Consul In Paradise

Author : W. A. R. Wood
Publisher : Souvenir Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Consuls
ISBN : 028564369X

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Consul in Paradise by W. A. R. Wood Pdf

Consul in Paradise describes a life full of interest, and a world that is now long past. Embracing all of Siamese life, we discover a racing stable with just one pony and Siam expertise in beetle fighting, the Siamese language and etiquette, and the nuances between the mountain tribes. It relates a distant period of diplomacy, a time when Wood's duties could include concocting love potions, exorcizing evil spirits (at one time from a rice bin), and creating huge straw hats to protect elephants from sunstroke. This evocative portrait of a corner of the British Empire, an entertaining encounter between Victorian Britain and Siam, "consists merely of a little of the froth collected by a cork which has floated for 68 years on the seas of Siamese and Anglo-Siamese life." This is a new edition of a charming memoir that combines humor, history, and an exploration of a culture that is as distant in time as place. It will fascinate every reader, not only those who know Thailand as a holiday destination.

Author : William Alfred Rae Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:251854161

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Consul in paradise by William Alfred Rae Wood Pdf

Author : William Alfred Rae Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Consuls
ISBN : 9749575121

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Consul in Paradise by William Alfred Rae Wood Pdf

Author : William Alfred Rae Wood
Publisher : [London] : Souvenir Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Diplomats
ISBN : LCCN:66006933

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Consul in Paradise by William Alfred Rae Wood Pdf

Author : William Alfred Rae Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:759798432

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Consul in Paradise by William Alfred Rae Wood Pdf

Author : Nicholas M Keegan
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781783087464

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US Consular Representation in Britain Since 1790 by Nicholas M Keegan Pdf

In its early years the United States Consular Service was a relatively amateurish organization, often staffed by unsuitable characters whose appointments had been obtained as political favours from victorious presidential candidates—a practice known as the Spoils System. Most personnel changed every four years when new administrations came in. This compared unfavourably with the consular services of the European nations, but gradually by the turn of the twentieth century things had improved considerably—appointment procedures were tightened up, inspections of consuls and how they managed their consulates were introduced, and the separate Consular Service and Diplomatic Service were merged to form the Foreign Service. The first appointments to Britain were made in 1790, with James Maury becoming the first operational consul in the country, at Liverpool. At one point, there was a network of up to ninety US consular offices throughout the UK, stretching from the Orkney Islands to the Channel Islands. Nowadays, there is only the consular section in the embassy and the consulates general in Edinburgh and Belfast.

Author : Christopher Birchall
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780884653820

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Embassy, Emigrants and Englishmen by Christopher Birchall Pdf

This is the unlikely history of a centuries old church located at the heart of England's capital city. Founded in the early-18th century by a Greek Archbishop from Alexandria in Egypt, the church was aided by the nascent Russian Empire of Tsar Peter the Great and joined by Englishmen finding in it the Apostolic faith. The church later became a spiritual home for those who escaped the upheavals following World War II or who sought economic opportunities in the West after the fall of communism in Russia. For much of this time the parish was a focal point for Anglican–Orthodox relations and Orthodox missionary endeavors from Japan to the Americas. This is a history of the Orthodox Church in the West, of the Russian emigration to Europe, and of major world events through the prism of a particular local community. The book calls on stories from an array of persons, from archbishops to members of Parliament and imperial diplomats to post-war refugees. Their lives and the constantly changing mosaic of global political and economic realities provide the background for the struggle to create and sustain the London church through time.

Author : John Francis Harty
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Oscillations
ISBN : 3631593937

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Oscillation in Literary Modernism by John Francis Harty Pdf

While the two modernist novels considered in this book, Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, were initially understood within the categories of stoic and tragic despair, more recent criticism has focused upon their carnivalesque dimension. The identification of these hermeneutic polarities presented the author with the challenging problem which underlies the present analysis, namely the question concerning the structural relationship between the contesting thematics. Drawing upon the paradigm of oscillation as established within the natural sciences, and adding a figurative dimension to the concept, the author has adapted this model as a key to unravelling the narrative buoyancy and structural coherence which sustain these novels of Modernism. The book elucidates how the carnivalesque challenge to despair contributes towards innovative narrative configurations, galvanizing the thematic antipodes into vertiginous microcosms of defiant selfhood.

Author : Rachel Finnegan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004440050

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Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740) by Rachel Finnegan Pdf

In Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke’s famous eastern voyage from 1737-40, together with updated biographical accounts of the author and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
ISBN : IND:30000139585610

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Foreign Consular Offices in the United States by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1262 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Consular reports
ISBN : UCAL:B2885511

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Daily Consular and Trade Reports by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Consular reports
ISBN : PRNC:32101064643552

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Daily Consular and Trade Reports, New Series by United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 016087615X

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Foreign Consular Offices in the United States, Spring/Summer 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Contains a complete and official listing of the foreign consular offices in the United States, and recognized consular officers. Designed with attention to the requirements of government agencies State tax officials, international trade organizations, chambers of commerce, and judicial authorities who have a continuing need for handy access to this type of information.

Author : DIANE Publishing Company
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788140037

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Foreign Consular Offices in the United States, 1996 by DIANE Publishing Company Pdf

Contains a complete and official listing of all foreign consular offices in the U.S., and recognized consular officers. Contents: complete address, phone number, fax number, name and rank, and date of recognition. Includes: immunities accorded to consular officers (career consular officers, families of consular officers, consular employees); consular premises; consular archives, documents, records, and correspondence (honorary consular officers).

Author : Sharae Deckard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135224011

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Paradise Discourse, Imperialism, and Globalization by Sharae Deckard Pdf

This comparative study, the first of its kind, discusses paradise discourse in a wide range of writing from Mexico, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka, including novels by authors such as Malcolm Lowry, Leonard Woolf, Juan Rulfo, Wilson Harris, Abdulrazak Gurnah, and Romesh Gunesekera. Tracing dialectical tropes of paradise across the "long modernity" of the capitalist world-system, Deckard reads literature from postcolonial nations in context with colonial discourse in order to demonstrate how paradise begins as a topos motivating European exploration and colonization, shifts into an ideological myth justifying imperial exploitation, and finally becomes a literary motif used by contemporary writers to critique neocolonial representations and conditions in the age of globalization. Combining a range of critical perspectives—cultural materialist, ecocritical, and postcolonial—the volume opens up a deeper understanding of the relation between paradise discourse and the destructive dynamics of plantation, tourism, and global capital. Deckard uncovers literature from East Africa and South Asia which has been previously overlooked in mainstream postcolonial criticism, and gestures to how the utopian dimensions of the paradise myth might be reclaimed to promote cultural resistance.