Dead Man's Cache

Literature & Fiction

Arnold, A.J.

Genre Fiction

Ballantine Books

'Little better documented than King Arthur or Robin Hood' complained one historian in 1998 describing the lack of information on Thames shipbuilding. This study of iron shipbuilding on the capital's river fills this noticeable gap. A.J. Arnold examines the initial domination of the iron shipbuilding trade by Thames firms from the launch of the first iron vessel on the river in 1832 to the end of serious Thames-side shipbuilding in 1915. For the first time, the factors that caused the industry's demise are explored fully, together with an analysis of the effect it had on its locality. Extending existing series of data, the book includes information on annual shipbuilding tonnage and the number of vessels constructed, and further looks at tonnage built for foreign citizens, companies and navies, and for the British Admirality. This broader and deeper statistical survey is supplemented with less systematic documentation such as memorabilia and business records to arrive at the most complete picture yet of a once pre-eminent British industry. A.J. Arnold is Professor of Accounting and Business History at the University of Essex.

Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832–1915: An Economic and Business History

Business & Money

Economics

Routledge

Sixteen-year-old Peter Buckow runs away to Texas, where after being cheated by a rancher, he survives an unjust lynching and, horribly wounded, must find a way to live his life branded by the mark of the noose.

Diamond Buckow (Evans Novel of the West)

United States

M.Evans & Company

Iron Shipbuilding on the Thames, 1832–1915: An Economic and Business History (Routledge Revivals)

Industries

This title was first published in 2000. 'Little better documented than King Arthur or Robin Hood' complained one historian in 1998 describing the lack of information on Thames shipbuilding. This study of iron shipbuilding on the capital's river fills this noticeable gap. A.J. Arnold examines the initial domination of the iron shipbuilding trade by Thames firms from the launch of the first iron vessel on the river in 1832 to the end of serious Thames-side shipbuilding in 1915. For the first time, the factors that caused the industry's demise are explored fully, together with an analysis of the effect it had on its locality. Extending existing series of data, the book includes information on annual shipbuilding tonnage and the number of vessels constructed, and further looks at tonnage built for foreign citizens, companies and navies, and for the British Admirality. This broader and deeper statistical survey is supplemented with less systematic documentation such as memorabilia and business records to arrive at the most complete picture yet of a once pre-eminent British industry. A.J. Arnold is Professor of Accounting and Business History at the University of Essex.

Peter D. Buckow hadn’t had much luck in his short life. An abused and neglected child, he struggled hard to overcome the disadvantages of his upbringing. He worked hard as Henry Blough’s ranch hand; he labored from sunup ‘til sundown; he never shirked a task. But when Henry Blough tries to cheat the sixteen-year-old Buck of his pay, he decides to take his wages out in steers…Caught red handed by the deputy Sheriff, poor Peter Buckow is hanged with his own rope and left for dead.Except Buckow didn’t die.He survived and was given an extraordinary chance at a second life. And now he had to choose between the easy path of violence and vengeance, or a life of honest hard work with no guarantee of success. 

Diamond Buckow (An Evans Novel of the West)

Literary

* The Robert Maxwell of the nineteenth century * Victorian England ’s greatest capitalist * Brought down by a shareholder ’s question The building of the railways in Britain in the nineteenth century was the greatest ever industrial undertaking in the world to that time.Financed by private enterprise rather than the state,the schemes to build new lines were characterised both by their ambition and by their need for huge amounts of capital.The most ambitious of all of the individual entrepreneurs,and for long the most successful, was George Hudson,the ‘Railway King ’,whose establishment of York as the hub of an ever-growing network of lines brought him huge wealth and great fame. Already a wealthy businessman and Lord Mayor of York before the advent of the railways,Hudson seized the opportunity they presented with both hands.He became an MP,lived in style and entertained lavishly.While his early lines were profitable,later ones were not.Ever more deeply committed,at a time when accounting standards were lax,he hid inconvenient figures until brought down by a question at a shareholders ’meeting in 1849.Disgraced,he fled to the Continent,his name synonymous with fraudulent capitalism at its most brazen.This new biography is the fullest examination to date of an extraordinary and complex man and his career.

George Hudson: The Rise and Fall of the Railway King

Biographies & Memoirs

McCartney, S.

Historical

Hambledon & London

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