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Running the Show

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#267546
Titel	Running the Show: The Extraordinary Stories of the Men who Governed the British Empire
Auteur	Williams, Stephanie
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Viking Penguin
Jaar van uitgave	2011
ISBN10	0670918040
ISBN13	9780670918041
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	From Sierra Leone to Fiji, Australia to Sri Lanka, Running the Show is a vivid portrait of empire and of men from another age, who formed so much of the world we live in today. Running the Show is the story of ordinary men, who in their way, were heroes. Made up of episodes from the lives of governors serving around the British Empire, it presents a kaleidoscope of people, places and events - and stories of how, for better or worse, attempts were made to bring order to often chaotic situations. Drawing on an astonishing cache of Colonial Office dispatches, private letters, diaries and memoirs, governors recall their strange experiences, parade their eccentricities and complain about dysentery as they plan new towns, build railways, create assemblies, draft laws, negotiate with tribesmen, set up schools and hospitals, and introduce sanitation systems in the farthest reaching corners of the world.
Pagina's	493
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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