Bombay Anna

Author : Susan Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520933990
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bombay Anna written by Susan Morgan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-07-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you thought you knew the story of Anna in The King and I, think again. As this riveting biography shows, the real life of Anna Leonowens was far more fascinating than the beloved story of the Victorian governess who went to work for the King of Siam. To write this definitive account, Susan Morgan traveled around the globe and discovered new information that has eluded researchers for years. Anna was born a poor, mixed-race army brat in India, and what followed is an extraordinary nineteenth-century story of savvy self-invention, wild adventure, and far-reaching influence. At a time when most women stayed at home, Anna Leonowens traveled all over the world, witnessed some of the most fascinating events of the Age of Empire, and became a well-known travel writer, journalist, teacher, and lecturer. She remains the one and only foreigner to have spent significant time inside the royal harem of Siam. She emigrated to the United States, crossed all of Russia on her own just before the revolution, and moved to Canada, where she publicly defended the rights of women and the working class. The book also gives an engrossing account of how and why Anna became an icon of American culture in The King and I and its many adaptations.

Author : R. Kannan
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 0670083283
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anna written by R. Kannan and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2010 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of C.N. Annadurai, 1909-1969, Tamil author and former chief minister of Tamil Nadu, India.

Author : Alfred Habegger
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299298337
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masked written by Alfred Habegger and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave British widow goes to Siam and—by dint of her principled and indomitable character—inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. Three decades after her death, in the 1940s and 1950s, the story would be transformed into a powerful Western myth by Margaret Landon’s best-selling book Anna and the King of Siam and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I. But who was Leonowens and why did her story take hold? Although it has been known for some time that she was of Anglo-Indian parentage and that her tales about the Siamese court are unreliable, not until now, with the publication of Masked, has there been a deeply researched account of her extraordinary life. Alfred Habegger, an award-winning biographer, draws on the archives of five continents and recent Thai-language scholarship to disclose the complex person behind the mask and the troubling facts behind the myth. He also ponders the curious fit between Leonowens’s compelling fabrications and the New World’s innocent dreams—in particular the dream that democracy can be spread through quick and easy interventions. Exploring the full historic complexity of what it once meant to pass as white, Masked pays close attention to Leonowens’s midlevel origins in British India, her education at a Bombay charity school for Eurasian children, her material and social milieu in Australia and Singapore, the stresses she endured in Bangkok as a working widow, the latent melancholy that often afflicted her, the problematic aspects of her self-invention, and the welcome she found in America, where a circle of elite New England abolitionists who knew nothing about Southeast Asia gave her their uncritical support. Her embellished story would again capture America’s imagination as World War II ended and a newly interventionist United States looked toward Asia. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Regional Special Interest Boosk, selected by the Public Library Reviewers

Author : James Stanier Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.ZM/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naval Chronicle written by James Stanier Clarke and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a general and biographical history of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a variety of original papers on nautical subjects, under the guidance of several literary and professional men.

Author : David A. Hollinger
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400888794
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Protestants Abroad written by David A. Hollinger and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century America Between the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. They expected to change the people they encountered, but those foreign people ended up transforming the missionaries. Their experience abroad made many of these missionaries and their children critical of racism, imperialism, and religious orthodoxy. When they returned home, they brought new liberal values back to their own society. Protestants Abroad reveals the untold story of how these missionary-connected individuals left an enduring mark on American public life as writers, diplomats, academics, church officials, publishers, foundation executives, and social activists. David A. Hollinger provides riveting portraits of such figures as Pearl Buck, John Hersey, and Life and Time publisher Henry Luce, former "mish kids" who strove through literature and journalism to convince white Americans of the humanity of other peoples. Hollinger describes how the U.S. government's need for citizens with language skills and direct experience in Asian societies catapulted dozens of missionary-connected individuals into prominent roles in intelligence and diplomacy. Meanwhile, Edwin Reischauer and other scholars with missionary backgrounds led the growth of Foreign Area Studies in universities during the Cold War. The missionary contingent advocated multiculturalism and anticolonialism, pushed their churches in ecumenical and social-activist directions, and joined with Jewish intellectuals to challenge traditional Protestant cultural hegemony and promote a pluralist vision of American life. Missionary cosmopolitans were the Anglo-Protestant counterparts of the New York Jewish intelligentsia of the same era. Protestants Abroad reveals the crucial role that missionary-connected American Protestants played in the development of modern American liberalism, and how they helped other Americans reimagine their nation's place in the world.

Author : James Stanier Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naval Chronicle [ed. by J.S. Clarke, S. and J. Jones]. written by James Stanier Clarke and published by . This book was released on with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naval chronicle [ed. by J.S. Clarke, S. and J. Jones]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Stanier Clarke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108018416
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naval Chronicle: Volume 2, July-December 1799 written by James Stanier Clarke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of the Naval Chronicle (1799) includes Nelson's report on the Battle of St Vincent, and many technical papers.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
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Download or read book The Naval Chronicle, Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects written by and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eustace John Kitts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book A Compendium of the Castes and Tribes Found in India written by Eustace John Kitts and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: