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Book My Colonial Service in British Guiana  St  Lucia  Trinidad  Fiji  Australia  Newfoundland  and Hong Kong  with Interludes

Download or read book My Colonial Service in British Guiana St Lucia Trinidad Fiji Australia Newfoundland and Hong Kong with Interludes written by Sir George William Des Vœux and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1903 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book My Colonial Service in British Guiana  St  Lucia  Trinidad  Fiji  Australia  Newfoundland  and Hong Kong  with Interludes

Download or read book My Colonial Service in British Guiana St Lucia Trinidad Fiji Australia Newfoundland and Hong Kong with Interludes written by Sir George William Des Vœux and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1903 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wu Tingfang  1842 1922

Download or read book Wu Tingfang 1842 1922 written by Linda Pomerantz-Zhang and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-01 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wu Tingfang (1842-1922) was a contemporary of Li Hongzhang, Yuan Shikai, Hei and Sun Yixian (Sun Yat-sen), all of whom were involved in China's attempt at reform and modernization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. During his time, Wu was a prominent political figure, participating actively in public service and political activities in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Guangzhou. This book is a biography of Wu, and sheds considerable light on a crucial period in Chinese history.

Book Insanity  Race and Colonialism

Download or read book Insanity Race and Colonialism written by L. Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War.

Book My Colonial Service in British Guiana  St  Lucia  Trinidad  Fiji  Australia  Newfoundland  and Hong Kong  with Interludes

Download or read book My Colonial Service in British Guiana St Lucia Trinidad Fiji Australia Newfoundland and Hong Kong with Interludes written by Sir George William Des Vœux and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong s Colonial Economy  1830 1890

Download or read book Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong s Colonial Economy 1830 1890 written by Kaori Abe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional view of the Hong Kong colonial economy is that it was dominated by Western companies, notably the great British merchant houses, and that these firms enlisted support from Chinese middlemen – the compradors – who were effectively agents working for the Western firms. This book, which presents a comprehensive overview of the compradors and their economic and social functions over the full period of colonial rule in Hong Kong, puts forward a different view. It shows that compradors existed before the beginning of British rule in 1842, discusses their economic and social roles in the colonial economy, roles which included activities for Western firms, for the government and to support compradors’ own commercial activities, and outlines how the comprador system evolved. Overall, the book demonstrates that the compradors played a key role in the formation and development of Hong Kong’s economy and society, that they were active participants, not just passive servants of Western companies.

Book Eco Cultural Networks and the British Empire

Download or read book Eco Cultural Networks and the British Empire written by James Beattie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 19th-century British imperial expansion dramatically shaped today's globalised world. Imperialism encouraged mass migrations of people, shifting flora, fauna and commodities around the world and led to a series of radical environmental changes never before experienced in history. Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire explores how these networks shaped ecosystems, cultures and societies throughout the British Empire and how they were themselves transformed by local and regional conditions. This multi-authored volume begins with a rigorous theoretical analysis of the categories of 'empire' and 'imperialism'. Its chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, draw methodologically from recent studies in environmental history, post-colonial theory and the history of science. Together, these perspectives provide a comprehensive historical understanding of how the British Empire reshaped the globe during the 19th and 20th centuries. This book will be an important addition to the literature on British imperialism and global ecological change.

Book My Colonial Service in British Guiana  St  Lucia  Trinidad  Fiji  Australia  Newfoundland  and Hong Kong  with Interludes

Download or read book My Colonial Service in British Guiana St Lucia Trinidad Fiji Australia Newfoundland and Hong Kong with Interludes written by Sir George William Des Vux and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Book The Publisher

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 864 pages

Download or read book The Publisher written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record

Download or read book The Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning Apr. 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.

Book Empires of Panic

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Peckham
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 9888208446
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Empires of Panic written by Robert Peckham and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings—from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial anxieties, rumors, indigenous resistance, and crises, particularly in relation to epidemic disease. How did Western government agencies, policymakers, planners, and other authorities understand, deal with, and neutralize panics? What role did evolving technologies of communication play in the amplification of local panics into global events? Engaging with these questions, the book challenges conventional histories to show how intensifying processes of intelligence gathering did not consolidate empire, but rather served to produce critical uncertainties—the uneven terrain of imperial panic. Robert Peckham is associate professor in the Department of History and co-director of the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong. "Charting the relays of rumor and knowledge that stoke colonial fears of disease, disorder, and disaster, Empires of Panic offers timely and cautionary insight into how viscerally epidemics inflame imperial anxieties, and how words and their communication over new technologies accelerate panic, rally government intervention, and unsettle and entrench the exercise of global power. Relevant a century ago and even more so today." — Nayan Shah, University of Southern California; author ofContagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco's Chinatown "Empires generated anxiety as much as ambition. This fine study focuses on anxieties generated by disease. It is the first book of its kind to track shifting forms of panic through different geopolitical regimes and imperial formations over the course of two centuries. Working across medical and imperial histories, it is a major contribution to both." — Andrew S. Thompson, University of Exeter; author of Empire and Globalisation: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British World, c. 1850–1914(with Gary B. Magee)

Book The Athenaeum

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Athenaeum

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Silk Buckingham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 852 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Books

Download or read book British Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: