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Twentieth Century Impressions

May 02, 2024

Twentieth Century Impressions was a series of travel, political and social reference books published by Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company in London between 1901 and 1914. The full titles were typically styled as Twentieth Century Impressions of [country name] : Its history, people, commerce, industries and resources.

Arnold Wright (1858–1941) was editor in chief or author of most of the range of titles. In most cases the books were over 600 pages in length (some over 800). Wright was an enthusiast for colonialism,[1] in the decade before the First World War. In most of the earlier volumes, H. A. Cartwright and O. Breakspear were assistants. In the volumes closer to 1914, Wright was designated as the Historian for a volume. Reginald Lloyd was also designated as Director in Chief of the later publications.

Argentina edit

The Argentina title was published in 1911 - Twentieth Century Impressions of Argentina. Its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources. Director-in-Chief: Reginald Lloyd ... Editors: W. Feldwick ... Oliver T. Breakspear, L. T. Delaney ... Historian: Arnold Wright. [With illustrations.] London : Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Co.[2]

Brazil edit

The Brazil title was published in 1913 Twentieth century impressions of Brazil : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources. Director-in-Chief: Reginald Lloyd ... Editors: W. Feldwick ... L. T. Delaney ... Historian: Arnold Wright. [With illustrations.] London : Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Co.[3]

Burma edit

The Burma title was first published in 1910, and reprinted by White Lotus Press in Thailand.[4]

Canada edit

Twentieth century impressions of Canada; its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources by Henry J. Boam was published in 1914.[5]

Ceylon edit

The Ceylon (Sri Lanka) title was first published in 1907.[6]

Egypt edit

The title about Egypt is dated 1901 - Twentieth Century Impressions of Egypt. Its history, people, commerce, industries and resources. Editor in chief: A. Wright ... Assistant editor: H. A. Cartwright. [With illustrations.] London : Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Co.[7]

Hong Kong, Shanghai and Treaty Ports edit

 
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China

The spread of the 1908 title was beyond Hong Kong and included Shanghai and other treaty ports such as Japan, Taiwan, and Korea.[8] A manuscript copy of this book is held at the National Library of Australia.[9]

Netherlands East Indies edit

In 1909, the volume about the Netherlands East Indies (Indonesia) was published.[10]

British Malaya edit

The British Malaya (Malaysia) title was published in 1908.[11] It has been reprinted in an abridged facsimile form by Brash [12][13]

Siam edit

The Siam (Thailand) book was originally published in London in 1903, with a reprint in 1908.[14]

Uruguay edit

The Uruguay Book was published in 1912 - Twentieth Century Impressions of Uruguay. Its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources. Director-in-Chief: Reginald Lloyd ... Editors: W. Feldwick ... L. T. Delaney ... Historian: Arnold Wright. London : Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Co., 1912.[15]

Western Australia edit

In Western Australia, the publisher was also the author - P.W.H Thiel.[16]

It was extensively reviewed.[17][18][19][20][21]

A digitised version is available from the NLA.[22] It was also reprinted by Hesperian Press in 2000.[23]

West Indies edit

The last in the series appears to be the West Indies title - Twentieth Century Impressions of the West Indies. Their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources. Director-in-chief: Reginald Lloyd ... Editors: W. Feldwick ... L. T. Delaney ... Historian: José Plá Cárceles.London : Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Co., 1914.[24]

Dropping of Twentieth Century.. edit

In 1914, there is record of Wright being involved in the publishing of a book with only the second part of the title of earlier series; - Southern India: its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources compiled by Somerset Playne, assisted by J.W. Bond. Edited by Arnold Wright:London, 1914-1915.[25][26]

