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Author : Paul D. Cravath
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781258199357
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Letters Home from the Far East and Russia written by Paul D. Cravath and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Drennan Cravath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Letters Home from the Far East and Russia, 1931 written by Paul Drennan Cravath and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor L. Pray
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295804807
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)
Download or read book Letters from Vladivostock, 1894-1930 written by Eleanor L. Pray and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1894, Eleanor L. Pray left her New England home to move with her merchant husband to Vladivostok in the Russian Far East. Over the next thirty-six years — from the time of Tsar Alexander III to the early years of Stalin’s rule — she wrote more than 2,000 letters chronicling her family life and the tumultuous social and political events she witnessed. Vladivostok, 5,600 miles east of Moscow, was shaped by a rich intersection of Asian cultures, and Pray’s witty and observant writing paints a vivid picture of the city and its denizens during a period of momentous social change. The book offers highlights from Pray’s letters along with illuminating historical and biographical information.
Author : Pavel Florensky
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Letters from Russia's Far East written by Pavel Florensky and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the complete letters written Pavel Florensky after his arrest in 1933 and before his transfer to the Solovki Islands in 1934. They reveal a character which accepted misfortune and injustice with dignity and hope, a keen mind ready to apply itself to new circumstances, and a heart full of longing and gentle love for his family. Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky, born in Azerbaijan in 1882, was a gifted polymath who studied nearly every science available to him and was also well-versed in art and literature. He was also a Russian Orthodox priest and noted theologian. In his time at the gulag in Russia's Amur Region, he applied himself to the study of permafrost and wrote letters to his children, often guiding them in their studies, drawing from his wealth of expertise.
Author : Charles Eliot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Far East written by Charles Eliot and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olga Tsuneko Yokoyama
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447061483
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (614 download)
Download or read book Russian Peasant Letters written by Olga Tsuneko Yokoyama and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around 1880, two teenagers left their village on the Kama river, 1000 km east of Moscow. Their father wanted them to earn cash in Siberia and send it home. The result: scores of letters over a period of 16 years (1881-1896). The parents, two brothers and a sister reported on harvests and family finances, on marriages, births, and deaths, asked for money, offered religious instruction and moral advice, described their daily lives, and shared their worries about their alcoholic father and their desire to see the world and succeed in it. Meanwhile, the family's activity steadily expanded, as their side business grew from a single leaky rowboat to a fleet of steamships. These unique letters, preserved in a Siberian archive, appear here in English translation for the first time. The accompanying detailed commentaries, based on meticulous archival research, recreate these peasants' social, cultural, and economic milieu. The family's letters thus document the complex changes that led to upward mobility in an era that saw the rapid growth of capitalism and urbanization during late imperial Russia. Facsimiles and photographs are included.
Author : Sir Charles Eliot
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230395685
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Letters from the Far East written by Sir Charles Eliot and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ... LETTERS FROM THE FAR EAST INTRODUCTION The letters here republished consist of contributions written for the Westminster Gazette during a brief visit to China and Japan in the summer and autumn of 1906, together with some additions. I had travelled before in Kashgaria and the frontier provinces of China, reaching them by crossing Asia, but this was my first visit to the coast and the betterknown provinces of the empire. The main object of my journey was to obtain some practical know-fi ledge of the languages and creeds of the Far East, and, in particular, to study the curious development which Buddhism has undergone in those countries; for it is difficult to form a correct and comprehensive idea of the part which this religion has played in the world by the mere study of Sanskrit and Pali literature. I trust that I may some day be able to publish the result of these and other investigations in a con- nected form. Meantime, it is with some hesitation that I reproduce these fragmentary impressions de voyage. But, slight as they are, they seem to me to bring out in relief the fact which struck me most during my travels--namely, the distinctness of China and Japan from the rest of Asia, and particularly from the Indian and Mohammedan East. This is, of course, obvious the moment it is pointed out, but by a vice of thought as well as of language such words as 'east' and 'orientals' are made to apply to all countries from Turkey to the Pacific. The enormous strides which were being made by Japan were long not appreciated at their true value, because she was thought to be an oriental country, and as such unable to overstep the limits which European ideas thought probable for oriental progress; and at the present day the gist of much criticism on...
Author : Robert Taylor Swaine
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1584777133
Total Pages : 1972 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors, 1819-1947 written by Robert Taylor Swaine and published by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the sole edition. Volume I: The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors 1819-1906; Volume II: The Cravath Firm Since 1906; Volume III: The Cravath Associates; (With Photographs of the Cravath Partners). Cravath, Swaine and Moore, as it is known today, one of the most prestigious law firms in the United States, was involved in some of the most important events in history. It was also a decisive influence on the direction of American legal practice. Under the leadership of Paul D. Cravath in the 1890s, it developed the organizational model based on a large staff of associates, partners and clerical helpers that continues to dominate the modern urban law firm. Swaine [1886-1949], then a principal partner, drew heavily on the Cravath archives in the preparation of this work. The most extensive history of the firm, it is enhanced by Swaine's personal perspective. (He joined Cravath in 1910). The final volume lists biographical data for every associate and partner from 1899 to 1948.
