James Fergusson
Biographic Data
| ID | 111781 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Fergusson |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Fergusson |
| SIGNATURE | FERGUSSON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1846 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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The Holy Sepulchre and the Temple at Jerusalem
Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Despite his lack of formal training, he became an expert in the field of Indian architecture. The topography and temples of ancient Jerusalem also fascinated him. This 1865 collection of two lectures summarises his controversial topographical and architectural argument that the location whe…
An Historical Inquiry into the True Principles of Beauty in Art
Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Despite his lack of formal training, he became an expert in the field of Indian architecture, publishing Cave Temples of India and a History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, as well as The Holy Sepulchre and the Temple at Jerusalem, all reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. In th…
Holy Sepulchre and the Temple at Jerusalem
Historical Inquiry into the True Principles of Beauty in Art
The Norad conundrum
Concerns about the future of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have forever dominated Canadian policy considerations regarding participation in the US missile defence program. Yet, fears that a Canadian decision not to participate could lead to the “demise” or marginalization of NORAD appear entirely unfounded in the wake of the formal Canadian refusal in 2005. This article identifies the reasons behind these fears relative to …
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Although he had no formal training, he became one of the most respected researchers in the field and an expert on India's cave temples. His History of Indian and Eastern Architecture was first published in 1876 and became a standard work. It was revised in this two-volume edition of 1910 by…
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Although he had no formal training, he became one of the most respected researchers in the field and an expert on India's cave temples. His History of Indian and Eastern Architecture was first published in 1876 and became a standard work. It was revised in this two-volume edition of 1910 by…
The Future of American Global Power
The 2008 economic crisis spawned a wealth of speculation, academic and otherwise, on the future status of the United States in the international system. After approximately 20 years of America's unprecedented status as the sole dominant global power, the financial crisis, the US' growing debt and deficit, polarization and gridlock within congress, and far-flung military commitments raised significant doubts that the United States would be able an…
Thinking about a “Known Unkown”
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, strategic considerations about the role and utility of weapons - save the issue of proliferation - have fallen off the political-military agenda. After four US-led wars over the past 19 years, numerous international peace operations or interventions, the terrible events of 9/11, three US quadrennial defense reviews and two US nuclear posture reviews, the state of affairs concerning weapons can be boiled down to …
Dark Threats and White Knights
Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture. The first reports of what became known in Canada as the Somalia Affair challenged national claims to a special expertise in peacekeeping and to a society free of racism. Today, however, despite a national inqui…
Not Home Alone
Deputy Director, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba. This article is drawn from previously published works on Canada and ballistic missile defence and is part of a much large research project that compares Canadian policy on ABM, SDI, and NMD.THE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWER to the question of Canadian participation in national missile defence (NMD) is in. The more difficult policy issue for Canada is the means o…
The Best Laid Plans
Since the end of the Cold War, substantive reform of the United Nations has emerged as a major issue on the political agenda, and one of the most innovative proposals is Canadian. This proposal, submitted to the General Assembly in September 1995, calls for a United Nations rapid reaction force or capability that will enable the United Nations to respond more quickly and effectively to crises and conflicts. Ostensibly, the belief which underlies …
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access JAMES FERGUSSON JAMES FERGUSSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXIII, Issue 288, July 1958, Pages 531-a–531, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXIII.288.531-a Published: 01 July 1958
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access JAMES FERGUSSON JAMES FERGUSSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXVIII, Issue CCLXVII, April 1953, Pages 319-b–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXVIII.CCLXVII.319-b Published: 01 April 1953
Art. IX.— On the Saka, Samvat, and Gupta Eras. A Supplement to his Paper on Indian Chronology
