Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology of Jones's Life
- 1 A Barbaric Oriental Conqueror (to 1770)
- 2 Delicate Arab Maidens and Liquid Ruby (1770–1772)
- 3 Persian Jones and Constitutional Law (1772–1777)
- 4 The Athenian and Eleutherion (1778–1780)
- 5 An Ass Laden with Gold (1780)
- 6 Politics: Writings and Activism (1780–1782)
- 7 James River Property (1782–1783)
- 8 A Vision in the Indian Ocean (1783–1785)
- 9 A Sacred Oriental Language (1785)
- 10 A Genetic Explanation: Indo-European (1786–1787)
- 11 Sanskrit Literary Treasures (1787–1788)
- 12 An Indian Renaissance (1789)
- 13 A Burning Tropical Sun (1790–1791)
- 14 Scholar-Martyr (1791–1794)
- 15 Jones Today
- Appendix Five New Letters by Jones
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
Selected Bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chronology of Jones's Life
- 1 A Barbaric Oriental Conqueror (to 1770)
- 2 Delicate Arab Maidens and Liquid Ruby (1770–1772)
- 3 Persian Jones and Constitutional Law (1772–1777)
- 4 The Athenian and Eleutherion (1778–1780)
- 5 An Ass Laden with Gold (1780)
- 6 Politics: Writings and Activism (1780–1782)
- 7 James River Property (1782–1783)
- 8 A Vision in the Indian Ocean (1783–1785)
- 9 A Sacred Oriental Language (1785)
- 10 A Genetic Explanation: Indo-European (1786–1787)
- 11 Sanskrit Literary Treasures (1787–1788)
- 12 An Indian Renaissance (1789)
- 13 A Burning Tropical Sun (1790–1791)
- 14 Scholar-Martyr (1791–1794)
- 15 Jones Today
- Appendix Five New Letters by Jones
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Index
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- The Life and Mind of Oriental JonesSir William Jones, the Father of Modern Linguistics, pp. 386 - 390Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1991