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Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Tait
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 145677140X
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)
Download or read book The Obedient Banker written by Jeremy Tait and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Obedient Banker is the true life story of a young man who in 1951 at the age of twenty joins the London City branch of a colonial bank (later to become HSBC) as a trainee officer and after five months finds himself thrust into a strange world in the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, which was far removed from the quiet West Sussex village where he was brought up and the elite public school in Oxford where he was educated. Many of Jerrys fellow trainee officers had similar backgrounds and upbringings which helped them to adapt to new lifestyles which required complete obedience to the Banks rules and regulations. Hence the title of the book One critic writes: It is almost impossible for the reader not to identify with the struggles and successes of a young aspiring banker whose initiatives are so often tempered by the restraints imposed upon him by a highly regulated colonial system which he feels obliged to adhere to. Far away from his homeland and confronted with unusual situations which demand solutions beyond his capabilities, the obedient banker treads a tightrope between convention and innovation that only commonsense and self restraint can resolve. From taipans to tigers, from Japanese geishas to Indian princesses, from charging picket lines to illicit distilling and from the squalor of Bombays slums to the affluence of Beverly Hills, Jerry has captured it all in his fascinating book. Apart from numerous amusing anecdotes and unusual banking procedures, of considerable historical interest are the illustrations and the detailed accounts of the 1955 bank strike in Japan, the Sino-Indian War in 1962 when Chinese troops crossed the McMahon line, the fall of Saigon to the VC in 1975, the atrocities in Chile in 1976 under their military dictator General Augusto Pinochet and the closure of the banks branches in Yemen in 1980.
Author : J. Joseph
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023050342X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Language and Identity written by J. Joseph and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a uniquely broad-based overview of the role of language choice in the construction of national, ethnic and religious identity, this textbook examines a wide range of specific cases from various parts of the world in order to arrive at some general principles concerning the links between language and identity. It will benefit students and researchers in a wide range of fields where identity is an important issue and who currently lack a single source to turn to for an overview of sociolinguistics.
Author : David Hobbs
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1473853516
Total Pages : 959 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book British Aircraft Carriers written by David Hobbs and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 959 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This superb book . . . will undoubtedly become the definitive volume on British Aircraft carriers and naval aviation . . . magnificent.”—Marine News This book is a meticulously detailed history of British aircraft-carrying ships from the earliest experimental vessels to the Queen Elizabeth class, currently under construction and the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. Individual chapters cover the design and construction of each class, with full technical details, and there are extensive summaries of every ship’s career. Apart from the obvious large-deck carriers, the book also includes seaplane carriers, escort carriers and MAC ships, the maintenance ships built on carrier hulls, unbuilt projects, and the modern LPH. It concludes with a look at the future of naval aviation, while numerous appendices summarize related subjects like naval aircraft, recognition markings and the circumstances surrounding the loss of every British carrier. As befits such an important reference work, it is heavily illustrated with a magnificent gallery of photos and plans, including the first publication of original plans in full color, one on a magnificent gatefold. Written by the leading historian of British carrier aviation, himself a retired Fleet Air Arm pilot, it displays the authority of a lifetime’s research combined with a practical understanding of the issues surrounding the design and operation of aircraft carriers. As such British Aircraft Carriers is certain to become the standard work on the subject. “An outstanding highly informative reference work. It is a masterpiece which should be on every naval person’s bookshelf. It is a pleasure to read and a pleasure to own.”—Australian Naval Institute
Author : David Hobbs
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 184832412X
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book The British Carrier Strike Fleet after 1945 written by David Hobbs and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-10-30 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A comprehensive study of the bittersweet post WWII history of British naval aviation . . . will become a standard reference for its subject.”—Firetrench In 1945 the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy’s history was centered on nine aircraft carriers. This book charts the post-war fortunes of this potent strike force; its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of uncomprehending politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers, the largest ships ever built for the Royal Navy. After 1945 “experts” prophesied that nuclear weapons would make conventional forces obsolete, but British carrier-borne aircraft were almost continuously employed in numerous conflicts as far apart as Korea, Egypt, the Persian Gulf, the South Atlantic, East Africa and the Far East, often giving successive British Governments options when no others were available. In the process the Royal Navy invented many of the techniques and devices crucial to modern carrier operations angled decks, steam catapults and deck-landing aids while also pioneering novel forms of warfare like helicopter-borne assault, and tactics for countering such modern plagues as insurgency and terrorism. This book combines narratives of these poorly understood operations with a clear analysis of the strategic and political background, benefiting from the author's personal experience of both carrier flying and the workings of Whitehall. It is an important but largely untold story, of renewed significance as Britain once again embraces carrier aviation. “Makes a timely and welcome appearance . . . will make compelling reading for those with serious concern for our naval affairs.”—St. Andrews in Focus
