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Title From the East India Company to the Suez Canal / edited by Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow

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 UM Orono Electronic Resource  DS465 .F766 2003eb    ONLINE  
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Phys Descr 1 online resource (xxiii, 802 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Series Archives of Empire ; v. 1
e-Duke books scholarly collection
Note Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism-- Volume Introduction: From the Company to the Canal-- I. Company to Canal, 1757-1869 -- Introduction: Adventure Capitalism: Mercantilism, Militarism, and the British East India Company -- Chronology of Events -- List of the Governors and Governors-General of India -- List of the Newabs of Bengal -- India under Cornwallis (1792) -- India under Wellesley (1799) -- India under Hastings (1832) -- India under Dalhousie (1856) -- G.A. (George Alfred) Henty, Excerpt from With Clive in India (date of publication not identified) -- Agreement between the Nabob Nudjum-ul-Dowlah and the Company, 12 August 1765 -- Anonymous, An Inquiry into the Rights of the East India Company of Making War and Peace (1772) -- East India Company Act, 1773 -- James Mill, The Constitution of the East India Company (1817) -- James Mill, Letter to Durmont (1819) -- John Stuart Mill. Excerpt from Autobiography (1873) -- Government of India Act, 1833 -- Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, A Speech, Delivered in the House of Commons on the 10th of July, 1833 -- Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Clive (1840) -- Samuel Lucas, The Spoliation of Oude (1857) -- Sir Arthur Wellesley, Memorandum on Marquess Wellesley's Government of India (1806)
II. Oriental Despotism -- Introduction: Oriental Despotisms and Political Economies -- Baron de Montesquieu, Distinctive Properties of a Despotic Government (1746) -- Baron de Montesquieu, Excerpts from Persian Letters (1721) -- Adam Smith, America and the East Indies (1776) -- Robert Orme, Of the Government and People of Indostan (1782) -- John Stuart Mill, Excerpt from The Principles of Political Economy (1848) -- John Stuart Mill, Excerpt from Considerations on Representative Government (1861) -- Karl Marx, On Imperialism in India (1853)
III. The impeachment of Warren Hastings -- Introduction: Warren Hastings: Naughty Nabob or National Hero? -- Warren Hastings, Warren Hastings to the Court of General Directors, 11 November 1773 -- Warren Hastings, Excerpt from Memoirs Relative to the State of India (1786) -- Edmund Burke, Edmund Burke on the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, 15-19 February 1788 -- Westminster Hall during the trial of Warren Hastings (1788) -- Fanny Burney, Diary Selections (1788) -- Edmund Burke, From the Third Day of Edmund Burke's Speech Opening the Impeachment, 18 February 1788 -- Warren Hastings, From the Address of Warren Hastings in His Defence, 2 June 1791 -- Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, Warren Hastings (1841) -- IV. The case of Tipu Sultan -- Introduction: Tipu Sultan: Oriental Despot or National Hero? -- G.A. Henty, Excerpts from The Tiger of Mysore (189?) -- Tippoo Sahib at the Lines of Travancore (1789) -- Major Diram, Treaties of Peace, and Review of the Consequences of the War (1793) -- Selected Letters between Tipu and Company Governors-General, 1798-1799 -- Wilkie Collins, Prologue: The Storming of Seringapatam, 1799 (1869) -- V. Orientalism -- Introduction: Orientalism: The East as a Career -- Mary Shelley, Excerpts from Frankenstein (1813/1831) -- Benjamin Disraeli, Excerpt from Sibyl, or the Two Nations (1845) -- Definitions from the Hobson-Jobson Dictionary -- G.W.F. Hegel, India (1822) -- William Jones, A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literatures of Asia (1784) -- Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, Minute on Indian Education (1835) -- Max Müller, The Aryan Section (1876)
VI. Laws and Orders -- Introduction: Ordering Chaos: Administering the Law -- Robert Orme, Of the Laws and Justice of Indostan (1782) -- Sir William Jones, Preface to Institutes of Hindu Law: Or, the Ordinances of Menu (1794) -- Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, Introductory Report upon the Indian Penal Code (1837) -- VII. Thuggee/Thagi -- Introduction: Decriminalizing the Landscape: Thugs and Poisoners -- A thug family tree (1836) -- Thug depradations (1836) -- Thugs giving a demonstration of their method of strangulation (1855) -- Captain William H. Sleeman, The Ramaseeana, or Vocabulary of the Thug Language (1839) -- Captain William H. Sleeman, Excerpts from The Thugs or Phansigars of India: History of the Rise and Progress (1839) -- Fanny Parks Parlby, A Kutcherry or Kachahri (1850) -- Philip Meadows Taylor, Thugs (1877) -- Philip Meadows Taylor, Excerpts from Confessions of a Thug (1837) -- Captain William H. Sleeman, Thug Approvers (1833-1835?)
