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Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe /
Published 2021Table 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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The Hump America's strategy for keeping China in World War II /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…From the Marco Polo Bridge to ABC Ferry Command -- Terrain, weather, pilots, and planes -- "Barnstorming" over the Hump -- The Hump and an ascendant CBI air strategy -- "Ten thousand tons by Christmas" -- The Hump goes to war -- The Hump becomes an airline -- The end of the Hump -- Notes.…”
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The end of the Hamptons scenes from the class struggle in America's paradise /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…: whose quality of life is it anyway? -- Polo ponies and penalty kicks : sports on the east end -- The other Hamptons : race and class in America's paradise -- From clam beds to casinos : the enduring battle over Native American land rights.…”
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Kabuki's forgotten war 1931-1945 /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Kabuki's foreign adventure: 1931-1939 -- Prelude to war -- Kabuki and the Manchurian and Shanghai incidents: 1931-1934 -- Kabuki and the Marco Polo Bridge incident: 1937-1938 -- The darkening storm: 1939 -- Fruits of victory: 1940-1942 -- Kabuki and 2,600 years of imperial rule: 1940 -- Confrontation with America and Britain: 1941 -- Japan and kabuki at the zenith: 1942 -- Defeat and survival: 1943-1945 -- Kabuki and Japan's "decisive battle": 1943 -- Kabuki is a luxury: 1944 -- The agony ends: 1945 -- War plays in kabuki, a retrospection: August 1945 -- Kabuki outlasts the occupation: 1945-1947 -- Inventing classic kabuki: 1945-1947.…”
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Rome, a city and its empire in perspective the impact of the Roman world through Fergus Millar's research = Rome, une cité impériale en jeu : L'impact du monde romain selon Fergus...
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…En relisant Millar (et Holkeskamp) / Frederic Hurlet -- Contio, auctoritas and freedom of speech in republican Rome / Francisco Pina Polo -- Relire les institutions des seleucides de bikerman / John Ma -- Centre and periphery : administrative communication in Roman imperial times / Peter Eich -- The Roman city in the Roman period / Clifford Ando -- The Roman Near East from Constantine to Mahomet: report on a research project / Fergus Millar -- Sources conciliaires et histoire de l'empire Romain: une lecture de Fergus Millar / Philippe Blaudeau -- Pluralite des langues, pluralite des cultures dans le proche-orient Romano-Byzantin / Jean-Baptiste Yon.…”
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