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Author | : Francis Knowles Porter |
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Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This is a collection of fifty-eight letters, written by an interpreter attached to the British legation in Peking, to his family between 7 January 1866 and 27 March 1869. The author was a man in his early twenties, the son of the Revd John Scott Porter, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Rosemary Street, Belfast, a non-subscribing Presbyterian or Unitarian congregation. Written in the very early days of Western intrusion into China, the letters (which also cover Porter's journey east) comment on many of the events which had significance for the future as well as revealing the daily life and social activities of this first generation of ex-patriots. The manuscript transcription (now the property of Mr John Donnellan) of the letters was made by a member of his family after Porter's early death.
Author | : Lane J. Harris |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2018-05-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004361006 |
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In The Peking Gazette: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Chinese History, Lane J. Harris offers an innovative text covering the extraordinary ruptures and remarkable continuities in the history of China’s long nineteenth century (1793-1912) by providing scholarly introductions to thematic chapters of translated primary sources from the government gazette of the Qing Empire. The Peking Gazette is a unique collection of primary sources designed to help readers explore and understand the policies and attitudes of the Manchu emperors, the ideas and perspectives of Han officials, and the mentality and worldviews of several hundred million Han, Mongol, Manchu, Muslim, and Tibetan subjects of the Great Qing Empire as they discussed and debated the most important political, social, and cultural events of the long nineteenth century. This volume is related to the primary source database compiled by the author entitled Translations of the Peking Gazette Online and produced by Brill (2017). For a video with explanation by the author, visit Brill's YouTube channel
Author | : John Bew |
Publisher | : New Directions in Irish Histor |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
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At a moment when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has excluded Ireland from his version of modern Britishness, John Bew's book could not be more timely. Covering a period of almost ninety years, Bew demonstrates how a strongly held British national identity took hold in nineteenth-century Belfast, a town which was once regarded as the centre of republicanism and rebellion in Ireland. Starting with the impact of the French Revolution - a cause of huge celebration in Belfast - this book describes how political and civic culture in the town became deeply immersed in the imagined community of the British nation after the Act of Union of 1801, allowing the author to provide a new perspective on the roots of Ulster's opposition to Home Rule. What caused this shift from 'Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity' to 'God save the Queen'? While entirely aware of the sectarian division in Ulster, Bew places these developments in the wider context of the Westminster political system and debates about the United Kingdom's 'place in the world', thus providing a more balanced and sophisticated view of the politics of nineteenth-century Belfast, arguing that it was not simply dominated by the struggle between Orange and Green. The book breaks new ground in examining how the formative 'nation-building' episodes in Britain - such as war, parliamentary reform, and social, economic and scientific advancement - played out in the unique context of Belfast and the surrounding area. Ultimately, however, it also explains how the exponents of this civic unionism struggled to make their voices heard as Britain and Ireland entered the age of mass democracy and traditional modes of identification began to reassert themselves, even before the Home Rule crisis began.
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Ireland |
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Author | : Arnold Guyot |
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Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Geography |
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Author | : Benjamin F. Gue |
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Total Pages | : 670 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Iowa |
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Author | : Arnold Guyot |
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Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Geography |
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Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 126 |
Release | : 2023-11-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385227852 |
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Author | : Ed Bowker Staff |
Publisher | : R. R. Bowker |
Total Pages | : 3274 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780835246422 |
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Author | : Royal historical society (GB). |
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Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780198207719 |
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