Search Results - Asia

Global Domestic Workers : Intersectional Inequalities and Struggles for Rights / by Marchetti, Sabrina, Garofalo Geymonat, Giulia, Cherubini, Daniela

Subjects: “…Employee rights Asia.…”
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A Colonial Affair : Commerce, Conversion, and Scandal in French India / by Agmon, Danna, 1977-

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Fighting for a Living : A Comparative Study of Military Labour 1500-2000 /

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Shelter from the Holocaust : Rethinking Jewish Survival in the Soviet Union /

Table of Contents: “…Jewish refugees in Soviet Central Asia, Iran, and India : lost memories of displacement, trauma, and rescue /…”
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Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe / by Purdy, Daniel L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: sympathy and orientalism -- Marco Polo's fabulous imperial connections -- Jesuit channels between Europe and Asia -- The genealogy of compassionate reading -- News of the Ming dynasty's collapse -- Vondel's tragic Chinese emperor -- Wieland's secret history of cosmopolitanism -- Adam Smith and the Chinese earthquake -- Goethe reads the Jesuits -- Weimar pairings: idealism and Buddhism, Kant and the Jesuits -- World literature and Goethe's Chinese poetry…”
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