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Book Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies

Download or read book Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and Its Dependencies written by and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains "verbatim reports of Debates at the East-India house, taken in shorthand for these pages". -- cf. v. 1, p. iii.

Book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Manipur

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  • Author : Wangam Somorjit
  • Publisher : Waba Publications & Advanced Research Consortium
  • Release : 2016-03-01
  • ISBN : 819266872X
  • Pages : 622 pages

Download or read book Manipur written by Wangam Somorjit and published by Waba Publications & Advanced Research Consortium . This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of excerpts from the pre-20th century books, memoirs, journals, magazines, newspapers and government documents about the history, geography, economic, politics and culture of Manipur, accompanied by introductory notes contextualising the history of this critically positioned state in the broader history of the rest of Southeast Asia.

Book Call of Empire

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  • Author : Alexander Charles Baillie
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2017-11-01
  • ISBN : 0773552065
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Call of Empire written by Alexander Charles Baillie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family – William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant – whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts and social and global historians.

Book Catalogue of the California State Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the California State Library written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society  including the Library of Alex  Wylie  Esq

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society including the Library of Alex Wylie Esq written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North-China Branch. Library and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society including the Library of Alex  Wylie  Esq  systematically Classed  By Henri Cordier

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society including the Library of Alex Wylie Esq systematically Classed By Henri Cordier written by Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society, afterwards North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (SHANGHAI). Library and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commodifying Cannabis

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  • Author : Bradley J. Borougerdi
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2018-11-19
  • ISBN : 1498586384
  • Pages : 203 pages

Download or read book Commodifying Cannabis written by Bradley J. Borougerdi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannabis is a genetically diverse plant that has been commodified for a variety of different purposes by many cultures throughout world history. For thousands of years, people have used its fiber, seed, and flowers to make rope and cloth, rig ships, feed people and livestock, concoct medicines, and alter states of consciousness. Until the nineteenth century, though, most Europeans and Americans were unaware of drug varieties of cannabis. The British encountered them in India and created western-style medicines that sold throughout the Atlantic world by the 1840s, but negative associations with Oriental intoxication and degeneracy sullied the plant’s reputation as a viable commodity. Now, after decades of transatlantic criminalization policies against cannabis in the twentieth century, it is making a comeback. In Commodifying Cannabis, Bradley J. Borougerdi traces the tangled histories of its use for fiber, medicine, and altered states of consciousness across the Atlantic world, focusing on the dynamic interplay between these three different cultural applications to explain why the plant has transformed so many times throughout history. The historical journey spans a vast geographical landscape and includes over three centuries of source material to illuminate the cultural foundations behind the myriad transformations cannabis has endured as a commodity in the Atlantic world.

Book Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society

Download or read book Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year

Download or read book Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth  Legend and Folklore

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Beasts and Monsters in Myth Legend and Folklore written by Theresa Bane and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.

Book Landscapes and the Law

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  • Author : Gunnel Cederlöf
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-06-28
  • ISBN : 0199099278
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Landscapes and the Law written by Gunnel Cederlöf and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes and the Law is situated at the crossroads of environmental, colonial, and legal history. It examines the role of law in consolidating early colonial rule from the perspective of people’s access to nature in forests and hill tracts. This major interdisciplinary study is thus concerned with the social history of legal processes and the making of law, being as relevant today as it was when first published a decade ago. The book is focused equally on the multitude of colliding claims for access to land and resources, and the complex ways in which customary rights are redefined and codified for the purpose of securing and legitimizing colonial sovereign rule. Basing her archival and field work on the Nilgiri Hills in South India, Gunnel Cederlöf explores conflicting perceptions of nature and political visions that are projected onto landscapes and people. She traces debates on property and land rights, and how the empirical sciences merge with the legal claims justifying land acquisition. Popular resistance strategies to such exploitation are analysed, and a cross-cultural comparison made between early legal processes and social history in India, New Zealand, and North America.

Book Agreeable News from Persia

Download or read book Agreeable News from Persia written by D.T. Potts and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 2077 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth and nineteenth century European, British and American newspapers constitute a rich and largely untapped source of contemporary, often eyewitness accounts of historical events and opinions concerning Iran from the late Safavid (1712) through the Qajar (c. 1797-1920) period. This study collects and annotates thousands of articles published in the Colonial and early Republican American newspapers, from the first mention of events in Persia in the American press (1712) to the death of Mohammad Shah (1848), unlocking for the first time a wealth of information on Iran and its place in the world during the 18th and early 19th century.