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Author: Steven Runciman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-03
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780521128995
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe White Rajah documents a fascinating time in Sarawak made possible by high integrity of three generations of Brooke men.
Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Payne
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the Brooke dynasty, James, Charles, and Vyner, Rajahs of Sarawak for over a hundred years.
Author: Alex Ling
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-03-13
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1479791679
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPower, passion, politics. The sleepy state of Sarawak is stirred up as never before by the arrival of Gerald McBryan. An unscrupulous adventurer, he soon has the Rajah and Ranee eating out of his hand. The eminence grise of Rajah Vyner, he forces through decisions that have shaped what Sarawak is today. Twilight of the White Rajahs is set in the Sarawak of the interwar and immediate postwar period. Vyner, like Henry VII of England, has inherited a tightly run ship of state. But his own playboy nature, the antics of his wife and most important his failure to produce a male heir, threaten the dynasty into which he was born. Outside forces also increase the pressure on his regime. War clouds in the Pacific and the South China Sea. The desire for self-determination. The bullying of the British Colonial Office. The turbulent wave of anti-cession created by the Rajah Muda, Peter Brooke. A war of hot tempers, cunning and deviousness ensued; a war that everyone was determined to win at all costs. Twilight of the White Rajahs recounts in fascinating detail the lives of the chief actors during this period. Twilight of the White Rajahs continues the saga of Golden Dreams of Borneo as the tough pioneering spirit of the 19th century gives way to the more sophisticated politics of the 20th.
Author: Neil Price
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 629
ISBN-13: 0465096999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirík Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.
Author: Robert Pringle
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Published: 1970
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dave Carley
Publisher: Scirocco Drama
Published: 2021-10
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781927922903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCanadian Rajah is the incredible -- and true -- story of Esca Brooke Daykin. He was the first-born son of the legendary "White Rajah of Sarawak" but was exiled from that country (a British colony, now part of Malaysia) to the backwoods of Eastern Ontario. Esca's very existence was erased from his birth country's history books. He waged a lifelong battle to have his true identity and parentage recognized. Esca's life spans continents, races, generations and centuries -- and only now is it being told.
Author: Cassandra Pybus
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780702228575
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Author: Vernon L. Porritt
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSarawak, romanticized as the Land of the White Rajahs until 1946, lost its independence, became a British colony, and then became a state in the Federation of Malaysia, all in the short span of seventeen years. This book attempts to provide some answers to the questions often raised in connection with this period of unparalleled change in Sarawak's history, a period which has largely been neglected by researchers.
Author: Charles (Rajah of Sarawak)
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Published: 1866
Total Pages: 122
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