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Istvan Anhalt pathways and memory /

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The Straits of Malacca gateway or gauntlet? / by Freeman, Donald B.

Table of Contents: “…The geographic importance of the Straits of Malacca -- Monsoonal circulation and revolutions in shipping and navigation -- Economic-geographic concepts of long-distance trade, spatial duopoly, and network structures -- Concepts and perspectives from political economy -- Practical incentives and the organization of early long-distance trade -- Asian-European trading systems in the Greco-Roman era : the beginnings of monsoon trade -- Monsoon trade in the early fifteenth century : the Empire of Melaka (Malacca) and its precursors -- The Portuguese trading system in monsoon Asia -- The Dutch trading system and Hollands' ascendancy in the Straits of Malacca -- The British East India Company trading system -- Contemporary trading systems : Japan, oil, and the Straits of Malacca -- Controlling transit trade : the entrepot of Melaka -- The founding of British Penang (Pulau Pinang) -- The rise of Singapore as a global entrepot -- Changing local hinterlands and products in the straits region : Sumatran trade -- Local trader hinterlands and products on the Malay coast of the straits -- Natural hazards and navigation in the Straits of Malacca and Singapore -- Piracy in the Straits of Malacca and surrounding seas -- Twentieth-century military conflicts in the straits area -- Traffic congestion, hazardous cargoes, and pollution in the straits in the contemporary period -- Twenty-first-century trade and globalization : the Asia-Pacific region -- Emerging roles of the straits in global and regional commerce -- Conclusion.…”
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Gardens of the gods myth, magic and meaning / by McIntosh, Christopher, 1943-

Table of Contents: “…The symbolic language of gardens -- Balancing the forces of nature : Chinese and Japanese gardens -- A foretaste of paradise : the Islamic garden and its forebears -- Gardens of gods and garden of saints : pagan and Christian motifs in European gardens -- Ancient mysteries revived : the Renaissance garden in Italy -- Rosicrucian marvels and recreations of Eden : late Renaissance gardens in Europe -- Theatres of transformation : symbolism in Baroque and Rococo gardens -- Visions of a new Elysium : symbolism and allegory in gardens of the eighteenth century -- The symbol-strewn landscape : initiatic themes in European gardens of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries -- The present age -- Connecting with nature -- Creating a garden of meaning.…”
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Frontiers of Ottoman studies state, province, and the West /

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Outside in on the margins of the modern Middle East /

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Writing the feminine women in Arab sources /

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The Ottoman Empire and the world around it by Faroqhi, Suraiya, 1941-

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Against their will the history and geography of forced migrations in the USSR / by Poli͡an, P. M.

Table of Contents: “…International forced migrations -- Internment and deportation of German civilians from European countries to the USSR -- The victors labor balance and labor reparations -- Internment of Germans in Southeast Europe -- Internment of Germans on the territory of the Third Reich -- Some outcomes of the operation on internment of Germans -- Employment of labor of German civilians from European countries in the USSR, and their repatriation -- Destination geography and employment of labor of German internees in the USSR -- Beginning of repatriation of internees, and new labor reparations -- Further repatriation process and its completion -- In lieu of a conclusion: geo-demographic scale and repercussions of forced migrations in the USSR -- Afterword at the crossroads of geography and history (by Anatoly Vishnevsky).…”
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Polish liberal thought up to 1918 by Janowski, Maciej

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China inside out contemporary Chinese nationalism and transnationalism /

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Hitler's library by Miskolczy, Ambrus

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Constitutional democracy by Kis, János, 1943-

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Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956 between the United States and the Soviet Union / by Borhi, László

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The Roma in Romanian history by Achim, Viorel, 1961-

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Shifting obsessions three essays on the politics of anticorruption / by Krastev, Ivan

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A life under Russian serfdom memoirs of Savva Dmitrievich Purlevskii, 1800-1868 / by Purlevskii, Savva Dmitrievich, 1800-1868

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The demise of Yugoslavia a political memoir / by Mesić, Stipe, 1934-

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Carrying a secret in my heart children of the victims of the reprisals after the Hungarian Revolution in 1956 : an oral history / by Kőrösi, Zsuzsanna

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Contesting empires opposition, promotion, and slavery / by Hart, Jonathan Locke, 1956-

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The rise and fall of the Caucasian race a political history of racial identity / by Baum, Bruce David, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "Caucasians" and the political history of racial identities -- Before the "Caucasian race" : antecedents of European racialism, ca. 1000-1684 -- Enlightenment science and the invention of the "Caucasian race," 1684-1795 -- Passage into "our ordinary forms of expression" : the "Caucasian race," ca. 1795-1850 -- Racialized nationalism and the partial eclipse of the "Caucasian race," ca. 1840-1935 -- The color line and the "Caucasian race" revival, 1935-51 -- Not-so-benign racialism : the "Caucasian race" after decolonization, 1952-2005 -- "Where Caucasian means black" : "race," nation, and the Chechen wars -- Conclusion : deconstructing "Caucasia," dismantling racism.…”
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