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Book The Lost Imperialist

Download or read book The Lost Imperialist written by Andrew Gailey and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography 2016 Frederick Hamiton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, enjoyed a glittering career which few could equal. As Viceroy of India and Governor-General of Canada, he held the two most exalted positions available under the Crown, but prior to this his achievements as a British ambassador included restoring order to sectarian conflict in Syria, helping to keep Canada British, paving the way for the annexation of Egypt and preventing war from breaking out on India's North-West Frontier. Dufferin was much more than a diplomat and politician, however: he was a leading Irish landlord, an adventurer and a travel writer whose Letters from High Latitudes proved a publishing sensation. He also became a celebrity of the time, and in his attempts to sustain his reputation he became trapped by his own inventions, thereafter living his public life in fear of exposure. Ingenuity, ability and charm usually saved the day, yet in the end catastrophe struck in the form of the greatest City scandal for forty years and the death of his heir in the Boer War. With unique access to the family archive at Clandeboye, Andrew Gailey presents a full biography of the figure once referred to as the 'most popular man in Europe'.

Book U S  Imperialism Has Lost the Cold War

Download or read book U S Imperialism Has Lost the Cold War written by Jack Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Imperialism Has Lost the Cold War.... That's what the Socialist Workers Party concluded in the wake of the collapse of regimes and parties across Eastern Europe and in the USSR that claimed to be Communist. Contrary to imperialism's hopes, the working class in those countries has not been crushed. It remains an intractable obstacle to reimposing and stabilizing capitalist relations, one that will have to be confronted by the exploiters in class battles in a hot war. Issue no. 11 of the Marxist magazine New International analyzes the propertied rulers' failed expectations and charts a course for revolutionaries in response to the renewed rise of worker and farmer resistance to the economic and social instability, spreading wars, and rightist currents bred by the world market system. It explains why the historic odds in favor of the working class have increased, not diminished, at the opening of the 21st century. Also includes: * The Communist Strategy of Party Building Today by Mary-Alice Waters. * Socialism: A Viable Option by José Ramón Balaguer. * Young Socialists Manifesto. * Ours Is the Epoch of World Revolution by Jack Barnes and Mary-Alice Waters. Introduction by Jack Barnes and Mary-Alice Waters, photos, notes, index.

Book Lord Dufferin  Ireland and the British Empire  c  1820   1900

Download or read book Lord Dufferin Ireland and the British Empire c 1820 1900 written by Annie Tindley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-29 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the life and career of Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava (1826–1902). Dufferin was a landowner in Ulster, an urbane diplomat, literary sensation, courtier, politician, colonial governor, collector, son, husband and father. The book draws on episodes from Dufferin’s career to link the landowning and aristocratic culture he was born into with his experience of governing across the British Empire, in Canada, Egypt, Syria and India. This book argues that there was a defined conception of aristocratic governance and purpose that infused the political and imperial world, and was based on two elements: the inheritance and management of a landed estate, and a well-defined sense of ‘rule by the best’. It identifies a particular kind of atmosphere of empire and aristocracy, one that was riven with tensions and angst, as those who saw themselves as the hereditary leaders of Britain and Ireland were challenged by a rising democracy and, in Ireland, by a powerful new definition of what Irishness was. It offers a new perspective on both empire and aristocracy in the nineteenth century, and will appeal to a broad scholarly audience and the wider public.

Book The Lost Empire

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Hemsley
  • Publisher : Potomac Books
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Lost Empire written by John Hemsley and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an investigation into the mechanisms of change and how these have an impact on the institutional processes in the Soviet Union. These processes are defined with a view to establishing how much inertia exists and why, and to what extent they may to responsive to the requirements of perestroika. It seeks to establish the constraints on, and limitations of, perestroika, as well as looking at the penalties of failure and the effects on the system as a whole.

Book United Empire

Download or read book United Empire written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Imperialist Rhetoric and Mathematical Practice in Early Modern England

Download or read book Imperialist Rhetoric and Mathematical Practice in Early Modern England written by Amir Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lost Promise of Progressivism

Download or read book The Lost Promise of Progressivism written by Eldon J. Eisenach and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congenital malformations are worldwide occurrences striking in every condition of society. These severe physical abnormalities which are present at birth and affecting every part of the body happen more often than usually realized, once in every 33 births. The most common, after heart defects, are those of the neural tube (the brain and spinal cord) which happen in as many as one in every 350 births. They have been noted as curiousities in man and beast throughout recorded history and received great attention in our time by various fields of study, for example, their faulty prenatal development by embryologists, familial patterns by geneticists, causation by environmentalists and variability by population scientists. Attention turned much in recent years to the relation of these malformations to deficiency of a particular dietary ingredient, folic acid, a subject this book analyzes in depth. The greatest conundrum of all, which this latest matter like so much else hinges on, is the amazing fact of the tremendous, almost universal decrease in the frequency of these anomalies since early in the 20th century. The puzzle is What can this downward trend possibly mean? and at bottom Whether it is part of a long-term cyclical pattern . This fascinating biological phenomenon is explored in the book together with various other topics.

Book Nationalism and War in the Near East

Download or read book Nationalism and War in the Near East written by George Young and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; London ; New York : Milford. This book was released on 1915 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Nation and the Empire

Download or read book The Nation and the Empire written by Alfred Milner Milner (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Common Sense

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  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1920
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book Common Sense written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost Lion of Empire

Download or read book Lost Lion of Empire written by Edward Paice and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "By the age of twenty-two Grogan had been elected the youngest ever member of the Alpine Club and was a Matabele War veteran. But his prospects were far from certain when he fell in love with a young heiress and was required by her stepfather to prove himself a 'somebody' in order to win her hand. Grogan's response was typically unequivocal: he announced that he intended to be the first man to complete a south-to-north traverse of the African continent. In 1900, after almost three years of adventure and unimaginable hardship, he arrived triumphantly in Cairo, thus completing one of the most astonishing feats in the history of the African exploration. He became an instant celebrity and returned to London to marry his beloved Gertrude."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Galaxy

Download or read book The Galaxy written by William Conant Church and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Japan Gazette

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  • Release : 1877
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 728 pages

Download or read book Japan Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Imperialist

Download or read book The Imperialist written by Sara Jeannette Duncan and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Elgin, Ontario, a burgeoning community in young Canada, Lorne Murchison must balance his political aspirations and his support for the imperialist ideal with his romantic aspirations. Meanwhile, his sister, Advena, falls in love with a young minister, who is already engaged to another woman.An examination of Canadian values in the late nineteenth century, The Imperialist serves as a comedy of manners and an important depiction of life in small-town Ontario.

Book Imperialist Archaeology in the Canary Islands

Download or read book Imperialist Archaeology in the Canary Islands written by A. José Farrujia de la Rosa and published by BAR International Series. This book was released on 2005 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the rediscovery of the Canary Islands in the early 14th century, Europeans and Canarians alike have been trying to solve the question of the early colonisation of the islands. Various theories and controversies ensued, notably in the late 19th century when French and German scholars in particular took up the debate and, in the spirit of imperialist archaeology, created theories based on social and political issues rather than empirical data. This study examines theories on the colonisation of the islands both before and in the aftermath of imperialist archaeology and focuses on the impact of the latter on Canarian archaeological and anthropological research, institutions and scientific production.

Book The Speaker

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  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 714 pages

Download or read book The Speaker written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Studies in the Theory of Imperialism

Download or read book Studies in the Theory of Imperialism written by Roger Owen and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1972 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of conference papers on theories concerning imperialism (i. e. Colonialism and neo-colonialism or the historical and recent role of European capitalism in developing countries) - describes existing theories and shows how they could be made more relevant, and presents case studies illustrating how such theories can be used to elucidate historical problems. Annotated bibliography pp. 331 to 378, references and statistical tables. Conference held in Oxford 1969-1970.