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A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong The Diaries of Chaloner Alabaster,…
In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept …
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- 9781760465926
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Diaries, letters and journals
The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s = Encounters …
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European pow…
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- 9783031759635
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- IX, 125 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Points of Entanglement in French Caribbean Travel Writing (1620-1722)
This open-access book investigates Francophone Caribbean literature by exploring and analyzing French seventeenth-century travel writings. The book argues for a literary re-examination of the representation of the early colonial Caribbean by proposing theoretical linkages to contemporary Caribbean theories of creolization and archipelagic thinking. Using Édouard Glissant’s notion of points o…
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- 978-3-031-23356-2
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700
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- 379
Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance
This open access book charts how South Africa’s gold mines have systematically suppressed evidence of hazardous work practices and the risks associated with mining. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa was the world’s largest producer of gold. Although the country enjoyed a reputation for leading the world in occupational health legislation, the mining companies developed a syste…
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- 978-981-19-8327-6
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- XIII, 459
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Microhistories of Technology
In this open access book, Mikael Hård tells a story of how people around the world challenged the production techniques and products brought by globalization. Retaining their autonomy and freedom, creative individuals selectively adopted or rejected modern gadgets, tools, and machines. In standard historical narratives, globalization is portrayed as an unstoppable force that flattens all obsta…
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- 978-3-031-22813-1
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- Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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- XX, 290
The Ndebele, Frank Oates, and Knowledge Production in the 1870s
This open access book addresses a question fundamental to the histories of empire and Africa: at the point of the colonial encounter, how was knowledge made? How did different communities, with little or no prior contact, construct meaning about one another? Amidst huge changes in the politics and economics of a continent, on the cusp of almost complete colonization at the hands of European pow…
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- 978-3-031-75964-2
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- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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- IX, 125
Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of …
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- 978-3-031-27130-4
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- Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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- XVIII, 454
Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of …
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- 978-3-031-27128-1
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- XVIII, 454
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Playing Oppression: The Legacy of Conquest and Empire in Colonialist Board Games
"A critical investigation of a massive commercial phenomenon, the so-called "Euro" or "German"-style tabletop board games whose basic goal is explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262373715
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- 1 online resource
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- 325.32
Women and the Colonial State: Essays on Gender and Modernity in the Netherlan…
Woman and the Colonial State deals with the ambiguous relationship between women of both the European and the Indonesian population and the colonial state in the former Netherlands Indies in the first half of the twentieth century. Based on new data from a variety of sources: colonial archives, journals, household manuals, children's literature, and press surveys, it analyses the women-state re…
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- 9789053564035
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- 251
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- 901 LOC w
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