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Engines of Change

Author : Ian J. Kerr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313046123
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Engines of Change written by Ian J. Kerr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, India remains, by any measure, a major economic and political actor on the world scene. Without her extensive railway network—completed against all odds by her British colonial masters—it is impossible to imagine what might have become of the diverse lands and peoples of the subcontinent. These railway networks brought them together as a colony; these networks fostered the nationalism that would be Britain's downfall. This rail network both remade the physical landscape and brought social-cultural cohesion to a diverse and wide-ranging populace. It would be common rail travel that Gandhi would employ to reach the masses. From its romantic mystique to its dangerous reality, it is rail travel today that keeps vital social, cultural, economic and political forces moving. India's railroad history serves as a unique lens to her larger story of triumph over adversity. By 1905, India had the world's fourth largest railway network—a position it retains in the early 21st century. The railroads were at the organizational and technological center of many of the inter-related economic, political, social, cultural, and ecological transformations that produced modern India through, and out of, its colonial past. In addition to this vast technical achievement, and (in keeping with the series focus), there is an equally important and wide-sweeping human-interest tale to be told with evocative vignettes of the triumph of the human spirit (one billion strong!) in the face of great adversity.

Historical Dictionary of the Baha'i Faith

Author : Hugh C. Adamson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810864673
Total Pages : 711 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Baha'i Faith written by Hugh C. Adamson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-12-21 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing out of the teachings of the B_b, who introduced the idea of the coming of a great prophet (the one promised in the scriptures of all the world's major religions), the Bah_'' Faith was founded by Bah_'u'll_h, when in 1866 he publicly declared that he was the One the B_b prophesized. The 2nd edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Bah_'' Faith presents a general historical overview of both B_b' and Bah_'' religions, as well as a theological overview of the Bah_'' Faith, from their inception in the mid 19th century to the middle of 2005. It presents biographical details of the Founders and Central Figures along with numerous leaders and pioneers, most of the basic principles and precepts, as well as aspects of its organization and administration. Through the use of photographs, a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on nearly every aspect of the religion, and appendixes listing the genealogy of the Founders, statistical information, and lists of apostles, disciples, Hands of the Cause, Knights of Bah_'u'll_h as well as of more than 930 believers who have contributed to its growth and development, this book is a fundamental tool for finding information on all things related to the Bah_'' Faith.

The Educational World of Edward Thring

Author : Donald Leinster-Mackay
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000639460
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Educational World of Edward Thring written by Donald Leinster-Mackay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1987, attempts to take fresh stock of a man who made a great impact on nineteenth-century English Secondary Education. A quasi psycho-biographical approach is adopted from the beginning so that Thring, the man, is examined from the perspective of his paradoxes, personality and the pervasive influences on him. Specia

India's Railway History

Author : John Hurd II
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004230033
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book India's Railway History written by John Hurd II and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India’s railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.

Catalogue of the Colonial Office Library, London

Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Colonial Office Library, London written by Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dacca

Author : Sharif Uddin Ahmed
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351186736
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Dacca written by Sharif Uddin Ahmed and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this work discusses the development in Dacca of western-style municipal organization and its financial and practical problems and also explores the economic transition of the city after 1840. It is one of the few urban studies which carries through from the ‘old order’ to the new administrative towns of British rule and attempts to show what happened to the communities of townsmen in the period of adaptation. It casts new light on the function and organization of Indian urban societies in the colonial period, on the transfer of western institutions and the organization and composition of Bengali trade outside Calcutta.

Routledge Library Editions: Urban History

Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351137174
Total Pages : 2610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Library Editions: Urban History written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 2610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes in this set, originally published between 1940 and 1994, draw together research by leading academics in the area of welfare and the welfare state, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine welfare policy, equality, poverty, class, government, social policy, unemployment, and social services, whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of welfare and the welfare state in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students of sociology, health, and political studies respectively.

Great Northern Atlantics

Author : James S. Baldwin
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 147386934X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Great Northern Atlantics written by James S. Baldwin and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Northern Atlantics, were the first locomotives constructed in Britain to the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement. The Atlantics were designed by H.G. Ivatt, locomotive Superintendent of The Great Northern Railway.Introduced from 1898, with the construction at Doncaster Works of small boilered Atlantic number 990 Henry Oakley, which is now preserved in the National Collection at York, this type of locomotive became one of the most successful types in use on top link express work in the late Victorian and Edwardian era.The small boilered type was followed in 1902, by the large boilered type, examples of which remained in traffic until the early 1950s. The two types of Great Northern Atlantic locomotives were retained in top link service on the L N E R well into the 1920s, as there were not enough of the new Gresley A1 Pacific's to take over top link diagrams.As a result of the success of the Ivatt designed large boilered Atlantic, D. Earl-Marsh, who was in charge of the drawing office at Doncaster, designed his own version of the Ivatt machine, when he moved to Brighton Works as Locomotive Superintendent of the L B S C R.The Great Northern Atlantics, like the Brighton machines had a large following which has continued to this day, with model engineers and small scale modellers continuing to construct fine live steam and electric drive models of these handsome locomotives.

Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland

Author : Laurel Brake
Publisher : Academia Press
ISBN 13 : 9038213409
Total Pages : 1059 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland written by Laurel Brake and published by Academia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1059 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large-scale reference work covering the journalism industry in 19th-Century Britain.

Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge

Author : William F. Bynum
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429664524
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge written by William F. Bynum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1992 Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge examines both broad developments in print and media and the practice of particular journals such as the British Medical Journal. The book is the first study to address these questions and to examine the impact of regular news on the making of the medical community. The book considers the rise of the medical press, and looks at how it recorded and described principal developments and so promoted medical science and enhanced medical consciousness. This book was a seminal work when first published and was one of the first to consider the importance of the roots of medical journalism, editorial practices and the ways in which the medical journalism altered the world of medicine.

Stanley Gibbons Elizabethan Specialised Catalogue of Modern British Commonwealth Stamps

Author : Gibbons (Stanley) Ltd., London
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1166 pages
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Download or read book Stanley Gibbons Elizabethan Specialised Catalogue of Modern British Commonwealth Stamps written by Gibbons (Stanley) Ltd., London and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Myxomatosis

Author : Peter Bartrip
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771502X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Myxomatosis written by Peter Bartrip and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myxomatosis, a viral disease of European wild rabbits, was discovered in South America in the 1890s. It was deliberately introduced in Australia and France in the 1950s and reached Britain in 1953. Within a year it had killed tens of millions of rabbits from Kent to the Shetlands. The British reaction to myxomatosis was mixed; members of the public reared on the tales of Beatrix Potter were appalled. With meat still rationed, consumers deplored the loss of a cheap and nutritious foodstuff. Many farmers, on the other hand, welcomed the rabbit's demise as a serious agricultural pest and actively spread the disease.However some lost their livelyhood through the spread of Myxomatosis, such as rough shooters who regretted the loss of prey and hatters and furriers who mourned the unavailability of the fur on which they depended. Rabbits also had champions within the 'establishment'; including Winston Churchill and the Archbishop of York, who both regarded myxomatosis as an abomination. Winston Churchill was personally influential in making its deliberate transmission a criminal offence. Even the farmers and foresters who applauded the rabbit's demise often had qualms about a disease that inflicted such a horrible death. Myxomatosis presented the authorities with difficult questions: should they try to contain the disease, encourage it, or do nothing? Should they take advantage of rabbit depopulation and try to exterminate the animal? Britain's myxomatosis outbreak has hitherto attracted little historical attention, notwithstanding parallels with other recent animal disease crises. In the first book dedicated to this subject, Peter Bartrip examines how the disease reached Britain. He argues it was not the government who was reesponsible, as many thought at the time, but instead identifies the individual who may have deliberatlely brought myxomatosis over from France. Bartrip tracks the spread of the virus throughout the country and considers the response of government and other bodies and the impact of rabbit de-population on agriculture and the natural environment. The cultural significance of myxomatosis in Britain raises topical and controversial issues relating to veterinary medicine, animal rights, the interface between human and animal health, the ethics of pest control by biological means and the politics of environmental meddling. These are important considerations if we are to learn lessons from more recent animal disease crises such as foot and mouth, BSE and H5N1 avian influenza.

The Irish Protestant Churches in the Twentieth Century

Author : Alan Megahey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230288510
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Irish Protestant Churches in the Twentieth Century written by Alan Megahey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-08-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unique in recording the history of all the Protestant churches in Ireland in the twentieth century, though with particular focus on the two largest - the Presbyterian and the Church of Ireland. It examines the changes and chances in those churches during a turbulent period in Irish history, relating their development to the wider social and political context. Their structures and beliefs are examined, and their influence both in Ireland and overseas is assessed.