VIII. Suttee/Sati -- Introduction: Sati/Suttee: Observances, Abolition, Observations -- Colonel Henry Yule and A.C. Burnell, Suttee (1903) -- Lord William Bentinck, Bentinck's Minute on Sati, 8 November 1892 -- Sati Regulation XVII, a.d. 1829 of the Bengal Code, 4 December 1829 -- The Duties of a Faithful Widow, from Digest of Hindi Law (date of publication not identified) -- Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Petitions and Addresses on the Practice of Suttee (1818-1831) -- G.W.F. Hegel, On Sati (1822) -- Charles Dickens, Death by Fire of Miss Havisham (1861) -- Jules Verne, Fogg Rescues a Sati (1873) -- Maspero Jingle -- Ernest Renan, On Suttee (1893) -- Flora Annie Steel, The Reformer's Wife (1933)
IX. The Indian uprising / Sepoy mutiny 1857-1858 -- Introduction: The Asiatic Mystery: The Sepoy Mutiny, Rebellion, or Revolt -- Chronology of Events -- Rulers and Rebels: Some Major Figures -- Excerpts from The Who's Who of Indian Martyrs (1969-1973) -- Portrait of Nana Sahib -- Sepoys, 1757 (1890) -- Attack of the Mutineers on the Redan Battery at Lucknow, July 30, 1857 (n. d.) -- The Asiatic Mystery. As Prepared by Sepoy D'Israeli (1857) -- Proclamation to the People of Oude on Its Annexation. February 1856 -- Sir Henry Lawrence's Essay of 1843, Forecasting the Events of 1857 -- Rani Lakshmi Bai (The Rani of Jhansi), Letters of Rani Lakshmi Bai (1853-1854) -- Title page from The Queen's Desire (1893) -- Hume Nisbet, Preface and Excerpt from The Queen's Desire: A Romance of the Indian Mutiny (1893) -- The Ranee's Death (1893) -- The King of Oude's Manifesto from the Delhi Gazette, 29 September 1857 -- Karl Marx, The Revolt in India, The Indian Question, British Incomes in India, and The Annexation of Oude (1857-1858) -- Colonel C. Chester, Final Orders to the Musketry Schools (1857) -- Selected Documents from John William Kaye's The History of the Sepoy War in India, 1857-1858 (1880), including The Chupatties and The Bone-Dust Story -- Act. No. XIV of 1857 (on the punishment of soldiers under Company rule) (1880) -- Charles Ball, Summary Justice (date of publication not identified) -- Justice (1857) -- Selected Correspondence of Queen Victoria (1857) -- Anonymous, How to Make an Indian Pickle (1857) -- The British Lion's Vengeance on the Bengal Tiger (1857) -- Bholanauth-Chunder (attributed to), The Punishment of Allahabad (1857) -- Pity for the Poor Sepoys! (1857) -- Reverend J. Johnson Walsh, Excerpts from A Memorial of the Futtehgurh Mission and Her Martyred Missionaries: With Some Remarks on the Mutiny in India (1859) -- The Execution of John Company (1857) -- Anonymous, England's Great Mission to India (1879) -- Henry Gilbert, Doubts and Forebodings (date of publication not identified) -- Henry Gilbert, What the Native Thought (date of publication not identified) -- Rudyard Kipling, The Grave of the Hundred Head (1899) -- Alfred Tennyson, The Defence of Lucknow (1879) -- Alfred Tennyson, English War-Song (date of publication not identified) -- M.B. Synge, The Indian Mutiny (1908)
