Dos eventos tragicos, la masacre de Los Angeles de 1871 y el abonimable trafico de las pequenas esclavas, que resumen la relacion dificil entre America y China en los anos 1820 y 1945.
Un libro de ingeniosa e inteligente critica que deja al descubierto verdades ocultas con un estilo simple y eficaz.
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Николай Николаевич Головин (1875-1944) – русский военачальник, генерал-лейтенант, профессор Николаевской академии Генерального штаба, военный учёный, историк и исследователь военного дела. "Мы постарались приспособить к детскому пониманию историю Русской земли, начиная с древнейших времен и кончая последними событиями. Известно, как интересуют детей рассказы о героях и подвигах. Русская история богата примерами геройских дел и добрых начинаний ...
Was migration from Victorian Cardiganshire simply a flight from rural poverty? This book relates the rate and timing of the outward movements from the county to the prevailing social and economic conditions. It provides insights into the factors involved in migration, and using computer-assisted analysis of census enumerators’ books examines key dimensions of the communities at the major migrant destinations. ...
The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's evolution into nationhood: the cultural crusades mounted by those who believed in the centrality of the Irish language to the emergent Irish state. This book attempts to remedy that deficiency and to present the lively debates within the language mo ...
In this rich historical study, Maurice Friedberg recounts the impact of translation on the Russian literary process. In tracing the explosion of literary translation in nineteenth-century Russia, Friedberg determines that it introduced new issues of cultural, aesthetic, and political values. Beginning with Pushkin in the early nineteenth century, Friedberg traces the history of translation throughout the lives of Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and, more ...
In this original, provocative, well-reasoned, and thoroughly documented book, Frank Klaassen proposes that two principal genres of illicit learned magic occur in late medieval manuscripts: image magic, which could be interpreted and justified in scholastic terms, and ritual magic (in its extreme form, overt necromancy), which could not. Image magic tended to be recopied faithfully; ritual magic tended to be adapted and reworked. These two forms ...
In Chaos and Cosmos , Heidi Scott integrates literary readings with contemporary ecological methods to investigate two essential and contrasting paradigms of nature that scientific ecology continues to debate: chaos and balance. Ecological literature of the Romantic and Victorian eras uses environmental chaos and the figure of the balanced microcosm as tropes essential to understanding natural patterns, and these eras were the first to reflect ...
