Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
A Fez of the Heart
Author: Jeremy SealPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156003933
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The author recounts his adventures traveling through Turkey in search of the history of the fez, using it as a key to understanding the country's history and culture.
Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1572
Book Description
Bibliotheca Lancastriensis
Author: Albert SuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cheshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Quiver
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
Book Description
V. 12 contains: The Archer...Christmas, 1877.
Church Missionary Intelligencer and Record
Author: Catalogue of ...
Author: Bertram DobellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Privately printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Palestine in the Victorian Age
Author: Gabriel PolleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755643151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Narratives of the modern history of Palestine/Israel often begin with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and Britain's arrival in 1917. However, this work argues that the contest over Palestine has its roots deep in the 19th century, with Victorians who first cast the Holy Land as an area to be possessed by empire, then began to devise schemes for its settler colonization. The product of historical research among almost forgotten guidebooks, archives and newspaper clippings, this book presents a previously unwritten chapter of Britain's colonial desire, and reveals how indigenous Palestinians began to react against, or accommodate themselves to, the West's fascination with their ancestral land. From the travellers who tried to overturn Jerusalem's holiest sites, to an uprising sparked by a church bell and a missionary's tragic actions, to one Palestinian's eventful visit to the heart of the British Empire, Palestine in the Victorian Age reveals how the events of the nineteenth century have cast a long shadow over the politics of Palestine/Israel ever since.
Catalogue of Books in the Astley Bridge Branch Lending Library
Author: Bolton (England). Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said
Author: Lucia CarminatiPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520385500
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said probes migrant labor's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's northern harbor, and 1906, when a railway connected it to the rest of Egypt. Through groundbreaking research, Lucia Carminati provides a ground-level perspective on the key processes touching late nineteenth-century Egypt: heightened domestic mobility and immigration, intensified urbanization, changing urban governance, and growing foreign encroachment. By privileging migrants' prosaic lives, Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said shows how unevenness and inequality laid the groundwork for the Suez Canal's making.