Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings - Couverture rigide

Bernstein, Jeremy

 
9781566632812: Dawning of the Raj: The Life and Trials of Warren Hastings
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1566632811 ISBN 13 : 9781566632812
Editeur : Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Nothing in the history of empire is stranger than the creation of British rule in India, when a small European island became master of a subcontinent ranging from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. In the late eighteenth century the person most responsible for this was Warren Hastings, Britains first governor-general of India. In Dawning of the Raj, Jeremy Bernstein brings to life in vivid colors Hastingss story amidst the rise of British power. Orphaned early, Hastings worked his way up from the lowest clerk in the East India Company to its highest office in India. His concern for native cultures led him to sponsor the first British expedition to Tibet and the first translation into English of the Bhagavadgita. Brilliant and autocratic, he also made enemies, and upon his return to England they charged him with high crimes and misdemeanors. His impeachment trial, one of the great spectacles of the age, lasted seven years and pitted Hastings against the likes of Edmund Burke and the playwright Richard Sheridan. It attracted the novelist Fanny Burney, who wrote of it with passion in her Journals. This parliamentary drama, replete with the trappings of state, forms the conclusion to Mr. Bernsteins fascinating, unusual, and completely captivating narrative. With 22 black-and-white illustrations.

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À propos de l?auteur

For nearly three decades Jeremy Bernstein wrote profiles of scientists for the New Yorker. Many were prize-winners, and his book Einstein was nominated for the National Book Award. Mr. Bernstein, a theoretical physicist best known for his nonscientific work, has also written The Merely Personal and Oppenheimer as well as Hitler's Uranium Club; Three Degrees Above Zero; and Cranks, Quarks, and the Cosmos. He lives in New York City and Aspen, Colorado.-

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Éditeur
Ivan R Dee, Inc
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1566632811
ISBN 13 
9781566632812
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
335
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1854107534 ISBN 13 :  9781854107534
Editeur : Aurum Press, 2001
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