ALLAN, Captain John Steele, CBE 1956; company director; b 25 Dec. 1889, 5 of late Andrew Allan, JP, Chirnside, Berwickshire, m 1915, Margaret (d 1978), d of late Joseph Mason, Dunbar, one s. Educ Berwickshire High School, Duns. Served War of 1914-18 1/4 KOSB, Gallipoli, Egypt, and Palestine, 1915-17; wounded in Palestine, 1917 Pres., Aberdeen Chamber of Com- merce, 1937-38. Chairman: Technical …
ALLAN, Captain John Steele, CBE 1956; company director; b 25 Dec. 1889, 5 of late Andrew Allan, JP, Chirnside, Berwickshire, m 1915, Margaret (d 1978), d of late Joseph Mason, Dunbar, one s. Educ Berwickshire High School, Duns. Served War of 1914-18 1/4 KOSB, Gallipoli, Egypt, and Palestine, 1915-17; wounded in Palestine, 1917 Pres., Aberdeen Chamber of Com- merce, 1937-38. Chairman: Technical …
The present handbook attempts to furnish in compact form an objective description of the social, political, and economic aspects of Japan to mid-1973.
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Our discussion has already suggested that history is not a study isolated from other disciplines. The influence of the ideas of ethics and the presence of the historian's point of view really belong to philosophy. The literary excellence of a few histories gives them a place in literature. It follows that the history of historiography stands as a parallel to the history of literature and the hi…
FA DESIRE to advance learning or increase precision of I requires any justification, practical as well as knowledge theoretical grounds may be put forward to warrant a plea for a reconsideration of historiography -the business of studying, thinking about, and writing about history. Practical persons-academic and lay-concerned primarily with public or private affairs and absorbed in the instant …
WHOEVER would seek the origin of things that in countless ways control mankind begins an arduous task. One can readily tell when the radio, motion picture, airplane, or automobile appeared, for he well remembers the time he saw the first of these or at least can talk with people who saw the first ones. But it is more difficult to imagine the days when the internal-combustion engine was produced…
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It contains the entries of those who died in the years 1961-1970. It also includes, in Addenda I on page xxix, the biographies of a number of those who died before 31 Desember 1960 but whose deaths were not known to us until after the publication of the second edition.