansion & revolution in both Europe & North America, revolutionary burghers of these extraordinary cities expended ink, paint, breath &, sometimes, blood in their struggle to underst&, control & master the urban world. Drawing on hundreds of letters, travelogues & eye-witness accounts, Mike Rapport vividly evokes the sights, sounds & smells of these cities, masterfully weaving their history with the politics of revolution. When New Yorkers & Parisians experienced their revolution, when their cities went to war, & when Londoners engaged in political protest, they underwent the whole torrent & exhilaration of human emotions. Determining the character of the cities through their inhabitants, as well as their architecture, topography & the events that shaped them, this magnificent book evokes what it was like for all parts of society to live in London, Paris & New York in one of the most transformative periods in the history of civilisation.
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The radical response to conservative heritage tours & banal day-tripper guides, Rebel Footprints brings to life the history of social movements in the capital. Transporting readers from well-known landmarks to history-making hidden corners, David Rosenberg tells the story of protest & struggle in London from the early nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. From the suffragettes to the socialists, from the Chartists to the trade unionists, the book invites us to step into the footprints of a diverse cast of dedicated fighters for social justice. Individual chapters highlight particular struggles & their participants, from famous faces to lesser-known luminaries. Rosenberg sets London`s radical campaigners against the backdrop of the city`s multi-faceted development. Self-directed walks pair with narratives that seamlessly blend history, politics & geography. Specially commissioned maps & illustrations immerse the reader in the story of the city. Whether visiting it for the first time, or born & raised in it, Rosenberg invites you to see London as you never have before: the nation`s capital as its radical centre. ...

Born into a world seething with treachery & suspicion, Eleanor Goodricke grows up on the Somerset Levels just after the English Civil Wars, heiress to her late mother`s estates & daughter of a Puritan soldier who fears for his brilliant daughter with her dangerous passion for natural history
- & for butterflies in particular. Her reckless courage will take her to places where no woman of her day ever dared to go. Her fearless ambition will give her a place in history for all time. But it is her passionate heart which will lead her into a consuming love
- & mortal peril.

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Rebel Land: Among Turkey’s Forgotten People is an immersion in the beautiful district of Varto
- a place left behind by Turkey’s
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Controversial & revisionist history of America`s first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series
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A 21st century take on Dispatches, award-winning Vice News journalist Aris Roussinos tells the real stories behind life in a rebel army. The hidden truth about war is how much fun it is. However they begin, whatever their aims, wars are fought by young men. They fight in burned-out buildings & shelter under thorn trees. They eat their meagre rations, & starve for days cut off from supply lines. They smoke forty cigarettes a day & ride to war stoned, listening to Craig David. But the bombs & bullets are terrifyingly real, & the guys they`re killing aren`t always faceless enemies: sometimes they`re friends. For the last three years, award-winning journalist Aris Roussinos embedded himself with rebel groups across the world. Part travelogue from the world`s most dangerous hotspots, part eyewitness testimony to recent, bloody history, this is one man`s uncensored, unflinching account of living with the enemy. ...

Topographical survey of Belgium at 1:20, 000 from Nationaal Geografisch Instituut / Institut Géographique National, the country’s national survey organization. Each 20K map covers one quarter of the corresponding 1:50, 000 map (with adjustments in the border & coastal areas). The maps provide all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale & in addition have an unusually large amount of vegetation and/or land use information (different types of woodlands, gardens, orchards, heath, etc). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid, with margin ticks for latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English. Stanfords keeps as regular stock 20K maps for the World War I battlefields around the Ypres, Messines & Passchendaele, & for the area of the Battle of Waterloo. The 1:20, 000 survey covers the whole of Belgium & maps for other regions can be supplied as special orders. To see the list of titles in this series please click on the series link.PLEASE NOTE: the Long-Distance Footpaths Map of Belgium at 1:300, 000 which shows the division of Belgium into the 50K survey sheets can also be used to see in more detail coverage by the 20K maps. ...

A detailed, colour survey map from the Portuguese Military Survey's M782 series. Each map in this series has contours at 20m intervals with supplementary contours at 10m intervals. One major advantage the military mapping has over the civilian equivalent is that the legend is in English as well as Portuguese. This legend

Includes:: roads, railways, buildings, spot heights, vegetation type, fluvial information, scree, dunes, churches, ruins, etc. Latitude & longitude ticks are show at 10' intervals. Recently revised sheets also have a UTM grid at 100m intervals. Vertical Datum: Mean Sea Level at Cascais Harbour Projection: Transverse Mercator

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Topographic survey of Portugal at 1:50, 000 from the Instituto Geográfico do Exército, the country’s military survey organisation. The maps have contours at 20m intervals & in addition to the standard features shown on topographic mapping at this scale also indicate various types of terrain or vegetation (s&, terraces, rocks, woodlands, vineyards, etc). Each sheet covers an area of 32 x 20km (20 x 12.5 miles approx). The maps have a 1-km UTM grid plus latitude & longitude coordinates for the map corners. Map legend & a glossary of terms used on the maps include English.EDITION DATES: most titles in this series date from 1990s or later. To see all the titles in this series please click on the series link. ...