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Author: Reginald R Sharpe Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 9359393223 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 440
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Reginald R. Sharpe is a well-known historian who focuses on the history of London, and his book "London and the Kingdom - Vol-1" is a noteworthy historical work. This book explores the complex fabric of London's history, from its earliest days up to the time frame of this study. Sharpe takes a close look at the political, social, economic, and cultural changes in the city. The author describes London's lively streets, bustling markets, and famous sites with impressive accuracy and depth of research. Through in-depth profiles of both notable persons and common Londoners, he gives readers a rich perspective on the city's development. Furthermore, "London and the Kingdom - Vol-1" examines London's relationship with the monarchy, other cities, and regions within the greater context of the English kingdom.
Author: Reginald R Sharpe Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 9359393223 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 440
Book Description
Reginald R. Sharpe is a well-known historian who focuses on the history of London, and his book "London and the Kingdom - Vol-1" is a noteworthy historical work. This book explores the complex fabric of London's history, from its earliest days up to the time frame of this study. Sharpe takes a close look at the political, social, economic, and cultural changes in the city. The author describes London's lively streets, bustling markets, and famous sites with impressive accuracy and depth of research. Through in-depth profiles of both notable persons and common Londoners, he gives readers a rich perspective on the city's development. Furthermore, "London and the Kingdom - Vol-1" examines London's relationship with the monarchy, other cities, and regions within the greater context of the English kingdom.
Author: Kenneth Ingham Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1003800092 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 203
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First published in 1975, The Kingdom of Toro in Uganda describes the foundation of the Toro kingdom in the nineteenth century by the rebel prince Kaboyo, and investigates how Kasagama, Kaboyo’s grandson, was able to recreate, with little local support, a kingdom far more extensive than Kaboyo had ever envisaged. His personal authority was established by his insistence that its root were traditional, thus satisfying the requirements of ‘indirect rules’ at a time when this ill-defined concept served both as the shibboleth and the escape clause for an overstretched British colonial administration. Although Kasagama’s son, Rukidi, was able to combine authority with personal popularity and to take advantage of colonial innovations without losing control of his kingdom, the ending of colonial rule brought an end to Toro as he knew it. In an independent Uganda the particularism stressed by Toro’s rulers could not survive. This book will be of interest to students of history, colonialism, African studies and ethnic studies.
Author: Anna-Latifa Mourad Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1784911348 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 500
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Manetho's obscure reference to a race of invaders has been a constant source of debate and controversy. This book assesses the rise to power of the Hyksos, exploring the preliminary stages that enabled them to gain control over a portion of Egyptian territory and thus to merit a small mention in Manetho's history.
Author: Denys Pringle Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521390378 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 496
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This is the second of a series of four volumes that are intended to present a complete corpus of all the church buildings, of both the western and the oriental rites, rebuilt or simply in use in the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem between the capture of Jerusalem for the First Crusade in 1099 and the loss of Acre in 1291. This volume completes the general topographical coverage begun in volume I, and will be followed by a third volume dealing specifically with the major cities of Jerusalem, Acre and Tyre (which are excluded from the preceding volumes). The project, of which this series represents the final, definitive publication, has been sponsored by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem. On completion the corpus will contain a topographical listing of all the 400 or more church buildings of the Kingdom that are attested by documentary or surviving archaeological evidence, and individual descriptions and discussion of them in terms of their identification, building history and architecture. Some of the buildings have been published before, but many others are published here for the first time.
Author: Sasha Verma Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1905739796 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 294
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Cultural Expression in the Old Kingdom Elite Tomb considers the material and immaterial culture left behind by the ancient Egyptian elite in their tombs starting some 5000 years ago. The book intends to understand this culture reflecting the intention of the ancient Egyptians. All these intentions are now inaccessible to us, a paradox indeed.
