... impressions that nevertheless contained an improbable kernel of concern. It was the supreme patriarch himself who voiced the fear that the West could overshadow Thailand as a center of Buddhist learning, setting a “pattern of thinking” for others in the tour group. This was not something that the slightly...

..., terminating their quarrels and making way for a new set of generals, commanding a new, consolidated, field army. Additionally, the chapter explores two interim campaigns: one to West Country, where Cromwell would disrupt royalist preparations for the campaigning season there; and another to the Midlands, even...

... Philip Stauber Leland Steinberg Ronnie Steinem Gloria Stephens John D Sullivan William Swanstrom Todd Walker Corey D B Walzer Michael Webster Juanita Weisskopf Thomas E West Cornel Wittner Lawrence Wolff Richard Wright Eric Olin Young Iris Marion Aristotle Bennett William secretary...

... that went into East India Company (VOC) and West India Company (WIC) settlements, expecting to establish a worldwide community of Calvinist believers. Utilizing and collaborating with native linguists and teachers, ministers organized and oversaw hundreds of schools across Dutch outposts in the Indian...

...This chapter recounts the last gasps of the East India Company (VOC) and West India Company (WIC) that became quickly overwhelmed by convulsions from the Batavian Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, which brought an end to the Dutch Republic and forever changed its commercial empire. It discusses how...

...This chapter discusses Idi Amin's childhood and background. Amin's connection with the Yakan movement demonstrates how close in time his birth was to the very beginning of British rule over Uganda. His parents would have spent most of their lives in a pre-colonial West Nile, which was only annexed...

...This chapter describes how the largest and most valuable outward convoys to leave Britain during any year were the combined East and West India fleets. Nature and economic conditions linked the East and West Indies trades. World weather patterns, combined with the timing of harvests and markets...

...The children's return to West Africa began yet another cycle of disorder and turmoil as their experiences have been shrouded by the myth of family reunification. This chapter shows how the five returning children faced greater obstacles upon arrival, particularly much narrower options...

...After Menachem Begin withdrew from politics, Israel and West Germany initiated talks over a compensation agreement for Holocaust survivors. The negotiations began on March 12, 1951, when the Israeli government filed a claim seeking reparations from West Germany and culminated in the establishment...

...By the autumn of 1879, The Territory was under new management. Colonel Owen Lanyon had been translated from Griqualand West on March 4, 1879 to replace Sir Theophilus Shepstone as Administrator. This chapter discusses Lanyon's efforts to end Sekhukhune's open rebellion and prove that the British...

... tomb-shrines of West Wales; and the Irish Sea tomb-shrines. Early Neolithic Lubbock Sir John definition agriculture Europe Ireland mobility monuments Early Neolithic Near East and Early Neolithic Scotland settlements towns chalklands colonialism and interpretation of history Dawkins Sir...

... and Indian ancestry. It traces how and why the evocation of ancestry came to play such an important role in Hollywood films and looks at the film scores for several films including Dances With Wolves, Winners of the West, and They Died with Their Boots...

...This chapter examines questions related to Cherokee identity, social status, “blood,” and migration—what the prominent Cherokee leader W. P. Adair called the refugee business—in the trans-Mississippi West in the immediate aftermath of the American Civil War. More specifically, it considers...

... John Churchill, earl of Marlborough, as general and commander in chief of her forces in the Netherlands. Marlborough would later become master general of the ordnance, a great office of state and of war. One of his first acts as master general was to order a new train of artillery for the West Indies...

... unceasing encouragement from their American warders to ensure that their swift reentry into West German society proceeded smoothly. To a man, they continued to deny the legitimacy of their criminal convictions or their previous incarceration. “American justice ” France Gernert Paul J Great Britain...

...This chapter revisits ‘the Cornish commotion’ of 1548 — a short-lived but, from the Crown's point of view, deeply troubling émeute which flared up in West Cornwall in April that year, during the course of which a royal commissioner who was overseeing the removal of images from local churches...

...-rule” that hardly extends beyond municipal government, of which, for now at least, there is a Palestinian National Authority variety in the West Bank and a Hamas version in Gaza. After more than two decades, the state-building process has brought the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza only added...

...This chapter discusses the intellectual and the educational life of the Mediterranean world during the period of late antiquity, as well as during the centuries that ensued in the medieval Latin West. The intellectual atmosphere and educational traditions in this region could be considered tension...

...This chapter describes the antipathy of similars faced by Queensberry. The publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray precipitated fresh rumors about Wilde, and very unpleasant stories, which ultimately led to his arrest and downfall, began to be freely circulated in the West End...

... slaves were enlisted into both the Royal African Corps and the West India Regiments, a group of regiments composed of black soldiers that fought principally in the Caribbean. The last Royal Navy Governor of Sierra Leone in the Age of Revolution, Edward Columbine, was replaced by Charles Maxwell, a Royal...