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Praise And Prejudice: American Attitudes Toward Japan In Uncle Ben, Anna Nielsen, Rachel Baron, Emily Orton Apr 2018

Praise And Prejudice: American Attitudes Toward Japan In Uncle Ben, Anna Nielsen, Rachel Baron, Emily Orton

FHSS Mentored Research Conference

Uncle Ben in Japan is a 1933 geographical workbook intended to teach American schoolchildren about Japan. This text highlights both positive and negative American attitudes towards Japan in the 1930s. Although this work expresses certain views progressive for its time, it also contains evident assumptions of American national superiority.


The Power Configurations Of The Central Civilization / World System In The 11th Century, David Wilkinson Apr 2018

The Power Configurations Of The Central Civilization / World System In The 11th Century, David Wilkinson

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


The Phoenicians And The Formation Of The Western World, John C. Scott Apr 2018

The Phoenicians And The Formation Of The Western World, John C. Scott

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Quo Vadis Pax Americana? The Continuing Battle For Dewey's Democracy, Michael H. Parsons Apr 2018

Quo Vadis Pax Americana? The Continuing Battle For Dewey's Democracy, Michael H. Parsons

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Contentious Cloud Chatter: A Comparative Analysis Of Aggressive Speech, Clea Patrick, Leah Hollis Apr 2018

Contentious Cloud Chatter: A Comparative Analysis Of Aggressive Speech, Clea Patrick, Leah Hollis

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


What Must Exist Before You Have A Civilization?, The Northridge Discussion Apr 2018

What Must Exist Before You Have A Civilization?, The Northridge Discussion

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Raghav Sharma, Nation, Ethnicity And The Conflict In Afghanistan: Political Islam And The Rise Of Ethno-Politics 1992-1996. London: Routledge, 2016, David M. Traboulay Apr 2018

Raghav Sharma, Nation, Ethnicity And The Conflict In Afghanistan: Political Islam And The Rise Of Ethno-Politics 1992-1996. London: Routledge, 2016, David M. Traboulay

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


End Matter, Comparative Civilizations Review Apr 2018

End Matter, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Letter From Germany And Russia, Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov Apr 2018

Letter From Germany And Russia, Vlad Alalykin-Izvekov

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Odessa 1919, Ron French Apr 2018

Odessa 1919, Ron French

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


A Slowly Starving Race: Land And The Language Of Hunger In Zitkala-Ša’S "Blue-Star Woman", Adam R, Brantley Apr 2018

A Slowly Starving Race: Land And The Language Of Hunger In Zitkala-Ša’S "Blue-Star Woman", Adam R, Brantley

Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism

This paper proposes that the motif of starvation in Zitkala-Ša’s 1921 short story, “The Widespread Enigma Concerning Blue-Star Woman,” is in fact a metaphor for the dispossession of Native American lands and its disastrous effects on Native American livelihood and culture. Though much scholarship has been done on sentimental rhetoric in Zitkala-Ša’s fiction, critics have not yet explored its connection to this the most immediate Zitkala-Ša’s concerns. This essay first unpacks letters from Zitkala-Ša’s personal archives to demonstrate her individual interest in dispossession, and then examines “Blue-Star Woman’s” ever-present language of hunger through this lens of land loss. In doing …


48th Annual Conference Of The International Society For The Comparative Study Of Civilizations, Comparative Civilizations Review Apr 2018

48th Annual Conference Of The International Society For The Comparative Study Of Civilizations, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Front Matter, Comparative Civilizations Review Apr 2018

Front Matter, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Editor's Note, Joseph Drew Apr 2018

Editor's Note, Joseph Drew

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Does Belarusian-Ukrainian Civilization Belong To The Western Or The Latin Civilization?, Piotra Murzionak Apr 2018

Does Belarusian-Ukrainian Civilization Belong To The Western Or The Latin Civilization?, Piotra Murzionak

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


One Word Synonyms For "The Comparative Study Of Civilizations", Roger Wescott Apr 2018

