Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download Penang Postcard Collection 1899 1930s full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Penang Postcard Collection 1899 1930s ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Salma Nasution Khoo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Penang Postcard Collection 1899-1930s written by Salma Nasution Khoo and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jin Seng Cheah
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9671061710
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Penang 500 Early Postcards written by Jin Seng Cheah and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late 19th century, Penang had become a thriving port trading in rubber, spices and tin. Its prosperity attracted immigrants from around the world and the island was a rich melting pot of Chinese, Indians, Malays, Europeans and many other peoples. The postcards reproduced in this book are drawn from the huge collection of Penang-born Professor Cheah Jin Seng, the author of Singapore: 500 Early Postcards, Malaya: 500 Early Postcards, Perak: 300 Early Postcards and Selangor: 300 Early Postcards.This title in the Early Postcards series will present a diverse array of picture postcards of Penang -- including of its capital George Town, now a World Heritage site -- from the 1890s to the 1970s.
Author : Ric Francis
Publisher : Areca Books
ISBN 13 : 9789834283407
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Penang Trams, Trolleybuses & Railways written by Ric Francis and published by Areca Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Which city once had the smallest trolley-bus in the world? Where do you find the first funicular railway in Southeast Asia? How do you recognize a trolley-bus pole? Where is Tramway Road?" "With over 100 old photographs, maps and illustrations, this book gives an overview of the various forms of public transport used in George Town from 1880s to 1963, and the role this transport played in the development of the growth of George Town and Penang." "Penang was one of the first urban centres in Southeast Asia to operate steam trams, horse trams, electric trams and trolleybuses. When the Municipal Commission established its own electric supply, it took over the tram service and started the electric trams in George Town in 1906. This gave the local population excellent public transport around George Town, with one line going up to Ayer Itam. In the late 1920s, the Municipality replaced trams with trolley-buses, experimenting for a while with re-conditioned double-deckers from London Transport!" "The Municipality also operated two railways - firstly, the Penang Hill Railway which was considered an engineering marvel when it was first built, and secondly, the electric railway which transported supplies and tin ingots for Penang's foremost smelting works."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Neil Khor
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971694239
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Penang and Its Region written by Neil Khor and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings in the late eighteenth century, the vibrant colonial port of Penang attracted a diverse range of peoples, enabled pioneering commercial enterprises, and fomented inter-ethnic collaboration and inter-cultural borrowings. The island came to be known as the 'Pearl of the Orient', and for many travellers it was their first port of call in Southeast Asia. In the early nineteenth century, Singapore displaced Penang in international trade, but the island remained a major focus of regional trade. For this reason, the story of Penang's relations with the Malay Peninsula and other parts of Southeast Asia reveal a great deal about conditions within the region.
Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536198
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Postcards from the Sonora Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young men ride horses on a dusty main road through town. Cars and gas stations gradually intrude on the land, and, years later, curiosity shops and cantinas change the face of Mexican border towns south of Arizona. Between 1900 and the late 1950s, Mexican border towns came of age both as centers of commerce and as tourist destinations. Postcards from the Sonora Border reveals how images—in this case the iconic postcard—shape the way we experience and think about place. Making use of his personal collection of historic images, Daniel D. Arreola captures the evolution of Sonoran border towns, creating a sense of visual “time travel” for the reader. Supported by maps and visual imagery, the author shares the geographical and historical story of five unique border towns—Agua Prieta, Naco, Nogales, Sonoyta, and San Luis Río Colorado. Postcards from the Sonora Border introduces us to these important towns and provides individual stories about each, using the postcards as markers. No one postcard view tells the complete story—rather, the sense of place emerges image by image as the author pulls readers through the collection as an assembled view. Arreola reveals how often the same locations and landmarks of a town were photographed as postcard images generation after generation, giving a long and dynamic view of the inhabitants through time. Arranged chronologically, Arreola’s postcards allow us to discover the changing perceptions of place in the borderlands of Sonora, Mexico.
