The geography of Dokdo

Dokdo is the easternmost territory of Korea and a valued part of Korea's cultural heritage. Dokdo has been very important geographically, historically and economically for Korea due to its abundant wildlife, rich ocean fishery, natural resources and beautiful scenic landscapes.rnrnFor years, the National Geographic Information Institute has collected geographical information and developed topog…

Daftar nominative desa Provinsi Kalimantan Barat

Provinsi, daerah tingkat I sampai saat ini berdjumlah 26 tempat diberikan nomor urut angkat Romawi I sampai dengan XXVI

Iberia :Spanish travels and reflections

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Asia in the modern world

COMPETENT AND outstanding scholars in the field of Asian studies have united together in the difficult and almost overwhelming task of compressing withhin a relatively few pages a portrayal of asia and its people.

Journey to the far Pacific

IN THE SPRING of 1951 Europe was covered with a surface calm, while five wars and revolutions raged in the Pacific. In addition to Korea, Communist attacks were being wagedrnrnagainst Indo-China, the Philippines, Malaya, and Indonesia. Here at home the great debate on sending troops to Europe was over. It was one of the bitterest since the Civil War, split- ting both parties. For more than six …

Behind the wall :a journey through China

Author's Note : rnrnThe identity of several people in this book has been disguised, in case harsher times return. The journey recorded here took place over a single autumn and early winter, but incorporates a few episodes from an earlier, briefer visit to China. So the book is a compression of experience, and inevitably omits many encounters made barren by people's reticence or by my poor Manda…

Debates with historians

Agatha Christie, in one of her witty books, The Moving Finger, introduces a girl fresh from school and lets her run on about what she thinks of it. Such a lot of things seem to me such rot. History, for instance. Why, it's quite different out of different books!" To this her sensible elderly confidant replies: "That is its real interest."rn"

Debates with historians

Agatha Christie, in one of her witty books, The Moving Finger, introduces a girl fresh from school and lets her run on about what she thinks of it. Such a lot of things seem to me such rot. History, for instance. Why, it's quite different out of different books!" To this her sensible elderly confidant replies: "That is its real interest."rn"

History and historians in the nineteenth century

THE dramatic events of the First World War focussed the attention of scholars and students on recent European history, more perhaps in Germany than anywhere else. On the collapse of the Hohen- zollern Empire the fathers of the Weimar Republic courageously decided to reveal the diplomatic secrets of the Imperial régime The main burden of Die Grosse Politik der Europäischen Kabinette, 1871-1914…

In search of cultural history

A FEW weeks ago I was travelling in a Minicab across London when the conversation with the driver naturally turned to the overcrowding of the Metropolis. The driver was inclined to blame the lack of rival attractions in many provincial towns which had no theatres and no concert halls. 'I hate the word culture,' he said, in what I can only describe