X. The Suez Canal: the gala opening -- Introduction: Spectacular Suez: The Opening Gala of the Suez Canal -- Opening of the Suez Canal at Port Said: Presence of the Imperial and Royal Visitors (1869) -- Opening of the Suez Canal: The Procession of Ships in the Canal (1869) -- Selected Correspondence of Giuseppe Verdi (1870) -- Baron Samuel Selig de Kusel, Excerpt from An Englishman's Recollections of Egypt 1863 to 1887 (1915) -- XI. The Suez Canal: the builder, Ferdinand de Lesseps -- Introduction: The Master Builder and His Designs: Ferdinand De Lesseps -- Ferdinand De Lesseps Bestrides His Canal (date of publication not identified) -- Chronology of Events -- Ferdinand De Lesseps, Inquiry into the Opinions of the Commercial Classes of Great Britain on the Suez Ship Canal (1857) -- Ferdinand De Lesseps, Excerpts from The Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of Its Rise and Progress in 1854-56 (1876) -- Charles Frederic Moberly Bell, Excerpt from From Pharaoh to Fellah (1888)
XII. The Suez Canal: the canal and its consequences -- Introduction: The Battlefield of the Future: The Canal and Its Consequences -- A Stretch of the Canal Is Hollowed Out / The Men Who Have Hollowed It (date of publication not identified) -- From the Great Pyramid. (A Bird's-Eye View of the Canal and Its Consequences.) (1869) -- Anonymous, Latest-From the Sphinx (1869) -- Anonymous, The Sultan's Complaint (1869) -- Ferdinand De Lesseps, Report to His Highness the Viceroy of Egypt on the Fellah Workmen to be Employed by the International Suez Canal Company (1856) -- The Official Firman of Concession Granted by the Viceroy of Egypt Mohamed Said, to Ferdinand De Lesseps, 1854 -- Charter of Concession and Book of Charges for the Construction and Working of the Suez Grand Maritime Canal and Dependencies (1856) -- Agreement of February 22, 1866, Determining the Final Terms as Ratified by the Sublime Porte -- Edward Dicey, Why Not Purchase the Suez Canal? (1883) -- Charles Royle, De Lesseps and the Canal (1900) -- D.A. Cameron, The Suez Canal (1898) -- Mose in Egitto! (1875) -- Lord Herbert Edward Cecil, A Day on the Suez Canal (1905) (1921) -- The Lion's Share (1876)
XIII. The Arabi Uprising -- Introduction: The Arabi Uprising: Egypt for the Egyptians or British Egypt -- Chronology of Events -- Important Figures -- Hold On! (1882) -- The Neddy of the Nile (1882) -- Bob McGee, De War in Egypt (1882) -- W.E. Gladstone, Aggression on Egypt and Freedom in the East (1887) -- Lord Cromer, The Mutiny of the Egyptian Army (1908) -- Arabi's Appeal to Gladstone (1882) -- Rioters at Alexandria (1882) -- The Crisis in Egypt (1882) -- E.M. Forster, The Bombardment of Alexandria (1882) -- Wilfred Scawen Blunt, The Arabi Trial (1907) -- The Sublime-Super! (1882) -- Lady Gregory, Arabi and His Household (1882) -- XIV. Pilgrims, travelers, and tourists -- Introduction: Holy Lands and Secular Agendas -- Lady Duff Gordon, Cairo Is the Real Arabian Nights (1865) -- Richard F. Burton, Suez (1855) -- Stanley Lane-Poole, The Two Cities (1902) -- Charles M. Doughty, Excerpt from Travels in Arabia Deserta (1888) -- Itineraries from Programme of Arrangements for Visiting Egypt, the Nile, Sudan, Palestine, and Syria (1929-1930) -- Egyptian Native Types (date of publication not identified)
Summary A collection of original writings and documents from British colonialism in the Middle East
Note English
JSTOR DDA
Subject Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- Sources
Alt Author Carter, Mia, editor
Harlow, Barbara, 1948-2017, editor
OCLC # 191855719
ISBN # 9780822385042
082238504X
1283064685
9781283064682
9786613064684
6613064688