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Performance art : from futurism to the present / by RoseLee Goldberg.
Published 2011“…Thames & Hudson world of art…”
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Cleansing the city : sanitary geographies in Victorian London / Michelle Allen.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…The London sewer: purification and the experience of urban disorder -- "Thames fever": the contest for the river in the metropolitan imagination -- A more expansive reach: the geography of the Thames in Our mutual friend -- No space for the poor: disillusionment with reform in the 1880s -- Intransigence and limited mobility: competing geographies in the Nether world.…”
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Are we there yet? : virtual travel and Victorian realism / Alison Byerly.
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…A Room with a View: The Victorian Panorama ; The Passing Scene : Moving Panoramas ; Wish You Were Here : Marketing the Experience ; Watching the Grand Tour ; Moving Pictures : The View from a Balloon ; Surveying the Scene : The Panoramic Gaze ; The Hypothetical Tourist -- Total Immersion : Navigating the Thames. No Place Like Home : The Thames as England ; Journey to the Interior ; You Are Here : The Guided Tour ; Blogging the Trip : Three Men in a Boat ; Back to the Future : News from Nowhere ; River of Oblivion : The London Thames ; Change of Pace : The Rush toward Leisure -- High-speed Connection : The Railway Network. …”
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London's Waterways.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Front cover; Half title; Title; Contents; Introduction; London's Thames; Hampton Court; Kingston; Teddington Lock; Twickenham and Ham House; Richmond Park; Richmond; Kew Gardens; Kew Bridge Steam Museum; Chiswick and Mortlake; Hammersmith; London Wetland Centre; Putney and Fulham; Chelsea; Battersea; Chelsea Reach; Vauxhall; Westminster; Victoria Embankment; South Bank; Waterloo Bridge; Bankside; London Bridge; Tower of London; Tower Bridge; Docklands; Wapping; Limehouse; Canary Wharf; Isle of Dogs; Rotherhithe; Surrey Docks; Greenwich; Greenwich Park; The Millennium Dome; Royal Victoria Dock.…”
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Tides of history : ocean science and Her Majesty's Navy / Michael S. Reidy.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The littoral in science and history -- The bounded Thames -- Dessiou's claim -- "Tidology" -- The tide crusade -- Calculated collaborations -- Creating space for the "Scientist" -- Conclusion: The tides of empire.…”
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The War of 1812 in the West : from Fort Detroit to New Orleans / David Kirkpatrick.
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Hurtling toward war -- Danger in Detroit -- Forts Wayne and Harrison -- Battle for the Northwest -- The river basin -- Saving Fort Meigs -- Victory at the Thames -- Fire and federalists -- New Orleans -- Peace at last…”
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A military history of the English Civil War, 1642-1646 : strategy and tactics / Malcolm Wanklyn and Frank Jones.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…; III Battlecraft in seventeenth-century Europe; PART II Knock-out strategies; IV Initial strategies; V The battle of Edgehill; VI The first Thames valley campaign; Summary of Part II; PART III Parliament's offensive; VII Consolidation; VIII The second Thames valley campaign; Summary of Part III; PART IV A king's game.…”
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Going underground Windfall Films.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Venturing Beneath the Surface (2:10) -- Railway Age (1:05) -- Railway Mania in Britain (1:23) -- Life in the Slums (1:12) -- World's First Underground Railway (1:02) -- Controversy Surrounding the Underground Railway (1:06) -- Failed Designs for Underground Train Engines (1:46) -- Successfully Adapting the Steam Engine (1:14) -- Unexpected Release of Steam (0:57) -- Age of the Commuter (1:26) -- Tunneling Deeper (1:25) -- Brunel's' Tunnelers (1:30) -- Death Under the Thames (1:39) -- Thames Tunnel (1:27) -- Underground Suicides (1:43) -- Exploiting the Space Under London (1:36) -- Dangers of New Technology (1:46) -- Frank Pick: New Voice of the Underworld (1:43) -- Corporate Identity (1:53)…”
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Late Victorian London 1850-1897 / FremantleMedia.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Railway System in Victorian London (4:33) -- Thames River, Sewage, and Cholera (3:01) -- London's Sanitation and Population Expansion (2:40) -- London's Overcrowding and Expansion (3:13) -- London in 1897 (4:04)…”
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Women of the Raj : the Mothers, Wives and Daughters of the British Empire in India.
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The art of Mesoamerica : from Olmec to Aztec / Mary Ellen Miller.
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How to Thrive in the Next Economy : Designing Tomorrow's World Today.
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Brunel's kingdom : in the footsteps of Britain's greatest engineer / John Christopher.
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Using the Guide -- The Thames Tunnel -- Hungerford Bridge -- Paddington Station -- Paddington to Swindon -- Railway Town -- Swindon to Bristol -- Clifton Suspension Bridge -- Destination New York -- The SS Great Britain -- Extending the Broad Guage -- Triumph Over the Tamar -- Leviathan -- Brunel's Legacy.…”
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