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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from ...Show synopsisThis historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ...to build the Shanhaikuan extension to the Taling river, Niuchwang and vicinity. As for the Canton-Hankau and Hankau-Peking lines, full control had been granted the Head Commercial company to find ways and means for the construction of these railways, and matters appear to be now taking definite shape in this connection. Then as to mines, we have the Kaiping colliery and the Miho--Amur--gold mines as the most successful, so far, among the many mining enterprises embarked upon, and we have already further commanded those in control to seize every opportunity to extend the works of the two mines above noted. We are, however, apprehensive, in view of the number of provinces in the empire and the various conditions of men who will attempt to open mines of all sorts in the future, that a diversity of methods and ensuing confusion will be the result, which would, of course, be detrimental to the principal object we have, of getting the fullest advantages obtainable out of each and every undertaking in this direction. It is therefore highly important that there should be a central bureau to direct, under a single system, the working and exploitation of mines and railways in the empire, and we hereby command that a bureau of control for railways and mines be established in Peking, to the chief commissionerships of which we now specially appoint two ministers of the Tsungli Yamen, namely, Wang Wenahao and Chang Yin-huan. The said chief commissioners shall from henceforth have special control over the opening of mines and construction of railways throughout the empire, and companies formed for the above purposes will in future be required to apply to the said commissioners for permission and guidance in their operations." In the province of Shanli a British syndi...Hide synopsis
Description:Acceptable. Binding is slightly damaged and/or book has some...Acceptable. Binding is slightly damaged and/or book has some loose pages. No missing pages. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy!
Description:Ex-library hardback w/o dust jacket, black cloth with gold...Ex-library hardback w/o dust jacket, black cloth with gold lettering, 549 pages, bumped corners, front hinge separation, dog-eared pages, good condition.
Description:Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and...Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy!
Description:Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and...Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy!
Description:Acceptable. Binding is slightly damaged and/or book has some...Acceptable. Binding is slightly damaged and/or book has some loose pages. No missing pages. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy!
Description:Very good in very good dust jacket. 549 p. Includes index....Very good in very good dust jacket. 549 p. Includes index. Hardcover, Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering, covers clean with minor wear to extremities, contents clean, bright and unmarked. First written in 1899 shortly after the United States defeated Spain and occupied territories in the Pacific, the author observes in the Preface to this Revised Edition: "The occupation of the Pacific by the world's foremost civilization will prove the most absorbing problem of the coming centuries...So that with the natural and inevitable progression of the race, while the material reduction of the Pacific is going on, we may with reasonable confidence predict for these shores a culture and development such as the world has never imagined. " In addition to his observations on the history of Pacific area, he includes chapters on European Barbarism in America; Europe in Asia; the Pacific Ocean and Its Borders; Interoceanic Communication; resources and climate of the Pacific area; mines and manufactures; commerce; Hawaii and other South Pacific islands; race problems; notable voyages into the Pacific; Crusoe Island; Log Books of the Pirates; the Terrestial Paradise; and a short chapter on The Story of Califia, Queen of California (a legendary queen who with her black Amazons supposedly lived on the isle of California "on the right hand of the West Indies, near the terrestrial paradise" and "conquered men and monster. " Cortes reportedly brought with him in 1535 a copy of the Las Sergas del Cavallero Esplandino, written in 1510, which included the legend). An interesting book by the famous American historian
Description:8vo. Very Good/No DJ. Orig blue cloth, pressed blue and pressed...8vo. Very Good/No DJ. Orig blue cloth, pressed blue and pressed gold decoration/lettering, x-549 pp, index, map. First pub 1899. "The occupation of the Pacific by the world's foremost civilization will prove the most absorbing problem of the coming centuries. " LIght wear at extremites, narrow swipe of white paint at spine base; light age-browning at pages.
