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James Silk Buckingham
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
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In this captivating autobiography, Buckingham tells the story of his remarkable life, including his travels to foreign lands, his experiences as a journalist and editor, and his political activism. He…
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Title: America, historical, statistic, and descriptive. [With a portrait.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s…
Title: Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other British provinces in North America. With a plan of national colonization. [With plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is…
Title: The Slave States of America. [With plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest…
Title: The Eastern and Western States of America. [With plates.]Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the…
Title: Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, etc.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s largest…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1845 Original Publisher: J. Ridgway Subjects: Income tax Labor and laboring classes Working class Business
Title: The slave states of America.
Author: James Silk Buckingham
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 contains a collection of…
Title: Proceedings before His Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in relation to the Appeal by James Silk Buckingham, Esq. against certain regulations of the Bengal Government on the subject of…
Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) published this two-volume work in 1829; the 1830 reprint is reissued here. It traces his journey from Baghdad to the Persian…
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Title: Travels in Mesopotamia. Including a journey from Aleppo to Bagdad, by the route of Beer, Orfah, Diarbekr, Mardin, & Mousul; with researches on the ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and…
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), traveller and writer, left for North America in 1837 and spent nearly four years there. He visited every state except Florida and Arkansas, recounting his experiences…
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855), traveller and writer, left for North America in 1837 and spent nearly four years there. He visited almost every state of the Union, recounting his experiences…
In 1839 the British writer and reformer James Silk Buckingham travelled to Canada to investigate its social and economic landscape. In this revealing study, first published in 1843, he describes…
In 1839 the British writer James Silk Buckingham travelled through the southern USA to investigate the practice of slavery. This two-volume work, published in 1842, describes his findings within the…
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) was a Cornish-born traveller, writer and member of Parliament. In this work, published in 1849, he proposes a number of economic and political reforms and describes…
James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) was a writer who travelled extensively and published accounts of his adventures in places such as India, Persia, Egypt, and Palestine. He served as an M.P…
Buckingham (1786-1855) was a Cornish-born traveller, writer and Member of Parliament. In Volume 1, first published in 1827, he traces in great detail his journey through Mesopotamia, the present Iraq…
Buckingham (1786-1855) was a Cornish-born traveller and writer. In this work, first published in 1827, the author gives an elaborate account of his travels in Mesopotamia, the present Iraq. In…
Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) published this two-volume work in 1827. It traces his journey through Mesopotamia, from Aleppo, the largest city in Syria to Baghdad…
In this 1821 work, Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) describes his journey from Egypt by sea to Syria and then to Palestine. Though he visited many…
The author James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) published the Calcutta Journal until his expulsion in 1823 for his criticisms of the East India Company. Originally published between 1824 and 1853, these…
Title: Travels in Assyria, Media, and Persia, etc.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the…
Title: Travels in Palestine, through the countries of Bashan and Gilead, east of the River Jordan: including a visit to the cities of Geraza and Gamala, in the Decapolis. [With…
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists…
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