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Searching for seeds to rest in libraries : European collecting habits towards Malay books and manuscripts in the nineteenth century [PDF]
, 2009 European scholars, colonial administrators, missionaries, bibliophiles and others were the main collectors of Malay books in the nineteenth century, both in manuscript or printed form.
Warnk, Holger
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
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Zafar Hasan Aybak: A Sacrificed Life for Turks
Turcology Research, 2022 Muhsin Ramazan İŞSEVER
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Un fragmento ficticio de Safo en Ezra Pound: ¿Pseudocita o monólogo dramático? [PDF]
Pound’s Papyrus poem is a fictitious fragment inspired in Sapho. Pound had a deep knowledge of Classical literatures and languages, and he was a great admirer of oriental literatures as well.
Barrios Castro, M.ª José
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Macalester College Bulletin [PDF]
, 1975 This publication is the Macalester College Bulletin, 1975-76 Supplement. Annual college catalog listing courses of study, historical sketch, calendar, honorary degrees, admission requirements, descriptions of departments, lists of faculty and board of ...
Macalester College
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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DEStech Transactions on Economics, Business and Management, 2019 Since 2014, education reform emphasized on applied skill development has evolved rapidly in China. However, less progress has been made for liberal arts majors such as Chinese Language and Literature that mainly focus on the courses of literature, history and philosophy.
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‘The Bethune College Sensation’: Gender, Archive and Radical Passivity
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article explores the student protests at Bethune College, Calcutta, on 3 February 1928, against the Simon Commission, a British parliamentary delegation that excluded Indian representation. On this day, female students staged a quiet but radical act of defiance by refusing to attend classes, sign apologies or vacate their hostel, despite ...
Meghmala Bhattacharya
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Re/Writing the Orient: Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, the Thousand and One Nights, and the Hundred and One Nights [PDF]
, 2019 Canto XXIII marks a tragicomic turning point in the Orlando Furioso, as the tension sustaining the titular character’s epic stoicism and romantic chivalry falls away to reveal a maniacal anti-hero.
Batarseh, Amanda
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