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Author believes that the salient fact of the war is the new impulse toward self-rule among the Asiatic countries.
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"In this, his third book from Nazraeli Press, Dick Arentz turns his eye toward Italy once again. But it is through a different lens that he now focuses on this country; a country that can both evoke images in the minds of many who have traveled there briefly, and even in those who have never visited, of vineyards, citrus trees, great art, religious monuments, and momentous architecture, and, in large part remains unseen, undocumented, and unknown except by the inhabitants of its many and diverse areas"--From introduction.
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Autobiography of British Field Marshal Lord Birdwood, who saw action in India, the Second Boer War, and World War I.
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Autobiography of British Field Marshal Lord Birdwood, who saw action in India, the Second Boer War, and World War I.
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This collection contains 93 documents relating to the bureaucracy and administration of Chinese indentured servants in Cuba working on sugar and commercial crop plantations. The documents include certificates of nationality from the Chinese consulate in Havana, which contains information about individual laborer's age, place of origin, and provides their Hispanic name. Also included are new contracts for laborers who sought new indenture after the expiration of their initial contract, identification papers or cedulas, legal proceedings, death and burial certificates. Additionally, there is a log sheet from a slave depository, a temporary holding place for enslaved persons before they were purchased or transported, containing names and descriptions of recaptured indentured servants who had attempted to escape.
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"Born in 1971 in Johannesburg, South Africa, Stuart O'Sullivan lives and works in New York City. His first book, How Beautiful This Place Can Be (Nazraeli Press, 2005) dealt with re-visiting his homeland after a decade in the United States. From the perspective of distance and time, he realized just what an "isolated paradise" his family had occupied and he reflected on their place within the new, rapidly changing social and political climate. We are pleased to present his second monograph ... which takes as its theme the history of his wife Dionicia's family. Her late grandfather's family were Quakers who migrated to this country in the 1700s. They were among the founding members of the state of Pennsylvania, and their history is long and detailed. His family home, in which grandmother still lives, is a fortress containing much of this history, and a ripe subject for O'Sullivan’s uncanny ability to bring us all home again"--Publisher's description.
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