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Cargando... Whatever Happened to Tanganyika?: The Place Names that History Left Behindpor Harry Campbell
  
Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   ) Tony2704 | Mar 9, 2015 |  And although I knew what had happened to Tangnyika before reading "Whatever happened to Tanganyika", it was still worth the read. (  )1  MiaCulpa | Apr 15, 2014 | Even one of our more learned members on LibraryThing falls into the author's clutches and presumes that that this work is merely fun, and another member recommends it as suitable reading for the smallest room in the house! I regret that those of us who grew up when most of the world was coloured pink (like the former LibraryThing background) for the Empire will be confounded by learning that the names granted by our illustrious forebears for the purest highest ideals were changed – for example from Bombay to Mumbai or some such – purely on nationalist whim! And exactly what did happen to Tanganyika … or Ceylon for that matter? Harrumph! 4 John_Vaughan | Oct 14, 2011 | ) meggyweg | Sep 3, 2010 | Here we are informed about a number of places,some countries,some counties and some towns,that for one reason or another have a story that needs to be told. These include that of the English County of Rutland,the smallest in the whole country and one which has vanished and reappeared several times in the last few years. Also the terrible story of Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo. Indeed there are no less than 46 separate stories here,most of which I am sure will enthrall and entertain you. (  )2 devenish | Jun 29, 2009 |
Place-names change for all sorts of reasons, some of them good. But even the Burmese may want ‘Burma’ back... quote Noel Coward—“In Rangoon, the heat of noon is just what the natives shun / They put their Scotch or rye down, and lie down”—then surely he can have some fun with, say, Istanbul, formerly known as Constantinople. That city even has an early-1950s pop hit devoted to its renaming: “Istanbul (Not Constantinople),” made famous by the Four Lads. In addition to reminding us that even New York was once known as New Amsterdam, the song closes with a fatalistic acceptance of change that Mr. Campbell seems to share: “No, you can’t go back to Constantinople / Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople / Why did Constantinople get the works? / That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.”  It’s a pleasant little (5”x 8”) volume small enough to pop in your bag and consists of short essays custom-made for browsing. It’s just the thing to take on an airplane flight, if you’re willing to take the risk of being tempted to diverge from your planned journey to visit one of the fascinating places discussed in Campbell’s book, instead.
Do you still find yourself referring to Zaire or Czechoslovakia, or wondering whether it should be Moldavia or Moldova, Burma or Myanmar? Dozens of countries, cities and counties have changed their identity over the years. Some of the names we remember from our schooldays or from news headlines just a few years ago are now gone. For example, whatever happened to Tanganyika? This new book by Harry Campbell is a fascinating trawl through the place names that history left behind: the stories about where they came from, what happened to them and what they were replaced by.The stories behind the place names include: Biafra, British Heligoland, Ceylon, Flintshire, Friendly Isles, Islands of Samson and the Ducks, Leningrad, Little Britain, Macedonia, Muscat, Pleasant Island, Stalingrad, Tanganyika, West Britain, Yugoslavia and Zaire.From the major political movements (the Leningrads and Stalingrads of the Socialist Soviet Republic) to enticing destinations (Pleasant Islands, the Friendly Isles), 'Whatever Happened to Tanganyika?' reveals how the atlas of yesteryear became the maps of today. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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