John Ferguson

Ceylon in the John Ferguson

Publisher Marketing: Title: Ceylon in the "Jubilee Year" ... Third edition, revised, enlarged, and brought down to date. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The HISTORY OF ASIA collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This series includes ethnographic and general histories of distinct peripheral coastal regions that comprise South and East Asia. Other works focus on cultural history, archaeology, and linguistics. These books help readers understand the forces that shaped the ancient civilisations and influenced the modern countries of Asia. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Ferguson, John; 1887. xiv. 427 p.; 8 . 010058.m.14. Contributor Bio:  Ferguson, John The late John Ferguson, a philosopher and active internationalist, studied at the universities of Cambridge and London. He taught at the universities of New Castle, London and Birmingham as well as Iba'dan and Minnesota. The founding Dean of Arts at the Open University, and latter President of the Selly Oak Colleges, he had more than 50 published works to his name.