Author: John M. MunroPublisher: Academic Resources Corp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Nairn Way
Author: John M. MunroPublisher: Academic Resources Corp
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Arts & Decoration
Author: British Imperialism and 'the Tribal Question'
Author: Robert FletcherPublisher:
ISBN: 0198729316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question' reconstructs the history of Britain's presence in the deserts of the interwar Middle East, making the case for its significance to scholars of imperialism and of the region's past. It tells the story of what happened when the British Empire and Bedouin communities met on the desert frontiers between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. It traces the workings of the resulting practices of 'desert administration' from their origins in the wake of one World War to their eclipse after the next, as British officials, Bedouin shaykhs, and nationalist politicians jostled to influence desert affairs. Drawn to the commanding heights of political society in the region's towns and cities, historians have tended to afford frontier 'margins' merely marginal treatment. Instead, this volume combines the study of imperialism, nomads, and the desert itself to reveal the centrality of 'desert administration' to the working of Britain's empire, repositioning neglected frontier areas as nerve centres of imperial activity. British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question' leads the shift in historians' attentions from the familiar, urban seats of power to the desert 'hinterlands' that have long been obscured.
The Road to Oxiana
Author: Robert ByronPublisher: MarcoPolo
ISBN: 9898575689
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1621
Book Description
Transactions
Author: Society of Engineers (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Dominion Law Reports
Author: Commerce Reports
Author: Daily Consular and Trade Reports
Author: Transactions
Author: Nairn's London
Author: Ian NairnPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141396164
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 'This book is a record of what has moved me between Uxbridge and Dagenham. My hope is that it moves you, too.' Nairn's London is an idiosyncratic, poetic and intensely subjective meditation on a city and its buildings. Including railway stations, synagogues, abandoned gasworks, dock cranes, suburban gardens, East End markets, Hawksmoor churches, a Gothic cinema and twenty-seven different pubs, it is a portrait of the soul of a place, from a writer of genius.