Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Regional Studies

--This is a collection of letters (held in the institutions mentioned below) sent by Frederick Victor Dickins, a pioneer British scholar of Japanese literature, to Ernest Mason Satow, Kumagusu Minakata and other correspondents, with the addition of five letters written by him and published in The Times between 28 February 1880 and 10 May 1904.

72 letters to Ernest Mason Satow in the National Archives in London

49 letters to Kumagusu Minakata in the Minakata Kumagusu Archives in Tanabe, Wakayama Prefecture

6 letters to Sir Harry Parkes and others in the Jardine...

From the Preface by Hidetada Mukai:

The Loiterer was a weekly periodical comprising essays of Jane Austen s elder brothers, James and Henry, who were living in Oxford at the time of its publication. It ran for sixty issues from 31 January 1789 to 20 March 1790. The Austen brothers wrote articles under the motto Speak of us as we are and, as they declared in the first issue, their aim was to supply their countrymen with a regular succession of moral lectures, critical remarks, and elegant humour, conveyed through the channel of a Periodical Paper . It was first circulated locally,...

This set collects together a range of titles that together examine a broad spectrum of North African topics. A book on Algeria studies the independence movement as it assumed the responsibilities of power, another examines the process of decolonisation in Algeria. Other titles focus on development and politics in North Africa, and "The Last Arab Jews" details the last remaining Jewish community in the region.

These four volumes provide a careful and balanced behind-the-scenes account of the intricate diplomatic activity of the period between 1913 and 1956. Exploiting a range of available archive sources as well as extensive secondary sources, they provide an authoritative analysis of the positions and strategies which the principal parties and the would-be mediators adopted in the elusive search for a stable peace. The text of each volume comprises both analytical-historical chapters and a selection of primary documents from archival sources, providing an essential reference source for the...