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Book Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator

Download or read book Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator written by Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Toronto : Presbyterian News Company. This book was released on 1890 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This narrative discusses the fundamentalist Muslim uprisings which happened in central Africa in the late 1800's. The author was part of a rescue expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, who was a Belgian in Egyptian/Ottoman employ. The events take place following the fall of Khartoum and the death of Gordon.

Book Imperialism and the Anti Imperialist Mind

Download or read book Imperialism and the Anti Imperialist Mind written by Lewis Samuel Feuer and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major work, Lewis S. Feuer examines critical distinctions between progressive and regressive imperialism. He explores causes of anti-imperial ideologies, noting that unlike the spoliation that took place under regressive tartar, Spanish and Nazi colonizations, civilization flourished during the progressive imperialism of Hellenic, Macedonian, Roman, and modern British eras of empire-building. Feuer holds that it is erroneous to blame the relative backwardness of colonial peoples on the imperialism of Western democratic nations. In case after case, the character of colonial rulers determined economic development and democratic reform alike. Pursuing the theme of progress versus regression, Feuer compares the imperialism of the United States with that of the Soviet Union – to the detriment of the latter in nearly every instance. His effort constitutes nothing short of a fundamentally new perspective on the lessons of modern history and the mistakes of modern analysts of international affairs. Feuer opens as well a new chapter in political psychology with his study of such anti-imperialist intellectuals as Hobson, Morel, and Leonard Woolf; his portrait of Emin Pasha, the heroic Jewish governor of Equatorial Sudan, suggests a living model for Conrad's Lord Jim.

Book Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator

Download or read book Emin Pasha and the Rebellion at the Equator written by Arthur Jermy Mounteney Jephson and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons ; Toronto : Presbyterian News Company. This book was released on 1890 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British expedition (the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition (1887-1889)) was led by Henry Morton Stanley to rescue Emin Pasha (a German, Eduard Schnitzer), the governor of Equatoria Province in the Sudan. A rebellion had forced him to flee into "darkest Africa" to Lake Albert. There was considerable controversy in Britain over "Stanley's Rear Column" from this expedition.

Book Dictionary of National Biography  Faed Muybridge

Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography Faed Muybridge written by Sir Sidney Lee and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Leslie Stephen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 2086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence

Download or read book Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence written by Laura E. Franey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-10-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced informal control in the Nineteenth century. Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this book features analysis of physical and verbal violence in major exploration narratives as well as lesser-known volumes and newspaper accounts of expeditions. It also presents new perspectives on Olive Schreiner and Joseph Conrad by linking violence in their fictional travelogues with the rhetoric of humanitarian trusteeship.

Book African Exploits

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  • Author : Roy D. MacLaren
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 1998-03-18
  • ISBN : 0773566716
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book African Exploits written by Roy D. MacLaren and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1998-03-18 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born and raised in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Stairs (1863-1892) attended the Royal Military College in Kingston before being commissioned in the British army. Wearied of peacetime soldiering, he volunteered in 1887 to participate in Sir Henry M. Stanley's final trans-African expedition to rescue Emin Pasha, the last of "Chinese" Gordon's lieutenants in the Sudan. The expedition emerged almost three years later in Zanzibar, a reluctant Pasha in tow, having left a trail of havoc and suffering behind it. Stairs promptly volunteered for a second expedition in Africa to secure Katanga for King Leopold II of the Belgians as part of the controversial Congo Free State. Stairs was a cruel leader, condoning decapitation and mutilation to attain colonial ends. The expedition succeeded, but at the price of suffering, destruction, and his own life: Stairs died of malaria at the end of the expedition at the age of twenty-eight. Few diaries of the period convey better than Stairs's the nature and course of imperialist expeditions in Africa in the nineteenth century and the psychological and moral corruption caused by absolute power. Stairs's diaries of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition present a candid, personal account of the long and arduous venture, including a very unflattering assessment of Stanley, whom Stairs described as cruel, secretive, and selfish. The Katanga diaries, written as an official company account of the expedition, were intended partly to provide information useful to those intent upon exploiting the African hinterland. African Exploits is the most complete published collection of Stairs's diaries, with a new translation of the Katanga diaries, which no longer exist in the original English. Roy MacLaren's introduction and conclusion set Stairs's adventures in the colonial context of the era and analyse the psychological effects of his experiences.

Book Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Sidney Lee and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classed List

Download or read book Classed List written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classified List

Download or read book Classified List written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travellers in Africa

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  • Author : Timothy Youngs
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-01
  • ISBN : 152612372X
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Travellers in Africa written by Timothy Youngs and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Works of travel have been the subject of increasingly sophisticated studies in recent years. This book undermines the conviction with which nineteenth-century British writers talked about darkest Africa. It places the works of travel within the rapidly developing dynamic of Victorian imperialism. Images of Abyssinia and the means of communicating those images changed in response to social developments in Britain. As bourgeois values became increasingly important in the nineteenth century and technology advanced, the distance between the consumer and the product were justified by the scorn of African ways of eating. The book argues that the ambiguities and ambivalence of the travellers are revealed in their relation to a range of objects and commodities mentioned in narratives. For instance, beads occupy the dual role of currency and commodity. The book deals with Henry Morton Stanley's expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, and attempts to prove that racial representations are in large part determined by the cultural conditions of the traveller's society. By looking at Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, it argues that the text is best read as what it purports to be: a kind of travel narrative. Only when it is seen as such and is regarded in the context of the fin de siecle can one begin to appreciate both the extent and the limitations of Conrad's innovativeness.

Book Nineteenth Century Travels  Explorations and Empires  Part II vol 7

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Travels Explorations and Empires Part II vol 7 written by Peter J Kitson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

Book A History of Modern Uganda

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  • Author : Richard J. Reid
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2017-03-02
  • ISBN : 1107067200
  • Pages : 431 pages

Download or read book A History of Modern Uganda written by Richard J. Reid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of Uganda, examining its political, economic and social development from its precolonial origins to the present day.

Book The Dictionary of National Biography

Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book London Politics  1760 1914

Download or read book London Politics 1760 1914 written by M. Cragoe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers the first detailed investigation of political life in nineteenth-century London. London politics did not share the free-trade and civil-equality preoccupations of the provinces which currently dominate scholarly literature. As these essays reveal, the capital remained more concerned with older struggles for political independence. By highlighting the inability of existing accounts to accommodate metropolitan distinctiveness, the collection aims to stimulate a major reappraisal not of London politics alone, but of Victorian political history more generally.

Book Class List

Download or read book Class List written by Salem Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore  Including the Additions Made Since 1882

Download or read book Second Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore Including the Additions Made Since 1882 written by Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: