From Sail to Steam

by Caroline Williams

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Waterloo saw the end of Bonaparte and of the blockade of trade with Europe. None saw more benefit than the Channel Islanders and for the next half century they developed a lucrative, world-wide carrying trade which built fortunes in St Helier and St Peter Port for ship-builders, ship-owners and mariners. From about 1865 those trades declined ...Guernsey diversified into stone quarrying, whilst Jersey developed the export of the new potato and tourism. This significant contribution to the history of the islands compares the impact of the expansion.
  • ISBN13 9781860771590
  • Publish Date 31 December 2000
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 4 August 2016
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher The History Press Ltd
  • Imprint Phillimore & Co Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 192
  • Language English