Author: Herbert HooverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Years of adventure, 1874-1920
Author: Herbert HooverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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A Dictionary of Numismatic Names
Author: Albert Romer FreyPublisher:
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Category : Numismatics
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Carriages and Coaches
Author: Ralph StrausPublisher:
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Category : Carriages and carts
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The Queer, the Quaint, the Quizzical
Author: Francis Henry StaufferPublisher:
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Category : Curiosa
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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The End and the Beginning
Author: Hermynia Zur MühlenPublisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1906924279
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
First published in Germany in 1929, The End and the Beginning is a lively personal memoir of a vanished world and of a rebellious, high-spirited young woman's struggle to achieve independence. Born in 1883 into a distinguished and wealthy aristocratic family of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, Hermynia Zur Muhlen spent much of her childhood travelling in Europe and North Africa with her diplomat father. After five years on her German husband's estate in czarist Russia she broke with both her family and her husband and set out on a precarious career as a professional writer committed to socialism. Besides translating many leading contemporary authors, notably Upton Sinclair, into German, she herself published an impressive number of politically engaged novels, detective stories, short stories, and children's fairy tales. Because of her outspoken opposition to National Socialism, she had to flee her native Austria in 1938 and seek refuge in England, where she died, virtually penniless, in 1951. This revised and corrected translation of Zur Muhlen's memoir - with extensive notes and an essay on the author by Lionel Gossman - will appeal especially to readers interested in women's history, the Central European aristocratic world that came to an end with the First World War, and the culture and politics of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Shakespeare's England
Author: Charles Talbut OnionsPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 774
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The Arts of India, Southeast Asia, and the Himalayas at the Dallas Museum of Art
Author: Dallas Museum of ArtPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300149883
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India's Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former Ottoman empire to Java, and architectural pieces suggest the grandeur of buildings in the Indian tradition. This volume details the cultural and artistic significance of more than 140 featured works, which range from Tibetan thangkas and Indian miniature paintings to stone sculptures and bronzes. Relating these works to one another through interconnecting narratives and cross-references, scholars and curators provide a broad cultural history of the region. Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art
Transatlantic Sketches
Author: Sir James Edward AlexanderPublisher: Philadelphia : Key and Biddle
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Lives of Edward the Confessor
Author: Henry Richards LuardPublisher: London, Longman
ISBN:
Category : EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, KING OF ENGLAND,D. 1066
Languages : la
Pages : 712
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The Old World and Its Ways
Author: William Jennings BryanPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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