Author: Stray leaves
Publisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Stray leaves from the diary of an Indian officer
Author: Stray leaves
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Stray Leaves from the Diary of an Indian Officer
Author: R. B. Cumberland
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Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 366
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature
Author: Samuel Halkett
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Imperial Boredom
Author: Jeffrey A. Auerbach
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192562304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated account suggests instead that boredom was central to the experience of empire. Combining individual stories of pain and perseverance with broader analysis, Professor Auerbach considers what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India. He reveals that for numerous men and women, from explorers to governors, tourists to settlers, the Victorian Empire was dull and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, Imperial Boredom demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work tedious and unfulfilling. The empires early years may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project. Many books about the British Empire focus on what happened; this book concentrates on how people felt.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192562304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the empire was about adventure and excitement, with heroic men and intrepid women eagerly spreading commerce and civilization around the globe, this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, and lavishly illustrated account suggests instead that boredom was central to the experience of empire. Combining individual stories of pain and perseverance with broader analysis, Professor Auerbach considers what it was actually like to sail to Australia, to serve as a soldier in South Africa, or to accompany a colonial official to the hill stations of India. He reveals that for numerous men and women, from explorers to governors, tourists to settlers, the Victorian Empire was dull and disappointing. Drawing on diaries, letters, memoirs, and travelogues, Imperial Boredom demonstrates that all across the empire, men and women found the landscapes monotonous, the physical and psychological distance from home debilitating, the routines of everyday life wearisome, and their work tedious and unfulfilling. The empires early years may have been about wonder and marvel, but the Victorian Empire was a far less exciting project. Many books about the British Empire focus on what happened; this book concentrates on how people felt.
Catalogue
Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Author-catalogue of printed books in European languages. With a supplementary list of newspapers. 1904. 2 v
Author: Imperial Library, Calcutta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Settler Society in the Australian Colonies
Author: Angela Woollacott
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199641803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Examines the rising numbers of free settlers from the 1820s to the 1860s, their dependence on Aboriginal, immigrant, and convict under-paid laborers, and the slow development of representative government.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199641803
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Examines the rising numbers of free settlers from the 1820s to the 1860s, their dependence on Aboriginal, immigrant, and convict under-paid laborers, and the slow development of representative government.
A History of the Indian Medical Service
Author: Dirom Grey Crawford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Medical misadventure in an age of professionalisation, 1780–1890
Author: Alannah Tomkins
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526116103
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with professionalising trends. It unpicks the life stories of men who could not make ends meet or who could not sustain a professional persona of disinterested expertise, either because they could not overcome public accusations of misconduct or because they struggled privately with stress. In doing so it uncovers the trials of the medical marketplace and the pressures of medical masculinity. All professionalising groups risked falling short of rising expectations, but for doctors these expectations were inflected in some occupationally specific ways.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526116103
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
This book looks at medical professionalisation from a new perspective, one of failure rather than success. It questions the existing picture of broad and rising medical prosperity across the nineteenth century to consider the men who did not keep up with professionalising trends. It unpicks the life stories of men who could not make ends meet or who could not sustain a professional persona of disinterested expertise, either because they could not overcome public accusations of misconduct or because they struggled privately with stress. In doing so it uncovers the trials of the medical marketplace and the pressures of medical masculinity. All professionalising groups risked falling short of rising expectations, but for doctors these expectations were inflected in some occupationally specific ways.
Subject-index to the author-catalogue. 1908-10. 2 v
Author: Imperial Library, Calcutta
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description