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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Steam-navigation to India
Author: The Foreign Quarterly Review
Author: Minutes of evidence taken before the select committee on the affairs of the East India Company
Author: Across the Oceans
Author: Seija-Riitta LaaksoPublisher: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura
ISBN: 9522228087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
In the early 19th century, the only way to transmit information was to send letters across the oceans by sailing ships or across land by horse and coach. Growing world trade created a need and technological development introduced options to improve general information transmission. Starting in the 1830s, a network of steamships, railways, canals and telegraphs was gradually built to connect different parts of the world. The book explains how the rate of information circulation increased many times over as mail systems were developed. Nevertheless, regional differences were huge. While improvements on the most significant trade routes between Europe, the Americas and East India were considered crucial, distant places such as California or Australia had to wait for gold fever to become important enough for regular communications. The growth of passenger services, especially for emigrants, was a major factor increasing the number of mail sailings. The study covers the period from the Napoleonic wars to the foundation of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) and includes the development of overseas business information transmission from the days of sailing ships to steamers and the telegraph.
The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane].
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Author: John George CochranePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Steam Communication with India
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Steam Communication with IndiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communication and traffic
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Appendix to the Report from the Select Committee of the House of Commons on the Affairs of the East-India Company, 16th August 1832, and Minutes of Evidence: Public
Author: Powering Empire
Author: On BarakPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520973933
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
The Age of Empire was driven by coal, and the Middle East—as an idea—was made by coal. Coal’s imperial infrastructure presaged the geopolitics of oil that wreaks carnage today, as carbonization threatens our very climate. Powering Empire argues that we cannot promote worldwide decarbonization without first understanding the history of the globalization of carbon energy. How did this black rock come to have such long-lasting power over the world economy? Focusing on the flow of British carbon energy to the Middle East, On Barak excavates the historic nexus between coal and empire to reveal the political and military motives behind what is conventionally seen as a technological innovation. He provocatively recounts the carbon-intensive entanglements of Western and non-Western powers and reveals unfamiliar resources—such as Islamic risk-aversion and Gandhian vegetarianism—for a climate justice that relies on more diverse and ethical solutions worldwide.
Second Report from the Select Committee on Steam Communications with India, &c
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Steam Communications with India, &cPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description