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Call of Empire

From the Highlands to Hindostan

By: Alexander Charles Baillie

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Call of Empire

From the Highlands to Hindostan

By: Alexander Charles Baillie

From 1760 to 1869, four generations of one family from the Scottish Highlands sought their fortunes in the service of the East India Company. As they worked their way up through the ranks of the empire, the Baillie family left numerous footprints in India and recorded their fascinating experiences in letters sent home to Scotland. Drawing on thorough research of the military, political, and economic events of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and an extensive collection of family letters that depict the lives and personalities of his ancestors, Alexander Charles Baillie brings the history of British India to life. The compelling documents, lost for over a century with many reproduced here, reveal changing race relations and social attitudes, cultural tensions, military and civilian battles, economic pressures, and the rise and decline of the East India Company. The book focuses especially on two members of the family – William of Dunain, a military officer, and John of Leys, a civil servant – whose numerous adventures and misadventures impart provocative clues about the workings of the empire and the daily lives of its most influential figures. An exciting, invaluable, and personalized glimpse into the past of India, Scotland, and the East India Company, Call of Empire will appeal to genealogy enthusiasts and social and global historians.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773552065

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9780773552067

The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)

Politics, Religion and Record-Keeping in the British Civil Wars

By: Alexander D. Campbell

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The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)

Politics, Religion and Record-Keeping in the British Civil Wars

By: Alexander D. Campbell

First full study of the life and career of the Glaswegian minister Robert Baillie, establishing his significance and influence

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783271841

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9781783271849

Call of Empire

From the Highlands to Hindostan

By: Alexander Charles Baillie

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851

By: Benjamin Disraeli,J. B. Conacher,John Matthews,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,M. G. Wiebe

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851

By: Benjamin Disraeli,J. B. Conacher,John Matthews,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,M. G. Wiebe

Part of the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series. This volume contains or describes letters written by Disraeli between 1848 and 1851.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802029272

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9780802029270

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

Benjamin Disraeli was perhaps the most colourful Prime Minister in British history. This seventh volume of the highly acclaimed Benjamin Disraeli Letters edition shows also that he was a dedicated, resourceful, and farsighted statesman. It contains 670 letters written between 1857 and 1859. They address friends, family, political colleagues, and, not least, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. During this period, Disraeli shepherded a fragile Conservative government through the Indian Mutiny, the Second Opium War with China, the Orsini bomb plot, and the Franco-Austrian-Piedmontese War, only to fail at home over parliamentary reform. Day-by-day politics and behind-the-scenes strategy dominate, while lighter-hearted letters to friends and family reveal the private Disraeli's charm and wit. With an appendix of 115 newly found letters dating from 1825, as well as information on 219 unfound letters, full annotations to each letter, an exhaustive name-and-subject index and a comprehensive introduction, this volume will be a vital resource for new understanding of this enigmatic statesman.

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0802087280

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Book's by Alexander Charles Baillie

Call of Empire

Call of Empire

The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)

The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)

Call of Empire

Call of Empire

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1848-1851

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1857-1859

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