Author : Salma Nasution Khoo
Publisher : Areca Books
ISBN 13 : 9789834283483
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (834 download)
Download or read book 孙中山在槟榔屿 written by Salma Nasution Khoo and published by Areca Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daryl Yeap
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811286760
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)
Download or read book King's Chinese, The: From Barber To Banker, The Story Of Yeap Chor Ee And The Straits Chinese written by Daryl Yeap and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informative and well-researched book, The King's Chinese provides a superb account of the Straits British Chinese, a distinct migrant society from various districts of South China in the late 19th Century. Daryl Yeap gives us a fascinating story of this hybrid community, taking us on tour through one man's journey, beginning with how he left a war-ravaged China to Penang, where he started life as an illiterate itinerant barber to becoming one of the most successful bankers in South East Asia. As she takes us through his story, Daryl brilliantly captures its unique society and wonderful mix of cultures explaining how Penang was once considered the Cinderella of the East; what the earliest forms of passports were; how a coconut scraper, so novel, was confused as 'one musical instrument' by the British eye; and exactly how a borrower's credit profile was assessed with just one glance of the face. A highly readable book with plenty of witty anecdotes and compelling analysis, it is undoubtedly a book that sheds light on a significant development in Malaysia's history.
Author : Arkib Negara Malaysia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reminiscences of the Straits Settlements Through Postcards written by Arkib Negara Malaysia and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lynn Hollen Lees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107038405
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Planting Empire, Cultivating Subjects written by Lynn Hollen Lees and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an innovative study of how British Colonial rule and society in Malayan towns and plantations transformed immigrants into British subjects.
Author : William Beinart
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191566284
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Environment and Empire written by William Beinart and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-10-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European imperialism was extraordinarily far-reaching: a key global historical process of the last 500 years. It locked disparate human societies together over a wider area than any previous imperial expansion; it underpinned the repopulation of the Americas and Australasia; it was the precursor of globalization as we now understand it. Imperialism was inseparable from the history of global environmental change. Metropolitan countries sought raw materials of all kinds, from timber and furs to rubber and oil. They established sugar plantations that transformed island ecologies. Settlers introduced new methods of farming and displaced indigenous peoples. Colonial cities, many of which became great conurbations, fundamentally changed relationships between people and nature. Consumer cultures, the internal combustion engine, and pollution are now ubiquitous. Environmental history deals with the reciprocal interaction between people and other elements in the natural world, and this book illustrates the diverse environmental themes in the history of empire. Initially concentrating on the material factors that shaped empire and environmental change, Environment and Empire discusses the way in which British consumers and manufacturers sucked in resources that were gathered, hunted, fished, mined, and farmed. Yet it is also clear that British settler and colonial states sought to regulate the use of natural resources as well as commodify them. Conservation aimed to preserve resources by exclusion, as in wildlife parks and forests, and to guarantee efficient use of soil and water. Exploring these linked themes of exploitation and conservation, this study concludes with a focus on political reassertions by colonised peoples over natural resources. In a post-imperial age, they have found a new voice, reformulating ideas about nature, landscape, and heritage and challenging, at a local and global level, views of who has the right to regulate nature.
Author : Jin Seng Cheah
Publisher : Didier Millet,Csi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Malaya written by Jin Seng Cheah and published by Didier Millet,Csi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a selection from the author's private collection, Malaya 500 Early Postcards offers a rare and comprehensive glimpse into the changing landscapes, townscapes and lifestyles of Malaya, from the late 19th century to 1963, when it was renamed Malays
Author : Jin Seng Cheah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Singapore written by Jin Seng Cheah and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting for the first time through the illustrations of 500 postcards from the author's private collection, this book offers a rare and comprehensive glimpse into the changing landscapes and lifestyles of Singapore's past, right up to the Second World
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shared Histories Conference, 30 July - 3 August 2003 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher John Baker
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Protecting Siam's Heritage written by Christopher John Baker and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural heritage of Siam is exceptionally rich and distinctive. As everywhere, this heritage is under threat--from the pace of change, from the demands of tourism, from mismanagement, and from neglect. This book is the first to examine the value of Siam's heritage and the need to protect it. These nineteen essays are written by pioneers of conservation over the last generation and by the activists of today.
Author : Hean Teik Ong
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book To Heal the Sick written by Hean Teik Ong and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ilsa Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The E&O Hotel written by Ilsa Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abdur-Razzaq Lubis
Publisher : Areca Books
ISBN 13 : 9789675719011
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Perak Postcards 1890s-1940s written by Abdur-Razzaq Lubis and published by Areca Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
