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The History of China, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The History of China, Vol. 1 of 2 Fourteen years have elapsed since the publication of the third and concluding volume of this History. In that period the subject of the Chinese Empire and people has become of greater interest and more direct moment, not only to the English reader, but to the world. It is gratifying to feel that the anticipations expressed on this head in the earlier work have been realized within so brief a per...

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History of China, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Boulger, Demetrius Charles

Excerpt from History of China, Vol. 2 The Expulsion Of The Mongols. - Choo Yuen Chang. - His Origin and Early Career. -The Course of the Hoangho. - What Choo wished to accomplish. - His Policy. -Development of his Power. - The Public Weal. - Fangkue Chin. - A Mongol Success. -Chahan Timour. - Rival Generals. - Alouhiya. - Murder of Chahan. - Koukou. - Yunnan. - Mingyuchin. - Corea repudiates the Mongol Alliance. - Wang Jwan. - The Liberator. ...

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India in the Nineteenth Century (Classic Reprint)

Boulger, Demetrius Charles

Excerpt from India in the Nineteenth Century The discovery of a sea route to India was the uppermost ambition of every maritime state in Europe during the second half of the fifteenth century. The old assumptions of Seneca and Pliny that there were other worlds than that known to Rome breathed again in the poetical predictions of Dante and Luigi Pulci. The belief "in another hemisphere, " and that there were countries at "our antipodes, " was...

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Belgium (Classic Reprint)

Boulger, Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh

Excerpt from BelgiumAs great a change as has passed over the face of the country has modified and moulded anew the Belgian character. Prosperity, the remarkable national success, the feeling of independence have dispelled the timidity that used to colour all the views of the Belgians. Those who describe them as loth to accept responsibility and fearful of their capacity to retain what they have won are thinking of men of the last generation an...

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The Life of Beg

Boulger, Demetrius Charles

Excerpt from The Life of Beg: Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet, Ameer of Kashgar Fortunate one, as he was called, was essentially indebted to good fortune in many crises of his career. He cannot, in any sense, be compared to the giants pro duced by Central Asia in days of old, and among modems Dost Mahomed of Afghanistan probably should rank as high as he does. Yet he gives an individuality to the history of Kashgar that it would otherwise lack. T...

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England and Russia in Central Asia, Vol. 2

Boulger, Demetrius Charles

Excerpt from England and Russia in Central Asia, Vol. 2: With Two Maps and Appendices The policy which England has closely adhered to for more than thirty years of not interfering in any way in the affairs of the States lying beyond its Indian frontier has borne fruit in one sense much to our disadvantage. Owing to our inactivity, and the restrictions that have been imposed on British officers in going beyond the frontier, we know much less o...