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Author : Oriental Club (London, England)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Annals of the Oriental Club, 1824-1858 written by Oriental Club (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seth Alexander Thévoz
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 147214645X
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Behind Closed Doors written by Seth Alexander Thévoz and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2022-07-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thévoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealing how while the clubs may have been products of their city and country, they also exerted significant influence on London, Britain and places far beyond. This is a chronicle, as informative as it is entertaining, of the ups and downs of London clubland, and how it had an impact on parts of the world far from London. It is packed with amusing anecdotes and illustrative examples of the growth of this quirky, unique institution, which grew to spread around the world. London, though, with its four hundred clubs, was always at its heart. Thévoz reveals how everything we might have thought we knew about these clubs is wrong. They may have started out as white, male, aristocratic watering holes - but that's only part of the story. All sections of society built their own clubs and lived their lives there: highbrow and lowbrow; women and men; working-class, middle-class and upper-class; international and British. The club has been central to a distinctively British form of leisure over more than three centuries. Behind Closed Doors is a distillation of a decade of research and writing on London clubs, based on exclusive behind-the-scenes access to archives and proceedings, as well as a love of gossip and scandal.
Author : Karen Attar
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783300167
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland written by Karen Attar and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.
Author : A. Milne-Smith
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137002085
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book London Clubland written by A. Milne-Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is the first to study the gentlemen's clubs that were an important feature of the Late Victorian landscape, and the first to discover the secret history of clubmen and their world, placing them at centre stage, detailing how clubland dramatically shaped 19th and early 20th-century ideas about gender, power, class, and the city.
Author : Richard Stevenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857736914
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Beatson's Mutiny written by Richard Stevenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a long and varied career, Major-General William Beatson earned a fine reputation as a leader of irregular cavalry in the nineteenth century. He trained many future commanders of the Victorian army, saw action in Spain and British India, and rode with the Heavy Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava. But tasked with disciplining the Turkish Bashi-Bazouks during the Crimean War, his character flaws led him into conflict with politicians and diplomats running the war, who accused him of inciting mutiny. Parliament, newspapers and the law courts then became his chosen battlefields as he fought to clear his name and return to duty. By bringing Beatson s life and career into sharper focus, Richard Stevenson connects wide-ranging themes in Victorian military and imperial history in a fresh and accessible way."
Author : Joydeep Sen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317318439
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Astronomy in India, 1784–1876 written by Joydeep Sen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian scientific achievements in the early twentieth century are well known, with a number of heralded individuals making globally recognized strides in the field of astrophysics. Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatick Society in 1784 to the establishment of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1876, Sen explores the relationship between Indian astronomers and the colonial British. He shows that from the mid-nineteenth century, Indians were not passive receivers of European knowledge, but active participants in modern scientific observational astronomy.
Author : Daniel E. White
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411644
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book From Little London to Little Bengal written by Daniel E. White and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How literary and religious traffic between Bengal and Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries impelled a complex and contested cosmopolitan imperial culture. From Little London to Little Bengal traces the traffic in culture between Britain and India during the Romantic period. To some, Calcutta appeared to be a “Little London,” while in London itself an Indianized community of returned expatriates was emerging as “Little Bengal.” Circling between the two, this study reads British and Indian literary, religious, and historical sources alongside newspapers, panoramas, religious festivals, idols, and museum exhibitions. Together and apart, Britons and Bengalis waged a transcultural agon under the dynamic conditions of early nineteenth-century imperialism, struggling to claim cosmopolitan perspectives and, in the process, to define modernity. Daniel E. White shows how an ambivalent Protestant contact with Hindu devotion shaped understandings of the imperial mission for Britons and Indians during the period. Investigating global metaphors of circulation and mobility, communication and exchange, commerce and conquest, he follows the movements of people, ideas, books, art, and artifacts initiated by writers, publishers, educators, missionaries, travelers, and reformers. Along the way, he places luminaries like Romantic poet Robert Southey and Hindu reformer Rammohun Roy in dialogue with a fascinating array of lesser-known figures, from the Baptist missionaries of Serampore and the radical English journalist James Silk Buckingham to the mixed-race prodigy Henry Louis Vivian Derozio. In concert and in conflict, these cultural emissaries and activists articulated national and cosmopolitan perspectives that were more than reactions on the part of marginal groups to the metropolitan center of power and culture. The British Empire in India involved recursive transactions between the global East and West, channeling cultural, political, and religious formations that were simultaneously distinct and shared, local, national, and transnational.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book The Bodleian Quarterly Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library Association. Rare Books Group
Publisher : London : Library Association Pub.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland written by Library Association. Rare Books Group and published by London : Library Association Pub.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition lists approximately 1200 libraries in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, some included for the first time, with details of their rare and special book collections. It covers mainly those printed before 1850, but includes manuscript and modern material where related.
Author : Sunil Pandya
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527520277
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Medical Education in Western India written by Sunil Pandya and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Medical knowledge is not communicable to the natives of this country.” With these words, James McAdam, Secretary of the Medical Board of Bombay, sounded the death-knell in 1832 of the pioneering medical school set up in Bombay by Governor Mountstuart Elphinstone. Sir Robert Grant, appointed Governor of Bombay in 1834, disagreed, however. He aimed at ‘the general improvement of medical and surgical science and practice among the native practitioners’. With Dr Charles Morehead, he created a medical college superior to those in Calcutta, and Madras. Parsi philanthropist Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy single-handedly donated an entire hospital to complement this college. Graduates from these institutions, trained in scientific medicine of the highest standards, went on to serve their fellow countrymen with distinction. This book narrates how against great odds, Grant Medical College went on to rival medical colleges in Europe and America, and Dr Morehead was invited to help improve medical education at the University of London.
Author : Denys Mostyn Forrest
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book The Oriental written by Denys Mostyn Forrest and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1979 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971 written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : India Office Library and Records
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Brief Guide to Biographical Sources - India Office Library and Records written by India Office Library and Records and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spine title: IOLR - a brief guide to biographical sources.
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Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Orientalia Antiqua written by and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Riches
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953459407
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (594 download)
Download or read book A History of the Oriental Club written by Hugh Riches and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Darwin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Correspondence of Charles Darwin written by Charles Darwin and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's are made available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. Letter-writing was of crucial importance to Darwin's work, not only because his poor health isolated him from direct personal communication with his scientific colleagues but also because the nature of his investigations required communication with naturalists in many fields and in all quarters of the globe. Thus the letters are a mine of information about the work in progress of a creative genius who produced an intellectual revolution." --
Author : Michael Herbert Fisher
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Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Inordinately Strange Life of Dyce Sombre written by Michael Herbert Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The descendent of European mercenaries and their Indian concubines, raised by a stepmother who began as a courtesan and became the Catholic ruler of a cosmopolitan kingdom, David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808-1851) defies all classification. Sombre took advantage of the sensual pleasures of privilege but lost his kingdom to the British. Exiled in London, he married the daughter of a Protestant viscount and bought himself election as an MP, only to be expelled for corruption. His treatment of his life led to his arrest as a Chancery 'lunatic'. Sombre then spent years trying to reclaim his sanity and fortune. In this captivating biography, Michael H. Fisher recovers Sombre's unconventional life and its implications for modern conceptions of race, privilege and empire.
