The Victorian Elliots In Peace And War

Author : John P. Evans
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445620553
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victorian Elliots in Peace and War written by John P. Evans and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an important family whose members included the influential politician the Earl of Minto and his second son, Admiral Sir George Elliot.

Author : Jon Bursey
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526722577
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain Elliot and the Founding of Hong Kong written by Jon Bursey and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the life of Captain Charles Elliot—from his Royal Navy career to his controversial role in establishing Hong Kong as a British colony. On January 26, 1841, the British took possession of the island of Hong Kong. The Convention of Chuenpi was immediately repudiated by both the British and Chinese governments and their respective negotiators recalled. For the British this was Capt. Charles Elliot, whose actions in China became mired in controversy for years to come. Who was Captain Elliot, and how did he find himself at the center of this debate? This book traces Elliot’s career from his early life through his years in the Royal Navy before focusing on his role in the First Anglo-Chinese War and the founding of what became the Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Elliot has been demonized by China and for the most part poorly regarded by historians. This book shows him to have been a man ahead of his time whose views on slavery, armed conflict, the role of women and racial equality often placed him at variance with contemporary attitudes. Twenty years after the return of Hong Kong to China, his legacy is still with us.

Author : John P. Evans
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445668750
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise of the Elliots of Minto written by John P. Evans and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the Elliot family through six generations with a cast in the hundreds, across Britain and her Empire, as the Scottish Enlightenment dawns.

Author : John P. Evans
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445639025
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Quite Remarkable Man written by John P. Evans and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of this remarkable figure

Author : Alexander Michie
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752417439
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. I (of 2) written by Alexander Michie and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. I (of 2) by Alexander Michie

Author : Alexander Michie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era written by Alexander Michie and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Penelope Debelle
Publisher : Wakefield Press
ISBN 13 : 1862549567
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Silk written by Penelope Debelle and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elliott Johnston is a working class hero. He and Elizabeth Johnston became Communists in 1941 and he resigned only to join the South Australian Supreme Court Bench.

Author : Georgios Varouxakis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039142
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Abroad written by Georgios Varouxakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive analysis of the international political pronouncements of John Stuart Mill: the pre-eminent thinker of the liberal tradition.

Author : Larry P. Goodson
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295801581
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan's Endless War written by Larry P. Goodson and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years. Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan’s inability to forge a strong state -- its myriad cleavages along ethnic, religious, social, and geographical fault lines -- Goodson then examines the devastating course of the war itself. He charts its utter destruction of the country, from the deaths of more than 2 million Afghans and the dispersal of some six million others as refugees to the complete collapse of its economy, which today has been replaced by monoagriculture in opium poppies and heroin production. The Taliban, some of whose leaders Goodson interviewed as recently as 1997, have controlled roughly 80 percent of the country but themselves have shown increasing discord along ethnic and political lines.

Author : Marianne Sommer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674024991
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bones and Ochre written by Marianne Sommer and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When ochre-stained bones were unearthed by William Buckland in a Welsh cave in 1823, they raised many unsettling questions regarding their origin, and inspired the casting and recasting of the character who became known as the Red Lady. Her biography reflects the personal, professional, and national ambitions of those who studied her.