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Hong Kong written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hong Kong
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hong Kong Annual Report written by Hong Kong and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Official Index to the Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times, Sunday times and magazine, Times literary supplement, Times educational supplement, Times educational supplement Scotland, and the Times higher education supplement.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 860 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Official Index to the Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L. Jarman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Taiwan: 1952-1960 written by Robert L. Jarman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Brian Barker (O.B.E.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book When the Queen was Crowned written by Brian Barker (O.B.E.) and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stericker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Hong Kong in Picture and Story written by John Stericker and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoff puddefoot
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848320744
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Ready For Anything written by Geoff puddefoot and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set up in August 1905, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary unofficial motto: Ready for Anything was originally a logistic support organisation, Admiralty-owned but run on civilian lines, comprising a miscellaneous and very unglamorous collection of colliers, store ships and harbour craft. This book charts its rise in fleet strength, capability and importance, through two world wars and a technical revolution, until the time when naval operations became simply impossible without it. Its earliest tasks were mainly freighting supplying the Royal Navys worldwide network of bases but in wartime fleets were required to spend much longer at sea and the RFA had to develop techniques of underway replenishment. This did not come to full fruition until the British Pacific Fleet operated alongside the Americans in 1944-45, but by then the RFA had already pioneered many of the procedures involved. This book combines a history of the service, including many little-known wartime operations, with data on the ships, and a portrait of life in the service gleaned from personal accounts and recollections. Half way between a civilian and a military service, the RFA has never received the attention it deserves, but this book throws a long-overdue spotlight on its achievements.
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Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Chronology of International Events - Royal Institute of International Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia P. K. Chiu
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888528394
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (885 download)
Download or read book Promoting All-Round Education for Girls written by Patricia P. K. Chiu and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoting All-Round Education for Girls presents the history of Heep Yunn School, one of the oldest girls’ schools in Hong Kong. Amalgamated from two British mission schools founded in the 1880s for destitute girls and daughters of Christian parents, and renamed Heep Yunn School in 1936, the institution has witnessed and responded to the dramatic changes of Hong Kong over the years. By the time of the outbreak of the Second World War, Heep Yunn had expanded to offer a full Chinese middle school course for girls based upon Christian principles of all-round education. The school expanded rapidly after the war and became a bilingual institution to meet the demand for English language education. Eventually English would become the primary medium of instruction soon after the introduction of nine-year universal education in 1978. Heep Yunn strives to provide a full-fledged all-round education in the midst of political and education reforms. The school opted to switch its status from a government-aided school to a direct subsidy scheme school in the early 2010s so as to retain a larger degree of autonomy. This history of Heep Yunn School documents the concerted efforts of the school council, staff, students, alumnae, and parents to achieve the evolving visions of Christian education for girls as Hong Kong grew from a colonial trading port to a global financial centre in the twenty-first century. ‘Promoting All-Round Education for Girls convincingly charts the shifting purposes and practices of girls’ education in Hong Kong. The text moves seamlessly between the history of the school and the wider context of Hong Kong’s history. Patricia P. K. Chiu illustrates how the school’s educational policy evolved according to the wider strategies and shifts that relate models of femininity and nation-building.’ —Joyce Goodman, University of Winchester ‘This solidly-referenced work provides a balanced and detailed outlook on the unique, evolving features of education in Hong Kong. It shows the effects on Heep Yunn School of major historical changes in education policy and how the school has contributed to the education of girls in Hong Kong in periods of dramatic challenge like the Sino-Japanese War and the disturbances of the late 1960s.’ —Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto
Author : Linda Banks
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166672503X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Children of the Massacre written by Linda Banks and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early morning on 1 August 1895, a group of armed insurgents attacked a remote mission station in China. An Irish couple, Robert and Louisa Stewart, and two of their young children were murdered. Three other children were wounded but escaped, while three older boys were away at school in England. From their early years, the six surviving Stewart children, most of whom were born in China, believed they had “unfinished business” there. One after another, each returned to their adopted country, where they founded and served schools, churches, student hostels, and hospitals. Their visionary contributions took place against the backdrop of the Nationalist Revolution, anti-Western demonstrations, and the Japanese invasion and occupation of China. More than seventy-five years ago, Bishop R. O. Hall of Hong Kong stated: “the story of the Stewart family needs to be told!” This thoroughly researched volume finally documents the lives and legacy of one of the most impressive families in missionary history.
