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Author : John Sturgus Bastin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : 9813065664
Author : John Bastin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9814189499
This pair of elegant, slip-cased volumes are devoted to Raffles' second wife, Sophia (1786-1858), who wrote the first published account of her husband's life and achievements, and his lesser-known but equally, if not more intriguing, first wife, Olivia (1771-1814).
Author : John Sturgus Bastin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Colonial administrators
ISBN : 9813065656
Author : John Bastin,Julie Weizenegger
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789810972363
Author : Demetrius Charles Boulger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : British
ISBN : HARVARD:HWLC4L
Author : Bastin John
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789813277687
This publication is a biographical account of the founder of Singapore, Sir Stamford Raffles, through a study of the lives of his closest friends and contemporaries. Some of the personalities featured include William Brown Ramsay, John Leyden and Thomas Horsfield.
Author : National Library Board
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789811444982
The Rare Materials Collection at the National Library, Singapore, contains more than 11,000 items and spans six centuries of history. The collection comprises books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, correspondence, and more, which together provide us with valuable insights into Singapore’s history. This book presents a diverse selection of almost 50 of the rarest and most priceless items in the collection, including the Mao Kun Map, a recently-acquired Munshi Abdullah edition of the Sejarah Melayu, 19th century lithographs, Japanese reconnaissance maps, correspondence from Raffles, and even a football rule book in Jawi. Each item is described and analysed with an insightful essay and richly complemented with illustrations, helping to bring these stories from the stacks to life and lead us down new avenues of historical understanding.
Author : John Evans
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844151516
George Dempster was a giant of a man who became one of the best-known and most deservedly popular Scotsman of his day. He served for thirty years as a Member of Parliament in Westminster and was closely involved with the expansion of British influence and trade across the world particularly in India and North America. This was the age of Empire building and intense rivalry between competing imperial powers, which led to protracted warfare. A lawyer by training, Dempster was at the heart of political and business life and his circle of friends was large and powerful. Yet power did not corrupt him and he was respected by allies and opponents alike, being known as 'Honest George'. Laird of estates at Skibo in Sutherland and Dunnichen in Angus, Dempster's energy was legendary and he used his talents as reformer, innovator, entrepreneur and developer to bring prosperity and jobs to disadvantaged regions of his beloved Scotland. Dempster was more than an observer of history; he made it. This highly detailed biography of a major but hitherto little known figure of the period gives a rare insight into the political life of the Georgian era, covering the growth of British rule in India, loss of North America during the War of Independence and the years of constant conflict with France. The Gentleman Usher, this superbly researched work with its copious illustrations, is an important and authoritative addition to the bibliography of Scottish history of the period.
Author : Anthony Gary Brown
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786455669
Now in its second edition, this expanded work catalogs every person, animal, ship and cannon mentioned by name in the 21 books of Patrick O'Brian's series on the maritime adventures of Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin. The novels, renowned for their "far-ranging web of wit and allusion," teem with thousands of characters and ships, both imaginary and historical. From Master and Commander to 21: The Unfinished Voyage, this book distinguishes the fictional from the factual, making a useful series companion for the casual reader and the most ardent fans. Each of the more than 5,000 alphabetized entries provides a reference to the novels and chapters in which the topic appears. Additionally, biographical notes on the historical figures are included, with sources provided in an annotated bibliography.
Author : Adolf Heuken
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : UOM:39015067722382
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : CUB:U183015756585
Author : James Anthony Froude,John Tulloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Authors
ISBN : UOM:39015030944873
Contains the first printing of Sartor resartus, as well as other works by Thomas Carlyle.
Author : William Basil Worsfold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : JAVA
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUU7N
Provides information on Indonesia and Singapore for English and Australian travellers. Focuses on travelling in Java region and Singapore with details delineating the systemd of the countries' government, the natives and their traditions and customs. Lines out Indonesian history and cultural systems. Presents facts, backgounds, and prominent attractions in Indonesia. Regards the Dutch society in Indonesia in the colonized period.
Author : J. Kevin Baird,Sangkot Marzuki
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612347332
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. A deceitful campaign promoting Asian brotherhood recruited and coerced young Indonesian men to support the Japanese occupation with the sinister outcome that several million of them were worked to death or summarily killed as expendable slave laborers, or romusha, as they were called. While many romusha disappeared from the record, nine hundred were known victims of a brutal and immoral medical experiment perpetuated by an increasingly desperate Imperial Japan. In anticipation of a land assault, the Japanese needed a means to protect their troops from tetanus, and they used these nine hundred men as human guinea pigs to test an insufficiently vetted vaccine. Within days, all nine hundred suffered the protracted, agonizing death of acute tetanus. With the Allied forces poised for victory, the Japanese needed a scapegoat for this well-documented incident if they were to avoid war-crimes prosecution. They brutally tortured Achmad Mochtar, a native Indonesian and renowned scientist, along with his colleagues at the Eijkman Institute in Batavia (now Jakarta), until Mochtar signed a confession to the murders in exchange for the liberty of his fellow scientists. The Japanese beheaded Mochtar weeks before the war ended. War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia unravels the deceit of the Japanese Army, the reasons for the mass murder of the romusha, and Mochtar’s heroic role in these tragic events. The end result finds justice for Mochtar and reveals the true extent of one of the least recognized war crimes of World War II.
Author : John A. Flannery,Karen M. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319072067
The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21st century. The challenges to be faced in this century are now well documented by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The effects of drought, melting polar ice and increased incidences of extreme weather events will impact on the diverse landscapes of the earth and a human population predicted to be 9 billion by the middle of the 21st century, a three-fold increase in less than one hundred years. This book provides a valuable insight into landscaping activity worldwide by those tasked with housing, feeding and nurturing all species that share the planet. Research for this publication reveals the growth of non-anthropized design philosophies, acknowledging that humanity cannot be indefinitely sustained if animal, bird and plant life are excluded. The precious resources of water and the air that we breathe are no longer taken for granted; rivers flowing through the world’s mega-cities are now being cleaned, restored and given pride of place in the landscapes they flow through. Conservation projects provide evidence that even fragile island and desert landscapes can be protected from the negative impacts of population. Eco-Landscape Design demonstrates that an intelligent and thoughtful approach to landscape design can not only ensure survival, it can reap compound benefits and rewards far in excess of those originally envisaged.