Porter, George (??)

The Progress of the Nation, in Its Various Social and Economical Relations, from the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century to the Present Time. Porter, George (??)

Publisher Marketing: Title: The Progress of the Nation, in its various social and economical relations, from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present time. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The NOVELS OF THE 18th & 19th CENTURIES collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection includes major and minor works from a period which saw the development and triumph of the English novel. These classics were written for a range of audiences and will engage any reading enthusiast. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Porter, George; 1847. 8 . 1302.g.1 Contributor Bio:  Porter, George George Porter was born in Liverpool in 1943. At fourteen he left school to join the Army as a boy soldier and subsequently served in Germany, the Persian Gulf, and Norway. He was seconded from the British Army to The Trucial Oman Scouts in 1963 (now the United Arab Emirates), an Arab force policing the seven sheikdoms of the then Trucial States. In Germany he worked as a court shorthand writer for Army Legal Services and finished his career in 1969 in Oslo as the personal assistant to the Commander-in-Chief, Allied Forces Northern Europe. In 1970 he was employed in the music publishing industry as a management trainee and in 1973 he was appointed General Manager of the UK office of a large American publisher, subsequently forming his own publishing /recording company. He also became involved in magazine publishing, acting as managing editor of five county magazines and publishing the house journal of the NFU. He has a combined honours degree in English and History from Ruskin University Cambridge and has a keen interest in the origins of Ancient Greek literature, although he admits to being no classicist. He spent three years in Nigeria working on an adult literacy project for the British Council where he travelled the length and breadth of the country meeting and working with the many different peoples, of whom the Fulani nomads further influenced his contention that western civilization owes a great deal more to Africa than has ever been attributed. He is the author of a memoir, I Came Out Sideways, and of Black Antigone, a new interpretation of Sophocles' classical tragedy.