1847
Subtitle: a chronicle of genius, generosity & savagery
By: Turtle Bunbury
Publisher: Gill Books
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780717168347
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Modern History; Histoire
Description: Rediscover the events, characters and pioneering spirit that helped create the modern world in 1847, this eclectic collection of events, stories and character portraits --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-354) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : 1847: The year it all began; title: January :; title: New Year's Day, 1847; title: The Comanche Warriors & the Free-Thinking Germans ;; title: February ;; title: The Opium King & the Apostle of Temperance; title: An Alabaman Reflects Upon New Orleans; title: General Tom Thumb & the Prince of Humbugs ;; title: March :; title: Lola Montez & the King of Bavaria; title: 'Oh! Susanna, Don't you Cry for Me'; title: The Girl Who Liked Dinosaurs; title: The Curse of Ignaz Semmelweis; title: Pablo Fanque & Mr Kite; title: The Choctaw Nation & the Great Famine ;; title: April :; title: Frederick Douglass Faces Home; title: The Bombardment of Tourane, Vietnam; title: The Birth of Cartier; title: The Rise & Fall of Khan Kenesary; title: Captain Baxter & the Barnstable Boys ;; title: May :; title: Felix Mendelssohn & the Swedish Nightingale; title: 'Oh Give Me But Employ' ;; title: June :; title: Dr Fabre-Tonnerre's Polynesian Dictionary; title: Abdülmecid: A Tale of Pianos, Telegraphs, Etiquette & Famine; title: The Chicago Tribune; title: Death in the Arctic ;; title: July :; title: Mormons on the March: of Roadometers, Choirs & Baseball; title: Edward Lear & the Two Sicilys ;; title: August :; title: HMS Herald & HMS Pandora: A Chronicle of Panama Belles, Irish Colonies & Giant Tortoises ;; title: September :; title: Johann Gramp's Succulent Vines; Mexico Has Fallen, or How the USA Grew by a Third; title: The Tsar's Bizarre Circus War; title: Royal Scandal in The House of Bourbon; title: Extracts From The Norfolk News ;; title: October :; title: A Messianic Earthquake; title: Werner Siemens & The Gutta-Percha Tree ;; title: November :; title: Captain Hanson Gregory, Doughnut Inventor; title: Abide With Henry Lyte; title: The Murder of a 'Divine Servant' ;; title: December :; title: Camila O'gorman & the Jesuit; title: The King of Crackers; title: Richard Burton's Simian Dictionary ;; title: Appendix 1: The New House at Lisnavagh; title: Appendix 2: Literary Notes for 1847.