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Author : William Jardine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Naturalists Library written by William Jardine and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Jackson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780718501648
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Sir William Jardine written by Christine Jackson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-08-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Jardine was a key figure in the history of Victorian-era science. He owned the finest private natural history museum and library in Britain and made natural history widely available by issuing the The Naturalists' Library , forty small, affordable volumes on birds, mammals, fish, and insects. Yet, until now, no comprehensive biography of him existed.This book explores the history of this singular man, his impact on the study of natural history, and its popularization through his publishing efforts.
Author : Richard J. Grace
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077359681X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Opium and Empire written by Richard J. Grace and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-10 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's aggressive marketing strategies concentrated on the export of teas and the import of opium, sold offshore to Chinese smugglers. Jardine and Matheson, recognized as giants on the scene at Macao, Canton, and Hong Kong, have often been depicted as one-dimensional villains whose opium commerce was ruthless and whose imperial drive was insatiable. In Opium and Empire, Richard Grace explores the depths of each man, their complicated and sometimes inconsistent internal workings, and their achievements and failures. He details their decades-long journeys between Britain and China, their business strategies and standards of conduct, and their inventiveness as "gentlemanly capitalists." The commodities they marketed also included cotton, rice, textile goods, and silks and they functioned as agents for clients in India, Britain, Singapore, and Australia. During the First Opium War Jardine was in London giving advice to Lord Palmerston, while Matheson was detained under house arrest at Canton in the spring of 1839, an incident which helped prompt the armed British response. Moving beyond the caricatures of earlier accounts, Opium and Empire tells the story of two Scotsmen whose lives reveal a great deal about the type of tough-minded men who expanded the global markets of Victorian Britain and played major roles in changing the course of modern history in East Asia.
Author : Prideaux John Selby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Natural History of Parrots written by Prideaux John Selby and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Jardine
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486155730
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book 286 Full-Color Animal Illustrations written by Sir William Jardine and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spectacular range of wildlife appears in this fine collection of painstakingly accurate 19th-century drawings. Both artists and animal lovers will treasure these splendid illustrations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects.
Author : Alain Le Pichon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263372
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (633 download)
Download or read book China Trade and Empire written by Alain Le Pichon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 263 letters written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson... covers a period of rapid growth for Jardine, Matheson & Co, from 1827 when the founders first joined forces, to Jardine's death in 1843, shortly after the end of the Opium War
Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385720017
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)
Download or read book Ingenious Pursuits written by Lisa Jardine and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2000-12-05 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating look at the European scientific advances of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, historian Lisa Jardine demonstrates that the pursuit of knowledge occurs not in isolation, but rather in the lively interplay and frequently cutthroat competition between creative minds. The great thinkers of that extraordinary age, including Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, and Christopher Wren, are shown in the context in which they lived and worked. We learn of the correspondences they kept with their equally passionate colleagues and come to understand the unique collaborative climate that fostered virtuoso discoveries in the areas of medicine, astronomy, mathematics, biology, chemistry, botany, geography, and engineering. Ingenious Pursuits brilliantly chronicles the true intellectual revolution that continues to shape our very understanding of ourselves, and of the world around us.
Author : Robert Hermann Schomburgk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Fishes of British Guiana written by Robert Hermann Schomburgk and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Jardine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Natural History of Humming-birds. ... written by William Jardine and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Jardine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Natural History of Monkeys written by William Jardine and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Davis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441157441
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Ecomuseums written by Peter Davis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-03-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated second edition reference work looks at recent developments in the field internationally and in terms of new theories and practices.
Author : John Steckley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781772441055
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Parrots written by John Steckley and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John and Angelika Steckley share their home with an entire flock of parrots, and have long been fascinated by this diverse group of birds. In this book, the anthropologist and author explores parrots' traits and habits, considers the matter of parrot intelligence, and shares the joys and occasional heartbreak of living among parrotkind.
Author : Maggie Keswick
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780711228306
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (283 download)
Download or read book The Thistle and the Jade written by Maggie Keswick and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jardine, Matheson & Co. was founded in Canton in 1832, and built up to become an international trading house with business interests throughout the world. The Thistle & The Jade assembles contributions from both leading historians, such as Professor John King Fairbank and Professor K.C. Lui, and old Jardine hands, including Alan Reid and Sir John Keswick, to tell the story of how this happened. The result is a fascinating miscellany of scholarship and anecdote that tells an exciting tale of merchant adventure, of how wealth and influence were accumulated in the early days of trading, and of the special relationship forged by 'the Princely Hong' with China and her people.
Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1910634034
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Temptation in the Archives written by Lisa Jardine and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temptation in the Archives is a collection of essays by Lisa Jardine, that takes readers on a journey through the Dutch Golden Age. Through the study of such key figures as Sir Constantjin Huygens, a Dutch polymath and diplomat, we begin to see the Anglo-Dutch cultural connections that formed during this period against the backdrop of unfolding political events in England.Temptation in the Archives paints a picture of a unique relationship between the Netherlands and England in the 17th century forged through a shared experience – and reveals the lessons we can learn from it today.
Author : Robert Blake
Publisher : Orion Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780297825012
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Jardine Matheson written by Robert Blake and published by Orion Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jardine Matheson & Co, founded in Canton on 1 July, 1832, has had a longer continuous existence than any other British, European or American business connected with the China trade. It is the only firm surviving from pre-Treaty days (before the Treaty of Nanking which opened China to foreign commerce in 1842) and it played a very important part in that process. The firm soon after moved to the newly ceded colony of Hong Kong, and ever since the firm has been associated with the island. ¿Jardines is Hong Kong¿ someone once asserted to Lord Blake ¿ an exaggeration, of course, but pardonable. And although Hong Kong has reverted to Chinese sovereignty, Jardine Matheson is likely to remain a major feature of the place and may well play a renewed role in mainland China far into the twenty-first century. Lord Blake traces the early beginnings of the firm, from William Jardine's first glimpse of Canton in 1802, through the rapid expansion and growth of the nineteenth century and into the next, leaving the story exactly half-way through the twentieth century, just as the Korean War breaks out. The early history of the firm has always been regarded as the most interesting part of the story. It, or its background, has been the subject of two fascinating historical novels: the late James Clavell's bestselling blockbuster Tia-pan (1966) and Timothy Mo's aclaimed An Insular Possession (1986). The real story is equally exciting in the hands of one of the most distinguished historians of the twentieth century.
Author : Lisa Jardine
Publisher : Hill & Wang
ISBN 13 : 9780809055401
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (554 download)
Download or read book Hostage to Fortune written by Lisa Jardine and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The statesman, scientist, and philosopher Francis Bacon (1561-1626) lived a divided life. Was he a noble scholar, or a conniving political crook? Was he a homosexual? Lisa Jardine and Alan Stewart draw upon previously untapped sources to create a controversial nuanced portrait of the quintessential "Renaissance man", one whose achievements, while enormous, were nonetheless sadly circumscribed by his class and station.
Author : Alexander Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (835 download)
Download or read book American Ornithology, Or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States written by Alexander Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
