Dr Philip’s Empire
Title | Dr Philip’s Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Keegan |
Publisher | Penguin Random House South Africa |
Pages | 752 |
Release | 2016-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1770227113 |
Dr John Philip towered over nineteenth-century South African history, championing the rights of indigenous people against the growing power of white supremacy, but today he is largely forgotten or misremembered. From the time he arrived in South Africa as superintendent of the London Missionary Society in 1819, Philip played a major role in the idealist and humanitarian campaigns of the day, fighting for the emancipation of slaves, protecting the Khoi against injustice, and opposing the dispossession of the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape. A fascinating picture of South Africa and the British Empire during a time of great change, Dr Philip’s Empire documents Philip’s encounters with Dutch colonists, English settlers and indigenous South Africans, his never-ending battles with fellow missionaries and colonial authorities, and his lobbying among the powerful for indigenous people’s civil rights. A controversial and influential figure, Philip was considered an interfering radical subversive by believers in white superiority, but he has been labelled a condescending, hypocritical ‘white liberal’ in a more modern age. This book seeks to revive him from these judgements and to recover the real man and his noble but doomed struggles for justice in the context of his times.
Sea Change
Title | Sea Change PDF eBook |
Author | Amanda Phillips |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Pages | 355 |
Release | 2021-04-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520303598 |
Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immense amount of revenue and touched every level of society, from rural women tending silkworms to pashas flaunting layers of watered camlet to merchants traveling to Mecca and beyond. Sea Change offers the first comprehensive history of the Ottoman textile sector, arguing that the trade's enduring success resulted from its openness to expertise and objects from far-flung locations. Amanda Phillips skillfully marries art history with social and economic history, integrating formal analysis of various textiles into wider discussions of how trade, technology, and migration impacted the production and consumption of textiles in the Mediterranean from around 1400 to 1800. Surveying a vast network of textile topographies that stretched from India to Italy and from Egypt to Iran, Sea Change illuminates often neglected aspects of material culture, showcasing the objects' ability to tell new kinds of stories.
Citizen Emperor
Title | Citizen Emperor PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Dwyer |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 817 |
Release | 2013-11-26 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 030016243X |
Traces Napoleon's rise to power, early mistakes, and military campaigns, while considering the emperor's darker side and the lengths to which he went to establish himself as a legitimate ruler.
Della's Roses
Title | Della's Roses PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Phillips Charities |
Publisher | |
Pages | 103 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Businesspeople |
ISBN |
"While highlighting Della's roses, this book covers a few of the many accomplishments of Dr. Philip Phillips and his family including the innovations he brought to the citrus industry. They include the first successful canning of orange juice; aerial crop dusting; transplanting entire mature groves; printing their own scrip currency; and, producing citrus films to name a few. The story gives you a brief glimpse of the legacy during the family's lifetime and much of what has transpired since."--Page [1]
The Rôle of the Missionaries in Conquest
Title | The Rôle of the Missionaries in Conquest PDF eBook |
Author | Nosipho Majeke |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN |
Dr. Livingstone, I Presume?
Title | Dr. Livingstone, I Presume? PDF eBook |
Author | Clare Pettitt |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780674024878 |
Drawing on films, children's books, games, songs, cartoons, and TV shows, this book reveals the many ways our culture has remembered Henry Morton Stanley's iconic phrase, while tracking the birth of an Anglo-American Christian imperialism that still sets the world agenda today.
Gordian III and Philip the Arab
Title | Gordian III and Philip the Arab PDF eBook |
Author | Ilkka Syvänne |
Publisher | Pen and Sword Military |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2021-04-28 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1526786788 |
This is a dual biography of the emperors Marcus Antonius Gordianus (‘Gordian III’, reigned 238-244) and Marcus Julius Philippus Augustus (‘Philip the Arab’, reigned 244-249), focusing mainly on the political and military events during this crucial stage of the ‘Third Century Crisis’. The tumultuous 'Year of the Six Emperors' saw Gordian raised to the purple at just thirteen years of age, becoming the youngest emperor in the Empire’s history at a time when the borders were threatened by the powerful Sassanid Persians and the Goths, among others. Gordian died on a campaign against the Persians, either in battle or possibly murdered by his own men. Philip, succeeded Gordian, made peace with Shapur I and returned to Italy. His reign encompassed the spectacular celebration of Rome’s millennium in 248 but the wars in the Balkans and East together with crippling taxation led to mutinies and rebellions. Philip and his brother had until then fought successfully against the Persians and others but this did not save Philip, who was killed by a usurper’s forces at the Battle of Verona in 249. He had been Rome’s first Christian emperor and the author considers why it was fifty years before she had another.