Viceroys
The Creation of the British
Between 1858 and 1947, twenty British men ruled millions of some of the most remarkable people of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.From the Indian Mutiny to the cruel religious partition of India and the newly formed and named Pakistan, the Viceroy had absolute power, more than the monarch who had sent him. Selected from that exclusive class of English, Scottish and Irish breeding, the aristocracy, the Viceroys were plumed, rode elephants, shot tigers. Even their wives stood when they entered the room. Nevertheless, many of them gave everything for India. The first Viceroy, Canning, exhausted by the Mutiny, buried his wife in Calcutta b…
Mehr
CHF 28.90
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V105:
Folgt in ca. 15 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4721-2474-6
- EAN: 9781472124746
- Produktnummer: 20394168
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 448 S.
- Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.1 cm x D3.5 cm 678 g
- Abbildungen: 2 x 8pp b/w & colour plate sections
- Gewicht: 678
Über den Autor
Christopher Lee was the first Quatercentenary Fellow and Whittaker Fellow in Contemporary History at Emmanuel College Cambridge and researched the history of ideas at Birkbeck College, University of London, with reference to pamphleteering in the reforming period from the Slave Act 1807 to the Great Reform Act 1832. His BBC Radio 4 history of Britain from Romans to death of Victoria, This Sceptred Isle and his history, The British Empire were both multi-award winning series.
86 weitere Werke von Christopher Lee:
Design, Analysis and Application of Magnetless Doubly Salient Machines
The Creation of the British
The Creation of the British
Ebook (PDF Format)
CHF 118.00
Bewertungen
Anmelden