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    Eight Khalkha Jebtsun-damba Khutukhtu and Pandito Khambo-Lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigelov, 1911–1915 by Leonid V. Kuras, Bazar D. Tsybenov

    Published 2024-05-01
    “…The examined official correspondence between Khambo Lama of ethnic Buryatia D.…”
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    Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis by Leslie Hammer

    Published 2019-09-01
    “…This paper examines romantic relationships between U.S. and non-U.S. citizens in Diana and Persis, Louisa May Alcott’s 1879 sentimental novella set in Europe and based on May Alcott’s life. …”
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    Pouvoir politique et pouvoir religieux. L’exploitation de la Sanusiyya au sein de la Libye indépendante (1951-1958) by Carlotta Marchi

    Published 2022-12-01
    “…Whereas in the past the success of the Sanusiyya had depended on a precise autonomy toward the imperial structure of the Ottoman and colonial empires, so that the figure of the šayḫ was functional for the preservation of the Sufi Way and the transmission of Islamic knowledge, the political legitimisation of his function, as emir and king, led to a redefinition of the whole structure of the ṭarīqa. …”
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    From Travel to Text: Reverends Wolff and Lansdell’s Missions to Bokhara by Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill

    Published 2024-03-01
    “…Lansdell’s subsequent travels there in 1882 and 1888 discovered Bokhara subdued and pacified under Russian ‘civilising mission’. My paper will examine the strategies Wolff and Lansdell employed in writing their journeys to Central Asian sensitive border regions under the imperial security constraints of the moment. …”
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    Asian Public Space since 1945: From Mao to the Mall and Beyond by David Grahame Shane

    Published 2013-01-01
    “…Four models of urban space are examined: Metropolis, Megalopolis, Fragmented Metropolis, and Megacity/Metacity. …”
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    Vienna, the Spanish Ambassador and the Nuncio: The 3rd Marquis of Aytona and the Fading Catholic Alliance (1624–1629) by Rubén González Cuerva

    Published 2019-07-01
    “…This article explores the causes of the distancing between two intrinsic allies. It examines their competing tactics of negotiation and communicative devices to voice their positions at the Imperial court, especially in the polarizing context of the War of the Mantuan Succession. …”
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    Up from the Depths: The Cultural Appropriation of Godzilla in 1970s American Animation and Comics by C. Scott Maravilla

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…Godzilla is changed into what is ultimately a sanitized version of imperial inventory. The properties of the 1970s Godzilla, however, were not wholly negative. …”
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    Gandhi: A Man for our Times? by Judith Brown

    Published 2018-10-01
    “… Following my earlier collaboration with Martin Prozesky, my essay links with three major concerns in Prozesky’s work as he has engaged with a radical critique of religious traditions and structures in the South African context of the end of apartheid: the involvement of dominant religious traditions in sustaining power structures and inequality; the nexus between religious beliefs and organizations and violence; and the failure of many ‘religions’ to meet the needs of serious seekers after meaning and truth. In this context, I examine the life and thought of M.K. Gandhi, particularly the way he addressed the nature of India and its problems as British imperial rule ended. …”
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    New Approach to the Yakut Language Dictionary: Preface as Paratext by Elena Stepanovna Rufova

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…Pekarsky (1907), which creation is associated with the Sibiryakov’s (Yakut) expedition of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society (1894-1896). …”
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    THE GRADUATES OF DORPAT PROFESSORIAL INSTITUTE -PROFESSORS OF A NEW FORMATION by Nadezhda V. Karnaukh

    Published 2016-12-01
    “…The Professorial Institute was founded in the first quarter of 19th century at Dorpat imperial university. The training system for professors of a new formation in this Institute is examined by the author as academic school. …”
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    Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

    Published 2007-12-01
    “…The following essay examines the culturally introspective nature of the “Mutiny plays” and their persistent exploration of British nationalism. …”
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