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The William H. Helfand Collection contains more than 7,000 European and American prints and ephemera relating to health professions including medical, dental, and mental wellness. The materials date from the 1490s to the early 21st century and contain many social and political cartoons that satirize health practices and practitioners. Noted illustrators represented include French artists Honore Daumier, Gustave Dore, J. J. Grandville, and Emile Vernier; British caricaturists Thomas Rowlandson, George Cruikshank, and James Gillray; and the American cartoonist Thomas Nast.
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An account of the author's experiences as a news correspondent in the Orient, Soviet Russia and Africa during 1940 and 1941.
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Empire's end : a history of the Far East from high colonialism to Hong Kong
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To the haunting notes of a lone bugle playing "The Last Post," the sole remaining Western flag is lowered. With Hong Kong's return to China on June 30, 1997, an era of empire ends, exactly five hundred years after Vasco de Gama first sailed to the Asian mainland. As recently as 1930, half of the world's population was somewhere subject to American, British, French or Dutch colonial rule; two generations later, the West's empires in the East are extinct. In the process, the Orient, once a byword for things sleepy, mysterious and decadent, has become a catchphrase for all things modern and dynamic. What happened? What are the legacies left by five hundred years of colonial presence? For legacies there are - deep ones - and ignoring them is perilous for anyone who hopes to understand modern-day Asia.
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Battle of the Nile, near midnight
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Image of a line of anchored ships partly obscured by gun-smoke as the British Royal Navy attacks the French fleet during the Battle of the Nile in 1798; large explosion at right; men clinging to wreckage at bottom left.
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Battle of the Nile, on the ensuing morning
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Image of a starboard view of a British ship under sail at center, the stern of French ship Le Serieuse just visible as she goes down by the bow at left in the aftermath of the Battle of the Nile in 1798 between the British Royal Navy and the French fleet; another French vessel on fire at right.
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Battle of the Nile, at 10 o'clock at night
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Image of a stern view of the H.M.S. Bellerophon partly dismasted, seen against flames from another vessel, in a line of anchored ships flying the white ensign and partly obscured by gun-smoke as the British Royal Navy attacks the French fleet during the Battle of the Nile in 1798; men in row boats at bottom right.
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