Author: Douglas Carruthers Publisher: Asian Educational Services ISBN: 9788120611917 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 252
Book Description
Being The Journals Of Four Travellers Of The Great Desert Caravan Route Between Aleppo And Basra 1745-1751, William Beawes (1745), Gaylard Roberts (1748), Bartholomew Plaisted (1750), John Carmichael (1751).
Author: Douglas Carruthers Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1317036107 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 232
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The journals of William Beawes, Gaylard Roberts, Bartholomew Plaisted, and John Carmichael. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1929.
Author: Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Middle East Languages : en Pages : 394
Book Description
Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson (1884-1940) was a British colonial administrator, soldier, and politician. He graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1903 and served as an officer in the British Army in India. He was transferred to the Indian Political Department and subsequently sent to the Persian Gulf. Wilson was the British civil commissioner in Baghdad in 1918-20. Although he was credited with improving the country's administration, he was criticized for his violent repression of the 1920 Iraqi revolt against the British. At the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that followed World War I, he successfully recommended changing the Greek name "Mesopotamia" to the Arabic "Iraq." However, the British government ultimately rejected his view that Iraq should not be granted independence, and he was removed from his position. Wilson later became a member of Parliament. With the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve. He served as a pilot officer and was killed in action in northern France. The Persian Gulf. An Historical Sketch from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century is a concise history of the region. Wilson begins with the writings of Greek, Roman, and Muslim geographers, followed by chapters on the arrival of European powers, beginning with the Portuguese, the British, and the Dutch. A later chapter discusses the growth of the British influence, starting in the 18th century. Other topics covered in the book are piracy, the slave trade, and the growth of Arab principalities.
Author: H.K. Kaul Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351867172 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 449
Book Description
This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.
Author: Douglas Carruthers
Author: Alexander Douglas Mitchell Carruthers
Author: Douglas Carruthers
Author: Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson
Author: William Bayne Fisher
Author: Zelia Nuttall
Author: John Gordon Lorimer
Author: H.K. Kaul
Author: William Thomas Lowndes
Author: William Thomas Lowndes