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Author : Francis Rawdon-Hastings Marquess of Hastings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Governors general
ISBN : UCAL:$B296417
Author : Alan Lester
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781805261438
The Truth About Empire comes from expert historians who believe that the truth, as far as we can ascertain it, matters; that our decades of painstaking research make us worth listening to; and that our authority as leading professionals should count for something in today’s polarised debates over Britain’s imperial past. Colonial history is now a battlefield in the culture war. The public’s understanding of past events is continually distorted by wilful caricatures. Communities that long struggled to get their voices heard have, in their fight to highlight the hidden horrors of colonialism, alienated many who prefer a celebratory national history. The backlash, orchestrated by elements of the media, has generated a new, concerted denial of imperial racism and violence in Britain’s past—a disinformation campaign sharing both tactics and motivations with those around Covid, Brexit and climate change. From Australia and China to South Africa and Egypt, this essay collection is an accessible guide to the British Empire, and a weapon of defence against the assault on historical truth. The disturbing stories told in these pages, of Empire’s culture, politics and economics, show why professional research matters, when deciding what can and cannot be known about Britain’s colonial history.
Author : Marchioness of Bute
Publisher : Salzwasser-Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3375152892
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858.
Author : John Bastin
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789814634786
A co-publication with the National Library Board, Singapore. The founding of Singapore has typically been attributed to the strategic genius of one man, Stamford Raffles. Frequently overlooked is the part played by his superior in the East India Company, the Marquess of Hastings. It was Hastings who, as Governor-General of India, made the fateful decision to establish a British trading post at the southern entrance of the Malacca Straits, and once this was executed with great daring by Raffles in early 1819, it was Hastings again who supported the retention of Singapore against opposition from all quarters.This book provides an intimate account of Singapore’s founding by drawing on the personal correspondence between these two men, which they maintained separately from their official exchanges. Published here for the first time, these private letters reveal at first-hand the challenges that Raffles and Hastings faced in manoeuvring within the Dutch-dominated East Indies. Just as significantly, they reveal the complex relationship between the two men – evolving from mutual suspicion at the outset to cooperation and admiration, but nonetheless peppered throughout with backbiting, hidden agendas and the clash of personal ambitions. Historian John Bastin brings rigorous scholarship to bear on this work, at the same time presenting it in a clear, readable style that will engage specialist and general readers alike
Author : Harris-Henry I.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Leslie Stephen,Sir Sidney Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UCAL:B2985143
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : English literature
ISBN : CORNELL:31924066353230
Author : Peter Robb,David Taylor
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003828501
First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the juxtaposition of various disciplines, and in particular through the examination of familiar subjects from less familiar points of view. Four papers deal with the ruling of modern India. One examines the relationship between the British government and an Indian state, one the legal implications of the emergency under Mrs. Gandhi, and two the role of civil servants in the formation of Indian government policy. Four more papers deal with aspects of protest movements: one with British Ceylon, one with a follower of Gandhi, and two with Gandhi himself. Three final papers treat questions of identity from literary or linguistic standpoints. Two discuss ideas or stereotypes as expressed in famous books, and the third considers a linguistic movement in Pakistan. This book will be of interest to student of South Asian studies, history, economics, literature and political science.
Author : James Silk Buckingham,John Sterling,Frederick Denison Maurice,Henry Stebbing,Charles Wentworth Dilke,Thomas Kibble Hervey,William Hepworth Dixon,Norman Maccoll,Vernon Horace Rendall,John Middleton Murry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 874 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028012016
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119103146
Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher : Constable
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849019392
What is Britishness? What allowed one small island group to rule a quarter of the world and, even today, to have the most spoken language after Chinese? What makes Americans admire the guts, traditions and loyalties of these island Anglo-Saxon and Celtic peoples? What is it that makes cynical Europeans and once-dominated Asians look to the British for opinion, literature, social norms and justice? The answers lie within the creation of British institutions, both Commoner and Aristocracy, during the past 2000 years. Following the thought-provoking style of the original This Sceptred Isle, this new volume brings to life the character and frustrations so carefully studied by allies and enemies for twenty-one centuries - from Romans to al-Qaeda. Here Lee makes all the connections with institutions and changing industrial and social characteristics that even show us that Britishness is not exclusively British. At a time when a major section of the British, the English, appear to be less and less sure who they are and who they are meant to be, This Sceptred Isle confirms who it is we really are.
Author : Christopher Lee
Publisher : Constable
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472124739
Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they entered the room. Nevertheless, many of them gave everything for India. The first Viceroy, Canning, exhausted by the Mutiny, buried his wife in Calcutta before he left the subcontinent to die shortly afterwards. The average Viceroy lasted five years and was granted an earldom but rarely a sense of triumph. Did these Viceroys behave as badly as twenty-first century moralists would have us believe? When the Raj was over, the legacy of Empire continued, as the new rulers slipped easily into the offices and styles of the British who had gone. Being 'British' was now a caste. Viceroys is the tale of the British Raj, the last fling of British aristocracy. It is the supreme view of the British in India, portraying the sort of people who went out and the sort of people they were on their return. It is the story of utter power and what men did with it. Moreover, it is also the story of how modern British identity was established and in part the answer to how it was that such a small offshore European island people believed themselves to have the right to sit at the highest institutional tables and judge what was right and unacceptable in other nations and institutions.
Author : Stephan F. Miescher,Michele Mitchell,Naoko Shibusawa
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119052197
Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges presents a collection of original readings that address gendered dimensions of empire from a wide range of geographical and temporal settings. Draws on original research on gender and empire in relation to labour, commodities, fashion, politics, mobility, and visuality Includes coverage of gender issues from countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia between the eighteenth to twentieth centuries Highlights a range of transnational and transregional connections across the globe Features innovative gender analyses of the circulation of people, ideas, and cultural practices
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:79233159
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 868 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : GENT:900000145202