The following notes on Indian Chronology were written in 1874, and were originally intended for the pages of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Before, however, they were printed off, I received a letter from Dr. Bühler, of Bombay, in answer to one I had written to him, on hearing a rumour that he had found Kanishka's name in one of the Puranas. I consequently refrained from publishing them, till it was known what bearing this discovery mi…
Notes on babu Rájendralála Mitra's Paper on the Age of the Caves at Ajantá
When this paper was first presented to the Council in July last, I objected to its being received, inasmuch as it contained a vast amount of irrelevant matter, and personalities, which I should regret to see introduced into any discussion in this Society. Since then Mr. Grote, in the exercise of a discretion given him by the author, has cut it down to about one-half its original length, and now presents it in a form to which I personally can have…
Art. IX.—On Hiouen-Thsang's Journey from Patna to Ballabhi
In his Life of Gaudama, Bishop Bigandet remarks that “the voyages of two Chinese travellers, undertaken in the fifth and seventh centuries of our era, have done more to elucidate the history and geography of Buddhism in India than all that has hitherto been found in the Sanskrit and Pali books of India and the neighbouring countries.” Feeling strongly impressed with the truth of this observation, I attempted, in a paper published in a recent volu…
Art. V.—Description of the Amravati Tope in Guntur
Hitherto our knowledge of ancient Buddhist architecture in India has been derived mainly from the rock cut examples. These, though most valuable for the purpose, from their number and immutability, have the defect of being all interiors, and we obtain little or no knowledge from them of what the external appearance may have been of the structural buildings which they represent. It is doubtful whether we ever shall know, in so far as the Vihâras o…
Art. II.—On the Rock-Cut Temples of India
There are few objects of antiquarian research that have attracted more attention from the learned in Europe, than the history and purposes of the Cave Temples of India, but if we except the still unexplained antiquities of Mexico, I know none regarding which so little that is satisfactory has been elicited, or about which so many, and such discordant opinions exist: and while the age of every building of Greece and Rome is known with the utmost p…
The Best Laid Plans
Since the end of the Cold War, substantive reform of the United Nations has emerged as a major issue on the political agenda, and one of the most innovative proposals is Canadian. This proposal, submitted to the General Assembly in September 1995, calls for a United Nations rapid reaction force or capability that will enable the United Nations to respond more quickly and effectively to crises and conflicts. Ostensibly, the belief which underlies …
Art. V.—Description of the Amravati Tope in Guntur
Hitherto our knowledge of ancient Buddhist architecture in India has been derived mainly from the rock cut examples. These, though most valuable for the purpose, from their number and immutability, have the defect of being all interiors, and we obtain little or no knowledge from them of what the external appearance may have been of the structural buildings which they represent. It is doubtful whether we ever shall know, in so far as the Vihâras o…
Art. II.—On the Rock-Cut Temples of India
There are few objects of antiquarian research that have attracted more attention from the learned in Europe, than the history and purposes of the Cave Temples of India, but if we except the still unexplained antiquities of Mexico, I know none regarding which so little that is satisfactory has been elicited, or about which so many, and such discordant opinions exist: and while the age of every building of Greece and Rome is known with the utmost p…
Art. V.—Description of the Amravati Tope in Guntur
Hitherto our knowledge of ancient Buddhist architecture in India has been derived mainly from the rock cut examples. These, though most valuable for the purpose, from their number and immutability, have the defect of being all interiors, and we obtain little or no knowledge from them of what the external appearance may have been of the structural buildings which they represent. It is doubtful whether we ever shall know, in so far as the Vihâras o…
Art. IX.—On Hiouen-Thsang's Journey from Patna to Ballabhi
In his Life of Gaudama, Bishop Bigandet remarks that “the voyages of two Chinese travellers, undertaken in the fifth and seventh centuries of our era, have done more to elucidate the history and geography of Buddhism in India than all that has hitherto been found in the Sanskrit and Pali books of India and the neighbouring countries.” Feeling strongly impressed with the truth of this observation, I attempted, in a paper published in a recent volu…
Art. IX.— On the Saka, Samvat, and Gupta Eras. A Supplement to his Paper on Indian Chronology
The following notes on Indian Chronology were written in 1874, and were originally intended for the pages of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Before, however, they were printed off, I received a letter from Dr. Bühler, of Bombay, in answer to one I had written to him, on hearing a rumour that he had found Kanishka's name in one of the Puranas. I consequently refrained from publishing them, till it was known what bearing this discovery mi…
Notes on babu Rájendralála Mitra's Paper on the Age of the Caves at Ajantá
