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  • Trade and Empire in Early Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia
    G Roger Knight
    This book explores European mercantile activity in Southeast Asia at a time when trade in this part of the world was being transformed and extended much more widely. Based on extensive original research including in newly discovered archives, the book reveals, through the study of one particular merchant and his extensive network, how trade in the region worked. It outlines the...
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    108,38 €

  • Sugar, Steam and Steel
    G. Roger Knight / GRoger Knight
    Sugar, Steam and Steel is about cane sugar and the transformation of an Indonesian island into the ‘Oriental Cuba’ during the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Between the 1830s and the 1880s, sweetener manufacture in Dutch-controlled Java drew decisively away in matters of technology and sugar science from other Asian centres of production which had once equalled or, m...
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    37,86 €

  • The Citizen Rising
    Roger Knight
    While growing up within a loving African American family, a little boy develops a deep understanding of right and wrong and the responsibility that accompanies his choices. Some forty years later, Rohillio Jabel recognizes that it is only through God’s grace and mercy that he has been successful in life. Buoyed by his ideals, innovative ideas, and commitment to helping those le...
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    16,58 €

  • The Citizen Rising
    Roger Knight
    While growing up within a loving African American family, a little boy develops a deep understanding of right and wrong and the responsibility that accompanies his choices. Some forty years later, Rohillio Jabel recognizes that it is only through God’s grace and mercy that he has been successful in life. Buoyed by his ideals, innovative ideas, and commitment to helping those le...
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    11,86 €

  • Sustaining the Fleet, 1793-1815
    Martin Wilcox / R. J. B. Knight / Roger Knight
    Provisioning the fleet, and the army overseas, during the French Wars of 1793-1815 was a major undertaking. This book explains how the Victualling Board in London handled this enormous task, focusing in particular on contractors - that is the merchants and brokers, who provided a vast range of commodities including flour and biscuit, salt beef and pork, as well as huge quantiti...
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    117,33 €

  • Neaderthal Return
    Roger W. Knight / Roger WKnight
    Over the years, novels exploring the interaction between Neanderthal people and Cro-Magnon people (that’s us) have been popular. Two examples are Jean Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear and John Darnton’s Neanderthal.In my story, beautiful Neanderthal women visit Earth in a spaceship and knock us out of our complacency!Background story line is this:A truly alien species determined th...
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    23,33 €