Author: Edmund Hope VerneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The Shannon's Brigade in India
Author: Edmund Hope VerneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The Shannon's Brigade in India, Being Some Account of Sir W. Peel's Naval Brigade in the Indian Campaign of 1857-1858
Author: Edmund Hope VerneyShannon OS Brigade in India, Being Some Account of Sir William Peel OS Naval Brigade in the Indian Campaign of 1857-1858
Author: Edmund Hope VerneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781843424437
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Shannon s Naval Brigade was among the reinforcements rushed to India in 1857 to help stap out the still glowing embers of the Indian Mutiny. Compiled from the author s letters & journals, this compact history gives a day-by-day account of their campaigns, including the recapture of Cawnpore, the scene of an infamous massacre of Europeans by the rebels, various minor, and the Siege and capture of Lucknow, where the garrison, unlike that at Cawnpore, successfully withstood a long and terrible ordeal. A vivid and important contribution to the story of the Mutiny.
The Limits of British Colonial Control in South Asia
Author: Ashwini TambePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134055269
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
This book assesses British colonialism in South Asia in a transnational light, with the Indian Ocean region as its ambit, and with a focus on ‘subaltern’ groups and actors. It breaks new ground by combining new strands of research on colonial history. Thinking about colonialism in dynamic terms, the book focuses on the movement of people of the lower orders that imperial ventures generated. Challenging the assumed stability of colonial rule, the social spaces featured are those that threatened the racial, class and moral order instituted by British colonial states. By elaborating on the colonial state's strategies to control perceived 'disorder' and the modes of resistance and subversion that subaltern subjects used to challenge state control, a picture of British Empire as an ultimately precarious, shifting and unruly formation is presented, which is quite distinct from its self-projected image as an orderly entity. Thoroughly researched and innovative in its approach, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars of Asian, British imperial/colonial, transnational and international history.
Commemorating the Seafarer
Author: Barbara TomlinsonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843839709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
A generously illustrated survey of memorials to different kinds of seafarers, recounting the stories behind them.
The Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney
Author: Allan PritchardPublisher: UBC Press
ISBN: 0774842571
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This previously unknown collection of letters lets us experience colonial British Columbia through the eyes of a young British naval officer who spent three years on Vancouver Island commanding a Royal Navy gunboat during the Cariboo gold rush. A keen observer of life in the new world, Edmund Hope Verney corresponded on a regular basis with his father, a prominent British MP. In his letters, which are filled with lively narration and description, candid commentary, and fascinating personal detail, he talks about having 'the opportunity to observe a colony in [its first] stage of existence' and to 'watch the development of a community.'
Early Writings on India
Author: H.K. KaulPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351867172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book, first published in 1975, is a comprehensive list of all the books on India, written in English before 1900. It is an invaluable reference source on India of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Apart from the work of professional writers, there are the writings of a cross-section of society from soldiers to scientists. We find dictionaries of obscure dialects written by government officials, descriptions of their travels by visiting clerics, homely details of everyday life by housewives, as well as technical and scientific works written by scholars.
The British Quarterly Review
Author: Robert VaughanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: The War in America, 1863-64
Author: Edward Albert PollardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description