Download or read book Imperial Footprints written by James L. Newman and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” The man who uttered those famous words was compared with Christopher Columbus in his day and became one of the late nineteenth century’s most newsworthy figures. Yet, one hundred years after Henry Morton Stanley’s death, his accomplishments in Africa have largely receded from public memory or have been discredited as epitomizing the wrongs inflicted by the scourge of European colonialism and its “scramble for Africa.” While numerous writers have attempted to describe the man, sometimes through highly speculative means, our understanding of the most notable aspect of Stanley’s life, his relationship to the continent, isn’t much more advanced than it was one hundred years ago. To fill this void, James L. Newman re-creates Stanley’s seven epic African journeys, explaining why he made them, what transpired en route, and what resulted. He highlights Stanley’s determination to succeed despite incredible odds and his various relationships with the people who enabled him to accomplish his objectives. And while he acknowledges Stanley’s less admirable traits, such as his penchant for stretching the truth, his capacity to be ruthless, and his tendency to demean others, Newman refuses to engage in facile speculation. Instead, he focuses on the words and deeds of a man who played a major role in shaping today’s Africa. James L. Newman’s in-depth research, detailed descriptions, and vivid prose make Stanley and Africa both a fascinating read and a notable contribution to the study of Africa, exploration, and the age of empire.
Download or read book Wise Footprints written by Chandan Sengupta and published by Chandan Sukumar Sengupta. This book was released on with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are discussing a wildlife conservation strategy alongside some spiritual aspects of human attitude and apprehensions. The matter is very clear; we are expecting a balanced interaction between animals and human beings to ascertain adequate success of the plans of conservation strategies. Human attitude for diffusing the violent warfare and for accepting the strategy of mutual coexistence can definitely bring harmony in the adjoining ares of habitat. It is confirmed that specific animals are losing their habitat up to a considerable fraction day by day. Problems due to loss of habitat are mounting upon us in the form of climate change, pollution and global warming. We are putting our sincere effort to nullify the evergrowing problems of pollution and loss of wild habitat. Our sincerity and courage often remain restricted up to a limited quarter of the entire continent. That restricted effort only brings differene and makes our effort a lopsided one. We must move alongside a comprehensive plan to develop a balanced conservation strategy for all the other associates linked directly or indirectly to the wild habitat.
Download or read book Footprints on the Sands of Time written by Oliver Clutton-Brock and published by Grub Street Publishing. This book was released on 2003-08-19 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of RAF Evaders provides a comprehensive reference of the airmen of Bomber Command who were held in German captivity during WWII. This extensive book is divided into two part. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps—capture, escape, illness, and murder—and illustrates the awfulness of captivity even in German hands. Roughly one in every twenty captured airmen never returned home. The first part also covers subjects such as how the POWs were repatriated during the war; how they returned at war’s end; the RAF traitors; the war crimes; and the vital importance of the Red Cross. The style is part reference, part gripping narrative, and the book will correct many historical inaccuracies, and includes previously unpublished photographs. The second part comprises an annotated list of ALL 10, 995 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoner, together with an extended introduction. The two parts together are the fruit of exhaustive research and provide an important contribution to our knowledge of the war and a unique reference work not only for the serious RAF historian but for the ex-POWs themselves and their families and anyone with an interest in the RAF in general and captivity in particular.
Download or read book Footprints of the Son of Man written by Herbert Mortimer Luckock and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book LIVINGSTONES S TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SO UTH AFRICA written by David Livingstone and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Footprints in the Forest written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German youth Otto Relstaub was on his way from Kentucky to Louisiana when he was captured by a band of wandering Sauk Indians. This adventure story, set in frontier American in the 1800's, recounts the efforts of his friends Jack Carleton and Deerfoot, a Shawnoe youth, to rescue him.
Download or read book ISAP written by and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Footprints of Statesmen During the Eighteenth Century in England written by Reginald Baliol Brett Esher (Viscount) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Livingstones written by Mrs. J. Elphinstone Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Footprints of Time written by Charles Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Explaining the Genetic Footprints of Catholic and Protestant Colonizers written by S. Barter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book points out a novel pattern in colonial intimacy - that Catholic colonizers tended to leave behind significant mixed communities while Protestant colonizers were more likely to police relations with local women. The varied genetic footprints of Catholic and Protestant colonizers, while subject to some exceptions, holds across world regions and over time. Having demonstrated that this pattern exists, this book then seeks to explain it, looking to religious institutions, political capacity, and ideas of nation and race.
Download or read book The Livingstones written by Georgiana Anne Dalrymple and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Praise of New Travelers written by Isabel Hoving and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching postcolonial theory through cultural analysis, this book offers an accessible and concrete appraisal of current developments in postcolonial criticism. Detailed readings of a range of Anglophone Caribbean migrant women's texts from the late 1980s and 1990s lead to sharp insights into three issues that are crucial to an understanding of the field: place, voice, and silence. The discussion of these issues allows us to trace current feminist, postmodern, and postcolonial debates about the nature of the speaking subject, as it is emerging from today's postcolonial cultural practices. Postcolonial criticism often understands this subject as hybrid and multiple. This book shows how the specifics of this multiplicity must be acknowledged through analysis of the power structures and the violence through which this multiple subject is established. The book is also a consistent inquiry into reading positions. The argument about the differences between postcolonialist, black and Caribbean feminist, white feminist, and postmodern criticism is conducted as a discussion about the effects, insights, and blindnesses produced by these different ways of reading Caribbean migrant women's writing. Scrutinizing the grain of these texts encourages us to move beyond the kind of general statements for which postcolonial theory has been severely criticized. The author also extends her critique of reading positions to issues of methodology, using these approaches to direct her interpretation. Narratology is supplemented by an analysis of the interdiscursive processes through which texts are created, and psychoanalytic concepts are used to explore the ambiguous merits of postcolonial reading. Above all, In Praise of New Travelers celebrates the vigorous, subversive, and liberating creativity of an accomplished generation of Caribbean migrant women writers.
Download or read book Looking for Mrs Livingstone written by Julie Davidson and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the enthralling story of the extraordinarily courageous and stoical wife of the world-renowned explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. In the history books, Mary Livingstone is a shadow in the blaze of her husband's sun, a whisper in the thunderclap of his reputation. Yet she played an important role in Livingstone's success and her own feats as an early traveller in uncharted Africa are unique. She was the first white woman to cross the Kalahari, which she did twice - pregnant - giving birth in the bush on the second journey. She was much more rooted in southern Africa than her husband: he has a tomb in Westminster Abbey, London; she has an obscure and crumbling grave on the banks of the Zambezi in a destitute region of Mozambique. In the thrall of Africa, the author has travelled extensively over several years in the footsteps of Mary Livingstone, from her birthplace in a remote district of South Africa to her grave on the Zambezi. She explores the places the Livingstones knew as a couple and, above all, explores the detail of the life and family of this little-known figure in British - but not African - history.
Download or read book Livingstone written by Tim Jeal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIV An extensively revised edition of Tim Jeal's classic biography published to mark the bicentenary of the great explorer /div
Download or read book Little Mercy Or For Better for Worse written by Maud Jeanne Franc and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
