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Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Minutes of the Evidence Taken at the Trial of Warren Hastings Esquire, Late Governor General of Bengal, at the Bar of the House of Lords in Westminster Hall Upon an Impeachment Against Him for High Crimes and Misdemeanors by the Knights, Citizens and Burgesses, in Parliament Assembled, in the Name of Themselves, and of All the Commons of Great Britain
Minutes of the Evidence Taken at the Trial of Warren Hastings Esquire, Late Governor General of Bengal, at the Bar of the House of Lords, in Westminster Hall, Upon An Impeachment Against Him for High Crimes and Misdemeanors, by the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, in Parliament Assembled, in the Name of Themselves, and of All the Commons of Great Britain
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Category : Colonial administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Category : Colonial administrators
Languages : en
Pages : 976
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Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
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British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
The History of the Trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. Late Governor-General of Bengal, Before the High Court of Parliament in Westminster-Hall
Author: Warren Hastings
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 786
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Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Languages : en
Pages : 888
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Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 886
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Hicky's Bengal Gazette
Author: Andrew Otis
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 935492817X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Late eighteenth-century Calcutta. The British are well-ensconced in Bengal, but not yet an empire. Indian princes pose a danger to the East India Company's plans of commerce and domination. Warren Hastings, the British governor-general, is attempting to consolidate his power in the Company. Johann Zacharias Kiernander is on a mission to convert heathen souls in a land far from his native Sweden though he is not averse to lining his pockets while doing 'God's work'. Into this steaming cauldron of skullduggery and intrigue walks James Augustus Hicky, a wild Irishman seeking fame and fortune. Sensing an opportunity, he decides to establish a newspaper, the first of its kind in South Asia. In two short years, his endeavour threatens to lay bare the murky underside of the early British empire. Does it succeed? This is the story of the forces Hicky came up against, the corrupt authorities determined to stop him and of his resourcefulness. The product of five years of research by Andrew Otis in the archives of India, UK and Germany, Hicky's Bengal Gazette: The Story of India's First Newspaper is an essential and compelling addition to the history of subcontinental journalism.
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 935492817X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Late eighteenth-century Calcutta. The British are well-ensconced in Bengal, but not yet an empire. Indian princes pose a danger to the East India Company's plans of commerce and domination. Warren Hastings, the British governor-general, is attempting to consolidate his power in the Company. Johann Zacharias Kiernander is on a mission to convert heathen souls in a land far from his native Sweden though he is not averse to lining his pockets while doing 'God's work'. Into this steaming cauldron of skullduggery and intrigue walks James Augustus Hicky, a wild Irishman seeking fame and fortune. Sensing an opportunity, he decides to establish a newspaper, the first of its kind in South Asia. In two short years, his endeavour threatens to lay bare the murky underside of the early British empire. Does it succeed? This is the story of the forces Hicky came up against, the corrupt authorities determined to stop him and of his resourcefulness. The product of five years of research by Andrew Otis in the archives of India, UK and Germany, Hicky's Bengal Gazette: The Story of India's First Newspaper is an essential and compelling addition to the history of subcontinental journalism.
The Trial of Warren Hastings, Esq. Late Governor-General of Bengal, Before the High Court of Parliament in Westminster-Hall, on an Impeachment
Free Communities of Color and the Revolutionary Caribbean
Author: Robert D. Taber
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351168983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The tumult of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions provided new opportunities for free communities of color in the Caribbean, yet the fact that much scholarship places an emphasis on a few remarkable individuals—who pursued their freedom and respectability in a high-profile manner—can mask as much as it reveals. Scholarship on these individuals focuses on themes of mobility and resilience, and can overlook more subversive motives, underrepresent individuals who remained in communities, and elide efforts by some to benefit from racial hierarchies. In these free communities, displays of social, cultural, and symbolic capitals often reinforced systemic continuity and complicated revolutionary-era tensions among the long-free, enslaved, and recently-freed. This book contains seven fascinating studies, which examine Haiti, Caracas, Cartagena, Charleston, Jamaica, France, the Netherlands Antilles, and the Swedish Caribbean. They explore how free communities of color deployed religion, literature, politics, fashion, the press, history, and the law in the Atlantic to defend their status, and at times define themselves against more marginalized groups in a rapidly changing world. This volume demonstrates that problems of belonging, difference, and hierarchy were central to the operation of Caribbean colonies. Without recalibrating scholarship to focus on this, we risk underappreciating how the varied motivations and ambitions of free people of color shaped the decline of empires and the formation of new states. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351168983
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The tumult of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions provided new opportunities for free communities of color in the Caribbean, yet the fact that much scholarship places an emphasis on a few remarkable individuals—who pursued their freedom and respectability in a high-profile manner—can mask as much as it reveals. Scholarship on these individuals focuses on themes of mobility and resilience, and can overlook more subversive motives, underrepresent individuals who remained in communities, and elide efforts by some to benefit from racial hierarchies. In these free communities, displays of social, cultural, and symbolic capitals often reinforced systemic continuity and complicated revolutionary-era tensions among the long-free, enslaved, and recently-freed. This book contains seven fascinating studies, which examine Haiti, Caracas, Cartagena, Charleston, Jamaica, France, the Netherlands Antilles, and the Swedish Caribbean. They explore how free communities of color deployed religion, literature, politics, fashion, the press, history, and the law in the Atlantic to defend their status, and at times define themselves against more marginalized groups in a rapidly changing world. This volume demonstrates that problems of belonging, difference, and hierarchy were central to the operation of Caribbean colonies. Without recalibrating scholarship to focus on this, we risk underappreciating how the varied motivations and ambitions of free people of color shaped the decline of empires and the formation of new states. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies.