Asia's lands and peoples :A geography of one-third the earth and two-thirds i…

The first edition of this book appeared in 1944. The current revision includes text change on every page, rearranged chapters, many redrawn maps, and nearly a hundred new photograph.

Pictorial introduction to the ancient monuments of Indonesia

Ancient Indonesian Art used to be treated as a part of Indian Art. Besides Indonesian society was supposed to be Indianized as there were Hindu and Buddhist archaeological remains and inscriptions written with characters which had been derived from Indian prototypes, like Paallawa and Nagari script. Sanskrit was used in a few cases for royal charters, while Sanskrit words and terms entered Indo…

The gateway to China :Pictures of Shanghai

IS Shanghai the same place it was six or seven years ago, when this book was written? In one sense, it is; yet in a hundred ways it is a different city. The opening of Shanghai as a treaty port is not a matter of ancient history, since it is not so very long ago that the first foreign woman resident died. But how rapid and marvellous have been the changes, especially during the past decade! We …

China :A great people a great destiny

I have just visited China.rnI went with much pleasure and even keener interest, a pleasure and interest which increased the longer I stayed there.rnrnIt is only today that the peoples of the whole world, and of Africa in particular, are really beginning to form a correct idea of this great country and great people China and the Chinese.rnrnPreviously the artificial barriers set up by colonialis…

An Australian in China

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0 19 583903 X

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xv, 299 pages

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915.03 Mor a

The making of the Romanian people and language

The growth of the Romanian people in the Carpatho- Danubian area and its continuity in this area is a process similar to the growth and continuity of the other Romance European peoples: the French, Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese. With all these peoples we see first a basic ethnic element: the Gauls in France, the Celtiberians in Spain and and Portugal, the Gauls in the north and the Etrusca…

Western impressions of nature and landscape in Southeast Asia

This book is based substantially on my doctoral dissertation (The Western Cognition of Nature and Landscape in South- east Asia) submitted to the Geography Department, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley in June 1982. I owe a depth of gratitude to the many people that have made both the dissertation and book possible.

Inside Russia today

for a long time ago i have wanted to write an Inside book about the Soviet Union, and this is it. In general it follows the pettern of Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A, Inside Africa, and so on, but the canvas is more restricted still, big enough. After all the Soviet Union covers close to one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, and has put its own moons into the sky.

Ussr Its people its society its culture

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590 pages

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914.7 Fit u

The Uses of adversity :Essays on the fate of Central Europe

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ix, 305 pages

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914 Ash u