From the East India Company to the Suez Canal /

A collection of original writings and documents from British colonialism in the Middle East.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Carter, Mia (Editor ), Harlow, Barbara, 1948-2017 (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Colección:Archives of Empire ; v. 1.
E-Duke books scholarly collection.
Temas:
HISTORY > World.
British colonies.
Great Britain > Colonies > History > Sources.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire > Sources.
History.
Sources.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 (n.d.)
  • 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 (n.d.)
  • 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 (n.d.)
  • 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 (n.d.)
  • Henry Gilbert, What the Native Thought (n.d.)
  • Rudyard Kipling, The Grave of the Hundred Head (1899)
  • Alfred Tennyson, The Defence of Lucknow (1879)
  • Alfred Tennyson, English War-Song (n.d.)
  • 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 (n.d.)
  • 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 (n.d.)
  • 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 (n.d.).

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