Books written by Kenneth Morgan

  • The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic Change, 1750-1850
    The Birth of Industrial Britain: Economic Change, 1750-1850

    stake inthe soil«and insome partsofthe country saw them crowdedinto decayed farm houses with noland on which to gain their subsistence [Doc. 4]. Most ofthedispossessed didnot quitthe land for the towns; thatdoes appear to be a ...

  • Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America
    Slavery and the British Empire: From Africa to America

    Mauritian apprentices were given no money, no land, and no special training for occupations other than work in the cane fields. James Backhouse, a Quaker missionary who visited the island in 1838, concluded 16 Despatch of Lord Sligo, ...

  • Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia
    Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia

    From the absence of great swells, he thought there might be a large landmass to his south, possibly Terra Australis, but he came across no land that fitted that description. His expedition arrived back in England by May 1766, ...

  • The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850
    The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850

    For Wales seeDavid W. Howell, TheRural Poorin EighteenthCentury Wales (Cardiff: University of WalesPress, 2000).For Scotland, which had a differentpoor lawtradition than England and Wales,the best studyis RosalindMitchison, ...

  • Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet
    Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet

    Reiner to Howard R. Will, Mar. ... Mayer, The Met, 240; Abraham Marcus, interview with the author. 148. ... For background material on the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, see Schabas, Theodore Thomas; Mayer, “Dr. Reiner's Orchestra,” 40; ...

  • Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia
    Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia

    Lee, Ida, ' Captain John Hayes – An Early Tasmanian Explorer', The Tasmanian Mail, 11 December 1909, pp. 45–7. Lee, Ida, Commodore Sir John Hayes: His Voyage and Life (1767–1831) with Some Account of Admiral D'Entrecasteaux's Voyage of ...

  • Swarm Intelligence and Bio-Inspired Computation: 11. A Review of the Development and Applications of the Cuckoo Search Algorithm
    Swarm Intelligence and Bio-Inspired Computation: 11. A Review of the Development and Applications of the Cuckoo Search Algorithm

    Another interesting modification to cuckoo search is presented by Lin and Lee (2012). In their paper, they do not directly compare the new algorithm, emotional chaotic cuckoo search, to the unmodified algorithm, so it is hard to gauge ...

  • Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia
    Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia

    For Baudin's stay in Sydney see Margaret Sankey, 'The Baudin Expedition in Port Jackson, 1802: Cultural Encounters and ... 55; David Mackay, 'The Great Era of Pacific Exploration' in John Hardy and Alan Frost, eds, Studies from Terra ...

  • Australia: A Very Short Introduction
    Australia: A Very Short Introduction

    ... KABBALAH Joseph Dan KAFKA Ritchie Robertson KANT Roger Scruton KEYNES Robert Skidelsky KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner THE KORAN Michael Cook LANDSCAPES AND GEOMORPHOLOGY Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark LAW ...

  • The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850
    The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850

    When he was 11 he was apprenticed by the parish officers of Market Lavington to Joseph Somner, broadweaver, of the parish of Melksham until he was 24. He lived with and served Somner in Melksham between 10 and 11 years, then his master, ...

  • Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide
    Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide

    The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America.

  • Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume II
    Australia Circumnavigated. The Voyage of Matthew Flinders in HMS Investigator, 1801-1803 / Volume II

    Smith, Archibald, ed., Journal of a Voyage to Australia and Round the World, for Magnetical research by the Rev. W. Scoresby, London, 1859. Smith, Bernard, European Vision and the South Pacific, 2nd edn, New Haven, 1985.

  • A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery
    A Short History of Transatlantic Slavery

    See also David Todd, Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), p. 41. Geggus, 'The French Slave Trade,' p. 122. Stein, The French Slave Trade, p. 133. Eltis and Richardson, An Atlas ...

  • Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia
    Navigating by the Southern Cross: A History of the European Discovery and Exploration of Australia

    47; Dennis Reinhartz, 'William Dampier and the Wreck of the Roebuck off Ascension Island in 1701,' Terrae Incognitae, ... 59 Adrian Mitchell, Dampier's Monkey: The South Seas Voyages of William Dampier Including William Dampier's ...

  • The British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 2
    The British Transatlantic Slave Trade Vol 2

    The English in West Africa 16851668: The Local Correspondence of the Royal African Company of England, 1681-1699, Part 2 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001); Junius P. Rodriquez (ed.), The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery (2 ...

  • Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet
    Fritz Reiner, Maestro and Martinet

    Further performances of Meistersinger under Reiner's baton took place in the 1951—52 and 1952—53 seasons. Schoeffler continued as Hans Sachs. Walther was performed by Hans Hopf and Svanholm, Beckmesser by Gerhard Pechner and Kunz.

  • Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide
    Slavery in America: A Reader and Guide

    The book begins with a substantial introduction to the entire volume that gives an overview of slavery in North America.

  • More Than Just Words
    More Than Just Words

    MORE THAN JUST WoRDs When I began to think about the title of this book, it gave me so much inspiration and desire to know that in the times that we are now living in words are powerful and should mean something to us.

  • Oceanic History: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
    Oceanic History: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    The journal of Christopher Columbus. Translated by Cecil jane. London: Anthony Blond, 1960. This version of Columbus's journal is based on the text of the Dominican historian Bartolomé de las Casas. The annotation is helpful but not as ...

  • Mesh Generation and Adaptation: Cutting-Edge Techniques
    Mesh Generation and Adaptation: Cutting-Edge Techniques

    Springer, Berlin (2013) 54. Zhang, Y.: Geometric Modeling and Mesh Generation from Scanned Images. Chapman and Hall/CRC (2016) 55. Zhang, Y., Bajaj, C.L.: Adaptive and quality quadrilateral/hexahedral meshing from volumetric data.