Author: Edward Pellew HalstedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
The Armstrong Gun. A Rejoinder to the Letter of Sir W. Armstrong, 27th November, 1861. Published in “The Times.”
Author: Edward Pellew HalstedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Liberal Barbarism
Author: E. RingmarPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137031603
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a vision of paradise, which housed one of the greatest collections of works of art ever assembled. The intellectual puzzle which the book addresses concerns why the Europeans, bent on "civilizing" the Chinese, engaged in this act of barbarism. The answer is provided through an analysis of the performative aspect of the confrontation between Europe and China, focusing on the differences in the way their respective international systems were conceptualized. Ringmar reveals that the destruction of Yuanmingyuan represented the Europeans' campaign to "shock and awe" the Chinese, thereby forcing them to give up their way of organizing international relations. The contradictions which the events of 1860 exemplify - the contradiction between civilization and barbarism - is a theme running through all European (and North American) relations with the rest of the world since, including, most recently, the US war in Iraq.
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Arms and the State
Author: Marshall J. BastablePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351957252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
Arms and the State is a history of Britain's first and foremost modern armaments company, the Armstrong Whitworth Company, from its origins in 1854 to 1914. It focuses on the role of Sir William G. Armstrong, an engineer and entrepreneur who transformed his modest mechanical engineering business into a vast industrial enterprise which invented, developed, manufactured and sold heavy guns and warships throughout the world. Arms and the State reconstructs the global arms trade as it follows Armstrong's companies selling the latest weapons to both sides in the American Civil War, Egypt, Turkey and Italy in the 1860s, to China, Chile and Japan in the 1870s and 1880s, and became Britain's leading armaments company in the age of the naval arms races that preceded the First World War. In so doing, it discusses varied topics such as the social and political nature of technological innovation, the quality of Britain's late-Victorian entrepreneurs, and the impact of armaments on British politics, defence policies, the international arms trade and imperialism. Arms and the State situates the history of the company in its technological, political and international contexts, with particular attention given to the role of British Parliamentary politics and the inner workings of the War Office and Admiralty bureaucracies. The central narrative is Armstrong's role in the militarization of technology in the 1850s, the commercialization of the armaments trade on a global scale in the 1860s and 1870s, and the emergence of the British military-industrial state in the 1880s and 1890s. Arms and the State provides a history of the people, the technology and the business of the Arms trade. It is a fascinating story of the domestic politics, the foreign policy and strategic calculations, the manipulation of the press and the bureaucratic intrigues that lay behind the invention, production and proliferation of the first weapons of mass destruction.
Catalogue of the Library of the Institution of Civil Engineers ...: H-Pa
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
The Examiner
Author: Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977353
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
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