An Accurate Account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China; Carefully Abridged from the Original Work; With Alterations and Corrections, by the Editor,
An Accurate Account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China; Carefully Abridged from the Original Work; With Alterations and Corrections, by the Editor,

Author: AENEAS. ANDERSON

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-22

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781385235829

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ John Rylands University Library of Manchester T165089 An abridgment of Aeneas Anderson's 'Narrative of the British embassy to China'. London: printed for Vernor and Hood, 1797. xii,144p., plates; 12°

An Accurate Account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China
An Accurate Account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China

Author: Aeneas Anderson

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-14

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9780265289297

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Excerpt from An Accurate Account of Lord Macartney's Embassy to China: Carefully Abridged From the Original Work; With Alterations and Corrections Who was fortunate enough to be an attendant on the embaiiy, and of courfe an eye witnefs to mofi of the occurrences here related, had, at one time, formed an idea of giving to the Public a narrative of the various Oh jeets which naturally met his obferva tion, from his'own manufeript, in or der that every clafs of readers might, at a {mall expence, partake of the advani. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Machines as the Measure of Men
Machines as the Measure of Men

Author: Michael Adas

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 9780801497605

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This new edition of what has become a standard account of Western expansion and technological dominance includes a new preface by the author that discusses how subsequent developments in gender and race studies, as well as global technology and politics, enter into conversation with his original arguments.

Global Corruption Report: Sport
Global Corruption Report: Sport

Author: Transparency International

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1317443748

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Sport is a global phenomenon engaging billions of people and generating annual revenues of more than US$ 145 billion. Problems in the governance of sports organisations, fixing of matches and staging of major sporting events have spurred action on many fronts. Yet attempts to stop corruption in sport are still at an early stage. The Global Corruption Report (GCR) on sport is the most comprehensive analysis of sports corruption to date. It consists of more than 60 contributions from leading experts in the fields of corruption and sport, from sports organisations, governments, multilateral institutions, sponsors, athletes, supporters, academia and the wider anti-corruption movement. This GCR provides essential analysis for understanding the corruption risks in sport, focusing on sports governance, the business of sport, planning of major events, and match-fixing. It highlights the significant work that has already been done and presents new approaches to strengthening integrity in sport. In addition to measuring transparency and accountability, the GCR gives priority to participation, from sponsors to athletes to supporters an essential to restoring trust in sport.

In the Land of the Romanovs
In the Land of the Romanovs

Author: Anthony Cross

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2014-04-27

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 1783740574

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Over the course of more than three centuries of Romanov rule in Russia, foreign visitors and residents produced a vast corpus of literature conveying their experiences and impressions of the country. The product of years of painstaking research by one of the world’s foremost authorities on Anglo-Russian relations, In the Lands of the Romanovs is the realization of a major bibliographical project that records the details of over 1200 English-language accounts of the Russian Empire. Ranging chronologically from the accession of Mikhail Fedorovich in 1613 to the abdication of Nicholas II in 1917, this is the most comprehensive bibliography of first-hand accounts of Russia ever to be published. Far more than an inventory of accounts by travellers and tourists, Anthony Cross’s ambitious and wide-ranging work includes personal records of residence in or visits to Russia by writers ranging from diplomats to merchants, physicians to clergymen, gardeners to governesses, as well as by participants in the French invasion of 1812 and in the Crimean War of 1854-56. Providing full bibliographical details and concise but informative annotation for each entry, this substantial bibliography will be an invaluable tool for anyone with an interest in contacts between Russia and the West during the centuries of Romanov rule.