Rst 20/8/24
JOHN WHITE'S account of his visit to Viet-Nam in 1819 and 1820 ranks as a minor treasure of early nineteenth century travel literature on South-East Asia. As White himself was at pains to point out in his 'Advertisement', this is not a book written by a professed scholar'. It is, however, less easy to accept his claim that the book is but 'the production of an unlettered seaman'. Not the least …
Asm 09/07/24
This is the vignette 1 begin with when I speak to audiences on uniqueness versus universality of the genocide," a subject I have been invited to talk about not only in professional settings but also on several occasions before both specifically Jewish and Armenian audiences.rn"
THE TECHNICAL definitions of archaeology inform us that it is the study of the material remains of man's past, that its ultimate aim is the reconstruction of bygone cultures, and that it deals in large measure with artifacts-those things made by man that have survived. These definitions convey little of the glamor with which the average reader invests the subject. Instinctively he thinks in ter…
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Jaenudin 1393
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