James R Bennett: 5 books

Book cover of Iron and Steel

Iron and Steel

A Driving Guide to the Birmingham Area Industrial Heritage

by James R. Bennett, Karen R. Utz
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010

This guidebook of historic iron-production sites is designed to give the reader a factual and illuminating look at the people and events that shaped Birmingham into one of America’s leading steel centers. Iron & Steel is heavily illustrated with both color and historical black-and-white photographs....
Book cover of The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama
by Ethel Armes, James R. Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011

“The principal authority for the general treatment of the history of coal, and of iron and steel, in Alabama is the work of Miss Ethel Armes. The Story of Coal and Iron in Alabama is a comprehensive and scholarly work portraying in attractive style the growth of the mineral industries in its relation...
Book cover of The Maritime History of Cornwall
by Helen Doe, John C. Appleby, John Armstrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

Cornwall is quintessentially a maritime region.  Almost an island, nowhere in it is further than 25 miles from the sea.  Cornwall’s often distinctive history has been moulded by this omnipresent maritime environment, while its strategic position at the western approaches—jutting out into the...
Book cover of The Lively Experiment

The Lively Experiment

Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present

by Teresa Bejan, James B. Bennett, Jacob Betz
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015

The Lively Experiment chronicles how Americans have continually demolished traditional prejudices while at the same time erecting new walls between belief systems. Nearly four hundred years after Roger Williams' 1633 Rhode Island colony, the "lively experiment" of religious tolerance remains...
Book cover of The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
by Alastair Gunn, William Mudford, John Yonge Akerman
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2018

Twenty ghost stories from the supernatural masters of the Victorian age. Wimbourne Books presents the ninth in a series of rare or out-of-print ghost stories from Victorian authors. With an introduction by author Alastair Gunn, Volume 9 in the series contains stories published between 1841 and 1899,...
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