Author: Frank Emory Bunts
Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN: 9781258196455
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Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Author: Tōkyō Daigaku. Shiryō Hensanjo
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Category : Documents on microfilm
Languages : en
Pages : 660

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Author: Robert N. Macomber
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561645265
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Cmdr. Peter Wake, Office of Naval Intelligence, is in French Indochina in 1883 on a secret mission for President Chester Arthur. The novel opens with Wake aboard a riverboat on the Mekong River. The mission sounded simple in Washington: deliver the American president's reply to a confidential naval offer from the king of Cambodia, while clandestinely assessing the region's political and military situation. Wake figures it will take two more weeks and he'll be homeward bound. Six months later, after nearly dying at the hands of opium warlords, Chinese-Malay pirates, and French gangsters; after suffering starvation at sea, surviving a typhoon, being marooned on a beach, and enduring a horrific full-scale battle—Wake is still there. Exhausted, frustrated, and scared, he and his motley band of companions can now testify that nothing is simple in the Kingdom of Cambodia and the Empire of Vietnam. This story illuminates the beginning of the bloody cultural clash that lasted for the next hundred years in Southeast Asia, with each side determined to avenge their honored dead. The Honored Dead is the seventh in the award-winning Honor Series of naval historical fiction following the life and career of Lt. Cmdr. Peter Wake from 1863 to 1907, a time when the United States Navy helped America become a global power.

Author: Chellis Glendinning
Publisher: New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9781550923322
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Today's global economy is yesterday's empire. Imperialism in whatever guise is the same through time, penetrating every area of our lives, affecting whole cultures as well as the deep core of individuals. And maps have been the tools of empire, defining the territory to be exploited. Off The Map is a unique exploration of globalization. Part history, part autobiography, and part fiction, it weaves together the history of the last 300 years of Western imperialism, the author's own story of sexual abuse in the 1950s, and a present-day horseback ride through the recently colonized Chicano world of New Mexico. The author takes us with her as she travels 'off the map' through the ancestral lands of her friend and traveling companion Snowflake Martinez, describing the Chicano people's struggle to survive the onslaught of a globalized world, and the ways in which that struggle has been replicated countless times. In a different voice, she reveals scenes from her childhood, her grandparents adorning themselves with artifacts symbolic of the British Empire, and her medical doctor father raping both her and her brother for twelve years. The political is deeply personal. And hope, according to Glendinning, resides in our creating new maps that chart worlds fashioned by love and respect for community, place and nature. "A dazzling contribution to the critical study of globalization (qua imperialism)." -- Devon Peña, author of Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics: Subversive Kin

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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: 国立国会図書館 (Japan)
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Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Author: United States. Naval History Division
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764

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Author: Lewis Randolph Hamersly
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: Peter Karsten
Publisher: New York : Free Press
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 510

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