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The Chinese Educational Mission was one of the earliest efforts at educational modernization in China. As part of the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Qing government sent 120 students to New England to live and study for a decade, before they were abruptly summoned home to China in 1881. This book, based upon extensive research in local archives and newspapers, focuses on… Read more

Inscribed by the author. Wear And stain to top edge. Prev owner bookplate removed. Good reading copy. Number 23/500 copies. Photos on request

A collection of 11 scholarly articles on Lincoln in four parts; The President, The Emancipator, The Man, Politics and Memory. Contributors, Notes, Index, 338 pages.

This grand survey of the history of the American West presents a panoramic view of events and characters from the first contacts between Native Americans and Europeans through the 1990's Illustrated with more than 150 contemporary drawings, posters, and photographs, the book presents in fascinating detail the frontier's diverse people and cultures, landscapes, environmental history,literature, visual arts, and more.… Read more

Sound clean copy. Trade paper. Revised edition

Sound clean copy. Trade paper.

Sound clean hc in dj. Nice copy.

Trade paperback

Sound clean trade paper