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Author : G. F. Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : UCAL:$B294712
Author : Davidson G. F
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0530766973
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : G. J. Davidson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : New South Wales
ISBN : BSB:BSB10466623
Author : G. F. Davidson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1330181999
Excerpt from Trade and Travel in the Far East: Or Recollections of Twenty-One Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China The following pages were written to beguile the tediousness of a long voyage from Hong Kong to England, during the spring and summer of 1844. When I state, that the whole was written with the paper on my knee, for want of a desk, amid continual interruptions from three young children lacking amusement during their long confinement on shipboard, and with a perpetual liability to be pitched to leeward, paper and all, - I shall have said enough to bespeak from every good-natured reader a candid allowance for whatever defects may attach to the composition. It is necessary, however, that I should also premise, that the sketches are drawn entirely from memory, and that the incidents referred to in the earlier chapters, took place some twenty years ago. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : G F Davidson
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358904618
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : G. F. Davidson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0483167495
Excerpt from Trade and Travel in the Far East: Or Recollections of Twenty-One Years Passed in Java, Singapore, Australia, and China My wanderings have been neither few nor short, and, perhaps, verify the old proverb, that a rolling stone gathers no moss. I have crossed the Ocean in forty different square-rigged vessels; have trod the plains of Hindostan, the wilds of Sumatra, and the mountains of Java; have strolled among the beauti ful hills and dales of Singapore and Penang; have had many a ga110p amid the forests and plains of Aus tralia; have passed through the labyrinth of reefs forming Torres Straits; and have visited the far famed Celestial Empire. My first idea, in endeavour ing to retrace my journeyings and adventures, was, that the personal narrative might serve to amuse a circle of private friends. But the notices relating to the Openings for Trade in the Far East, and to the subject of Emigration, together with the free stric tures upon the causes of the recent depress1on in our Australian colonies, will, I venture to hope, be not unacceptable to those who are interested in the exten sion of British commerce, and in the well-being of the rising communities which form an integral part of the mighty Empire now encircling the Globe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : David Lester Richardson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Autographs
ISBN : PRNC:32101067300218
Author : Khān BAHĀWAL (Nawab of Bahawalpur)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018921567
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183015820669
Author : Shahāmat Álī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Bahāwalpur (Pakistan : Division)
ISBN : OXFORD:N13182434
Author : Houben,de Moor,Hasan,Evans,Djuliati Suroyo,Hiroko Johnson,Bayly,Boomgaard,Emmer,Tichelman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004643864
Author : W ..... L ..... Mac-Gregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z173626803
Author : W. L. M'Gregor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10433596
Author : John Curtis Perry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190469511
Singapore has gained a reputation for being one of the wealthiest and best-educated countries in the world and one of the brightest success stories for a colony-turned-sovereign state, but the country's path to success was anything but assured. Its strategic location and natural resources both allowed Singapore to profit from global commerce and also made the island an attractive conquest for the world's naval powers, resulting in centuries of stunting colonialization. In Singapore: Unlikely Power, John Curtis Perry provides an evenhanded and authoritative history of the island nation that ranges from its Malay origins to the present day. Singapore development has been aided by its greatest natural blessing-a natural deepwater port, shielded by mountain ranges from oceanic storms and which sits along one of the most strategic straits in the world, cementing the island's place as a major shipping entrepot throughout modern history. Perry traces the succession of colonizers, beginning with China in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and followed by the island's most famous colonizer, Britain, which ruled Singapore until the 1960s excluding the Japanese occupation of World War II. After setting a historical context, Perry turns to the era of independence beginning in the 1960s. Plagued with corruption, inequality, lack of an educated population, Singapore improbably vaulted from essentially third-world status into a first world dynamo over the course of three decades-with much credit due longtime leader Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's first prime minister who led the country for over three decades, who embraced the colonial past, established close ties with former foe Japan, and adopted a resolutely pragmatist approach to economic development. His efforts were successful, and Singapore today is a model regime for other developing states. Singapore's stunning transformation from a poor and corrupt colonial backwater into an economic powerhouse renowned for its wealth, order, and rectitude is one of the great-and most surprising-success stories of modern era. Singapore is an accessible, comprehensive, and indeed colorful overview of one of the most influential political-economic models in the world and is an enlightening read for anyone interested in how Singapore achieved the unachievable.
Author : Stephen Dobbs
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789971697389
For most of its modern history, to speak of Singapore was to speak of the Singapore River, physical centre of the city and site of the greater part of the colony's entrepot trade. The river has been transformed over the last 25 years from a polluted industrial sewer choked with traffic to a clean, placid waterway that forms the centrepiece of Singapore's financial, civic and entertainment districts. This transformation symbolizes the city-state's efforts to remake itself for the 21st century.Stephen Dobbs sets out the history of this waterway, and of the people who made it their home and workplace. He describes the tidal swamp in the early days of the British settlement, where merchants ignored Raffles much-vaunted city plan and built their businesses on the limited high ground along the marshy riverbanks.Later, even as the long distance shipping moved to new port facilities elsewhere on the island, the river remained the base for a large regional trade, and boatmen and businessmen struggled to cope with silting, over-crowding, and bridges that were too low to be passed at high tide.Looking at the post-war years, Dobbs zeros in on the boatmen who carried goods between the "e;godowns"e; or warehouses along the river and the freighters lying at anchor in the roads. Despite its pollution, the river remained home to a vital community of coolies and tally clerks, and the tumultuous urban life that swirled around them.Today the waterfront community has been relocated. The shophouses and warehouses along the river are now chic cafes and upmarket restaurants, fish have returned to the Singapore River, and urban dwellers stroll on walks along the river's edge.Blending social history, geography, economic history and urban studies, this book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand Singapore's many transformations during the past two centuries.