When this paper was first presented to the Council in July last, I objected to its being received, inasmuch as it contained a vast amount of irrelevant matter, and personalities, which I should regret to see introduced into any discussion in this Society. Since then Mr. Grote, in the exercise of a discretion given him by the author, has cut it down to about one-half its original length, and now presents it in a form to which I personally can have…
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access JAMES FERGUSSON JAMES FERGUSSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXVIII, Issue CCLXVII, April 1953, Pages 319-b–320, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXVIII.CCLXVII.319-b Published: 01 April 1953
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access JAMES FERGUSSON JAMES FERGUSSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXIII, Issue 288, July 1958, Pages 531-a–531, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXIII.288.531-a Published: 01 July 1958
The Best Laid Plans
Since the end of the Cold War, substantive reform of the United Nations has emerged as a major issue on the political agenda, and one of the most innovative proposals is Canadian. This proposal, submitted to the General Assembly in September 1995, calls for a United Nations rapid reaction force or capability that will enable the United Nations to respond more quickly and effectively to crises and conflicts. Ostensibly, the belief which underlies …
Not Home Alone
Deputy Director, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba. This article is drawn from previously published works on Canada and ballistic missile defence and is part of a much large research project that compares Canadian policy on ABM, SDI, and NMD.THE SIMPLE AND STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWER to the question of Canadian participation in national missile defence (NMD) is in. The more difficult policy issue for Canada is the means o…
Dark Threats and White Knights
Somalia. March 4, 1993. Two Somalis are shot in the back by Canadian peacekeepers, one fatally. Barely two weeks later, sixteen-year-old Shidane Abukar Arone is tortured to death. Dozens of Canadian soldiers look on or know of the torture. The first reports of what became known in Canada as the Somalia Affair challenged national claims to a special expertise in peacekeeping and to a society free of racism. Today, however, despite a national inqui…
Thinking about a “Known Unkown”
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, strategic considerations about the role and utility of weapons - save the issue of proliferation - have fallen off the political-military agenda. After four US-led wars over the past 19 years, numerous international peace operations or interventions, the terrible events of 9/11, three US quadrennial defense reviews and two US nuclear posture reviews, the state of affairs concerning weapons can be boiled down to …
The Future of American Global Power
The 2008 economic crisis spawned a wealth of speculation, academic and otherwise, on the future status of the United States in the international system. After approximately 20 years of America's unprecedented status as the sole dominant global power, the financial crisis, the US' growing debt and deficit, polarization and gridlock within congress, and far-flung military commitments raised significant doubts that the United States would be able an…
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Although he had no formal training, he became one of the most respected researchers in the field and an expert on India's cave temples. His History of Indian and Eastern Architecture was first published in 1876 and became a standard work. It was revised in this two-volume edition of 1910 by…
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Although he had no formal training, he became one of the most respected researchers in the field and an expert on India's cave temples. His History of Indian and Eastern Architecture was first published in 1876 and became a standard work. It was revised in this two-volume edition of 1910 by…
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
The Holy Sepulchre and the Temple at Jerusalem
Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Despite his lack of formal training, he became an expert in the field of Indian architecture. The topography and temples of ancient Jerusalem also fascinated him. This 1865 collection of two lectures summarises his controversial topographical and architectural argument that the location whe…
An Historical Inquiry into the True Principles of Beauty in Art
Born in Scotland, James Fergusson (1808–86) spent ten years as an indigo planter in India before embarking upon a second career as an architectural historian. Despite his lack of formal training, he became an expert in the field of Indian architecture, publishing Cave Temples of India and a History of Indian and Eastern Architecture, as well as The Holy Sepulchre and the Temple at Jerusalem, all reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection. In th…
Holy Sepulchre and the Temple at Jerusalem
Historical Inquiry into the True Principles of Beauty in Art
The Norad conundrum
Concerns about the future of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have forever dominated Canadian policy considerations regarding participation in the US missile defence program. Yet, fears that a Canadian decision not to participate could lead to the “demise” or marginalization of NORAD appear entirely unfounded in the wake of the formal Canadian refusal in 2005. This article identifies the reasons behind these fears relative to …
Norad
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