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Excerpt from The Life of Sir Colin C. Scott-Moncrieff This book is an attempt to record for his descendants, kinsfolk, and friends, the long, useful, noble life of Sir Colin scott-moncriefi. The part contributed by each of the sources of this composite volume is most easily explained in the terms of a metaphor. The work may be described as a mosaic, in which the portrait, drawn from Sir Colin's own reminiscences and letters, is mainly autobiographical. The back ground has been chie y supplied by General Sir G. K. Scott-moncrieff (in Chapters I - IV) and by Mrs. Wilson King (in Chapters VII-VIII), with special features added by Mrs. Ballard, Lord Balfour of Bur leigh, Sir James Miller Dodds, ...
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More than 850 individuals partly forgotten by name, but sometimes found in historical writings, together with many well known or recently deceased persons are presented in terms of bio-data, short career highlights, and main advances made to the profession with a short biography of the main writings. If available, a portrait is also included. Hydraulicians in Europe, Volume 2 is a continuation of the first volume, both in outline and in coverage and pagination. Volumes 1 and 2 include more than 1500 biographies.
In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since Egypt was occupied because of its strategic position along the route to India. British presence there, however, inevitably led to modernization during the 32 years of British rule. During the first period the British were preoccupied with the prospect of imminent withdrawal. The second period emphasized programs for such reforms as hydraulic and agricultural modernization, wider education, and urban development. The final period covered the emergence of Egyptian nationalism, whose goals proved incompatible with British rule of Egypt in spite of efforts to deal with nationalism ...
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A long environmental history of the Aral Sea region, focusing on colonization and development in Russian and Soviet Central Asia.