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The Nation Thief
In 1855, William Walker--surgeon, lawyer, newspaper editor, and radical reformer--sets out from San Francisco with a band of fifty-seven men to conquer Nicaragua, liberate the Indians, and create the perfect democracy.
Oriental Experience
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Puerto Del Sol
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Manual of the Public Examinations Board
The Manuals include information on syllabus, regulations, copies of examination papers and notes by examiners. They also include pass lists.
The Man from the Pru
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The Pundits
On a September day in 1863, Abdul Hamid entered the Central Asian city of Yarkand. Disguised as a merchant, Hamid was actually an employee of the Survey of India, carrying concealed instruments to enable him to map the geography of the area. Hamid did not live to provide a first-hand count of his travels. Nevertheless, he was the advance guard of an elite group of Indian trans-Himalayan explorers—recruited, trained, and directed by the officers of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India—who were to traverse much of Tibet and Central Asia during the next thirty years. Derek Waller presents the history of these explorers, who came to be called "native explorers" or "pundits" in the publi...
Learning to Divide the World
"The barbarian rules by force; the cultivated conqueror teaches." This maxim form the age of empire hints at the usually hidden connections between education and conquest. In Learning to Divide the World, John Willinsky brings these correlations to light, offering a balanced, humane, and beautifully written account of the ways that imperialism's educational legacy continues to separate us into black and white, east and west, primitive and civilized.
Perspectives on Marine Environmental Change in Hong Kong and Southern China, 1977-2001
Here, eminent marine scientists and local researchers who have attended the workshops express their views on the many changes in Hong Kong's surrounding waters.