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1046 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1954 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1A, Number 1: Books (January - June) and Part 1B, Number 1: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950

Author : Hugh Morrison
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315408775
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book Creating Religious Childhoods in Anglo-World and British Colonial Contexts, 1800-1950 written by Hugh Morrison and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on examples from British world expressions of Christianity, this collection further greater understanding of religion as a critical element of modern children’s and young people’s history. It builds on emerging scholarship that challenges the view that religion had a solely negative impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century children, or that ‘secularization’ is the only lens to apply to childhood and religion. Putting forth the argument that religion was an abiding influence among British world children throughout the nineteenth and most of the twentieth centuries, this volume places ‘religion’ at the center of analysis and discussion. At the same time, it positions the religious factor within a broader social and cultural framework. The essays focus on the historical contexts in which religion was formative for children in various ‘British’ settings denoted as ‘Anglo’ or ‘colonial’ during the nineteenth and early- to mid-twentieth centuries. These contexts include mission fields, churches, families, Sunday schools, camps, schools and youth movements. Together they are treated as ‘sites’ in which religion contributed to identity formation, albeit in different ways relating to such factors as gender, race, disability and denomination. The contributors develop this subject for childhoods that were experienced largely, but not exclusively, outside the ‘metropole’, in a diversity of geographical settings. By extending the geographic range, even within the British world, it provides a more rounded perspective on children’s global engagement with religion.

Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company

Author : Michael Burden
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807174467
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Touring the Antebellum South with an English Opera Company written by Michael Burden and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of Anton Reiff Jr. (c. 1830–1916) is one of only a handful of primary sources to offer a firsthand account of antebellum riverboat travel in the American South. The Pyne and Harrison Opera Troupe, a company run by English sisters Susan and Louisa Pyne and their business partner, tenor William Harrison, hired Reiff, then freelancing in New York, to serve as musical director and conductor for the company’s American itinerary. The grueling tour began in November 1855 in Boston and then proceeded to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati, where, after a three-week engagement, the company boarded a paddle steamer bound for New Orleans. It was at that point that Reiff started to keep his diary. Diligently transcribed and annotated by Michael Burden, Reiff’s diary presents an extraordinarily rare view of life with a foreign opera company as it traveled the country by river and rail. Surprisingly, Reiff comments little on the Pyne-Harrison performances themselves, although he does visit the theaters in the river towns, including New Orleans, where he spends evenings both at the French Opera and at the Gaiety. Instead, Reiff focuses his attention on other passengers, on the mechanics of the journey, on the landscape, and on events he encounters, including the 1856 Mardi Gras and the unveiling of the statue of Andrew Jackson in New Orleans's Jackson Square. Reiff is clearly captivated by the river towns and their residents, including the enslaved, whom he encountered whenever the boat tied up. Running throughout the journal is a thread of anxiety, for, apart from the typical dangers of a river trip, the winter of 1855–1856 was one of the coldest of the century, and the steamer had difficulties with river ice. Historians have used Reiff’s journal as source material, but until now the entire text, which is archived in Louisiana State University’s Special Collections in Hill Memorial Library, has only been available in its original state. As a primary source, the published journal will have broad appeal to historians and other readers interested in antebellum riverboat travel, highbrow entertainment, and the people and places of the South.

Sport, Militarism and the Great War

Author : Thierry Terret
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135760950
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Sport, Militarism and the Great War written by Thierry Terret and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War has been largely ignored by historians of sport. However sport was an integral part of cultural conditioning into both physiological and psychological military efficiency in the decades leading up to it. It is time to acknowledge that the Great War also had an influence on sport in post-war European culture. Both are neglected topics. Sport, Militarism and the Great War deals with four significant aspects of the relationship between sport and war before, during and immediately after the 1914-1918 conflict. First, it explores the creation and consolidation of the cult of martial heroism and chivalric self-sacrifice in the pre-war era. Second, it examines the consequences of the mingling of soldiers from various nations on later sport. Third, it considers the role of the Great War in the transformation of the leisure of the masses. Finally, it examines the links between war, sport and male socialisation. The Great War contributed to a redefinition of European masculinity in the post-war period. The part sport played in this redefinition receives attention. Sport, Militarism and the Great War is in two parts: the Continental (Part I) and the "Anglo-Saxon" (Part II). No study has adopted this bilateral approach to date. Thus, in conception and execution, it is original. With its originality of content and the approaching centenary of the advent of the Great War in 2014, it is anticipated that the book will capture a wide audience. This book was originally published as a special issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport.