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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 840
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The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: The Literary Gazette
Author: Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc
Author: William JerdanThe Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870
Author: Thomas O'FlynnPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004313540
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1141
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Winner of The 2018 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award In The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870, Thomas O'Flynn vividly paints the life and times of missionary enterprises in early nineteenth-century Russia and Persia at a moment of immense change when Tsarist Russia embarked on an expansionist campaign reaching to the Caucasus. Simultaneously he charts the relationship between the new Persian dynasty of the Qājārs and missionary activity on the part of European and American missionaries. This book reconstructs that world from a predominantly religious perspective. It recounts the sustaining ideals as well as the everyday struggles of the western missionaries, Protestant (Scottish, Basel and American Congregationalist) and Catholic (Jesuit and Vincentian). It looks at the reactions of diverse tribal peoples, the Tatars of the North Caucasus, the Kabardians and Circassians. Persia was the ultimate goal of these missionaries, which they eventually reached in the 1820s. Altogether this study throws light on the troubled course of history in West Asia and provides the background to politico-religious conflicts in Chechnya and Persia that persist to the present day.
Streets with a Story
Author: Eric A. WillatsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780951187104
Category : Islington (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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The Waterloo Roll Call
Author: Charles DaltonPublisher:
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Category : Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The Green Web
Author: Martin HoldgatePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134189370
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 425
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This text is a history of the world's oldest global conservation body - the World Conservation Union, established in 1948 as a forum for governments, non-governmental organizations and individual conservationists. The author draws on unpublished archives to reveal the often turbulent story of the IUCN and its achievements in, and influence on, conservation and environmental policy worldwide - establishing national parks and protected areas and defending threatened species.
The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj
Author: James OnleyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199228108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
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The Arabian Frontier of the British Raj tells the story behind one of the British Indian Empire's most forbidding frontiers: Eastern Arabia. Taking the shaikhdom of Bahrain as a case study, James Onley reveals how heavily Britain's informal empire in the Gulf, and other regions surrounding British India, depended upon the assistance and support of local elites.
The life of William Carey
Author: George SmithPublisher:
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Category : Baptists
Languages : en
Pages : 508
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Origin of Cultivated Plants
Author: Alphonse de CandollePublisher:
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Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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