Download or read book Events in the Life of Charles George Gordon written by Henry William Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Events in the Life of Charles George Gordon written by Henry William Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Events in the Life of Charles George Gordon written by Henry William Gordon and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Gordon written by Pierre Crabitès and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The critics of Charles George Gordon accused him of vacillation and of instability of character. His supporters refused to admit that he was inconstant; they took the position that it was the Gladstone Cabinet which manifested a spirit of indecision that was fraught with terrible consequences. General Gordon was a prolific letter-writer, and he also kept a journal. Many official notes and dispatches deal with his final mission to Khartoum. This book, first published in 1933, attempts to get at the truth of Gordon’s character and his time in the Sudan through these letters, this journal, these notes and despatches.
Download or read book The Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analytical and Classified Catalogue of the Library A H written by Dennis O'Donovan and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.
Download or read book Catalogue written by New South Wales Free Public Library, Sydney and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maps of Paradise written by Alessandro Scafi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is paradise? It always seems to be elsewhere, inaccessible, outside of time. Either it existed yesterday or it will return tomorrow; it may be just around the corner, on a remote island, beyond the sea. Across a wide range of cultures, paradise is located in the distant past, in a longed-for future, in remote places or within each of us. In particular, people everywhere in the world share some kind of nostalgia for an innocence experienced at the beginning of history. For two millennia, learned Christians have wondered where on earth the primal paradise could have been located. Where was the idyllic Garden of Eden that is described in the Bible? In the Far East? In equatorial Africa? In Mesopotamia? Under the sea? Where were Adam and Eve created in their unspoiled perfection? Maps of Paradise charts the diverse ways in which scholars and mapmakers from the eighth to the twenty-first century rose to the challenge of identifying the location of paradise on a map, despite the certain knowledge that it was beyond human reach. Over one hundred illustrations celebrate this history of a paradox: the mapping of the unmappable. It is also a mirror to the universal dream of perfection and happiness, and the yearning to discover heaven on earth.
Download or read book Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 1714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Library to June 1895 written by Royal Dublin Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand written by New Zealand. Parliament. Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr G E Morrison Now a Part of the Oriental Library Tokyo Japan English books written by Tōyō Bunko (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Sudan written by Various Authors and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 1306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 5 volume set brings together research into the Sudan, works both modern and classic. Two works examine the Sudan of the late nineteenth century, a time when Anglo-Egyptian domination was enforced on the country; two works detail the Sudan of the twentieth century, looking at its politics, economy and society; and a last work traces the roots of modern Sudan through the historic tribes of the region.
Download or read book World Military Leaders written by Mark Grossman and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles profiling important military leaders are arranged in A to Z format.