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Cult of a Dark Hero
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

Cult of a Dark Hero

In September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died. Nikal Seyn was, in fact, John Nicholson, the leader of the British assault that recovered Delhi at the turning-point of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. What was it about Nicholson that prompted such devotion, not just from his religious followers, but from the general public? And why is he no longer considered a hero? The man called 'The Lion of the Punjab' by his contemporaries and compared to General Wolfe of Quebec, and even to Napoleon, has in recent times been dubbed 'an imperial psychopath' and 'a homosexual bully'. Yet his was a remarkable ta...

Peopled Landscapes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

Peopled Landscapes

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-01-01
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  • Publisher: ANU E Press

"This volume brings together a collection of papers from a diverse field of international scholars exploring the multiple ways that East Timorese communities are making and remaking their connections to land and places of ancestral significance. The work is explicitly comparative and highlights the different ways Timorese language communities negotiate access and transactions in land, disputes and inheritance especially in areas subject to historical displacement and resettlement. Consideration is extended to the role of ritual performance and social alliance for inscribing connection and entitlement. Emerging through analysis is an appreciation of how relations to land, articulated in origin discourses, are implicated in the construction of national culture and differential contributions to the struggle for independence."--Publisher's description.

Proceedings and Report of the Annual Meeting
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 156

Proceedings and Report of the Annual Meeting

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1895
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Stories of Exploration and Discovery
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Stories of Exploration and Discovery

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1924
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  • Publisher: CUP Archive

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BBC Channels (UK)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 107

BBC Channels (UK)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: PediaPress

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Bailliere's South Australian Gazetteer and Road Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

Bailliere's South Australian Gazetteer and Road Guide

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1866
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Emu
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 364

The Emu

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1906
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Baillière's South Australian Gazetteer and Road Guide containing ... information as to every place in the colony
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380
The Trillion Dollar Conman
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

The Trillion Dollar Conman

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-10-24
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  • Publisher: Icon Books

Based on the hit BBC 5Live podcast series, The Trillion Dollar Conman is an audacious tale of an international fraud that is stranger than fiction . In 2009, Notts County FC were on the brink of bankruptcy when they were taken over by a mysterious company supposedly backed by the Bahraini royal family. The club was promised millions of pounds worth of investment and a list of marquee players, including Sol Campbell and Kasper Schmeichel were signed, in a recruitment drive led by former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson, who was appointed to take the club all the way to the Premier League. However, within weeks, as the bills began to pile up, the dream came tumbling down as it transpired that the club, the players and the fans had been tricked by a convicted fraudster called Russell King. The world's oldest professional football club found itself at the centre of one of the most outlandish frauds in sporting and world history, which spanned the globe from Nottingham to North Korea, involving fake sheikhs, fast cars, broken promises and a trail of destruction.

The Explorers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396

The Explorers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1962
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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