Hādhā kitāb ʻIqd al-jawhar al-thamīn fī arbaʻīn ḥadīthan min aḥādīth Sayyid al-mursalīn jamʻ al-Shaykh al-ʻAllāmah al-Imām muḥaddith Bilād al-Shām Ismāʻīl al-Jarrāḥī al-shahīr bi-al-ʻAjlūnī : manuscript, 1849

Written in one column, 19 lines per page, in black rubricated in red.

Thabat al-ʻAṭṭār : manuscript, 1849

1 unbound unsewn quire.

[ vīrā:mārā:dhan:pûtr:māeā:sarve:karmī:kahīe] : manuscript, ca. 1887

Local paper. Pages slightly discolored.

The Significance of the Disputed Territory in Bechuanaland 1887-1893

British Imperial policy in Southern Africa in the last three decades of the nineteenth century oscillated between two extremes. It began in the early 1870's with Lord Kimberley's attempt to effect confederation as a means of devolving Imperial responsibility and expenditure. It ended in 1899 with Britain's active intervention against the Boers. For most of the remaining years of those decades a middle course was adopted while the British Government struggled to reconcile its diverse political interests. Strategy, supremacy, economy, humanitarianism, and recognition of colonial aspirations were all at one time or another, in varying degrees, motivating forces behind Imperial policy. Many historians have pointed out how incompatible many of these ends were and how the attempt to pursue them all at once almost inevitably ended in at least one of them being sacrificed on the way. This study focusses on a relatively minor problem over a period of about seven years. It attempts to show how the British Government tried to reconcile, in this case, the predominant motives of economy and supremacy. The problem of the Disputed Territory now seems like a small fish in a big ocean because non the great hopes and fears that it raised were ever realized. But the anticlimactic nature of the outcome of events should not be allowed to conceal two important points: first, that the problem loomed large at the time in the eyes of the Imperial Government; and second, that in the case of its policy towards the Disputed Territory, the Government gained a greater degree of success in trying to reconcile seemingly incompatible ends than it did in many other instances.

Tante Emma im Datenwald. Mit Kundendaten zu besseren Dienstleistungen und Kundenbeziehungen

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