Ethnic category: 7100 books
Christian, Saracen and Genre in Medieval French Literature
Imagination and Cultural Interaction in the French Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This book explores the historical and imaginary representation of the Saracen, or Muslim, in French writings from 1100 to 1500.
Times Past in Korea
An Illustrated Collection of Encounters, Customs and Daily Life Recorded by Foreign Visitors
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
In earlier times, for the Chinese, Korea was 'the country of courteous people from the east', and for westerners 'the land of the morning calm' or 'hermit kingdom'. In this fascinating collection of writings on times past in Korea the author helps to lift the veil on this once closed country, providing...
by Kirwan Ward, Graham Earnshaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Unexpectedly in 1958, an irreverent British journalist and Australian cartoonist duo were granted visas to visit Communist China at its most closed and inscrutable. Emerging from the writings of Kirwan Ward and the drawings of Paul Rigby is a picture of China at a key moment in its history—still...
Voices of Italian America
A History of Early Italian American Literature with a Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Voices of Italian America presents a top-rate authoritative study and anthology of the italian-language literature written and published in the United States from the heydays of the Great Migration (1880–1920) to the almost definitive demise of the cultural world of the first generation soon before...
by Eugene Gloria
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2000
Ephemeral lives, and souls lost in the tattered fabric of war, displacement, and ruined love find hope, redemption, and a common voice in Eugene Gloria's artful concoction of American and Filipino vernaculars. While some of these thirty poems deal with the landscape and folkways of contemporary Filipinos,...
Island Queens and Mission Wives
How Gender and Empire Remade Hawai‘i’s Pacific World
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'i's ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion. By the mid-nineteenth century, however, American missionaries had gained a foothold in the islands. Jennifer Thigpen explains this important shift by focusing on two groups of women:...
by Barbara Kennedy MPH/MSW
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
"The Fox and the Hawk" Is Unusual Love Prose with Teaching Moments, Newest From Madison Avenue Publishers"The Fox and the Hawk," is a refreshingly original short story with teaching moments for readers 7-years-old and up. Written by Barbara Kennedy (MPH/MSW), the story develops as...
Travels and Adventures
1435-1439
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
'A document of unique interest it is a picture of Europe at a most critical moment of its history, when the Continent was overwhelmed by misery, disease and unrest. A cool observer, without prejudice or excitement Tafur noted the symptoms of decay.' Sunday Times.
This edition, translated and edited by Malcolm Letts, was the first complete translation of Tafur in any language.
How to Be a Muslim
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
A young Muslim leader’s memoir of his struggles to forge an American Muslim identity
Haroon Moghul was thrust into the spotlight after 9/11, becoming an undergraduate leader at New York University’s Islamic Center forced into appearances everywhere: on TV, before interfaith audiences, in...
When in Doubt...Blame a Jew!
A Personal and People's Memoir of Anti-Semitism
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2004
An associate editor at Jeremy Tarcher, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc., wrote this: When In Doubt--Blame A Jew! Is a tremendous piece of work intelligent, engaging, and personal.What makes this book unique is that it comprises a mlange of historic fact interspersed with endemic Jewish humor.It...
West Papua Free!!
Vol 1
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
West Papua, part of Indonesia shows disparity with the land that annexed it after the Dutch abandoned a war which should have secured independence for the Papuans as the Netherlands had promised. Frans Welman in collaboration with Viktor Kasiepo travels through this forgotten land of high rise mountains...
From Coveralls to Zoot Suits
The Lives of Mexican American Women on the World War II Home Front
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
During World War II, unprecedented employment avenues opened up for women and minorities in U.S. defense industries at the same time that massive population shifts and the war challenged Americans to rethink notions of race. At this extraordinary historical moment, Mexican American women found new...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
What are the historical events most key to shaping Latino culture? This book provides detailed and broad coverage of the 50 most pivotal developments across more than 500 years' time that have shaped the Latino experience, offering primary sources, biographies of notable figures, and suggested readings...
by Toshio Mori
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Yokohama, California, originally released in 1949, is the first published collection of short stories by a Japanese American. Set in a fictional community, these linked stories are alive with the people, gossip, humor, and legends of Japanese America in the 1930s and 1940s.
Replaces ISBN 9780295961675