One Word Synonyms For "The Comparative Study Of Civilizations", Roger Wescott

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Guide To The Iscsc Archives, Dickinson College Apr 2018

Guide To The Iscsc Archives, Dickinson College

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Robert Harris, Munich. Knopf Doubleday, 2018. Martin Cruz Smith, December 6. Simon & Schuster 2003, Laina Farhat-Holzman Apr 2018

Robert Harris, Munich. Knopf Doubleday, 2018. Martin Cruz Smith, December 6. Simon & Schuster 2003, Laina Farhat-Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Michael Gubser, The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, And Social Renewal In Central Europe. Stanford University Press, 2014, Stephen T. Satkiewicz Apr 2018

Michael Gubser, The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, And Social Renewal In Central Europe. Stanford University Press, 2014, Stephen T. Satkiewicz

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Eric Ashley Hairston, The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization And The African American Reclamation Of The West. Knoxville: The University Of Tennessee Press, 2013, John Berteaux Apr 2018

Eric Ashley Hairston, The Ebony Column: Classics, Civilization And The African American Reclamation Of The West. Knoxville: The University Of Tennessee Press, 2013, John Berteaux

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Tractatus Politico-Philosopohicus: New Directions For The Future Development Of Humankind. New York And London: Routledge, 2017, Stephanie Spoto Apr 2018

W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, Tractatus Politico-Philosopohicus: New Directions For The Future Development Of Humankind. New York And London: Routledge, 2017, Stephanie Spoto

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Comparative Civilizations Review Style Sheet, Comparative Civilizations Review Apr 2018

Comparative Civilizations Review Style Sheet, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review Apr 2018

Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Feb 2018

Full Issue

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Madame De Stael And Her Magnificent Salon At The Swiss Castle Of Coppet, Dwight Page Feb 2018

Madame De Stael And Her Magnificent Salon At The Swiss Castle Of Coppet, Dwight Page

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael, one of the most influential Franco-Swiss writers of the nineteenth century, was the daughter of the prominent Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker, the DirectorGeneral of Finance under King Louis XVI of France, and Suzanne Curchod, also of Swiss birth, who hosted one of the most popular literary salons of Paris during the late eighteenth century. Thus Madame de Stael was of direct Swiss descent . In addition, she had an intimate relationship with the Swiss Confederation throughout the entirety of her life, and she resided at her family's Castle of Coppet, near Geneva, for …


There Was Silence After Dawn: The Sinking Of The Wilhelm Gust/Off And Its Disappearance From History, Maren Johnson Feb 2018

There Was Silence After Dawn: The Sinking Of The Wilhelm Gust/Off And Its Disappearance From History, Maren Johnson

Swiss American Historical Society Review

Death was lurking beneath the surface of the sea in the form of a Soviet submarine which was slipping through the waves of the Baltic Sea . The men on the deck of the vessel glimpsed the lights of an ocean liner sliding across the icy water. The temperature of the water was be low freezing with snow falling, and the radar on the ocean liner was so cold it did not function .


Minutes And Report Feb 2018

Minutes And Report

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Back Cover Feb 2018

Back Cover

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Front Matter Feb 2018

Front Matter

Swiss American Historical Society Review

No abstract provided.


Bank Shot: Swiss Banks And Swiss National Character In Daniel Silva's Mossad Spy Novel The English Assassin, Brian Champion Feb 2018

Bank Shot: Swiss Banks And Swiss National Character In Daniel Silva's Mossad Spy Novel The English Assassin, Brian Champion

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The American novelist Daniel Silva examines Switzerland, Swiss banks and the Swiss national character in his Israeli spy novel , The English Assassin, because the state of Israel , and by extension, all Jews, face a perpetual existential threat. A major force in the international thriller literature, Silva has written seventeen novels using Gabriel Allon , an assassin for Israel 's civilian intelligence service called Mossad, as a microscope through which various dimensions of Israel's existential threat are examined.