Author: William T. Johnsen Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 081316835X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 439
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On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay, which was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanjing, China. Although the Japanese apologized, the attack turned American public opinion against Japan, and President Roosevelt dispatched Captain Royal Ingersoll to London to begin conversations with the British admiralty about Japanese aggression in the Far East. While few Americans remember the Panay Incident, it established the first links in the chain of Anglo-American military collaboration that eventually triumphed in World War II. In The Origins of the Grand Alliance, William T. Johnsen provides the first comprehensive analysis of military collaboration between the United States and Great Britain before the Second World War. He sets the stage by examining Anglo-French and Anglo-American coalition military planning from 1900 through World War I and the interwar years. Johnsen also considers the formulation of policy and grand strategy, operational planning, and the creation of the command structure and channels of communication. He addresses vitally important logistical and materiel issues, particularly the difficulties of war production. Military conflicts in the early twenty-first century continue to underscore the increasing importance of coalition warfare for historian and soldier alike. Drawn from extensive sources and private papers held in the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, Johnsen's exhaustively researched study refutes the idea that America was the naive junior partner in the coalition and casts new light on the US-UK "special relationship."
Author: Wolfram Grajetzki Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350455555 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 265
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For the ancient Egyptians, the Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1700 BC) was a classical period of art, history and literature. The Twelfth Dynasty was one of the strongest ever to rule on the banks of the Nile: some of its kings were later worshipped as local gods, and were made famous by classical Greek authors. Yet Egyptologists tend not to look beyond the extraordinary royal sculpture and literary masterpieces of the time. Although the picture is fragmentary, as with any archaeological record, the last two hundred years of exploration and excavation have revealed much of the splendour of the period. This book examines the evidence for the culture, history and society of both central and provincial Egypt at the time, revealing the wealth of the entire country. In this second edition, Wolfram Grajetzki incorporates recent discoveries, discussions and publications which have emerged over the intervening fifteen years, including new excavation reports for the mastabas at Lisht and excavations at Abydos. Too often overshadowed by the better-preserved architecture of other periods, Middle Kingdom Egypt emerges for the reader as a fascinating age in its own right.
Author: Mar Hicks Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 0262535181 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 354
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This “sobering tale of the real consequences of gender bias” explores how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women (Harvard Magazine) In 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct. What happened in the intervening thirty years holds lessons for all postindustrial superpowers. As Britain struggled to use technology to retain its global power, the nation’s inability to manage its technical labor force hobbled its transition into the information age. In Programmed Inequality, Mar Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. That failure sprang from the government’s systematic neglect of its largest trained technical workforce simply because they were women. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, becoming male-identified in the 1960s and 1970s, labor problems grew into structural ones and gender discrimination caused the nation’s largest computer user—the civil service and sprawling public sector—to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole. Drawing on recently opened government files, personal interviews, and the archives of major British computer companies, Programmed Inequality takes aim at the fiction of technological meritocracy. Hicks explains why, even today, possessing technical skill is not enough to ensure that women will rise to the top in science and technology fields. Programmed Inequality shows how the disappearance of women from the field had grave macroeconomic consequences for Britain, and why the United States risks repeating those errors in the twenty-first century.
Author: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190092653 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 458
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Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views, such that Bombay's wealthy founded Elphinstone College in his memory, he pioneered the scholarly, scientific and administrative foundations of imperialism in India. Elphinstone's career was launched when he was picked to lead the inaugural British diplomatic mission to the Afghan court. His Account of the Kingdom of Caubul (1815) became the main source of British information about Afghanistan. He is best known for his periods as Resident at Poona and Governor of Bombay in the 1810s and 1820s, when he instituted innovative and lasting policies in administration and education while also conducting research for his extremely influential History of India (1841). This volume examines Mountstuart Elphinstone's intellectual contributions and administrative career in their own right, in relation to prominent contemporaries including Charles Metcalfe and William Moorcroft, and in the context of later historical study of India, Afghanistan, British imperialism and its imperial frontiers.
Author: Reginald R Sharpe
Author: Reginald R Sharpe
Author: Kenneth Ingham
Author: Dirk Albert Hooijer
Author: Anna-Latifa Mourad
Author: Denys Pringle
Author: Sasha Verma
Author: William T. Johnsen
Author: Wolfram Grajetzki
Author: Mar Hicks
Author: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi