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Total Pages : 624 pages
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Download or read book “The” Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National and English Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas O'Flynn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004313540
Total Pages : 1141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870 written by Thomas O'Flynn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 1141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The 2018 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award In The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870, Thomas O'Flynn vividly paints the life and times of missionary enterprises in early nineteenth-century Russia and Persia at a moment of immense change when Tsarist Russia embarked on an expansionist campaign reaching to the Caucasus. Simultaneously he charts the relationship between the new Persian dynasty of the Qājārs and missionary activity on the part of European and American missionaries. This book reconstructs that world from a predominantly religious perspective. It recounts the sustaining ideals as well as the everyday struggles of the western missionaries, Protestant (Scottish, Basel and American Congregationalist) and Catholic (Jesuit and Vincentian). It looks at the reactions of diverse tribal peoples, the Tatars of the North Caucasus, the Kabardians and Circassians. Persia was the ultimate goal of these missionaries, which they eventually reached in the 1820s. Altogether this study throws light on the troubled course of history in West Asia and provides the background to politico-religious conflicts in Chechnya and Persia that persist to the present day.
Author : Michael Greenhalgh
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004540873
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Islamic Architecture through Western Eyes: Volume 2 written by Michael Greenhalgh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.
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Total Pages : 1676 pages
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Download or read book Publishers' circular and booksellers' record written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lesley Adkins
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312330022
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Empires of the Plain written by Lesley Adkins and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life of nineteenth-century archaeologist and explorer Henry Rawlinson, describing his ascent of western Iran mountains, where he deciphered ancient carvings that were key to understanding cuneiform scripts and languages.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9781579584245
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Literature of Travel and Exploration: G to P written by Jennifer Speake and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
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Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mogens Trolle Larsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317949951
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book The Conquest of Assyria written by Mogens Trolle Larsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conquest of Assyria tells what must surely be one of the most romantic tales of archaeological endeavour. The great cities and ancient palaces of Mesopotamia had lain buried for over two millenia, and were all but forgotten, half remembered in the Hebrew Bible and Classical texts. This volume records the dramatic finds, the decipherment of the cuneiform system of writing and the rediscovery of a lost civilisation.
Author : Guest
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317726863
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Euphrates Expedition written by Guest and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1992. This book invites the reader to cast the mind a hundred and fifty years back to a short span of time between 1829 and 1842. This was an exciting period when Britain’s might, demonstrated to the world at Trafalgar and Waterloo, was fortified by leadership in steam technology and was given a new direction by the liberal philosophy that British statesmen, thinkers and poets proclaimed at home and abroad. The Euphrates expedition was an attempt by well-intentioned British governments to achieve a geopolitical end by a technological means. The objective was to halt Russian expansion in the Near East, where some observers saw a threat to Britain’s control of India.
Author : Lionel James Trotter
Publisher : London : [s.n.]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of India Under Queen Victoria from 1836 to 1880 written by Lionel James Trotter and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1886 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 720 pages
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Download or read book Temple Bar written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D.T. Potts
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3658360321
Total Pages : 2077 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (583 download)
Download or read book Agreeable News from Persia written by D.T. Potts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 2077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth and nineteenth century European, British and American newspapers constitute a rich and largely untapped source of contemporary, often eyewitness accounts of historical events and opinions concerning Iran from the late Safavid (1712) through the Qajar (c. 1797-1920) period. This study collects and annotates thousands of articles published in the Colonial and early Republican American newspapers, from the first mention of events in Persia in the American press (1712) to the death of Mohammad Shah (1848), unlocking for the first time a wealth of information on Iran and its place in the world during the 18th and early 19th century.
Author : William B. Trousdale
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004445226
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Kandahar in the Nineteenth Century written by William B. Trousdale and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of Kandahar uses unpublished and fugitive sources to provide a detailed picture of the geographical layout and political, social, ethnic, religious, and economic life in Afghanistan’s second largest city throughout the nineteenth century.
Author : Austen Henry Layard
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Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Early Adventures in Persia, Susiana, and Babylonia, Including a Residence Among the Bakhtiyari and Other Wild Tribes Before the Discovery of Nineveh written by Austen Henry Layard and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rudi Matthee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400832608
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Pursuit of Pleasure written by Rudi Matthee and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphaël du Mans, provided Iranians with damagh, gave them a "kick," got them into a good mood. By tracing their historical trajectory and the role they played in early modern Iranian society (1500-1900), Rudi Matthee takes a major step in extending contemporary debates on the role of drugs and stimulants in shaping the modern West. At once panoramic and richly detailed, The Pursuit of Pleasure examines both the intoxicants known since ancient times--wine and opiates--and the stimulants introduced later--tobacco, coffee, and tea--from multiple angles. It brings together production, commerce, and consumption to reveal the forces behind the spread and popularity of these consumables, showing how Iranians adapted them to their own needs and tastes and integrated them into their everyday lives. Matthee further employs psychoactive substances as a portal for a set of broader issues in Iranian history--most notably, the tension between religious and secular leadership. Faced with reality, Iran's Shi`i ulama turned a blind eye to drug use as long as it stayed indoors and did not threaten the social order. Much of this flexibility remains visible underneath the uncompromising exterior of the current Islamic Republic.
