The Victorian Elliots In Peace And War
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Author | : John P. Evans |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2012-05-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1445620553 |
The story of an important family whose members included the influential politician the Earl of Minto and his second son, Admiral Sir George Elliot.
Author | : Jon Bursey |
Publisher | : Grub Street Publishers |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2018-03-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1526722577 |
An in-depth look at the life of Captain Charles Elliot—from his Royal Navy career to his controversial role in establishing Hong Kong as a British colony. On January 26, 1841, the British took possession of the island of Hong Kong. The Convention of Chuenpi was immediately repudiated by both the British and Chinese governments and their respective negotiators recalled. For the British this was Capt. Charles Elliot, whose actions in China became mired in controversy for years to come. Who was Captain Elliot, and how did he find himself at the center of this debate? This book traces Elliot’s career from his early life through his years in the Royal Navy before focusing on his role in the First Anglo-Chinese War and the founding of what became the Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Elliot has been demonized by China and for the most part poorly regarded by historians. This book shows him to have been a man ahead of his time whose views on slavery, armed conflict, the role of women and racial equality often placed him at variance with contemporary attitudes. Twenty years after the return of Hong Kong to China, his legacy is still with us.
Author | : John P. Evans |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1445639025 |
The first biography of this remarkable figure
Author | : Alexander Michie |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-08-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752417439 |
Reproduction of the original: The Englishman in China During the Victorian Era, Vol. I (of 2) by Alexander Michie
Author | : Alexander Michie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Penelope Debelle |
Publisher | : Wakefield Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1862549567 |
Elliott Johnston is a working class hero. He and Elizabeth Johnston became Communists in 1941 and he resigned only to join the South Australian Supreme Court Bench.
Author | : Georgios Varouxakis |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1107039142 |
A comprehensive analysis of the international political pronouncements of John Stuart Mill: the pre-eminent thinker of the liberal tradition.
Author | : Larry P. Goodson |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0295801581 |
Going beyond the stereotypes of Kalashnikov-wielding Afghan mujahideen and black-turbaned Taliban fundamentalists, Larry Goodson explains in this concise analysis of the Afghan war what has really been happening in Afghanistan in the last twenty years. Beginning with the reasons behind Afghanistan’s inability to forge a strong state -- its myriad cleavages along ethnic, religious, social, and geographical fault lines -- Goodson then examines the devastating course of the war itself. He charts its utter destruction of the country, from the deaths of more than 2 million Afghans and the dispersal of some six million others as refugees to the complete collapse of its economy, which today has been replaced by monoagriculture in opium poppies and heroin production. The Taliban, some of whose leaders Goodson interviewed as recently as 1997, have controlled roughly 80 percent of the country but themselves have shown increasing discord along ethnic and political lines.
Author | : Sam W. Haynes |
Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2010-11-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813930804 |
After the War of 1812 the United States remained a cultural and economic satellite of the world’s most powerful empire. Though political independence had been won, John Bull intruded upon virtually every aspect of public life, from politics to economic development to literature to the performing arts. Many Americans resented their subordinate role in the transatlantic equation and, as earnest republicans, felt compelled to sever the ties that still connected the two nations. At the same time, the pull of Britain’s centripetal orbit remained strong, so that Americans also harbored an unseemly, almost desperate need for validation from the nation that had given rise to their republic. The tensions inherent in this paradoxical relationship are the focus of Unfinished Revolution. Conflicted and complex, American attitudes toward Great Britain provided a framework through which citizens of the republic developed a clearer sense of their national identity. Moreover, an examination of the transatlantic relationship from an American perspective suggests that the United States may have had more in common with traditional developing nations than we have generally recognized. Writing from the vantage point of America’s unrivaled global dominance, historians have tended to see in the young nation the superpower it would become. Haynes here argues that, for all its vaunted claims of distinctiveness and the soaring rhetoric of "manifest destiny," the young republic exhibited a set of anxieties not uncommon among nation-states that have emerged from long periods of colonial rule.
Author | : Marianne Sommer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674024991 |
When ochre-stained bones were unearthed by William Buckland in a Welsh cave in 1823, they raised many unsettling questions regarding their origin, and inspired the casting and recasting of the character who became known as the Red Lady. Her biography reflects the personal, professional, and national ambitions of those who studied her.