Author: Marguerite E. HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Red Bear Or Yellow Dragon. Ills
Author: Marguerite E. HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Red Bear Or Yellow Dragon
Author: Marguerite HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : East Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Yellow Bear Or Red Dragon
Author: Marguerite HarrisonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781853981951
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Red Bear Or Yellow Dragon ... Illustrated
Author: Marguerite Elton HARRISONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Bookman
Author: The Flood Myths of Early China
Author: Mark Edward LewisPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791482227
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481–221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC–AD 220) China. In some versions of the tales, the flood was triggered by rebellion, while other versions linked the taming of the flood with the creation of the institution of a lineage, and still others linked the taming to the process in which the divided principles of the masculine and the feminine were joined in the married couple to produce an ordered household. While availing themselves of earlier stories and of central religious rituals of the period, these myths transformed earlier divinities or animal spirits into rulers or ministers and provided both etiologies and legitimation for the emerging political and social institutions that culminated in the creation of a unitary empire.
The New Statesman
Author: The Literary Digest International Book Review
Author: Clifford SmythPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
The Liberation of Marguerite Harrison
Author: Elizabeth AtwoodPublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682475301
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
In September 1918, World War I was nearing its end when Marguerite E. Harrison, a thirty-nine-year-old Baltimore socialite, wrote to the head of the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Division (MID) asking for a job. The director asked for clarification. Did she mean a clerical position? No, she told him. She wanted to be a spy. Harrison, a member of a prominent Baltimore family, usually got her way. She had founded a school for sick children and wangled her way onto the staff of the Baltimore Sun. Fluent in four languages and knowledgeable of Europe, she was confident she could gather information for the U.S. government. The MID director agreed to hire her, and Marguerite Harrison became America’s first female foreign intelligence officer. For the next seven years, she traveled to the world’s most dangerous places—Berlin, Moscow, Siberia, and the Middle East—posing as a writer and filmmaker in order to spy for the U.S. Army and U.S. Department of State. With linguistic skills and knack for subterfuge, Harrison infiltrated Communist networks, foiled a German coup, located American prisoners in Russia, and probably helped American oil companies seeking entry into the Middle East. Along the way, she saved the life of King Kong creator Merian C. Cooper, twice survived imprisonment in Russia, and launched a women’s explorer society whose members included Amelia Earhart and Margaret Mead. As incredible as her life was, Harrison has never been the subject of a published book-length biography. Past articles and chapters about her life relied heavily on her autobiography published in 1935, which omitted and distorted key aspects of her espionage career. Elizabeth Atwood draws on newly discovered documents in the U.S. National Archives, as well as Harrison’s prison files in the archives of the Russian Federal Security Bureau in Moscow, Russia. Although Harrison portrayed herself as a writer who temporarily worked as a spy, this book documents that Harrison’s espionage career was much more extensive and important than she revealed. She was one of America’s most trusted agents in Germany, Russia and the Middle East after World War I when the United States sought to become a world power.
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