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Cambridge University Press Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official Cambridge Library Collection South Asian History Volume 2
Book SynopsisLieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sleeman (1788â1856) spent his entire career in India as an army officer and later as a magistrate and resident. He was best known for his fight to suppress the activities of 'thugs', bands of criminals who attacked, robbed and often murdered innocent travellers. By the time of the publication of this two-volume work in 1844, Sleeman had lived in India for more than thirty years. In Volume 2, Sleeman examines many issues related to governance, such as land, tax, military discipline and the justice system, and he recounts some of the extensive conversations he had with Indians on these matters. His travels in this volume takes him through Gwalior, Dholpur, Agra and Bharatpur, and the book includes plates of some of the spectacular buildings that he visits.Table of Contents1. Pindaree system. Character of the Mahratta administration. Causes of their dislike to the paramount power; 2. Dholepore, capital of the Jat chiefs of Gohud. Consequence of obstacles to the prosecution of robbers; 3. Influence of electricity on vegetation. Agra and its buildings; 4. Noor Jehan, the aunt of the Empress Noor Bahul, over whose remains the Taj is built; 5. Father Gregory's notion of the impediments to conversion in India. Inability of Europeans to speak Eastern languages; 6. Futtehpore Secree. The Emperor Akbar's pilgrimage. Birth of Jehangeer; 7. Bhurtpore. Deeg. Want of employment for the military and the educated classes under the Company's rule; 8. Goverdhun, the scene of Krishna's dalliance with the milkmaids; 9. Veracity; 10. Declining fertility of the soil. Popular notion of the cause; 11. Concentration of capital, and its effects; 12. Transit duties in India. Mode of collecting them; 13. Peasantry of India attached to no existing government. Want of trees in Upper India. Cause and consequence. Wells and groves; 14. Public spirit of the Hindoos. Tree cultivation, and suggestion for extending it; 15. Cities and towns, formed by public establishments, disappear as Sovereigns and Governors change their abodes; 16. Murder of Mr. Fraser, and execution of the Nowab Shumshoodeen; 17. Marriage of a Jât chief; 18. Collegiate endowment of Mahomedan tombs and mosques; 19. The old city of Delhi; 20. New Delhi, or Shah Jehanabad; 21. Indian police. Its defects, and their cause and remedy; 22. Rent-free tenures. Right of Government to resume such grants; 23. The station of Meerut. Atalees who dance and sing gratis for the benefit of the poor; 24. Subdivision of lands. Want of gradations of rank. Taxes; 25. Meerut. Anglo-Indian society; 26. Pilgrims in India; 27. The Begum Sumroo; 28. On the spirit of military discipline in the native army of India; 29. Invalid establishment.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Travels
Book SynopsisMarco Polo was the most famous traveller of his time. His voyages began in 1271 with a visit to China, after which he served the Kubilai Khan on numerous diplomatic missions. On his return to the West he was made a prisoner of war and met Rustichello of Pisa, with whom he collaborated on this book. The accounts of his travels provide a fascinating glimpse of the different societies he encountered: their religions, customs, ceremonies and way of life; on the spices and silks of the East; on precious gems, exotic vegetation and wild beasts. He tells the story of the holy shoemaker, the wicked caliph and the three kings, among a great many others, evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Rea
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Penguin Random House Australia Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition Penguin
Book SynopsisThe New World story of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca in his own wordsThis riveting true story is the first major narrative detailing the exploration of North America by Spanish conquistadors (1528-1536). The author, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, was a fortune-seeking Spanish nobleman and the treasurer of an expedition sent to claim for Spain a vast area of today's southern United States. In simple, straightforward prose, Cabeza de Vaca chronicles the nine-year odyssey endured by the men after a shipwreck forced them to make a westward journey on foot from present-day Florida through Louisiana and Texas into California. In thirty-eight brief chapters, Cabeza de Vaca describes the scores of natural and human obstacles they encountered as they made their way across an unknown land. Cabeza de Vaca's gripping account offers a trove of ethnographic information, including descriptions and interpretations of native cultures, making it a powerful precurso
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WW Norton & Co Points Unknown The Greatest Adventure Writing of
Book Synopsis"A great treasure-trove of daunting human courage, frailty, and persistence in the face of the unknown."—Library JournalTrade Review"Points Unknown celebrates crampons, testosterone and the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. I was gripped." Sara Wheeler, The Daily Telegraph - "This is a great volume, perfect for the armchair adventurer." The Sunday Times
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Lutterworth Press We Etruscans Old and New in a Forgotten Landscape
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National Geographic Kids How We Crossed the West The Adventures of Lewis
Book SynopsisAppealing art and descriptive text bring Lewis and Clark alive for young adventurers. Carefully chosen text from Lewis and Cark's actual journals opens a fascinating window into this country's exciting history.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Being American in Europe 17501860
Book SynopsisHe locates an increasingly articulate and refined sense of simplicity and virtue among these visitors and a gradual disappearance of their feelings of awe and inferiority.Trade ReviewBeing American in Europe confirms and provides a new perspective on older scholarship. -- Timothy Mason Roberts Journal of American History Kilbride's book offers a lucidly written and valuable contribution to our understanding of the relationship between the United States and Europe, and the development of American identity in this period. -- Eileen Ka-May Cheng American Historical Review Kilbride has given us an impressive work of intellectual and cultural history that will prove key to understanding the creation of American identity and its sources. -- Charlene Boyer Lewis Journal of the Early Republic Daniel Kilbride's study provides much needed insight into an aspect of American history that is relatively unexplored. -- Andrew P. White Rocky Mountain Review Being American in Europe is a valuable contribution to the literature because it pulls a diverse array of travelers (many of whom are already well-known to historians in other contexts) into one analysis in order to reveal the fundamental questions of national identity that travel to Europe posed. Like the insights gained by the travelers he studies, Kilbride's book helps us better understand the United States as an emerging nation in the Atlantic world. -- Will B. Mackintosh Register of the Kentucky Historical Society The wide range of sources Kilbride has explored is a central virtue of this book... Kilbride has brought readers into wide-open conversations among earlier Americans about Europe and the United States. -- Thomas Bender Journal of Southern History With imposing feats of archival labour that do honour to the breadth of his subject, Daniel Kilbride's Being American in Europe, 1750-1860 offers new insight into the ways American identity was formed through European travel in the Antebellum Era. Countless little-known diaries and letters from ordinary travellers combine, like the tiles of a mosaic, to show patterns of response to the European encounter that are usually difficult to see. Rich in anecdote and insights into the period, Being American in Europe is a major contribution to the study of the meanings Europe has held for the United States. -- William L. Coleman Journal of Transatlantic Studies Kilbride offers useful discussions of the changing realities of travel over the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century... Kilbride should be commended for illuminating and analyzing these often obscure texts. -- Lawrence A. Peskin History A nuanced and balanced analysis... Promises to be the go-to volume for historians seeking a lively and synthetic account of U.S. overseas interactions from the colonial period to the U.S. Civil War. -- Stephen Tuffnell Reviews in American HistoryTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsRoutes of Four American Travelers in EuropeIntroduction1. "English association," 1750–17832. "The blows my republican principles receive are forcible," 1783–18203. "What we Anglo-Americans understand by the significant word comfort," 1821–18504. "The manifold advantages resulting from our glorious Union," 1840s–1861ConclusionNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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National Geographic Society The Essential Lewis Clark
