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Book A Journal of Three Months  Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne

Download or read book A Journal of Three Months Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne written by John Compton Pyne and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primary source on a journey to Persia by Captain John Compton Pyne in 1884 revealing the West's fascination with the Middle East in Victorian times. The book includes an introduction by the editors and a transcription of the manuscript with notes and the original illustrations, mainly watercolours. An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of 'orientalism' and colonialism, and for historians.

Book A Journal of Three Months  Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne

Download or read book A Journal of Three Months Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne written by John Compton Pyne and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primary source on a journey to Persia by Captain John Compton Pyne in 1884 revealing the West's fascination with the Middle East in Victorian times. The book includes an introduction by the editors and a transcription of the manuscript with notes and the original illustrations, mainly watercolours. An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of 'orientalism' and colonialism, and for historians.

Book A Journal of Three Months  Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne

Download or read book A Journal of Three Months Walk in Persia in 1884 by Captain John Compton Pyne written by John Compton Pyne and published by Iranian Studies. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primary source on a journey to Persia by Captain John Compton Pyne in 1884 revealing the West?s fascination with the Middle East in Victorian times. The book includes an introduction by the editors and a transcription of the manuscript with notes and the original illustrations, mainly watercolours. An important historical document and eye-witness account pertaining to Iran, anthropology, area studies, study of ?orientalism? and colonialism, and for historians.

Book The Dynasty of the Kajars

Download or read book The Dynasty of the Kajars written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sailing to the Far Horizon

Download or read book Sailing to the Far Horizon written by Pamela Sisman Bitterman and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-08-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tall ship Sofia sank off New Zealand’s North Island in February 1982, stranding its crew on disabled life rafts for five days. They struggled to survive as any realistic hope of rescue dwindled. Just a few years earlier, Pamela Sisman Bitterman was a naïve swabbie looking for adventure, signing on with a sailing co-operative taking this sixty-year-old, 123-foot, three-masted gaff-topsail schooner around the globe. The aged Baltic trader had been rescued from a wooden boat graveyard in Sweden and reincarnated as a floating commune in the 1960s. By the time Sofia went down, Bitterman had become an able seaman, promoted first to bos’un and then acting first mate, immersing herself in this life of a tall ship sailor, world traveler, and survivor.

Book The Triumph of Modernism

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  • Author : Partha Mitter
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2007-11-15
  • ISBN : 1861896360
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book The Triumph of Modernism written by Partha Mitter and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous last decades of British colonialism in India were catalyzed by more than the work of Mahatma Gandhi and violent conflicts. The concurrent upheavals in Western art driven by the advent of modernism provided Indian artists in post-1920 India a powerful tool of colonial resistance. Distinguished art historian Partha Mitter now explores in this brilliantly illustrated study this lesser known facet of Indian art and history. Taking the 1922 Bauhaus exhibition in Calcutta as the debut of European modernism in India, The Triumph of Modernism probes the intricate interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism in the evolution of colonial-era Indian art. Mitter casts his gaze across a myriad of issues, including the emergence of a feminine voice in Indian art, the decline of “oriental art,” and the rise of naturalism and modernism in the 1920s. Nationalist politics also played a large role, from the struggle of artists in reconciling Indian nationalism with imperial patronage of the arts to the relationship between primitivism and modernism in Indian art. An engagingly written study anchored by 150 lush reproductions, The Triumph of Modernism will be essential reading for scholars of art, British studies, and Indian history.

Book Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning

Download or read book Ingatestone and the Essex Great Road with Fryerning written by E. E. Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of the English Puppet Theatre

Download or read book The History of the English Puppet Theatre written by George Speaight and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A welcome reissue, revised and updated, of the classic work on the English puppet theatre, this detailed and lavishly illustrated book, first published in 1955, shows why puppet theatre in England developed along different lines from that on the Continent, and brings the story up to the television age. In 1938, at the age of 24, George Speaight left his job as a bookseller and went to work as a farmhand at Pigotts, the family settlement of Eric Gill and his group of artist-craftsworkers in Buckinghamshire. While there, Speaight decided to write a history of Punch and Judy. The project grew, and during the Second World War he spent his nights working in the Auxiliary Fire Service and his days at the British Museum Reading Room researching Punch and puppets. This book is the result of all his research.

Book Women of the West

Download or read book Women of the West written by Max Binheim and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of the Seymours

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  • Author : Richard Harold St. Maur
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1902
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 708 pages

Download or read book Annals of the Seymours written by Richard Harold St. Maur and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry

Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry written by Bernard Burke and published by London : Harrison. This book was released on 1895 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book King William s College Register  1833 1904

Download or read book King William s College Register 1833 1904 written by King William's College, Castletown and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Desertmakers

Download or read book The Desertmakers written by Javier Uriarte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies how the rhetoric of travel introduces different conceptualizations of space and time in scenarios of war during the last decades of the 19th century, in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. By examining accounts of war and travel in the context of the consolidation of state apparatuses in these countries, Uriarte underlines the essential role that war (in connection to empire and capital) has played in the Latin American process of modernization and state formation. In this book, the analysis of British and Latin American travel narratives proves particularly productive in reading the ways in which national spaces are reconfigured, reimagined, and reappropriated by the state apparatus. War turns out to be a central instrument not just for making possible this logic of appropriation, but also for bringing temporal notions such as modernization and progress to spaces that were described — albeit problematically — as being outside of history. The book argues that wars waged against "deserts" (as Patagonia, the sertão, Paraguay, and the Uruguayan countryside were described and imagined) were in fact means of generating empty spaces, real voids that were the condition for new foundations. The study of travel writing is an essential tool for understanding the transformations of space brought by war, and for analyzing in detail the forms and connotations of movement in connection to violence. Uriarte pays particular attention to the effects that witnessing war had on the traveler’s identity and on the relation that is established with the oikos or point of departure of their own voyage. Written at the intersection of literary analysis, critical geography, political science, and history, this book will be of interest to those studying Latin American literature, Travel Writing, and neocolonialism and Empire writing.

Book Works

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  • Author : Rudyard Kipling
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1912
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Works written by Rudyard Kipling and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Debrett s Peerage  Baronetage  Knightage  and Companionage

Download or read book Debrett s Peerage Baronetage Knightage and Companionage written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Fire of Lilies

Download or read book A Fire of Lilies written by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of Persian literature in politics in the tumultuous period of Iranian history from 1950 to 2000, illustrating how intellectuals used poetry, plays, novels and short stories to comment on socio-political developments. The unique aspect of the book is its strong empirical perspective as it analyses how Persian intellectuals dealt with sensor, suppression, imprisonment, exile and even execution for the sake of expression of free speech. Karimi-Hakkak's methodology is also unique as he applies theoretical perspectives of various disciplines to produce a multi-faceted work, which provide the reader with a concise socio-political history based on the interaction between literature and politics. 'A Fire of Lilies' will therefore make a significant contribution to the research on modern Persian literature as well as literary historiography.

Book English Satires

Download or read book English Satires written by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: