Thomas Cook
Published on 20. January 2005
288 pages
978-0-7524-9508-8 (ISBN)
Description
Biography of Thomas Cook.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
File size
0,97 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-9508-8 (9780752495088)
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Content
- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Chronology
- Preface
- One: Religion, Railways and Respectability
- Two: A Nonconformist Childhood
- Three: The Protestant Ethic
- Four: A Spade! A Rake! A Hoe!
- Five: A Long Way from the River Jordan
- Six: Lay Preacher
- Seven: Another New Career
- Eight: A New Life in an Old Town
- Nine: Total Abstinence
- Ten: 'Excursions Unite Man to Man, and Man to God'
- Eleven: Leicester: Printer of Guides and Temperance Hymn Books
- Twelve: 1845: The Commercial Trips, Liverpool, North Wales and Scotland
- Thirteen: Scotland
- Fourteen: Corn Laws: 'Give Us Our Daily Bread'
- Fifteen: Bankruptcy and Backwards
- Sixteen: 1848: Knowing Your Place in Society and Respecting Your Betters
- Seventeen: The Great Exhibition
- Eighteen: Paxton, Prince Albert and the Great Exhibition
- Nineteen: Building Houses
- Twenty: Crimea
- Twenty-one: The Second and Third Decades
- Twenty-two: A Leap in the Dark
- Twenty-three: America at Last!
- Twenty-four: For 'All the People!'
- Twenty-five: The Holy Land
- Twenty-six: Jerusalem, Jerusalem
- Twenty-seven: The Opening of the Suez Canal
- Twenty-eight: Paris: War, 1870
- Twenty-nine: Around the World
- Thirty: Grandeur
- Thirty-one: Egypt
- Thirty-two: 'My God, My God, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?'
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Three Cook Letters
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
