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Statement of Facts, relative to the Removal from India of Mr. Buckingham, late editor of the Calcutta Journal.
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Travels in Mesopotamia: With Researches on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and Other Ancient Cities (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor) (Volume 2)
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Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia. His criticisms of the East India Company and the Bengal government led to his expulsion from India in 1823. In the 1830s he became a Member of Parliament and campaigned for social reforms and for the promotion of the temperance movement. He founded several journals, including the periodical The Athenaeum, covering a wide range of topics from literature to popular science. This illustrated two-volume work, published in 1827, recounts Buckingham's journey through Mesopotamia, giving descriptions of its ancient sites and opinions of its modern inhabitants. In Volume 2, Buckingham continues his travels through Mesopotamia, from Sinjar in the north-west of the region to the city of Baghdad.
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James Buckingham
James Silk Buckingham was a Cornish-born author, journalist and traveller.
Career
James Silk Buckingham infused a new light to Indian Journalism. He was the pioneer among the Europeans who fought for a liberal press in India. His youth was spent at sea, and in 1797 he was captured by the French and held as a prisoner of war at Corunna.
In 1821, his "Travels in Palestine" were published, followed by "Travels Among the Arab Tribes" in 1825.
After years of wandering he settled in India, where he established a periodical, the Calcutta Journal, in 1818. This venture at first proved highly successful, but in 1823 the paper"s outspoken criticisms of the East India Company led to the expulsion of Buckingham from India and to the suppression of the paper by John Adam, the acting governor-general in 1823.
His case was brought before a select committee of the House of Commons in 1834, and a pension of £500 a year was subsequently awarded to him by the East India Company as compensation. Buckingham continued his journalistic ventures on his return to England.
He settled at Cornwall Terrace, Regent"s Park, and started the Oriental Herald and Colonial Review (1824-1829) and the Athenaeum (1828) which was not a success in his hands, Buckingham selling to John Sterling after a few weeks.
In parliament, where he sat as member for Sheffield from 1832–1837, he was a strong advocate of social reform, calling for the end of flogging in the armed services, abolition of the press-gang and the repeal of the Corn Laws. He was a prolific writer He had travelled in Europe, America and the East, and wrote many useful travel books, as well as many pamphlets on political and social subjects.
"In 1851, the value of these and of his other literary works was recognized by the grant of a Civil List pension of £200 a year.
At the time of his death in London, Buckingham was at work on his autobiography, two volumes of the intended four being completed and published (1855)". This work is important as it mentions in detail the life of the black composer Joseph Antonio Emidy who settled in Truro.
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He was the pioneer among the Europeans who fought for a liberal press in India.
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Travels in Mesopotamia: With Researches on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and Other Ancient Cities (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor) (Volume 2)
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Evils and Remedies of the Present System of Popular Elections: With a Sketch of the Qualifications and Duties of Representatives and Constituents : To ... in the Commerce and Finance of the Country
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Statement of Facts, relative to the Removal from India of Mr. Buckingham, late editor of the Calcutta Journal.
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America, Historical, Statistic, and Descriptive
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Travels among the Arab Tribes Inhabiting the Countries East of Syria and Palestine: Including a Journey from Nazareth to the Mountains beyond the Dead ... to Bozra, Damascus, Tripoly etc. Part 1
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Two Letters to Sir Charles Forbes, on the Suppression of Public Discussion in India, and the Banishment, Without Trial, of Two British Editors from ... by the Acting Governor-General, Mr. Adam
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Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Other British Provinces in North America: With a Plan of National Colonisation
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Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
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Autobiography of James Silk Buckingham, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
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The Buried City of the East, Nineveh: A Narrative of the Discoveries of Mr. Layard and M. Botta at Nimroud and Khorsabad (Classic Reprint)
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Travels in Mesopotamia: With Researches on the Ruins of Nineveh, Babylon, and Other Ancient Cities (Cambridge Library Collection - Travel, Middle East and Asia Minor) (Volume 2)
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11th United Kingdom Parliament. 12th United Kingdom Parliament.
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