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Confucianism and Autocracy: professional elites in the founding of the Ming Dynasty
This work looks into the Chinese social system for clues to the origin of the Ming autocracy, focusing on the role of Confucian doctrines in the rise of the Ming. He examines the elite stratum within Chinese society and the community of men broadly…
Conquerors and Confucians: aspects of political change in late Yüan China
This book explores the transitions in rulership in late Yuan China beginning with a break with the empire founded by Genghis Khan and ending with the Yuan’s diminished power over China proper and finally the collapse of the dynasty. Critical to this…
Corsican Café
Drawing; black lithograph crayon on wove, machine-made paper.
Cuba insula, Hispaniola insula, Insula Iamaica, Ins. S. Ioannis, I.S. Margareta cum confiniis
Maps of the islands of Cuba, Hispaniola [Haiti and the Dominican Republic], Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Saint Margarita by Abraham Ortelius, 1611.
De viris illustribus urbis Romae [On Illustrious Men of the City of Rome]
[Italy] : [producer not identified]
Dictionary of Americanisms. A Glossary of Words and Phrases, Usually Regarded as Peculiar to the United States
Gift of the Department of English William Savage Johnson Fund in honor of Professor James Hartman on the occasion of his retirement, May 2011.