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Book By the Equator s Snowy Peak

Download or read book By the Equator s Snowy Peak written by E. May Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Missionary Review

Download or read book The Missionary Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Church Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Church Quarterly Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America

Download or read book A Bibliography of the Negro in Africa and America written by and published by Martino Publishing. This book was released on 1928 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rule of Darkness

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Brantlinger
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2013-01-14
  • ISBN : 0801467039
  • Pages : 323 pages

Download or read book Rule of Darkness written by Patrick Brantlinger and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration. Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. The most comprehensive study yet of literature and imperialism in the early and mid-Victorian years, Rule of Darkness offers, in addition, a revisionary interpretation of imperialism as a significant factor in later British cultural history, from the 1880s to World War I. It is essential reading for anyone concerned with Victorian culture and society and, more generally, with the relationship between Victorian writers and imperialism, 'and between racist ideology and patterns of domination in modern history.

Book Historical Dictionary of Kenya

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Kenya written by Michael Mwenda Kithinji and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya has a rich and complex history. Due to the vast discoveries of prehistoric archaeological remains, Kenya is one of the few places in the world with the largest and most complete record of human’s cultural development. Furthermore, the country’s strategic location astride the Indian Ocean and the East African littoral attracted numerous foreigners such as the Arabs, Persians, Portuguese, Americans, British, Chinese, French, and Germans. Additionally, immigrants from throughout Africa and beyond have settled in Kenya to escape conflict or political persecution, while others wanted an opportunity to begin a new life. As a result of being a gateway to the world, the country traditionally has been one of the most important business, cultural, diplomatic, and political centers in Africa. Still, Kenya, like many other countries throughout the world, has been plagued by an increasing array of complex economic, political, and social challenges. Historical Dictionary of Kenya, Fourth Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities as well as aspects of the country’s politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Kenya.

Book Subject Guide to Books

Download or read book Subject Guide to Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents.--v.1. History, travel & description.

Book The Expository Times

Download or read book The Expository Times written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Missionary Review of the World

Download or read book The Missionary Review of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Very Different Land

Download or read book A Very Different Land written by Hilary Sunman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Hilary Sunman considers the day-to-day experience of her father, Owen, who served in the Colonial Agricultural Service from 1928-1950. Weaving together a human and family story, she combines her father's work with her own experience as a development economist to discuss colonial policy. Focusing on themes such as All the the 'White Highlands', race, colonial leadership, and the rise of the Mau Mau, she looks at the academic training in agricultural science offered as preparation for the colonial service as well as the attraction of Africa and the idealism felt by many young officers. Using her family as a case study, she examines the realities of life in Kenya for the wives and children of colonial officers, as well as for the officers themselves.

Book The souls of white folk

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brett Shadle
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2015-05-01
  • ISBN : 0719098289
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book The souls of white folk written by Brett Shadle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya’s white settlers have been alternately celebrated and condemned, painted as romantic pioneers or hedonistic bed-hoppers or crude racists. The souls of white folk examines settlers not as caricatures, but as people inhabiting a unique historical moment. It takes seriously – though not uncritically – what settlers said, how they viewed themselves and their world. It argues that the settler soul was composed of a series of interlaced ideas: settlers equated civilisation with a (hard to define) whiteness; they were emotionally enriched through claims to paternalism and trusteeship over Africans; they felt themselves constantly threatened by Africans, by the state, and by the moral failures of other settlers; and they daily enacted their claims to supremacy through rituals of prestige, deference, humiliation and violence. The souls of white folk will appeal to those interested in the histories of Africa, colonialism, and race, and can be appreciated by scholars and students alike.

Book Luzac   Co  s Oriental List

Download or read book Luzac Co s Oriental List written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Dictionary of Kenya

Download or read book Historical Dictionary of Kenya written by Robert M. Maxon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya has a long and complex history that began thousands of years ago. Indeed, some archaeologists contend that the country was the "cradle of mankind" or, at the very least, one of the places that was home to the earliest hominids. In later centuries, Kenya's strategic location astride the Indian Ocean and the East African littoral attracted numerous foreign peoples, some of the most significant of which have been the Americans, Arabs, British, Chinese, French, Germans, and Portuguese. Additionally, Africans from throughout the subcontinent have settled in Kenya to escape conflict or political persecution, while others wanted an opportunity to begin a new life. As a result of being a gateway to the world, the country traditionally has been one of the most important business, cultural, diplomatic, and political centers in Africa. Although it has maintained this reputation during the post-independence period, Kenya, like most African countries, has been plagued by an increasing array of complex economic, political, and social problems. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Kenya provides a starting point for those interested in any of the phases of Kenya's historical evolution. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has 500 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Kenya.

Book Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness

Download or read book Joseph Conrad s Heart of Darkness written by Gene M. Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad's fictional account of a journey up the Congo river in 1890, raises important questions about colonialism and narrative theory. This casebook contains materials relevant to a deeper understanding of the origins and reception of this controversial text, including Conrad's own story "An Outpost of Progress," together with a little-known memoir by one of Conrad's oldest English friends, a brief history of the Congo Free State by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a parody of Conrad by Max Beerbohm. A wide range of theoretical approaches are also represented, examining Conrad's text in terms of cultural, historical, textual, stylistic, narratological, post-colonial, feminist, and reader-response criticism. The volume concludes with an interview in which Conrad compares his adventures on the Congo with Mark Twain's experiences as a Mississippi pilot.

Book Red Strangers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christine Stephanie Nicholls
  • Publisher : Timewell Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781857252064
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Red Strangers written by Christine Stephanie Nicholls and published by Timewell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya's forgotten history from its inception to independence in 1963.

Book The Statesman s Year Book

Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by J. Scott-Keltie and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 1605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Book The Church in Africa  1450 1950

Download or read book The Church in Africa 1450 1950 written by Adrian Hastings and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hastings also compares the relation of Christian history to the comparable development of Islam in Africa.