British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751-1795

British Encounters with Syrian-Mesopotamian Overland Routes to India, 1751-1795This book argues that eighteenth century British travel writing on the Syrian Mesopotamian overland routes to India does more than recount encounters; it challenges Enlightenment assumptions about improvement. As travellers moved through Syria and Mesopotamia, describing local peoples, cultures, religions, and ruins, they cast themselves as agents of knowledge and progress, presenting travel as a serious, empirical endeavour aimed at informing Britain

This book is the first in-depth study of the debates over devolution in the four nations of the UK in the period up to 1945

this volume is composed of three sections focusing on the production of culturally relevant communication

trans-imperial and interdisciplinary history of Ireland

and jazz genres

Tony Gilroy and Paul Haggis

these heroic stories

The first book of its kind

Why would anyone want to wear such things

Brown considers the reception of rhyme

and of how personal and collective remembrance has influenced the narratives of reconciliation

available in paperback for the first time

This is the first book-length study wholly devoted to assessing the array of ties between Scotland and the Caribbean that bound the Atlantic World together in the later eighteenth century