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The Accidental Viceroy

Author : Edwin Hirschmann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498598536
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book The Accidental Viceroy written by Edwin Hirschmann and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Imperialism reached its peak in the late nineteenth century. The British Empire was the foremost colonial power, and the keystone was India. However, even at its peak, the British Raj was beset by internal rivalries and fears of external threats. In 1875, British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli chose as viceroy Lord Robert Bulwer-Lytton, diplomat and poet, the son of an old friend, but someone with no Indian experience. Lytton accepted reluctantly—and never enjoyed it. He was under the thumb of the Secretary of State for India, the shrewd and ambitious Third Marquess of Salisbury, during most of his four years in India. During his viceroyalty, Lytton had to deal with shifting British policies, a major famine, the freedom-loving people of Afghanistan, an entrenched civil service, and a rising generation of patriotic Indians. In the 1880 elections, Disraeli’s Conservatives were defeated by Gladstone’s Liberals, and Lytton resigned.

The Colonial World

Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350092428
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Colonial World written by Robert Aldrich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colonial World: A History of European Empires, 1780s to the Present provides the most authoritative, in-depth overview on European imperialism available. It synthesizes recent developments in the study of European empires and provides new perspectives on European colonialism and the challenges to it. With a post-1800 focus and extensive background coverage tracing the subject to the early 1700s, the book charts the rise and eclipse of European empires. Robert Aldrich and Andreas Stucki integrate innovative approaches and findings from the 'new imperial history' and look at both the colonial era and the legacies it left behind for countries around the world after they gained independence. Dividing the text into three complementary sections, Aldrich and Stucki offer an original approach to the subject that allows you to explore: - Different eras of colonisation and decolonisation from early modern European colonialism to the present day - Overarching themes in colonial history, like 'land and sea', 'the body' and 'representations of colonialism' - A global range of snapshot colonial case studies, such as Peru (1780), India (1876), The South Pacific (1903), the Dutch East Indies (1938) and the Portuguese empire in Africa (1971) This is the essential text for anyone seeking to understand the nature and complexities of modern European imperialism and its aftermath.

The Viceroy's Protegé; Or, A Prince of Swindlers

Author : Guy Boothby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Viceroy's Protegé; Or, A Prince of Swindlers written by Guy Boothby and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Viceroy's Post-bag

Author : Michael MacDonagh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Viceroy's Post-bag written by Michael MacDonagh and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Viceroy of New Spain

Author : Donald Eugene Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Viceroy of New Spain written by Donald Eugene Smith and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical and Statistical Memoir of the Ghazeepoor District

Author : Wilton Oldham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Historical and Statistical Memoir of the Ghazeepoor District written by Wilton Oldham and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Viceroy's Daughters

Author : Anne de Courcy
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225741
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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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.

The New Lady's Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book The New Lady's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1786 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On Time

Author : On Barak
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520956567
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book On Time written by On Barak and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this pioneering history of transportation and communication in the modern Middle East, On Barak argues that contrary to accepted wisdom technological modernity in Egypt did not drive a sense of time focused on standardization only. Surprisingly, the introduction of the steamer, railway, telegraph, tramway, and telephone in colonial Egypt actually triggered the development of unique timekeeping practices that resignified and subverted the typical modernist infatuation with expediency and promptness. These countertempos, predicated on uneasiness over "dehumanizing" European standards of efficiency, sprang from and contributed to non-linear modes of arranging time. Barak shows how these countertempos formed and developed with each new technological innovation during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, contributing to a particularly Egyptian sense of time that extends into the present day, exerting influence over contemporary political language in the Arab world. The universal notion of a modern mechanical standard time and the deviations supposedly characterizing non-Western settings "from time immemorial," On Time provocatively argues, were in fact mutually constitutive and mutually reinforcing.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 852 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Edinburgh Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Australian Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Australian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Voyages of Discovery ...

Author : James Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Voyages of Discovery ... written by James Cook and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative of Cook's three voyages to the Pacific and Australasia : the first voyage (in "Endeavour") and the second (in "Resolution" and "Adventure") are largely retold in the third person, with some quotations from Cook's own writings (p. 1-228); the third voyage (in "Resolution" and "Discovery") consists of copious sections of Cook's own account plus accounts by Captains King and Clerke, in addition to the third-person narrative (p. 229-479).

Leaves from a Viceroy's Note-book and Other Papers

Author : Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston
Publisher : London, Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Leaves from a Viceroy's Note-book and Other Papers written by Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of Kedleston and published by London, Macmillan. This book was released on 1926 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sphere

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Sphere written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spectator

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1256 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

Curzon

Author : David Gilmour
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466829990
Total Pages : 1001 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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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.