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Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars

The Battle over Imperial Invention in the Victorian Age

By: Fergus Nicoll

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Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars

The Battle over Imperial Invention in the Victorian Age

By: Fergus Nicoll

General Gordons death in Khartoum on 26 January 1885 and the fall of the besieged city to the forces of the Mahdi was a crucial episode in British imperial history. It was deeply controversial at the time, and it still is today. Gordon has routinely been depicted as the hero of the story, in contrast to Prime Minister Gladstone who is often portrayed as the villain of the piece, responsible for a policy of drift in Sudan.Fergus Nicolls radical reappraisal, which is based on eyewitness accounts and previously unpublished archive material, refutes the conventional image of both men. Presenting an inside view of Gladstones thinking and decision-making, Nicoll gives the prime minister credit for his steadfast insistence that Britain should have minimal engagement in and zero responsibility for Sudan. Gordon, who succumbed to a lasting mania that skewed his decision-making and undermined his military capacity, is cast in a more sceptical light. This fascinating insight into British policy in Africa exposes the inner workings of government, the influence of the press and public opinion and the power of a book to change a government.Each stage in the rapid sequence of events is reconsidered Gladstones steely determination to avoid involvement, Gordons partial evacuation of Khartoum, the siege, the despatch of the relief expedition that arrived too late, the abandonment of Sudan, and the subsequent political battle over responsibility. The personal cost to both men was great: Gordon lost his life and Gladstone saw his reputation gravely tarnished.

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Pen and Sword

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147382253X

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Shah Jahan

By: Fergus Nicoll

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Shah Jahan

By: Fergus Nicoll

Khurram Shah Jahan, a title meaning King of the World , ruled the Mughal Empire from 1628 to 1659. His reign marked the cultural zenith of the Mughal dynasty: a period of multiculturalism, poetry, fine art and stupendous architecture. His legacy in stone embraces not only the Taj Mahal the tomb of his beloved second wife, Anjumand Mumtaz Mahal but fortresses, mosques, gardens, carvanserais and schools. But Shah Jahan was also a ruthless political operator, who only achieved power by ordering the murder of two brothers and at least six other relatives, one of them the legitimately crowned Emperor Dawar Baksh. This is the story of an enlightened despot, a king who dispensed largesse to favoured courtiers but ignored plague in the countryside. Fergus Nicholl has reconstructed this intriguing tale from contemporary biographies, edicts and correspondence. He has also traveled widely through India and Pakistan to follow in Shah Jahan's footsteps and put together an original portrait that challenges many established legends to bring the man and the emperor to life.

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Penguin Books India

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0670083038

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Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars

The Battle over Imperial Invention in the Victorian Age

By: Fergus Nicoll

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Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice

By: Fergus Nicol,Michael Humphreys,Susan Roaf

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Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice

By: Fergus Nicol,Michael Humphreys,Susan Roaf

The fundamental function of buildings is to provide safe and healthy shelter. For the fortunate they also provide comfort and delight. In the twentieth century comfort became a 'product' produced by machines and run on cheap energy. In a world where fossil fuels are becoming ever scarcer and more expensive, and the climate more extreme, the challenge of designing comfortable buildings today requires a new approach. This timely book is the first in a trilogy from leaders in the field which will provide just that. It explains, in a clear and comprehensible manner, how we stay comfortable by using our bodies, minds, buildings and their systems to adapt to indoor and outdoor conditions which change with the weather and the climate. The book is in two sections. The first introduces the principles on which the theory of adaptive thermal comfort is based. The second explains how to use field studies to measure thermal comfort in practice and to analyze the data gathered. Architects have gradually passed responsibility for building performance to service engineers who are largely trained to see comfort as the ‘product’, designed using simplistic comfort models. The result has contributed to a shift to buildings that use ever more energy. A growing international consensus now calls for low-energy buildings. This means designers must first produce robust, passive structures that provide occupants with many opportunities to make changes to suit their environmental needs. Ventilation using free, natural energy should be preferred and mechanical conditioning only used when the climate demands it. This book outlines the theory of adaptive thermal comfort that is essential to understand and inform such building designs. This book should be required reading for all students, teachers and practitioners of architecture, building engineering and management – for all who have a role in producing, and occupying, twenty-first century adaptive, low-carbon, comfortable buildings.

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Routledge

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1136336478

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Sword of the Prophet

The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon

By: Fergus Nicoll

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The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon

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On 25 January 1885, a Sudanese Islamic revolutionary army entered Khartoum. The slaughter continued from dawn until noon and involved the beheading of British officer General Charles Gordon

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0750932988

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The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon

By: Fergus Nicoll

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The Mahdi of Sudan and the Death of General Gordon

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This biography recognizes for the first time Mahdi's role as the charismatic but flawed leader of a movement seeking to free his people.

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Sutton Publishing

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0750932996

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9780750932998

The Safest Place

By: Fergus Linehan

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The Safest Place

By: Fergus Linehan

Set against the background of Dublin in the war years, Fergus Linehan's second novel is a haunting tale of two lovers, caught up in violence beyond their control.

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Pan

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0330368508

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9780330368506

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Gladstone, Gordon and the Sudan Wars

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Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Principles and Practice

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Sword of the Prophet

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