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Ashoka
The Search for India's Lost Emperor
Häftad, 2013
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
178 kr
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India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by moral force alone he turned Buddhism from a minor sect into a world religion, and set up a new yardstick for government. But Ashoka's bold experiment ended in tragedy and he was forgotten for almost …
Kipling Sahib
India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900
Häftad, 2008
167 kr
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Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words …
Coromandel
A Personal History of South India
Häftad, 2019
173 kr
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COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more comprehensively) to the eastern coast of the Peninsula of India.This is the India highly acclaimed historian Charles Allen visits in this fascinating book. Coromandel journeys south, exploring the …
Plain Tales From The Raj
Images of British India in the 20th Century
E-bok, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
45 kr
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The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called ''benign autocracy'' - the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most …
God's Terrorists
Häftad, 2007
291 kr
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What are the roots of today's militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers-the Wahhabi-who sought the restoration of Islamic purity and …
Plain Tales From The Raj
Images of British India in the 20th Century
Av Charles Allen, Charles Allen
Häftad, 2000
151 kr
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The Raj was, for two hundred years, the jewel in the British imperial crown. Although founded on military expansionism and undoubted exploitation, it developed over the centuries into what has been called 'benign autocracy' - the government of many by few, with the active collaboration of most …
Tales From The South China Seas
Images of the British in South East Asia in the Twentieth Century
Av Charles Allen, Charles Allen
Häftad, 1990
283 kr
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This work chronicles the adventures of the last generation of British men and women who went East to seek their fortunes. Drawn into the colonial territories scattered around the South China Sea, they found themselves in an exotic, intoxicating world. It was a land of rickshaws and shanghai jars, …
Search For Shangri-La
A Journey into Tibetan History
Häftad, 2000
316 kr
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The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word 'Shangri-La' to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in his novel LOST HORIZON.In THE SEARCH FOR …
God's Terrorists
The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
Häftad, 2007
151 kr
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The brutal assasination of Commissioner Frederick Mackeson on British India's North-West Frontier in 1853 was a bloody and public declaration of a conflict that was to stretch well into the next one hundred and fifty years. The Wahhabi tribe, extreme Islamist fundamentalists, set out to restore …
Plain Tales From The British Empire
Häftad, 2008
195 kr
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PLAIN TALES FROM THE BRITISH EMPIRE gathers together Charles Allen's best loved books on the British experience across the Empire: PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ, TALES FROM THE SOUTH CHINA SEAS and TALES FROM THE DARK CONTINENT. These vivid stories and recollections give an evocative and unique glimpse …
Mountain In Tibet
The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia
Häftad, 2013
158 kr
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Throughout the East there runs a legend of a great mountain at the centre of the world, where four rivers have their source. Charles Allen traces this legend to Western Tibet where there stands Kailas, worshipped by Hindus and Buddhists alike as the home of their gods and the navel of the world. …
Kipling Sahib
India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling 1865-1900
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen''s great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words …
Tales From The South China Seas
Images of the British in South East Asia in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2015
44 kr
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This work chronicles the adventures of the last generation of British men and women who went East to seek their fortunes. Drawn into the colonial territories scattered around the South China Sea, they found themselves in an exotic, intoxicating world. It was a land of rickshaws and shanghai jars, …
Tales From the Dark Continent
Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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Charles Allen captures the vanished world of British Colonial Africa in the recollections of the pioneering men and women who lived and worked there.
Search For Shangri-La
A Journey into Tibetan History
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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The idea of a hidden refuge, a paradise far from the stresses of modern life, has universal appeal. In 1932 the writer James Hilton coined the word ''Shangri-La'' to describe such a place, when he gave that name to a hidden valley in the Himalayas in his novel LOST HORIZON. In THE SEARCH FOR …
Buddha and the Sahibs
Häftad, 2003
147 kr
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Today there are many Buddhists in the West, but for 2000 years the Buddha's teachings were unknown outside Asia. It was not until the late 18th century, when Sir William Oriental Jones, a British judge in India, broke through the Brahmin's prohibition on learning their sacred language. Sanskrit, …
Savage Wars Of Peace
Soldiers' Voices, 1945-89
E-bok, 2016
51 kr
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Since the Second World War the British Army has been engaged in armed conflicts around the globe in every year except 1968. Some have been full-scale military campaigns, but most have been undeclared wars, fought out in such widely differing theatres as Malaya, Kenya, Cyprus, Brunei, Borneo, Aden, …
Report on the Stockbridge Indians
To the Legislature
Av Charles Allen, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
352 kr
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Report on the Stockbridge Indians
To the Legislature
Av Charles Allen, Massachusetts Attorney General's Office m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
176 kr
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Advances in Materials Problem Solving with the Electron Microscope: Volume 589
Av Jim Bentley, Charles Allen m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
461 kr
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This book was motivated by the remarkable advances that continue to be made in electron microscope instrumentation and techniques for applications to materials science. Advances include quantitative high-resolution imaging, atomic-resolution Z-contrast imaging, elemental mapping by energy-filtered …
Written Expression
Av Charles Allen, Glenn Pethel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2071 kr
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This book offers concrete advice and handy examples to sharpen your writing skills. Filled with sample letters, memos, and reports (also available on an accompanying disk with workbook), this book will help you successfully attack your in basket. The writing samples are organized according to the …
polite lady
or, a course of female education. In a series of letters, ...
Häftad, 2010
286 kr
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