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
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
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:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
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.
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
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.
The Making of India
Author: Kartar LalvaniPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472924843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's largest democracy in the twenty-first century.
Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Report from the Select Committee on Indian Territories
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Indian TerritoriesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Catalogue of the Calcutta Public Library ...
Author: Calcutta Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description