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A stimulating and highly readable account of the world of genetic research and molecular biology and its findings over the last half-century. Challenges common assumptions and theories of what determines our personality and behaviour.
In May 1857, with the Indian Mutiny reaching boiling point, Sir
Henry Lawrence summoned from their homes two sets of pensioners,
one of sepoys and one of artillerymen, to defend the Lucknow
British Residency. Lawrence would not clear the mosques surrounding
the 60-acre site, which provided cover for rebel sharpshooters and
artillery – ‘Spare the holy places’ – and was almost
immediately killed by a shell. Thus began one of the most dramatic
episodes in the history of the British Empire: truly a Victorian
epic. Hundreds of women and children cowered in the complex as the
bombs and bullets flew. The first relief attempt led by Maj Gen
Havelock failed. The tens of thousands of besiegers undermined the
defences and food was running out. With massive loss of life and
after 87 days, the relief force reached the Residency – to become
besieged themselves for another six weeks. The 64-year-old Sir
Colin Campbell led the second relief column through the rebels, the
4th Punjab Infantry Regiment emptying their muskets and resorting
to the bayonet. After 148 days under siege, retreat was the only
option and the whole garrison moved to Cawnpore. The following
March, Lucknow was retaken. Victorian military history expert
William Wright returns to primary sources to tell the extraordinary
story.
Who were the men who commanded the British Army in the numerous
small wars of the Victorian Empire? Today, many are all but
forgotten, save the likes of Cardigan, Kitchener, Baden-Powell and
Gordon of Khartoum. Yet they were a disparate and fascinating
assemblage, made up of men of true military genius, as well as
egoists, fools and despots. In Warriors of the Queen, William
Wright surveys over 170 of these men, examining their careers and
personalities. He reveals not only the lives of the great military
names of the period but also of those whom history has overlooked,
from James 'Buster' Browne, who once fought a battle in his
nightshirt, to Jack Bisset, who had fought in three South African
wars by his twenty-third birthday. Based on original research and
complemented by over sixty photographs, Warriors of the Queen
provides new insight into the men who built (and sometimes
endangered) the British Empire on the battlefield.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable,
high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Four times in the nineteenth century, popular protest movements
spread across the northern Japanese rice plain of Shonai. This
study skillfully portrays the changing character of the protests,
their relationship to one another, and their role in the societal
transformation of Shonai first during Japan's shift from tributary
polity to nation state and then from mercantilism to
capitalism.
Originally published in 1985.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
This work, first published in 1895, and here republished in
facsimile, tells of the author's travels on horseback throughout
that region of the Middle East centring on the oasis of Palmyra.
Though largely a narrative of the author's travels, the true value
of the work lies in the wealth of detailed information on the
archaeological features of the area, and particularly important are
the large number of plates and engravings of historical sites and
artefacts, many of which are now lost. The republication of this
work will be widely welcomed by historians and students of Middle
Eastern history.
Four times in the nineteenth century, popular protest movements
spread across the northern Japanese rice plain of Shonai. This
study skillfully portrays the changing character of the protests,
their relationship to one another, and their role in the societal
transformation of Shonai first during Japan's shift from tributary
polity to nation state and then from mercantilism to capitalism.
Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
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