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The Last Train

By: Trevor Nevett

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The idea for this story came to me in Trinidad. For the last twenty years, I have been going back to the island every Christmas. Most of the children know me as Santa for I give out toys and sweets at parties. The look on some of the children's faces brings tears to my eyes, and this has really touched me. After the festive season is over, I then become the Englishman since I've done a quite few performances in the southern part of the island. This is a ghost story about two young boys who met an old man on a train, who happens to be a ghost. In March of this year (2011), after Carnival, I visited San Fernando on Harris Promenade Hill where "the Train" stands. I stood looking at it and thought that I could tell some stories about it. On my return as I slept the following night, I dreamt about the train. In my dream, a young boy came up and stood looking at me and started asking questions. "Do you have lots of train in your country?" I told him I came from England. He replied, "I know. You're the white Santa." His mom and dad also noticed me always in deep thought while sitting on the bench. I told them that I was writing a song about the train. "We live quite close to the house you are staying at. We know most of the people in the village. Lots of the people talked about the white man from England, but only a few know your name." That's how it started. I wrote half the story in Trinidad and finished it on my return to England.

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Planters, Merchants, and Slaves

Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

By: Trevor Burnard

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Planters, Merchants, and Slaves

Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820

By: Trevor Burnard

As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men who lacked better economic options. The economically successful if socially monstrous plantation required racial division to exist, but Trevor Burnard shows here that its success was measured in gold, not skin or blood. In light of the strength and centrality of the plantation system, Burnard builds the case that pre-Revolutionary British America was centered not on the fractious and relatively poor North American colonies but on its booming commercial hub: Jamaica. The British Caribbean was economically successful, and the institutions that developed there--chief among them the large integrated plantation--did what they were intended to do and more. That these institutions eventually collapsed was not because of their amorality but because of changes in their economic and political contexts.

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University of Chicago Press

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022628610X

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9780226286105

Diverging Tracks

American Versus English Rail Travel in the 19th Century

By: Trevor K. Snowdon

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Diverging Tracks

American Versus English Rail Travel in the 19th Century

By: Trevor K. Snowdon

The advent of mass railroad travel in the 1800s saw the extension of a system of global transport that developed various national styles of construction, operation, administration, and passenger experiences. Drawing on travel narratives and a broad range of other contemporary sources, this history contrasts the railroad cultures of 19th century England and America, with a focus on the differing social structures and value systems of each nation, and how the railroad fit into the wider industrial landscape.

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McFarland

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1476671540

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9781476671543

Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

By: Trevor Norton

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Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

By: Trevor Norton

A witty celebration of the great eccentrics who have performed dangerous scientific experiments on themselves for the benefit of humankind. Many scientists have followed the advice of the great Victorian doctor Jack Haldane to “never experiment on an animal if a man will do” and “never ask anyone to do anything you wouldn’t do yourself.” He and his father inhaled poisonous gasses to test the efficacy of the prototype gas mask they had invented. When breathing gasses under pressure he suffered the smoking ears and screaming teeth of the title. The stories in Norton’s new book are astonishing, disturbing or absurd. The zoologist Frank Buckland made a concentrated effort to widen the nation’s diet by personally testing everything that crossed his path, from boiled elephant’s trunk to slug soup. Some medics deliberately contracted deadly blood diseases in the hope of finding cures. Then there was the surgeon who was fired and subsequently won the Nobel Prize for thrusting a catheter into his own beating heart.

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Simon and Schuster

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1605988502

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The Last Train

The Last Train

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves

Planters, Merchants, and Slaves

Diverging Tracks

Diverging Tracks

Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth

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