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books on: Gambier  - 534 results

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1.
Opium and Empire: Chinese Society in Colonial Singapore, 1800-1910
Book by Carl A. Trocki; Cornell University Press, 1990
Subjects: Alien Labor, Chinese--Singapore--History--19th Century, Chinese--Singapore--History--19th Century, Opium Trade--Singapore--History--19th Century, Singapore--Social Conditions
...Chinese laborer cutting dried gambier into cubes 64...Maps 1. The gambier-producing areas of Singapore, Riau, and...Singapore market prices for pepper and gambier, 1825-1909 165 5. Arrests for...
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The Last Epic Naval Battle: Voices from Leyte Gulf
Book by David Sears; Praeger, 2005
Subjects: Philippine Sea, Battles Of The, 1944, World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area
...one of the Voices in this book. ? USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) and VC-10 Association, particularly...serves as ships historian and maintains Gambier Bays resource-rich Internet site. Tony...Class, USN H. B. (Burt) Bassett USS Gambier Bay, XO, VC-10, Lieutenant, USNR (later...
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C. Hubert H. Parry: His Life and Music
Book by Jeremy Dibble; Oxford University Press, 1998
Subjects: Composers--England--Biography, Parry, C. Hubert H--(Charles Hubert Hastings)--1848-1918
...to soften comments made about Thomas Gambier Parrys unwillingness to allow his son...and his eldest half-brother, Ernest Gambier Parry, in the 1890s. Last but not least...between pp. 272 and 273 1. Thomas Gambier Parry 2. Isabella Huberts Mother...
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The Sea Wolf: The Life of Admiral Cochrane
Book by Ian Grimble; Birlinn, 2000
Subjects: Admirals--Great Britain--Biography, Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane--Earl Of--1775-1860, Great Britain--History, Naval--19th Century
...by Drum- mond) with whom he went to sea for the first time as a midshipman (Collection: The Earl of Dundonald) James Gambier (National Maritime Museum) John Jervis, Earl St Vincent by Hoppner (National Maritime Museum) Thomas Cochrane, ioth...
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Secret Societies Reconsidered: Perspectives on the Social History of Modern South China and Southeast Asia
Book by David Ownby, Mary Somers Heidhues, Robert J. Antony, Jean Debernardi, Sharon Carstens, Dian H. Murray, Barend J. Ter Haar, Carl A. Trocki; M. E. Sharpe, 1993
Subjects: Hung Men (Society)--History, Secret Societies--Asia, Southeastern, Secret Societies--China
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journal articles on: Gambier  - 57 results

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Archaeological Investigations in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia
Journal article by Melinda S. Allen; Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific, Vol. 45, 2006
Subjects: Archaeological Investigations in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Investigations in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia. by...Investigations in the Mangareva Islands (Gambier Archipelago), French Polynesia. Eric Conte...2003 Cultural chronology in Mangareva (Gambier Islands), French Polynesia: Evidence from...
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Opium and Empire: Some Evidence from Colonial-Era Asian Stock and Commodity Markets
Journal article by Warren Bailey, Lan Truong; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 32, 2001
Subjects: Asia--International trade, China--International trade, Commerce--History, Imperialism--Economic aspects, International trade--Asia, Malaya--International trade, Opium trade--Asia
...Chinese-dominated export commodities such as tin and gambier. However, opium price changes explain...production of commodities like tin, pepper and gambier (a derivative of the leaves of a plant...result was that certain sectors, notably gambier and pepper planting, were ceded to Chinese...
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Mangarevan Doublets: Preliminary Evidence for Proto-Southeastern Polynesian
Journal article by Steven Roger Fischer; Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 40, 2001
Subjects: French Polynesia--Languages, Linguistic research--Case studies, Phonemics--Case studies
...Fischer The Mangarevan language of the Gambier Islands, situated between Tahiti and Easter...approximately 1,100 inhabitants of the Gambier Islands, located 1,650 km. southeast of...barrier reef 65 km. in length encloses the Gambiers ten islands on all but the groups southern...
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Past and Present Juxtaposed: The Chinese of Nineteenth Century Johor
Journal article by P. Lim Pui Huen; SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 13, 1998
Subjects: China, Chinese foreign relations--Malaysia, City planning--Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia--History, Malaysia, Malaysian foreign relations--China, Urban planning--Malaysia, Urban policy--Malaysia
...labourers were brought in to work in the gambier plantations in Riau. By the 1780s the...estimated 10,000 (Trocki 1979, p. 30). Gambier had been grown by the Malays for a very...local production into an export crop. Gambier became an important export because it...
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Opium and the Beginnings of Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia
Journal article by Carl A. Trocki; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 33, 2002
Subjects: Capitalism--History, China--Economic aspects, Opium trade--Economic aspects, Southeast Asia--Economic aspects
...fields of western Malaya and the pepper and gambier villages of Johor and Riau where the consumers...commodities such as tin, gold, pepper, gambier, sugar, rice and a number of other products...or else for the planting of pepper and gambier, sugar, tobacco and, ultimately, rubber...
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magazine articles on: Gambier  - 11 results

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Breakfast in Ohio
Magazine article by P.F. Kluge; The Antioch Review, Vol. 62, Spring 2004
Subjects: Breakfasts--Appreciation, Ohio--Appreciation, Restaurants--Appreciation, University towns--Appreciation
...breakfast. I can defend where I live--Gambier, Ohio, a small college town, an hour north...cannot join in Butler and cannot fill in Gambier, grows more important. I muse on the place...or Lucky Jim, cannot be accommodated in Gambier, Ohio. Do or say something unforgivable...
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Homophobiaphobia
Magazine article by Thomas Short; National Review, Vol. 41, August 18, 1989
Subjects: Kenyon College--Social policy, Universities and colleges--Social policy, Women's studies--Study and teaching
Homophobiaphobia. by Thomas Short GAMBIER, OHIO-Black Studies, Womens Studies, and Minority Studies claim to represent societys victims, hitherto "excluded" from the liberal...
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The Gothic Revival Revisited
Magazine article by George M. Wedd; Contemporary Review, Vol. 271, September 1997
Subjects: Architects--United Kingdom, Church architecture--19th century, Gothic revival (Architecture)--History, United Kingdom--Churches, mosques, synagogues, etc.
...Highnam church was built by Thomas Gambier Parry, whose father and grandfather were...the old East India Company. When young, Gambier Parry inherited both their large fortunes...recommended by the Camden Society - of which Gambier Parry was a member - in the 1840s. The...
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Cochrane the Dauntless
Magazine article by Richard Dale; History Today, Vol. 58, January 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Cochrane the Dauntless (Book)--Book reviews
...raids on the enemys coastal communications and defences. His greatest moment came in 1809 when an English fleet under Lord Gambier was instructed to attack the French fleet. Cochrane led a frontal attack by night on the French battle-fleet moored in what...
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September's Anniversaries: A King Enters the World Stage, Some Earls Depart and Somthing Rotten Happens to the State of Denmark ... Richard Cavendish Looks at This Month's Anniversaries
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 57, September 2007
Subjects: British history--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Danish history--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Kings and rulers--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Kings--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Richard I, King of England--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, September--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
...besiege Copenhagen, while a fleet of warships under Admiral James Gambier, amply equipped with bomb vessels, sailed menacingly up The...no and no into yes. Canning would be prime minister in 1827. Gambier was given a peerage and ended his days as president of the...
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newspaper articles on: Gambier  - 61 results

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Flashback: Down Your Way: Georgian Splendour and Bohemian Living; the Story of a Road like Yours Edited by Tina Miles Gambier Terrace L8
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), August 21, 2004
...a Road like Yours Edited by Tina Miles Gambier Terrace L8. Byline: GEMMA PRICE...programme. POPULAR with visiting tourists, Gambier Terrace is most famous for being an early...director of the Africa Oye festival. ``Gambier has always had a slightly liberal air...
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Living Life to the Maximum in a Minimal Space; Interiors Debbie Johnson Visits an Artist's Home Filled with Colour and Curiosity
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), January 25, 2007
Subjects: Artists
...the past fewdecades - a flat in historic Gambier Terrace, on Liverpools Hope Street. The...live in one of these empty white places." Gambier Terrace, of course, has a proud history...at the Florence Bienniale, in December. Gambier Terrace is an elegant row of homes close...
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Interiors: Living Here Is the Perfect Place to Be Based; Debbie Johnson Visits an Apartment Which Brought Music to Its Owner's Ears
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), May 3, 2007
...Hannah Peel has found a fitting home in Gambier Terrace, on Hope Street. Famed for its...and longstanding cultural connections, Gambier Terrace has, like much of this area, been...here is the perfect place to be based." Gambier Terrace, on the edge of the city centre...
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Still a Need for Coal
Newspaper article; The Daily Mercury (Mackay, Australia), August 11, 2009
Still a Need for Coal. UNFORTUNATELY for Leon Ashby (DM 07/08/09), the president of Climate Sceptics, Mt Gambier, there are enough politicians and scientists worldwide who believe that mankinds emissions may well be causing problems. I dont...
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A RIGHTEOUS PATH; Pounds 1.1m Walkway Plan for Cathedral
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), June 16, 2005
...the first picture of a pounds 1.1m glass and steel bridge planned for Liverpool cathedral. The s-shaped walkway will link Gambier Terrace to the north porch, carrying pedestrians over St James cemetery. Architect Julian Hakes believes the planned Bridge...
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encyclopedia articles on: Gambier  - 11 results

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1.
Gambier Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GAMBIER ISLANDS gam bir, volcanic islands (6 sq mi/15.5 sq km; 2002 pop. 1,097), South Pacific, near the southeast end of the...for copra. Mangareva is the seat of Rikitea, the capital. Discovered in 1797 by the British (who named the group), the Gambier Islands were annexed by France in 1881. Some of the atolls were used for French nuclear tests. ____________________ Copyright...
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Gambier
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
GAMBIER see catechu . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Mangareva
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MANGAREVA see Gambier Islands . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Kenyon College
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KENYON COLLEGE at Gambier, Ohio; Episcopal; coeducational; chartered and opened 1824. It was founded by Philander Chase as a theological seminary with...
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Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fleet (1809); but he criticized the handling of the fleet by his commander in chief, Lord Gambier, and was discredited when a court-martial acquitted Gambier. In 1814 he was accused, perhaps falsely, of implication in a stock market fraud. Dismissed...
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