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Book Synopsis Lady Curzon's India by : Lady Mary Curzon
Download or read book Lady Curzon's India written by Lady Mary Curzon and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1985 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As The Wife Of George Curzon, Viceroy Of India From 1899 To 1905, Mary Curzon Was The Youngest Woman To Become Vicereine And The Only American To Attain That Supreme Position. This Volume Collects Her Letters. First Edition. Ex-Libraries.
Book Synopsis A History of Women in 100 Objects by : Professor Maggie Andrews
Download or read book A History of Women in 100 Objects written by Professor Maggie Andrews and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the world has been told in objects. But what about the objects that tell the history of women? What are the items that symbolise the journey of women from second-class citizens with no legal rights, no vote and no official status to the powerful people they are today? And what are the objects that still oppress women, even now? From the corset to the contraceptive pill, the bones of the first woman to Rosa Parks's mugshot and the iconic Mary Quant cape, A History of Women in 100 Objects documents the developing role of women in society through the lens of the inanimate objects that touched women's lives, were created by women or that at some time – perhaps even still – oppressed them. Woven by two leading historians, this complex, fascinating and vital tale of women and womanhood is told with a lightness of touch and depth of experience that will appeal to all those interested in women's history.
Book Synopsis The Viceroy's Daughters by : Anne de Courcy
Download or read book The Viceroy's Daughters written by Anne de Courcy and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of the three daughters of Lord Curzon: glamorous, rich, independent and wilful. Irene (born 1896), Cynthia (b.1898) and Alexandria (b.1904) were the three daughters of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India 1898-1905 and probably the grandest and most self-confident imperial servant Britain ever possessed. After the death of his fabulously rich American wife in 1906, Curzon's determination to control every aspect of his daughters' lives, including the money that was rightfully theirs, led them one by one into revolt against their father. The three sisters were at the very heart of the fast and glittering world of the Twenties and Thirties. Irene, intensely musical and a passionate foxhunter, had love affairs in the glamorous Melton Mowbray hunting set. Cynthia ('Cimmie') married Oswald Mosley, joining him first in the Labour Party, where she became a popular MP herself, before following him into fascism. Alexandra ('Baba'), the youngest and most beautiful, married the Prince of Wales's best friend Fruity Metcalfe. On Cimmie's early death in 1933 Baba flung herself into a long and passionate affair with Mosley and a liaison with Mussolini's ambassador to London, Count Dino Grandi, while enjoying the romantic devotion of the Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax. The sisters see British fascism from behind the scenes, and the arrival of Wallis Simpson and the early married life of the Windsors. The war finds them based at 'the Dorch' (the Dorchester Hotel) doing good works. At the end of their extraordinary lives, Irene and Baba have become, rather improbably, pillars of the establishment, Irene being made one of the very first Life Peers in 1958 for her work with youth clubs.
Download or read book Curzon written by David Gilmour and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 1001 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Superb New Biography . . . A Tragic Story, Brilliantly Told." —Andrew Roberts, Literary Review George Nathaniel Curzon's controversial life in public service stretched from the high noon of his country's empire to the traumatized years following World War I. As viceroy of India under Queen Victoria and foreign secretary under King George V, the obsessive Lord Curzon left his unmistakable mark on the era. David Gilmour's award-winning book—with a new foreword by the author—is a brilliant assessment of Curzon's character and achievements, offering a richly dramatic account of the infamous long vendettas, the turbulent friendships, and the passionate, risky love affairs that complicated and enriched his life. Born into the ruling class of what was then the world's greatest power, Curzon was a fervent believer in British imperialism who spent his life proving he was fit for the task. Often seen as arrogant and tempestuous, he was loathed as much as he was adored, his work disparaged as much as it was admired. In Gilmour's well-rounded appraisal, Curzon emerges as a complex, tragic figure, a gifted leader who saw his imperial world overshadowed at the dawn of democracy.
Download or read book Mary Curzon written by Nigel Nicolson and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1977 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender and Empire by : Nicola Thomas
Download or read book Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender and Empire written by Nicola Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Speeches by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor-general of India. 1898-1901 ... by : Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Download or read book Speeches by Lord Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy and Governor-general of India. 1898-1901 ... written by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lord Curzon's Farewell to India by : George Nathaniel Curzon Marquis of Curzon
Download or read book Lord Curzon's Farewell to India written by George Nathaniel Curzon Marquis of Curzon and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Notable Speeches of Lord Curzon by : Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Download or read book Notable Speeches of Lord Curzon written by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Kaziranga Inheritance by : Ranjit Barthakur
Download or read book The Kaziranga Inheritance written by Ranjit Barthakur and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender and Empire by : Nicola Thomas
Download or read book Negotiating the Boundaries of Gender and Empire written by Nicola Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 by : Margot Finn
Download or read book The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 written by Margot Finn and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
Book Synopsis The British in India by : David Gilmour
Download or read book The British in India written by David Gilmour and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immersive portrait of the lives of the British in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence Who of the British went to India, and why? We know about Kipling and Forster, Orwell and Scott, but what of the youthful forestry official, the enterprising boxwallah, the fervid missionary? What motivated them to travel halfway around the globe, what lives did they lead when they got there, and what did they think about it all? Full of spirited, illuminating anecdotes drawn from long-forgotten memoirs, correspondence, and government documents, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire. David Gilmour captures the substance and texture of their work, home, and social lives, and illustrates how these transformed across the several centuries of British presence and rule in the subcontinent, from the East India Company’s first trading station in 1615 to the twilight of the Raj and Partition and Independence in 1947. He takes us through remote hill stations, bustling coastal ports, opulent palaces, regimented cantonments, and dense jungles, revealing the country as seen through British eyes, and wittily reveling in all the particular concerns and contradictions that were a consequence of that limited perspective. The British in India is a breathtaking accomplishment, a vivid and balanced history written with brio, elegance, and erudition.
Download or read book Lord Curzon written by Nayana Goradia and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yet, seven years later, he was to return home a broken man, his viceroyalty in a shambles, only to be later dispossessed of the Prime Ministership he thought rightfully his. Was this the result of some fatal flaw in Curzon's personality? Curzon has certainly led his earlier biographers to think so, leaving copious writings suggesting that he was brought up by an indifferent mother, a cold father and a savage governess. But new evidence sheds a different light on a more complex personality.
Book Synopsis Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century by : Virginia Tatnall Peacock
Download or read book Famous American Belles of the Nineteenth Century written by Virginia Tatnall Peacock and published by Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott Company. This book was released on 1900 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Coronation Durbar, Delhi, 1903 written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Below the Peacock Fan by : Marian Fowler
Download or read book Below the Peacock Fan written by Marian Fowler and published by Markham, Ont. : Penguin. This book was released on 1988 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
