Author: Reginald R. Sharpe Publisher: ISBN: 9781409960676 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 360
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Reginald Robinson Sharpe (1848-1925) was a British author, clerk and editor. His works include: Calendar of Letters from the Mayor and Corporation of the City of London (edited) (1885), Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting (edited) (1889), London and the Kingdom (3 volumes) (1894), Calendar of Letter-Books Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall (edited) (1912), Calendar of Coroners Rolls of the City of London, A.D. 1300-1378 (edited) (1913).
Author: Reginald R. Sharpe Publisher: ISBN: 9781409960621 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 390
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Reginald Robinson Sharpe (1848-1925) was a British author, clerk and editor. His works include: Calendar of Letters from the Mayor and Corporation of the City of London (edited) (1885), Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting (edited) (1889), London and the Kingdom (3 volumes) (1894), Calendar of Letter-Books Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall (edited) (1912) and Calendar of Coroners Rolls of the City of London, A.D. 1300-1378 (edited) (1913).
Author: Charles Dudley Warner Publisher: ISBN: 9781603033367 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 612
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Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) was an American essayist and novelist. He worked with a surveying party in Missouri; studied law at the University of Pennsylvania; practiced in Chicago; was assistant editor (1860) and editor (1861-1867) of The Hartford Press, and after The Press was merged into The Hartford Courant, was co-editor with Joseph R Hawley; in 1884 he joined the editorial staff of Harper's Magazine, for which he conducted The Editors Drawer until 1892, when he took charge of The Editor's Study. He travelled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision, and other movements for the public good. He was the first president of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He first attracted attention by the reflective sketches entitled My Summer in a Garden (1870). Amongst his other works are Saunterings (1872), Backlog Studies (1873), Being a Boy (1878), In the Wilderness (1878), Captain John Smith (1881), Washington Irving (1881), A Little Journey in the World (1889), As We Were Saying (1891) and That Fortune (1899).
Author: Reginald R. Sharpe Publisher: ISBN: 9781409960669 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 652
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Reginald Robinson Sharpe (1848-1925) was a British author, clerk and editor. His works include: Calendar of Letters from the Mayor and Corporation of the City of London (edited) (1885), Calendar of Wills Proved and Enrolled in the Court of Husting (edited) (1889), London and the Kingdom (3 volumes) (1894), Calendar of Letter-Books Preserved Among the Archives of the Corporation of the City of London at the Guildhall (edited) (1912), Calendar of Coroners Rolls of the City of London, A.D. 1300-1378 (edited) (1913).
Author: David Quammen Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1448137403 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 706
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Why have island ecosystems always suffered such high rates of extinction? In our age, with all the world's landscapes, from Tasmania to the Amazon to Yellowstone, now being carved into island-like fragments by human activity, the implications of this question are more urgent than ever. Over the past eight years, David Quammen has followed the threads of island biogeography on a globe-encircling journey of discovery.
Author: Nassoro Habib Mbwana Msonde Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1524574074 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 480
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This book is much directed to accomplish the readers demand, in particular the students, for advanced level (i.e. high schools and colleges) on African history from the past to the present. It covers the period from the tenth century to the present. It includes the development of precolonial African societies; Africans during the European mercantile time, focusing on similarities and factors for disparities on advancement; and lives of black people in the New World since they arrived as slaves and their contribution on American civilization and development. European colonialism in the second half of the nineteenth century is another important historical era that shaped Africa. As Europe and America advanced into imperialism and neocolonialism, the developing countries in the southern hemisphere still stood in dilemma. A Revised History for Advanced Level & Colleges: Part One justifies and revises important areas, which had been less mentioned or left out by other authors in writing history texts for high schools and colleges. It is made up with eight chapters. The first is Precolonial Africa, then Africa and Europe by AD 1500 revises the level of development between Africa and Europe. Next is People of African Origin in the New World and the Diaspora. Chapter 4, From Colonialism to the First World War, revises the colonial state; its theories of colonial bureaucracy; character, functions, and implication on Africans; agricultural systems; and the World War I while chapter 5 represents the colonial economy and social services after World War II. Chapter 6, The Influence of External Forces, Rise of Nationalism, and the Struggle for Independence, focuses on external factors for decolonization. Chapter 7 is Political and Economic Development in Africa since Independence. Finally, chapter 8 is Sample Questions for Final Examinations and Trials at Schools and Colleges.
Author: Reginald R. Sharpe
Author: Reginald R. Sharpe
Author: Reginald Robinson Sharpe
Author: Reginald R. Sharpe
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
Author: Isabella Beeton
Author: Reginald R. Sharpe
Author: Reginald Robinson Sharpe
Author: David Quammen
Author: Nassoro Habib Mbwana Msonde