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The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island
- J. Conlin
- Art, History
- 31 January 2013
Introduction Jonathan Conlin 1 Chapter 1. Theaters of Hospitality: The Forms and Uses of Private Landscapes and Public Gardens John Dixon Hunt 29 Chapter 2. Pleasure Gardens and Urban Culture in the…
The Nation's Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery
- J. Conlin
- History
- 15 May 2007
Ever since its conception in 1824, the 'much loved friend' in Trafalgar Square has been part of national life to an extent unmatched by any other great museum. Established, housed and maintained…
An Illiberal Descent: Natural and National History in the Work of Charles Kingsley
- J. Conlin
- Art
- 1 April 2011
The Victorian novelist, historian and cleric Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was a polymath who took a close interest in natural history. A friend and correspondent of T. H. Huxley and many other…
A Historical Analysis of Three Main Issues Affecting United States Foreign Policy in the Middle East
Abstract : The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is an instrument of foreign policy in the Middle East. The number of DOD personnel who are involved either directly or indirectly with the Middle East…
Debt, diplomacy and dreadnoughts: the National Bank of Turkey, 1909–1919
- J. Conlin
- History, Economics
- 26 February 2016
ABSTRACT The National Bank of Turkey (NBT) (1909) was an attempt by the new Young Turk regime to assert economic sovereignty: creating a multinational bank able to provide financing free of the…
Vauxhall Revisited: The Afterlife of a London Pleasure Garden, 1770–1859
- J. Conlin
- HistoryThe Journal of British Studies
- 1 October 2006
I 1859 the news that Royal Vauxhall Gardens was to be sold to developers came as a shock. Since the late seventeenth century this twelve-acre suburban garden on the south bank of the Thames had been…
Vauxhall on the boulevard: pleasure gardens in London and Paris, 1764–1784
- J. Conlin
- HistoryUrban History
- 1 May 2008
ABSTRACT: Open to both aristocracy and middling rank, pleasure gardens fashioned a spectacle of order out of a heterogeneous crowd. They have been seen as uniquely British spaces, demonstrating how…
The consolations of Amero-Teutonism: E. A. Freeman's tour of the United States, 1881-2
- J. Conlin
- History
- 1 September 2015
Making history : Edward Augustus Freeman and Victorian cultural politics
- G. Bremner, J. Conlin
- History
- 15 October 2015
I INTRODUCTION II FAITH IN HISTORY III TRAVELLING THROUGH TIME IV THE FABRIC OF HISTORY V RACE AND EMPIRE VI THE SCIENCE OF HISTORY VII CONCLUSION
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