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We are publishing The Deceivers in our Story-Tellers series in order to introduce John Masters to a new generation of readers.

Michael Jenkins's vivid memoir of a summer that changed his life has become a much-loved classic, with its evocative portraits of Tante Yvonne and the other aunts, the raw memories of two world wars that still scar the Flanders plain.

A grand, sweeping saga of sacrifice and struggle by a Nobel Laureate, this tale recaptures the world of Norwegian homesteaders at the turn of the 20th century.

A vivid novel about the solitary life of a peasant family in a harsh and unforgiving land, austerely told by a classic Brazilian writer.

Presents some of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC. This volume contains five speeches written for lawsuits in which Demosthenes sought to recover his inheritance, which he claimed was fraudulently misappropriated and

A novella and thirteen short stories by this distinguished Yemeni writer, dealing with the common experiences of Yemenis like himself who are caught between cultures by the displacements of civil war or labor migration.

An eyewitness account of both a horrific and persistent genocide and of the efforts of many courageous individuals to build a more just society in Burundi.

The surprising story of how the children of the vanquished retained their rights and privileges in colonial Mexico.

Analyzes depictions of dancing found on archaeological objects from the Near East, southeastern Europe, and Egypt to offer the comprehensive look at the role of dance in these Neolithic (7000- 4000 BC) societies. This book examines the structure of d

The Men of Cajamarca is perhaps the fullest treatment yet published of any group of early Spaniards in America

The essays in this volume, presented in an exceptionally scrupulous and true translation, were selected because they represent Mandelstam's major poetic themes and his thought on literature, language and culture, and the work and place of the poet.

The geography and culture of an isolated province of Portugal as it first felt the impact of industrialization.

Boek The Plain In Flames, geschreven door Juan Rulfo, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., FICTION / General

This study of Darío's poetry demonstrates that esoteric tradition is central to Modernism and that an understanding of this centrality clarifies both the nature of the movement and its relationship to earlier European literature.

These translations of short stories reveal Monterroso as a foundational author of the new Latin American narrative.

Trains intermediate-level Spanish speakers (either in the classroom or for self-study) in legal terminology and the contexts in which it is used in Latin America and Spain.

A lyric portrait of life - and the little donkey, Platero - in a remote Andalusian village.

An evaluation of the revolution from the point of view of the political ideologies of 1848.

Stories of migration, displacement, democratization, and transformation From a cradle of Austronesian expansion to the dynamic economic powerhouse and successful democracy it is today, Taiwan is layered in colonial histories.

Traces Japan's efforts to modernize Taiwan through gendered educational practicesIn Good Wife, Wise Mother, female education and citizenship serve as a lens through which to examine Taiwan's uniqueness as a colonial crossroads between Chinese and Jap

Boek Satirical Tibet - Satirical Tibet, geschreven door Timothy Thurston, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Algemene sociale wetenschappen

Boek Satirical Tibet - Studies On Ethnic Groups In China, geschreven door Timothy Thurston, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Algemene sociale wetenschappen

Boek Ethnic Branding In Contemporary China - Studies On Ethnic Groups In Chinastudies On Ethnic Groups In, geschreven door Yu Luo, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Algemene sociale wetenschappen

Hana travels to America to escape the arranged marriages her sisters experienced in pre-World War II Japan, but the young businessman to whom she has corresponded turns out to be a middle-aged man who exaggerated his success

Boek The Polish-Lithuanian State, 1386-1795, geschreven door Daniel Z. Stone, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Challenges the general belief that human impact on nature was generally benign or negligible and charged that ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean had brought about their own collapse by their abuse of the environment.

Boek War In A European Borderland, geschreven door Mark L. Von Hagen, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Carl Hagenbeck was the nineteenth century's foremost animal trader and ethnographic showman, known for his enormously popular displays of people, animals, and artefacts gathered from all corners of the globe. This book locates Hagenbeck's myriad ente

Originally published: Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986.

Boek Black Women In Sequence, geschreven door Deborah Elizabeth Whaley, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Boek The Plague And I, geschreven door Betty MacDonald, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs

A beautifully illustrated companion to the Royal family throughout history

Boek Midnight In Europe, geschreven door Furst, Alan, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Politicologie

Boek Forbidden Family, geschreven door Sams, Margaret, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

Focusing on the years 1917 to 1960, this work examines the complex and lasting effects of forced cotton cultivation in central Africa. Local plots gave way to commercial fields, creating social, environmental and economic change.

Michael Wieck's account of his childhood in Konigsberg recalls a German city obliterated by fire-bombing during World War II. In the midst of privation, savagery and death, there were moments of absurdity.