References edit

  1. ^ Wright, Arnold (1923), The romance of colonisation : being the story of the economic development of the British Empire, Melrose, retrieved 12 May 2016
  2. ^ Lloyd, Reginald (1911), Twentieth century impressions of Argentina : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources, Lloyd's Greater Britain Pub. Co, retrieved 12 May 2016
  3. ^ Twentieth century impressions of Brazil : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources | WorldCat.org. OCLC 2788572.
  4. ^ Wright, Arnold, 1858-1941, (editor.) (1910), Twentieth century impressions of Burma : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources, Bangkok, Thailand White Lotus Press, retrieved 12 May 2016 {{citation}}: |author1= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ Henry J. Boam (1914). Twentieth century impressions of Canada.
  6. ^ Wright, Arnold (1907), Twentieth century impressions of Ceylon : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources, Lloyd's Greater Britain Pub. Co, retrieved 12 May 2016
  7. ^ An operational unification of finite difference methods for the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations | WorldCat.org. OCLC 391.
  8. ^ Wright, Arnold; Robarts - University of Toronto (1908), Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China. Their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources; editor in chief: Arnold Wright, assistant editor: H.A. Cartwright, London Lloyd's Greater Britain Pub. Co, retrieved 12 May 2016
  9. ^ Wright, Arnold (1928), Twentieth century impressions of Hongkong, Shanghai, and other treaty ports : their early history and development, retrieved 12 May 2016
  10. ^ Wright, Arnold; Breakspear, Oliver T (1909), Twentieth century impressions of Netherlands India : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources, Lloyd's Greater Britain Publishing Company, Ltd, retrieved 12 May 2016
  11. ^ Wright, Arnold; Cartwright, H. A (1908), Twentieth century impressions of British Malaya : its history, people, commerce, industries and resources, Lloyd's Greater Britain publishing company, limited, retrieved 12 May 2016
  12. ^ Wright, Arnold; Cartwright, H. A (1989), Twentieth century impressions of British Malaya : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources (Abridged ed.), G. Brash, ISBN 978-9971-4-9146-8
  13. ^ "Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya", Far Eastern Economic Review, v147 (n9), Review Publishing Company Ltd. (Hong Kong): 39 (1), 1 March 1990, ISSN 0014-7591
  14. ^ Wright, Arnold; Breakspear, Oliver T (1994), Twentieth century impressions of Siam : its history, people, commerce, industries, and resources, White Lotus, ISBN 978-1-879155-30-5
  15. ^ This book does not show up in major library collection catalogues and it appears not have been made into facsimile edition - Amazon's comment on its entry is Out of Print and Limited availability.
  16. ^ P.W.H. Thiel & Co. (Perth) (1901), Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia, P.W.H. Thiel & Co, retrieved 12 May 2016
  17. ^ "Review". The Northam Advertiser. Vol. IX, no. 741. Western Australia. 9 April 1902. Retrieved 14 May 2016.
  18. ^ "Review". The Northam Advertiser. Vol. IX, no. 743. Western Australia. 19 April 1902. p. 3. Retrieved 14 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  19. ^ "Review". The Northam Advertiser. Vol. IX, no. 744. Western Australia. 23 April 1902. p. 2. Retrieved 14 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  20. ^ "TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPRESSIONS". The West Australian. Vol. 18, no. 5, 028. Western Australia. 19 April 1902. p. 2. Retrieved 14 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  21. ^ "TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPRESSIONS". The Daily News. Vol. XX, no. 8, 297. Western Australia. 20 March 1902. p. 2. Retrieved 12 May 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  22. ^ "Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia". Trove.
  23. ^ Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia, Hesperian Press, 2000, ISBN 978-0-85905-269-6
  24. ^ Twentieth century impressions of the West Indies. Their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources | WorldCat.org. OCLC 1870269.
  25. ^ Playne, Somerset; Bond, J. W; Wright, Arnold (1915), Southern India : its history, people, commerce, and industrial resources, The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co, ISBN 978-1-85177-030-4
  26. ^ National Library of Scotland entry

