David Gilmour

Broschiertes Buch

The Ruling Caste

Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

Beschreibung

In 1900 just over a thousand British civil servants ruled a population of nearly 300 million people spread over a territory now covered by India, Pakistan, Burma and Bangladesh.

Autor

David Gilmour's books include award-winning biographies of Rudyard Kipling, Lord Curzon and the Italian writer, Giuseppe di Lampedusa. He is also the author of Cities of Spain and of several works on the politics of Spain and the Middle East. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, he is a contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 128mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780712665650
• ISBN-10: 071266565X
• Artikelnr.: 23194779