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The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone
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Finnland : Schilderungen aus seiner Natur, seiner alten Kultur und seinem heutigen Volksleben
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ISBN: 3111487091 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, Georg Andreas Reimer Verlag,

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A Place to Live : A New Translation of Yi Chung-hwan's T'aengniji, the Korean Classic for Choosing Settlements
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ISBN: 0824877624 0824877616 Year: 2018 Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press,

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A Place to Live brings together in a single volume an introduction to Yi Chung-hwan's (1690-1756) T'aengniji (Treatise on Choosing Settlement)-one of the most widely read and influential of the Korean classics-and an annotated translation of the text, including the author's postscript.Yi composed the T'aengniji in the 1750s, a time when, despite King Yŏngjo's (r. 1724-1776) policy of impartiality, the scholar-gentry class continued to identifiy strongly with literati factions and to participate in the political scene as such. A prominent secretary who had his career cut short because of suspected involvement in one of the largest literati purges at court, Yi endured long periods of living in exile before finishing the T'aengniji in his early sixties. The treatise, his only substantial work, is based largely on his travels throughout the Korean peninsula and presents not only his views on the desirability of places for settlement, but also his opinions on contemporary matters and criticism of government policy. As a result, the T'aengniji circulated as an anonymous work for many years. Employing the latest research on T'aengniji manuscripts, translator Inshil Yoon maintains in her introduction that the original title of the treatise was Sadaebu kagŏch'ŏ (Livable Places for the Scholar-Gentry); she goes on to discuss in detail its reception by premodern and contemporary scholars and the treatise's ongoing popularity as evidenced by the numerous versions and translations done in this and the previous century, its having been made into a novel, and current usage of "t'aengniji" as a noun meaning "regional geography" or "travelogue."The present translation is based on the Chosŏn Kwangmunhoe edition.


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The Old Man; or, Ravings and Ramblings round Conistone
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Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung dahin nach eigener Anschauung beschrieben
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ISBN: 3111672204 Year: 2018 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, Georg Andreas Reimer Verlag,

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Reise durch das Altai-Gebirge und die soongorische Kirgisen-Steppe.
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The history of Havana
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ISBN: 1944869689 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : OR Books,

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Londres : suivi de Le nouveau Londres
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ISBN: 9782070447503 2070447502 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris Gallimard

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Beyond even the stars : a Compostela pilgrim in France
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ISBN: 9781532641916 1532641915 9781532641923 9781532641930 Year: 2018 Publisher: Eugene, Oregon Wipf and Stock

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" ... the reader is invited to join this peripatetic American priest as he takes up the Way to Compostela, this time in Leuven, Belgium, and follows it south through much of France."--Back cover.


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States of Grace : Utopia in Brazilian Culture
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ISBN: 143846925X 9781438469256 9781438469232 1438469233 1438469241 Year: 2018 Publisher: Albany, NY : State University of New York,

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States of Grace offers a novel approach to the study of Brazilian culture through the lens of utopianism. Patrícia I. Vieira explores religious and political writings, journalistic texts, sociological studies, and literary works that portray Brazil as a utopian "land of the future," where dreams of a coming messianic age and of social and political emancipation would come true. The book discusses crucial utopian moments such as the theological-political utopia proposed by Jesuit Priest Antônio Vieira; matriarchal utopias, like the egalitarian society of the Amazons; work-free utopias that abolished the boundaries separating toil and play; and ecological utopias, where humans and nonhumans coexist harmoniously. The uniqueness of the book's approach lies in rethinking the link between messianic and utopian texts, as well as the alliances forged between progressive religious, socioeconomic, political, and ecological ideas.

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