Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
National Union Catalog
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Reappraisals in Overseas History
Author: Christopher Alan BaylyPublisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Colonial Cities
Author: R.J. RossPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400961197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
by ROBERT ROSS and GERARD J. TELKAMP I In a sense, cities were superfluous to the purposes of colonists. The Europeans who founded empires outside their own continent were primarily concerned with extracting those products which they could not acquire within Europe. These goods were largely agricultural, and grown most often in a climate not found within Europe. Even when, as in India before 1800, the major exports were manufactures, in general they were still made in the countryside rather than in the great cities. It was only on rare occasion when great mineral wealth was discovered that giant metropolises grew up around the site of extraction. Since their location was deter mined by geology, not economics, they might be in the most inaccessible and in convenient areas, but they too would draw labour off from the agricultural pursuits of the colony as a whole. From the point of view of the colonists, the cities were therefore in some respects necessary evils, as they were parasites on the rural producers, competing with the colonists in the process of surplus extraction. Nevertheless, the colonists could not do without cities. The requirements of colonisation demanded many unequivocally urban functions. Pre-eminent among these was of course the need for a port, to allow the export of colonial wares and the import of goods from Europe, or from other parts of the non-European world, in the country-trade as it was known around India.
List of Inscriptions on Tombs Or Monuments in Madras Possessing Historical Or Archaeological Interest
Author: Julian James CottonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The "Acta Eruditorum" Under the Editorship of Otto Mencke (1644-1707)
Author: A. H. LaevenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Acta eruditorum
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A West-Pointer in the Land of the Mikado
Author: Laura DeLany GarstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Memoirs of George Elers
Author: George ElersA Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations
Author: Joseph Mazzini WheelerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
In the Shadow of the Drum Tower
Author: Laura DeLany GarstPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Fan
Author: Octave UzannePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016962131
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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