Author: David Scott
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Author: David Scott Diffrient
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 0814335527
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 166

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Examines the origins, cultural significance, and legacy of the groundbreaking CBS television series M*A*S*H, which aired from 1972 to 1983.

Author: Eileen Chanin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781584563075
Category : Book collectors
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"First published 2011 by Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd"--Title page verso.

Author: Archibald Watson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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Author: Jean Sutton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843835835
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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The book charts in detail successive voyages by members of the Larkins family, who were leading owners of East India Company ships, showing what it was like to sail to and trade with India in this period. It provides a great deal of material on trade, warfare, developments in seamanship and navigation, the opening up of trade to China, and much more.

Author: Sanghamitra Misra
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040024726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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This book is an enquiry into the elision of the figure of the sovereign, cotton-producing Garo in the colonial archive and its savage transformation into imperialism’s quintessential ‘primitive’ in the period between 1760 CE and 1900 CE. The precolonial political economy of hill cotton produced by the Garos, its unhinging from the exercise of Garo sovereignty and its eventual commodification twined with the deterritorialization of the community as it made way for elephant mehals and reserved forests form the kernel of the book. This history is seen as participating in and mirroring analogous processes of colonization across vast contiguous swathes of India, including Mymensingh, Chittagong, Bhagalpur, the Khasi hills and the Cachar valley. A central theme explored is the long history of Garo rebellions and their rationality, examined in conjunction with contiguous polities such as that of the Khasis; even as the book follows the growing arc of colonial power in eastern and northeastern India as it converted territory and revenue appropriated through conquest, into dominium. The book makes an original contribution to the historiography of the colonial state, the ‘tribe’ and primitivism by making a case for the welded histories of war, ethnogenesis, revenue extraction and anthropological knowledge otherwise often studied as disparate fields of scholarship. It therefore also offers a new interpretation of the history of the colonization of eastern and northeastern India. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers of these regions and of empire and political economy, law and ‘primitivism’, and anthropology and colonial revenue.

Author: David Scott
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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Author: T. M. Devine
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319430742
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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This pioneering volume focuses on the scale, territorial trajectories, impact, economic relationships, identity and nature of the Scottish-Asia connection from the late seventeenth century to the present. It is especially concerned with identifying whether there was a distinctive Scottish experience and if so, what effect it had on the East. Did Scots bring different skills to Asia and how far did their backgrounds prepare them in different ways? Were their networks distinctive compared to other ethnicities? What was the pull of Asia for them? Did they really punch above their weight as some contemporaries thought, or was that just exaggerated rhetoric? If there was a distinctive ‘Scottish effect’ how is that to be explained?

Author: Great Britain. India Office. Library
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1196

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Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521255868
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 728

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"For the first time full authoritative texts of Darwin's are made available, edited according to modern textual editorial principles and practice. Letter-writing was of crucial importance to Darwin's work, not only because his poor health isolated him from direct personal communication with his scientific colleagues but also because the nature of his investigations required communication with naturalists in many fields and in all quarters of the globe. Thus the letters are a mine of information about the work in progress of a creative genius who produced an intellectual revolution." --