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Book/Printed MaterialStrategic camouflage,- Contributor: Solomon, Solomon J. (Solomon Joseph)
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 132 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialA history of India under the two first sovereigns of the house of Taimur, Báber and Humáyun. William Erskine (1773-1852) was a Scottish-born scholar and administrator who held a variety of posts in India between 1804 and 1823. He mastered Persian and in 1826 published an English translation of the memoirs of Babur, the first Mughal emperor and the founder of the Mughal dynasty. In 1831 Erskine began formulating plans for a history of the first six Mughal emperors. He died...- Contributor: Erskine, William
- Date: 1854-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialModern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations: Digested ... "Catalogue of maps, and of books of voyages and travels": v. 2, p. 792-802. Vols. 1 and 2 have supplements containing corrections and additions 1817.- Contributor: Pond, John - Pinkerton, John - Nicolle De La Croix
- Date: 1811-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe history of British India; James Mill (1773-1836) was a Scottish-born writer and political philosopher, also known as the father of the philosopher and economist John Stuart Mill (1806-73). He studied at the University of Edinburgh, was licensed as a Presbyterian minister, and worked for a time as an itinerant preacher. In 1802 Mill moved to London, where he began a career as a writer of pamphlets, articles, and...- Contributor: Mill, James
- Date: 1817-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe history of Arabia. The History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern is a two-volume study, first published in 1833, by the Scottish Presbyterian cleric and man of letters Andrew Crichton (1790-1855). In his preface, Crichton presents his book as a first effort to "connect the past with the illustrations of modern discovery so as to exhibit the whole in moderate compass," that is, in only two volumes. He...- Contributor: Crichton, Andrew
- Date: 1838-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialTimbuctoo the mysterious, Translation of Tombouctou la mystérieuse.- Contributor: White, Diana - Dubois, Félix
- Date: 1896-01-01
- Resource: - 403 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialBritish government in India. George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) was a British politician, traveler, and writer who served as viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924. The somewhat confusingly titled British Government in India: The Story of Viceroys and Government Houses was one of Curzon's last books, completed after he left the Foreign Office in January 1924 and posthumously published. The two-volume...- Contributor: Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon
- Date: 1925-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe exploration of the world. Added t. p., illus. Series title also at head of t. p.- Contributor: Leigh, Dora - Verne, Jules
- Date: 1882-01-01
- Resource: - 678 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Kitabi-i-yamini, historical memoirs of the Amír Sabaktagín, and the Sultán Mahmúd of Ghazna, early conquerors of Hindustan, and founders of the Ghaznavide dynasty, translated from the Persian version of the contemporary ... Translation of Tārīkh al- al-yamīnī.- Contributor: Reynolds, James - ʻutbī, Muḥammad Ibn ʻabd Al-Jabbār
- Date: 1858-01-01
- Resource: - 548 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe dynasty of the Kajars. The Dynasty of the Kajars is an English translation of an original manuscript, Maʼāsir-i sulṭānīyah, published in London in 1833 in an edition of 250 copies. The translator, Sir Harford Jones Brydges (1764-1847), was a British diplomat in the service of the East India Company who served as the company's envoy-extraordinary and minister-plenipotentiary to the court of Persia from 1807 to 1811, and who...- Contributor: Jones, Harford - Brydges, Harford Jones - Maftūn Dunbulī, ʻabd Al-Razzāq
- Date: 1833-01-01
- Resource: - 668 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialTales of travel, George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) was a British politician, traveler, and writer who served as viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924. As a young man he traveled extensively and wrote several travel books, or books that drew extensively on his travels, including Russia in Central Asia (1889), Persia and the Persian Question (1892), and Problems of the...- Contributor: Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon
- Date: 1923-01-01
- Resource: - 382 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialThe history of Persia, from the most early period to the present time : containing an account of the religion, government, usages, and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom. digital files not viewed; td12 2013-8-27- Contributor: Malcolm, John
- Date: 1815-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe land of Midian (revisited). LAC ael 2019-03-21 update (1 card)- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1879-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe strangling of Persia; a story of the European diplomacy and oriental intrigue that resulted in the denationalization of twelve million Mohammedans, a personal narrative, William Morgan Shuster (1877-1960) was an American lawyer and financial expert who served as treasurer general to the government of the Persian Empire in 1911. In 1910, the Persian government asked U.S. president William Howard Taft for technical assistance in reorganizing its financial system. Taft chose Shuster to head a mission of American experts to Tehran. The Strangling of Persia is Shuster's account of...- Contributor: Shuster, W. Morgan (William Morgan)
- Date: 1912
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Book/Printed MaterialA memoir of India and Avghanistaun, with observations on the present exciting and critical state and future prospects of those countries ...
Memoir of India and Afghanistan Josiah Harlan (1799-1871) was an adventurer and soldier of fortune who possibly was the first American to travel to Afghanistan. Born in Pennsylvania into a large Quaker family, he went to Asia in 1823, where he found employment as a surgeon with the British East India Company. In 1827 he entered the service of Shah Shooja-ool-Moolk, the former leader of Afghanistan who had been...- Contributor: Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Harlan, Josiah
- Date: 1842
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Book/Printed MaterialSind revisited: with notices of the Anglo-Indian army; railroads; part, present, and future, etc. "I have borrowed copiously from Scinde, or the Unhappy Valley (London: Bentley, 1851), whatever of enduring interest was in it."--Pref., p. ix.- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis
- Date: 1877-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe life and correspondence of Major-General Sir John Malcolm, G. C. B., late envoy to Persia, and governor of Bombay; Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833) was a British soldier, colonial administrator, diplomat, linguist, and historian. He was born in Scotland, left school at age 12, and, through an uncle, secured a position in the East India Company. While stationed in various parts of India as an officer in the company's military forces, he became interested in foreign languages, which he studied diligently. He became fluent...- Contributor: Kaye, John William
- Date: 1856-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialThe Merv Oasis; travels and adventures east of the Caspian during the years 1879-80-81, including five months' residence among the Tekkés of Merv, Edmund O'Donovan (1844-83) was a British war correspondent who covered conflicts and uprisings in France, Spain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Central Asia. Born in Dublin, he wrote for the Irish Times and other Dublin papers and later for the British paper, the Daily News. In 1879 he traveled to Merv (in present-day Turkmenistan), where he was arrested by the Turcomans, or Turkmen, on suspicion...- Contributor: O'Donovan, Edmond
- Date: 1883-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialMinhaj et talibin. A manual of Muhammadan law according to the school of Shafii,- Contributor: Howard, E. C. - Berg, Lodewijk Willem Christiaan Van Den - Nawawī
- Date: 1914-01-01
- Resource: - 596 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialPersia and the Persian question, George Nathaniel Curzon (1859-1925) was a British politician, traveler, and writer who served as viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905 and foreign secretary from 1919 to 1924. As a young man he traveled extensively and wrote several books that drew on his travels, including Russia in Central Asia (1889), Persia and the Persian Question (1892), and Problems of the Far East (1894). Persia...- Contributor: Curzon of Kedleston, George Nathaniel Curzon
- Date: 1892-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialAfghanistan, Angus Hamilton was a British journalist who reported for a number of newspapers and journals between 1894 and 1912. Among the events he covered were the Boer War in South Africa, the Boxer uprising in China, and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5. Like most books of this period, Afghanistan approaches its subject through the prism of the rivalry between Great Britain and Russia for...- Contributor: Hamilton, A. (Angus)
- Date: 1910
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Book/Printed MaterialUnexplored Syria. Visits to the Libanus, the Tulúl el Safá, the Anti-Libanus, the northern Libanus, and the 'Aláh.- Contributor: Burton, Richard Francis - Drake, Charles F. Tyrwhitt (Charles Frederick Tyrwhitt)
- Date: 1872-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialBelgium. In preparation for the peace conference that was expected to follow World War I, in the spring of 1917 the British Foreign Office established a special section responsible for preparing background information for use by British delegates to the conference. Belgium is Number 26 in a series of more than 160 studies produced by the section, most of which were published after the conclusion...- Contributor: Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
- Date: 1920-01-01
- Resource: - 242 pages
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Book/Printed MaterialChronological retrospect, or memoirs of the principal events of Mahommedan history,- Contributor: Price, David
- Date: 1811-01-01