Book SynopsisThe celebrated journals of Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English, with nuanced observations from star author and journalist Anthony Brandt. At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. Their assignment was to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory and record the geography, flora, fauna, and people they encountered along the way. This updated edition of the captains' journals combines historical insight from editor Anthony Brandt with the rich detail of Lewis and Clark's original writing, as well as archival maps and artwork. An enthralling portrait of the unspoiled West, this true-life adventure story is a window to the dawning of America--from encounters with grizzly bears to councils with tribal leaders and perilous mountain crossings. 'Because the captains don't kn
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Archaeopress Egypt and Austria XII - Egypt and the Orient: The
Book SynopsisThe 12th Egypt and Austria conference (Zagreb, 17–22 September 2018) was organised by the Egypt and Austria Society and the Faculty of the Croatian Studies of the University of Zagreb. The event took place in the Croatian Institute of History (Opatička 10, Zagreb). The main theme of the conference was current research related to the interactions between Egypt and the states of the former Habsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire up to the middle of the 20th century. During the conference more than 39 papers were presented, of which 26 are presented in this proceedings volume.Table of ContentsEgypt and Austria – Egypt and the Orient: Current Research ; Chapter 1: Early travellers to Egypt and the Middle East ; Letters from Vienna: Richard Pococke en route to Egypt – Rachel Finnegan ; Terryfying Unreason or a Model of Toleration? Imagining Islam in Fictional Travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramerius – Lucie Storchová ; Epidemics between Europe and Egypt in a rediscovered work of Giuseppe Nizzoli – Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo & Irene Guidotti ; Chapter 2: Travellers to Egypt and the Orient in the middle and the second half of the 19th century ; Jakov Šašel: The origins of his Travelogue – Sanda Kočevar ; Carlo de Marchesetti: An Austrian botanist in the land of the pharaohs – Susanna Moser ; Prokesch-Osten jr (1837-1919) – Angela Blaschek ; The Bombardment of Alexandria 1882 in the writings of Milan Jovanović Morski – Vera Vasiljević ; Mária Fáy, the first Hungarian woman traveller and her journey to the Orient – Eszter Feró ; Chapter 3: Formation pf Egyptian collections ; The Egyptian coffin and mummy of Stephan Delhaes and other mummies from Akhmim in Hungary – Éva Liptay ; Oriental Paintings in the former Keglević Château Topol'čianky – Marta Herucová ; Aegyptiaca and an exhibition in Presburg/Pratislava in 1865 – Jozef Hudec ; Egyptology in the Varaždin area: the contribution of the Bombelles family and the Paszhtory – Varady family – Anja Kovačić ; The Egyptian collection of the Museum of Slavonia and its donors – Marina Kovač ; Chapter 4: Egypt in art/Orientalist art ; Carl Rudolf Huber and the Temptation of the East – Ernst Czerny ; Adolf Loos’s purchase in 1914: The story of Ivan Napotnik and his Egyptian woman – Vesna Kamin Kajfež ; Chapter 5: Travellers to Egypt in the first half of the 20th century ; Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin’s voyage from Križevci to Alexandria – Ivana Funda ; Fran Srećko Gundrum Oriovčanin in Luxor (4th-7th December 1902): The search for key comparative narratives in his diary – Mladen Tomorad ; Gundrum’s description of the construction and grand opening of the Old Aswan Dam in 1902 – Margareta Filipović-Srhoj ; From Habsburg Galicia to the Ottoman Egypt. Impressions from A voyage to Egypt by Stanisław Trzeciak (1904) – Grzegorz First ; Karel Pečnik: A Slovenian physician in Egypt – Jaro Lajovic ; Ivan Meštrović’s correspondence to Ruža Meštrović from Egypt and the Middle East in 1927: The artist’s fascination with Egypt reflected in his picture postcards to Ruža Meštrović – Sabina Kaštelančić ; Chapter 6: Egyptian revival and Egyptomania ; A case of modern-day burialS in ancient Egyptian sarcophagi – Tomislav Kajfež ; Egyptianising Funerary Architecture in Budapest – Andrea Fullér ; Images of Egypt in Zagreb from the 19th and 20th centuries: buildings, monuments, street furniture – Marina Bagarić ; Ivan Meštrović – creating art for eternity: Meštrović’s fascination with ancient Egypt as illustrated in the family mausoleum in Otavice – Zorana Jurić Šabić ; Chapter 7: Other studies ; A new approach to old sound recordings from Morocco – Clemens Gütl
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Harrassowitz Auf Segelbeflugelten Schiffen Das Meer Befahren:
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Africa Magna Verlag If Women Have Courage: Among Shepherds, Sheiks,
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