Author : Maija Jansson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004300457
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Art and Diplomacy: Seventeenth-Century English Decorated Royal Letters to Russia and the Far East written by Maija Jansson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Art and Diplomacy we see the relationship between renaissance design in decorated borders and the messages conveyed in the texts of royal letters from the English kings to Russia and rulers in the Far East. These are cases of art serving the Crown, with much of the early limning done by Edward Norgate, the English miniaturist. Printed here for the first time from Russian archives, this collection provides a continuum for the study of the limning of royal letters throughout the 17th century. The letters that the decoration enhances reveal the details of privileges and commercial advantages sought by the English, and the cultural interests of the Russians in their requests for English doctors, apothecaries, jewellers, and mineralogists.
Author : David Norman Collins
Publisher : Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Siberia and the Soviet Far East written by David Norman Collins and published by Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Konrad H. Jarausch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400836328
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Reluctant Accomplice written by Konrad H. Jarausch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ordinary German soldier’s letters home from Poland and Russia during World War II Reluctant Accomplice is a volume of the wartime letters of Dr. Konrad Jarausch, a German high-school teacher of religion and history who served in a reserve battalion of Hitler's army in Poland and Russia, where he died of typhoid in 1942. He wrote most of these letters to his wife, Elisabeth. His son, acclaimed German historian Konrad H. Jarausch, brings them together here to tell the gripping story of a patriotic soldier of the Third Reich who, through witnessing its atrocities in the East, begins to doubt the war's moral legitimacy. These letters grow increasingly critical, and their vivid descriptions of the mass deaths of Russian POWs are chilling. They reveal the inner conflicts of ordinary Germans who became reluctant accomplices in Hitler's merciless war of annihilation, yet sometimes managed to discover a shared humanity with its suffering victims, a bond that could transcend race, nationalism, and the enmity of war. Reluctant Accomplice is also the powerful story of the son, who for decades refused to come to grips with these letters because he abhorred his father's nationalist politics. Only now, late in his life, is he able to cope with their contents—and he is by no means alone. This book provides rare insight into the so-called children of the war, an entire generation of postwar Germans who grew up resenting their past, but who today must finally face the painful legacy of their parents' complicity in National Socialism.
Author : Walter D. Kamphoefner
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807876593
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Germans in the Civil War written by Walter D. Kamphoefner and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German Americans were one of the largest immigrant groups in the Civil War era, and they comprised nearly 10 percent of all Union troops. Yet little attention has been paid to their daily lives--both on the battlefield and on the home front--during the war. This collection of letters, written by German immigrants to friends and family back home, provides a new angle to our understanding of the Civil War experience and challenges some long-held assumptions about the immigrant experience at this time. Originally published in Germany in 2002, this collection contains more than three hundred letters written by seventy-eight German immigrants--men and women, soldiers and civilians, from the North and South. Their missives tell of battles and boredom, privation and profiteering, motives for enlistment and desertion and for avoiding involvement altogether. Although written by people with a variety of backgrounds, these letters describe the conflict from a distinctly German standpoint, the editors argue, casting doubt on the claim that the Civil War was the great melting pot that eradicated ethnic antagonisms.
Author : David Shavit
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476610967
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Bali and the Tourist Industry written by David Shavit and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The island of Bali’s sensational image was created by the tourists, artists, and scholars who visited the tiny nation between the two world wars. A Dutch colony from 1908, Bali was a source of revenue for the Dutch government, which began to develop its image as the ultimate vacation spot. The tourism industry spread the idea of Bali as a paradise in which noble, happy, spiritual Balinese—all prodigiously creative artists—lived in innocence. Sensual images of beautiful people on an enchanted isle unspoiled by modernity predominated. Bali also acquired a reputation as a homosexual paradise. A host of books and articles fed these images of Bali until it evolved into one of the most romantic stops on the tourist itinerary. The Balinese people, however, made little profit from the tourist traffic. This history of the development of tourism in Bali stretches from the Dutch occupation in 1906 to the Japanese occupation in 1942. After exhaustive research in published records and in unpublished letters, diaries, and oral histories left by many of the American and European visitors to the island as well as the Balinese residents, the author explores the reasons for Bali’s popularity among Westerners and their effects on the native culture.
Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nikolai Tolstoy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Secret Betrayal written by Nikolai Tolstoy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerald Abraham
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571302823
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)
Download or read book Masters of Russian Music written by Gerald Abraham and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1936, Calvocoressi's and Abraham's study was the first complete account of its subject to appear in any language, including Russian, and was based on a large amount of original first-hand research. Over 75 years later Masters of Russian Music retains its power - as any study of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakof, Scriabin, Borodin et al really ought to, since these were composers whose extraordinary musical accomplishments still left room in their lives for all manner of other interesting (and sometimes eccentric) activities. The portraits in this volume are scholarly, authoritative, and highly lively - as befitting the eminent talents under discussion.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2438 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1933 with total page 2438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