External links edit

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Twentieth Century Impressions was a series of travel political and social reference books published by Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Company in London between 1901 and 1914 The full titles were typically styled as Twentieth Century Impressions of country name Its history people commerce industries and resources Arnold Wright 1858 1941 was editor in chief or author of most of the range of titles In most cases the books were over 600 pages in length some over 800 Wright was an enthusiast for colonialism 1 in the decade before the First World War In most of the earlier volumes H A Cartwright and O Breakspear were assistants In the volumes closer to 1914 Wright was designated as the Historian for a volume Reginald Lloyd was also designated as Director in Chief of the later publications Contents 1 Argentina 2 Brazil 3 Burma 4 Canada 5 Ceylon 6 Egypt 7 Hong Kong Shanghai and Treaty Ports 8 Netherlands East Indies 9 British Malaya 10 Siam 11 Uruguay 12 Western Australia 13 West Indies 14 Dropping of Twentieth Century 15 References 16 External linksArgentina editThe Argentina title was published in 1911 Twentieth Century Impressions of Argentina Its history people commerce industries and resources Director in Chief Reginald Lloyd Editors W Feldwick Oliver T Breakspear L T Delaney Historian Arnold Wright With illustrations London Lloyd s Greater Britain Publishing Co 2 Brazil editThe Brazil title was published in 1913 Twentieth century impressions of Brazil its history people commerce industries and resources Director in Chief Reginald Lloyd Editors W Feldwick L T Delaney Historian Arnold Wright With illustrations London Lloyd s Greater Britain Publishing Co 3 Burma editThe Burma title was first published in 1910 and reprinted by White Lotus Press in Thailand 4 Canada editTwentieth century impressions of Canada its history people commerce industries and resources by Henry J Boam was published in 1914 5 Ceylon editThe Ceylon Sri Lanka title was first published in 1907 6 Egypt editThe title about Egypt is dated 1901 Twentieth Century Impressions of Egypt Its history people commerce industries and resources Editor in chief A Wright Assistant editor H A Cartwright With illustrations London Lloyd s Greater Britain Publishing Co 7 Hong Kong Shanghai and Treaty Ports edit nbsp Wikisource has original text related to this article Twentieth Century Impressions of Hongkong Shanghai and other Treaty Ports of China The spread of the 1908 title was beyond Hong Kong and included Shanghai and other treaty ports such as Japan Taiwan and Korea 8 A manuscript copy of this book is held at the National Library of Australia 9 Netherlands East Indies editIn 1909 the volume about the Netherlands East Indies Indonesia was published 10 British Malaya editThe British Malaya Malaysia title was published in 1908 11 It has been reprinted in an abridged facsimile form by Brash 12 13 Siam editThe Siam Thailand book was originally published in London in 1903 with a reprint in 1908 14 Uruguay editThe Uruguay Book was published in 1912 Twentieth Century Impressions of Uruguay Its history people commerce industries and resources Director in Chief Reginald Lloyd Editors W Feldwick L T Delaney Historian Arnold Wright London Lloyd s Greater Britain Publishing Co 1912 15 Western Australia editIn Western Australia the publisher was also the author P W H Thiel 16 It was extensively reviewed 17 18 19 20 21 A digitised version is available from the NLA 22 It was also reprinted by Hesperian Press in 2000 23 West Indies editThe last in the series appears to be the West Indies title Twentieth Century Impressions of the West Indies Their history people commerce industries and resources Director in chief Reginald Lloyd Editors W Feldwick L T Delaney Historian Jose Pla Carceles London Lloyds Greater Britain Publishing Co 1914 24 Dropping of Twentieth Century editIn 1914 there is record of Wright being involved in the publishing of a book with only the second part of the title of earlier series Southern India its history people commerce and industrial resources compiled by Somerset Playne assisted by J W Bond Edited by Arnold Wright London 1914 1915 25 26 References edit Wright Arnold 1923 The romance of colonisation being the story of the economic development of the British Empire Melrose retrieved 12 May 2016 Lloyd Reginald 1911 Twentieth century impressions of Argentina its history people commerce industries and resources Lloyd s Greater Britain Pub Co retrieved 12 May 2016 Twentieth century impressions of Brazil its history people commerce industries and resources WorldCat org OCLC 2788572 Wright Arnold 1858 1941 editor 1910 Twentieth century impressions of Burma its history people commerce industries and resources Bangkok Thailand White Lotus Press retrieved 12 May 2016 a href Template Citation html title Template Citation citation a author1 has generic name help CS1 maint multiple names authors list link CS1 maint numeric names authors list link Henry J Boam 1914 Twentieth century impressions of Canada Wright Arnold 1907 Twentieth century impressions of Ceylon its history people commerce industries and resources Lloyd s Greater Britain Pub Co retrieved 12 May 2016 An operational unification of finite difference methods for the numerical integration of ordinary differential equations WorldCat org OCLC 391 Wright Arnold Robarts University of Toronto 1908 Twentieth century impressions of Hong kong Shanghai and other Treaty Ports of China Their history people commerce industries and resources editor in chief Arnold Wright assistant editor H A Cartwright London Lloyd s Greater Britain Pub Co retrieved 12 May 2016 Wright Arnold 1928 Twentieth century impressions of Hongkong Shanghai and other treaty ports their early history and development retrieved 12 May 2016 Wright Arnold Breakspear Oliver T 1909 Twentieth century impressions of Netherlands India its history people commerce industries and resources Lloyd s Greater Britain Publishing Company Ltd retrieved 12 May 2016 Wright Arnold Cartwright H A 1908 Twentieth century impressions of British Malaya its history people commerce industries and resources Lloyd s Greater Britain publishing company limited retrieved 12 May 2016 Wright Arnold Cartwright H A 1989 Twentieth century impressions of British Malaya its history people commerce industries and resources Abridged ed G Brash ISBN 978 9971 4 9146 8 Twentieth Century Impressions of British Malaya Far Eastern Economic Review v147 n9 Review Publishing Company Ltd Hong Kong 39 1 1 March 1990 ISSN 0014 7591 Wright Arnold Breakspear Oliver T 1994 Twentieth century impressions of Siam its history people commerce industries and resources White Lotus ISBN 978 1 879155 30 5 This book does not show up in major library collection catalogues and it appears not have been made into facsimile edition Amazon s comment on its entry is Out of Print and Limited availability P W H Thiel amp Co Perth 1901 Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia P W H Thiel amp Co retrieved 12 May 2016 Review The Northam Advertiser Vol IX no 741 Western Australia 9 April 1902 Retrieved 14 May 2016 Review The Northam Advertiser Vol IX no 743 Western Australia 19 April 1902 p 3 Retrieved 14 May 2016 via National Library of Australia Review The Northam Advertiser Vol IX no 744 Western Australia 23 April 1902 p 2 Retrieved 14 May 2016 via National Library of Australia TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPRESSIONS The West Australian Vol 18 no 5 028 Western Australia 19 April 1902 p 2 Retrieved 14 May 2016 via National Library of Australia TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPRESSIONS The Daily News Vol XX no 8 297 Western Australia 20 March 1902 p 2 Retrieved 12 May 2016 via National Library of Australia Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia Trove Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia Hesperian Press 2000 ISBN 978 0 85905 269 6 Twentieth century impressions of the West Indies Their history people commerce industries and resources WorldCat org OCLC 1870269 Playne Somerset Bond J W Wright Arnold 1915 Southern India its history people commerce and industrial resources The Foreign and Colonial Compiling and Publishing Co ISBN 978 1 85177 030 4 National Library of Scotland entryExternal links editHathiTrust Internet Archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Twentieth Century Impressions amp oldid 1221000572, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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