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Book Synopsis A Company of Planters by : John Dodd
Download or read book A Company of Planters written by John Dodd and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a collection of letters written to his best friend and to his father in England, and from his own personal diary entries, John Dodd’s memoir offers a fascinating and amusing glimpse of life as a colonial rubber planter. With true stories and confessions that would make even Somerset Maugham blush, we discover what life was really like for young colonial planters in late-1950s Malaya. Increasing daily rubber output may have been their goal but for the young planters the bigger picture of chasing girls and finding a ‘keep’ was of much greater importance. But life was more than just a series of stengahs in the clubhouse, dalliances in the Chinese brothels of Penang and charming ‘pillow dictionaries’ – there were strikes, riots, snakes, plantation fires and deadly ambushes by Communist terrorists to contend with. Set against the backdrop of the Emergency period, the rise of nationalism and Malaya’s subsequent Independence, A Company of Planters is a very personal, moving and humorous account of one man’s experiences on the frequently isolated rubber plantations of colonial Malaya.
Download or read book Malayan Spymaster written by Boris Hembry and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true story of 1930s Malaysia, of jungle operations, submarines and spies in WWII, and of the postwar Malayan Emergency, as experienced by an extraordinary man. Rubber planter Boris Hembry was a part of Freddy Spencer Chapman’s covert Stay Behind Party in Japanese-occupied Malaya, a member of the Secret Intelligence Service, and he formed the first Home Guard unit in Malaya during the Emergency. Required reading for this period of Southeast Asian history.
Book Synopsis Pioneers, Patriots, and Planters by : Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk
Download or read book Pioneers, Patriots, and Planters written by Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Unearthing The Secret Garden by : Marta McDowell
Download or read book Unearthing The Secret Garden written by Marta McDowell and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marta McDowell returns with a beautiful, gift-worthy account of how plants and gardening deepy inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of the beloved children's classic The Secret Garden.
Book Synopsis Miscellaneous Series ... by : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Download or read book Miscellaneous Series ... written by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eating Dirt written by Charlotte Gill and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in Canadian forests. In this book, she examines the environmental impact of logging and celebrates the value of forests from a perspective of some one whose work caught them between environmentalists and loggers.
Book Synopsis The Company's Island by : Stephen Royle
Download or read book The Company's Island written by Stephen Royle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As English adventurer Francis Drake and his contemporaries opened up seaborne trade with Asia and the East, so dreams of untold wealth fuelled the appetites of European nations. A new form of co-operation arose between governments and entrepreneurs - the merchant company. Vital to the entire commercial and colonial endeavour, part of the story of Empire lies in the outposts they established."The Company's Island" focuses upon one such company colony - St Helena. With no indigenous population on the island, the East India Company had to establish a society from scratch but far from settling 'in love and amity' a repressive and turbulent regime ensued. The civilian population rebelled, the garrison mutinied, assassinating the governor, and a rebellion by black slaves was savagely punished. The result is a vivid, compelling tale involving issues of race, morality, gender, trade and defence within the context of Empire. Drawing on new archival material, the author sheds fresh light on an important yet little known aspect of the colonial endeavour.
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Download or read book Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bananas and Business by : Marcelo Bucheli
Download or read book Bananas and Business written by Marcelo Bucheli and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Criticism of the UFCO has been widespread, ranging from politicians to consumer activists, and from labor leaders to historians, all portraying it as an overwhelmingly powerful corporation that shaped and often exploited its host countries. In this first history of the UFCO in Colombia, Marcelo Bucheli argues that the UFCO's image as an all-powerful force in determining national politics needs to be reconsidered. Using a previously unexplored source—the internal archives of Colombia's UFCO operation—Bucheli reveals that before 1930, the UFCO worked alongside a business-friendly government that granted it generous concessions and repressed labor unionism. After 1930, however, the country experienced dramatic transformations including growing nationalism, a stronger labor movement, and increasing demands by local elites for higher stakes in the banana export business. In response to these circumstances, the company abandoned production, selling its plantations (and labor conflicts) to local growers, while transforming itself into a marketing company. The shift was endorsed by the company's shareholders and financial analysts, who preferred lower profits with lower risks, and came at a time in which the demand for bananas was decreasing in America. Importantly, Bucheli shows that the effect of foreign direct investment was not unidirectional. Instead, the agency of local actors affected corporate strategy, just as the UFCO also transformed local politics and society.
Book Synopsis Step By Step, A Tree Planter’s Handbook by : Jonathan Clark
Download or read book Step By Step, A Tree Planter’s Handbook written by Jonathan Clark and published by Thirteen Towers Inc.. This book was released on 2024-03-31 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the 2024 Digital edition of “Step By Step” (full colour interior). Tree planting is known as being one of the hardest jobs in Canada, with a culture all of its own. Whether you’re considering tree planting as a stepping stone toward a career in forestry, looking for a temporary summer job, or merely curious about the work that your friends do, this book will offer an insightful glimpse into what is involved in becoming a successful tree planter in Canada. This book will teach you about planting basics, types of trees, health, safety, nature, forestry practices, camp life, gear required, quality and density standards, maximizing productivity, working with helicopters, and hundreds of other minor topics. In addition, if you decide that you want to seek out a planting job, this book has a full chapter that will guide you through the ins and outs of getting your first job, including advice on how to reach out to companies and how to prepare for your interview. This edition also contains current contact information for every major tree planting company in Canada. Used as an essential training resource at more than a dozen established Canadian reforestation companies, this handbook will help prepare you for your first day in camp, and help you maximize your earnings through your first and subsequent planting seasons.
Book Synopsis Conflicted Colony by : Kurt Korneski
Download or read book Conflicted Colony written by Kurt Korneski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-century Newfoundland was an archetypal borderland - a space where changes in the authority of imperial, national, and indigenous territorial claims shaped the opportunities and identities of a socially diverse population. Conflicted Colony elucidates processes of state formation in Newfoundland through a reassessment of key moments in the country's history. Kurt Korneski closely examines five conflicts from the late nineteenth century - the Fortune Bay Dispute of 1878, the St George's Bay Dispute of 1889-92, the 1890s Lobster Controversy, the Battle of Foxtrap, and disputes over salmon grounds in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador - to explain how local regimes received, challenged, and reworked formal and informal diplomatic and commercial arrangements, as well as policies set out by the colonial and imperial government. The chapters examine antagonisms and divisions that grew out of clashes between the distinct commercial and social identities of regions in the borderlands and the sensibilities of merchants, politicians, and working people on the Avalon Peninsula. Providing new insight into the social history of Newfoundland and Labrador, these disputes illuminate contending perspectives driven by informal systems of governance, political movements, and local economic, social, demographic, and ecological circumstances. Conflicted Colony broadens, deepens, and clarifies our understanding of how Newfoundland became an integrated Dominion in the British Empire.
Book Synopsis Captain of the Planter by : Dorothy Sterling
Download or read book Captain of the Planter written by Dorothy Sterling and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1968 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Civil war hero and a courageous congressman fight for civil rights.
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Download or read book The Louisiana Planter and Sugar Manufacturer written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kiplinger's Personal Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.
Download or read book Official Gazette written by Philippines and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hawaiian Planters' Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Zulu Tribe in Transition by : D. H. Reader
Download or read book Zulu Tribe in Transition written by D. H. Reader and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: