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  • A Barrister in the Far East - Duncan McNeill

    Memoirs of Extraterritoriality in China, Hong Kong and Japan (1891-1926)

    by T.M. Thorp ...
    I was called to the Bar in 1889 and went abroad very soon afterwards. For thirty-five years, from the beginning of 1891, I practised in Extra-territorial Courts. As we shall probably, before long, see the end of a system that has been in force ever since our country came into direct relations with the alien cultures of China and Japan, I think that perhaps this record, which covers the period of ... Read more

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  • The Suffragettes

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  • The Zong

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  • William Armstrong

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    by Henrietta Heald ...
    William Armstrong was a brilliant and charismatic figure of the 19th Century – a self-made man whose achievements are now being more widely recognised. Inventor, scientist, engineer, and an early advocator of renewable energy, he built a pioneering house in Northumberland in the North East of England called Cragside, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity.Armstrong's industrial ... Read more

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  • Opium and Empire

    The Lives and Careers of William Jardine and James Matheson

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    In 1832 William Jardine and James Matheson established what would become the greatest British trading company in East Asia in the nineteenth century. After the termination of the East India Company's monopoly in the tea trade, Jardine, Matheson & Company's aggressive marketing strategies concentrated on the export of teas and the import of opium, sold offshore to Chinese smugglers.Jardine and ... Read more

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  • The People's Rights

    by Winston S. Churchill ...
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    This inspiring collection of campaign speeches from the WWII-era British prime minister brings the great politician's work to life.Legendary politician and military strategist Sir Winston Churchill was a master not only of the battlefield, but of the page and the podium. Over the course of forty books and countless speeches, broadcasts, news items and more, he addressed a country at war and at ... Read more

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  • ENGLAND UNDER FREE TRADE

    by GEORGE W. MEDLEY ...
    I have the honour of appearing before you this evening for the purpose of delivering to you an address, which I have entitled "England under Free Trade." Now, these are very wide terms. In their full meaning they cover a vast field of inquiry, and, if I were to attempt to traverse that field throughout, I should have to take in political, social, agricultural, commercial, artistic, literary, and ... Read more

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  • Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die

    The Assassination of a British Prime Minister

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    At approximately 5:15pm on the afternoon of May 11, 1812, Spencer Perceval, the all-powerful Prime Minister of Great Britain, was fatally shot at short range in the lobby of Parliament. His assailant was John Bellingham, a man who blamed his government for not intervening when he was unjustly imprisoned in Russia. The killer made no effort to escape in the confusion; remarkably, he firmly believed ... Read more

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  • The Collected Works of Erskine Childers

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    This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Riddle of the Sands • The Framework of Home Rule • In the Ranks of the C.I.V. ... Read more

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  • My Life in China and America

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  • A Seventh Child and The Law

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    The author comes from a distinguished family in Hong Kong. His father, Yu Wan, was an eminent figure in educational circles both before and after the Second World War. In Part I of this book, there is a detailed description of the unique circumstances under which the author, as a matriculation student, was awarded a government scholarship to enter the University of Hong Kong in 1938. Altogether ... Read more

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