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Nicholson: How an Angry Irishman became the Hero of Delhi
ISBN: 9780750988100 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. John Nicholson was born in Dublin and sent to India as a child-soldier at the age of 16. He fought in the first Anglo-Afghanistan war, the two Anglo-Sikh wars and the Great Mutiny, dying in the thick of battle as the British army he was leading stormed the ancient city of Delhi in September 1857. He was only 34 years of age when he died. His legacy and his legend as the `Hero of Delhi', however, have far outlived him in ballads, poems, the works of Kipling and the Flashman series. This is his story.
John Nicholson was born in Dublin and sent to India as a child-soldier at the age of 16. He fought in the first Anglo-Afghanistan war, the two Anglo-S...
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Media and the Empire
ISBN: 9781138309357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Media and the Empire
ISBN: 9781138184329 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume on print and broadcast media in the 19th and 20th centuries highlights the pivotal role that the media played in the establishment and maintenance of imperial power. The media bolstered both the ideological and financial objectives of the empire in a myriad of overt, covert, and downright scandalous ways. From jeopardising the introduction of wireless telegraphy in order to maximise the financial gains of the investors of under-sea cabling, to newspaper proprietors cashing in on the thrilling, wonderful (and sometimes fabricated) adventures of war correspondents in exotic... This volume on print and broadcast media in the 19th and 20th centuries highlights the pivotal role that the media played in the establishment and ... |
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708,33 zł |