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  1. Raffles and the golden opportunity
    1781 - 1826
    Autor*in: Glendinning, Victoria
    Erschienen: 2012
    Verlag:  Profile Books, London

    This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India... mehr

    Standort:
    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
    Signatur:
    1 A 873491
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe
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    Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund (GBV)

    Standort:
    Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen
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    2013 A 2551
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    Standort:
    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
    Signatur:
    A/673198
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    Standort:
    Klassik Stiftung Weimar / Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    Signatur:
    237048 - A
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    This is the first biography in decades of the 'Father of Singapore'. Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781-1826) was the charismatic and persuasive founder of Singapore and Governor of Java. An English adventurer, disobedient employee of the East India Company, utopian imperialist, linguist, zoologist and civil servant, he carved an extraordinary (though brief) life for himself in South East Asia. The tropical, disease-ridden settings of his story are as dramatic as his own trajectory - an obscure young man with no advantages other than talent and obsessive drive, who changed history by establishing - without authority - on the wretchedly unpromising island of Singapore, a settlement which has become a world city. After a turbulent time in the East Indies, Raffles returned to the UK and turned to his other great interests - botany and zoology. He founded London Zoo in 1825, a year before his death. Raffles remains a controversial figure, and in the first biography for over forty years, Victoria Glendinning charts his prodigious rise within the social and historical contexts of his world. His domestic and personal life was vivid and shot through with tragedy. His own end was sad, though his fame immortal

     
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    Quelle: Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 1846686032; 1781250251; 9781846686030; 9781781250259
    Schlagworte: Statesmen; Colonial administrators
    Weitere Schlagworte: Raffles, Thomas Stamford Sir (1781-1826)
    Umfang: XVII, 349 S., Ill., Kt
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