The Highly Civilized Man

The Highly Civilized Man
Author: Dane Kennedy
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0674039483

Though best remembered as an adventurer who entered Mecca in disguise and sought the source of the White Nile, Richard Burton contributed so forcefully to his generation that he provides us with a singularly panoramic perspective on the world of the Victorians. Engagingly written and vigorously argued, this book is an important contribution to our understanding of a remarkable man and a crucial era.

A Rage to Live

A Rage to Live
Author: Mary S. Lovell
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 948
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780393320398

Describes the accomplishments of the British explorer and scholar, and the relationship between him and his unconventional wife.

Regional perspectives on India's Partition

Regional perspectives on India's Partition
Author: Anjali Gera Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2023-05-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000829243

This book expands the scope of understanding of the vast, albeit uneven, experience of the 1947 Partition of India by including localities and life stories from and beyond the regions of Punjab and Bengal. Building on existing research on Partition, the chapters present and analyse the consequences of Partition displacement and the resilience of communities in different parts of the nation. Regions discussed include the Chitmahals, Assam, Tripura, Mizoram, Hyderabad, Andaman Islands, and Jammu and Kashmir. The contributors show that the heterogeneity of people’s experiences reside in spaces of the family, home, neighbourhoods, villages, towns and cities refugee settlements, letters, memoirs, biographies, films, fiction, oral histories, and testimonies. The book examines the Partition’s complex effects in regions, localities and contexts and its material and psychological ramifications. This book is a unique and comprehensive contribution in enabling a more complex understanding of how Partition played out and continues to do so for groups and generations across India. It will be of interest to a multidisciplinary audience, including history, literature, comparative literature, colonial and postcolonial studies, modern Asian studies, studies of South Asia, and studies of memory and trauma.

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 3

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 3
Author: Peter J Kitson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2021-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000558959

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.

The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam

The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam
Author: Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Jew, the Gypsy and El Islam is a work by Sir Richard Francis Burton. It aims to show what the Christians and Muslims of the East hold to be the belief of the Hebrew race and its religious practices.