Sir Stamford Raffles was a key figure in British colonial history, and this book provides a detailed account of his life and legacy. It covers everything from his early years as a British diplomat to his eventual rise to prominence in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Along the way, the book provides valuable insights into the social and political climate of British colonialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in British colonial history or the history of ...
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Sir Stamford Raffles was a key figure in British colonial history, and this book provides a detailed account of his life and legacy. It covers everything from his early years as a British diplomat to his eventual rise to prominence in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Along the way, the book provides valuable insights into the social and political climate of British colonialism in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in British colonial history or the history of Southeast Asia. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp xx, 290. Original publisher's decorative red cloth, lettered gilt on spine and on front cover. Portrait frontispiece. Bookplate on the front endpaper of Frederick DuCane Godman (1834-1919) an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. He closely studied the fauna and flora of Central America and had several plants name after him, he also collected Iznik, Hispano-Moresque and early Iranian pottery. He corresponded with other scientists of his time including Charles Darwin and lived at South Lodge, Lower Beeding where his ceramics collection was kept. Slight fading at spine with some foxing to preliminaries (frontispiece moderately foxed), overall sound, close very good.
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