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The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction

The Mongols: A Very Short Introduction

Morris Rossabi

But as Morris Rossabi reveals in this Very Short Introduction, within two generations of their bloody conquests, the Mongols evolved from conquerors and predators to wise rulers who devised policies to foster the economies of the lands they ...
China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and Its Neighbors, ...

China Among Equals: The Middle Kingdom and Its Neighbors, ...

Morris Rossabi

MORRIS ROSSABI China's views of foreigners and of foreign relations have intrigued Westerners from the onset of Sino-Western relations. Imperial China's treatment of foreigners was unique, so that this interest is understandable. Westerners ...
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-violent Conflict

A Force More Powerful: A Century of Non-violent Conflict

Peter Ackerman

Yuri Krouchkin, Mongolia Encyclopedia (Ulaanbaatar: Interpress, 1998), p. 515; Tomor-Ochoriin Erdenebileg, M.P., interview by Morris Rossabi, Ulaanbaatar, May 9, 1994; L. Sumati, Director of Sant Maral Research Center, interview by Morris ...
Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times

Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times

Morris Rossabi

Offers a profile of the Mongol ruler, describes his attempts to rule the known world, and recounts how he established a formal Chinese government
Eurasian Influences on Yuan China

Eurasian Influences on Yuan China

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Morris Rossabi. 7. 11. 12. 13. A recent work has a strange interpretation, which again castigates the Mongols. The author writes: “Historiographers have not been adequately critical of the common view that the USSR is to blame for importing ...
Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times

Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times

Morris Rossabi

This 20th anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining how twenty years of scholarly and popular portraits of Khubilai have shaped our understanding of the man and his time.
Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists

Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists

Morris Rossabi

Modern Mongolia is the best-informed and most thorough account to date of the political economy of Mongolia during the past decade.
The Mongols and Global History: A Norton Documents Reader

The Mongols and Global History: A Norton Documents Reader

Morris Rossabi

An accessible, documents-based introduction to the history of the Mongols.
A History of China

A History of China

Morris Rossabi

2 JamesT.C. Liu,Reform in Sung China (Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press, 1959), p. 66. 3 Richard Barnhart, “Ching Hao” in Herbert Franke, ed., Sung Biographies: Painters (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1976), p. 25. 4 Michael  ...
Internal and external operations of the California ...

Internal and external operations of the California ...

Edgar Gillenwaters

Morris : Walker : Morris : Walker : Morris : Walker: Morris : Walker : Morris : Walker : Morris ; Walker : That he was ruthless? No, it was just political conflict. Nelson Rockefeller got up and gave his speech and people booed him, you know.
The Journal of the William Morris Society

The Journal of the William Morris Society

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40-43. William Morris's Kelmscott Connections, Frank C. Sharp, pp. 44-55. William Morris: Art and Life, R. Marc Fasanella, pp. 56-63. 'She and He': Morris or Cockerell?, Susan Mooney, pp. 64-68. Reviews, pp. 69-85. Notes on Contributors, pp ...
Mark Morris

Mark Morris

Joan Ross Acocella

Mark Morris emerged in the 1980s as America's most exciting young choreographer. Two decades later, his position remains unchallenged. Morris was born in Seattle in 1956. His Mark Morris Dance Group began performing in New York in 1980.
Army Air Force Victories

Army Air Force Victories

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... ROBERT J MEYER, ROBERT J MILES, ROBERT E MONCRIEFF, REX E MONTGOMERY, ROBERT P MONTGOMERY, ROBERT P MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M MORRIS, JAMES M 1LT ...
Old House Interiors

Old House Interiors

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For contemporary Morris interiors: William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Home by Pamela Todd [Chronicle, 2005]. Another with contemporary interiors is William Morris and Morris & Co. by Lucia van der Post and Linda Parry [V& A, 2003].
William Morris on Art and Socialism

William Morris on Art and Socialism

William Morris

For the Victorian sage William Morris, the subjects of art and society were inseparable. This outstanding collection of 11 lectures and an essay illustrates Morris’s convictions. Includes: "Art: A Serious Thing," "Useful Work vs.
My America

My America

Christopher Morris

"Photographer Christopher Morris is a founding member of the photojournalist agency VII, based in New York. Morris produced My America while covering the first and second administrations of U.S. President George W. Bush for TIME magazine.
The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I: 1848-1880

The Collected Letters of William Morris, Volume I: 1848-1880

William Morris

See CW, 10, 3. Morris's translation is one of the additional works in Three Northern Love Stories. * Harry Leigh Douglas Ward (1825-1906), medievalist and assistant in the department of manuscripts at the British Museum (1849– 1893), ...
The Scrapbook of Old Tom Morris

The Scrapbook of Old Tom Morris

Old Tom Morris

The Scrapbook of Old Tom Morris, by David Joy, is truly a unique presentation of the life and golf career of this legendary figure.
Morris the Mouse Hunter

Morris the Mouse Hunter

Vivian French

Morris is ginger and very fat.
The Descendants of the Presidents of the United States of ...

The Descendants of the Presidents of the United States of ...

Walter Lewis Zorn

3 Mary Jane Harrison b 1835 m Apr 14 1859 d Sep 14 1867 m Samuel Vance Morris b 1833 d 1913 (subsequently m to ... Morris b 1863 S 4 Elizabeth Irwin Morris b 1863 m 1903 d 1940 nc m Edmund Gordon Reel 3 Anna Symmes Harrison b ...
Morris

Morris

Jan Reid

Children all over the world will be able to identify with Morris, the teddy bear; a most special friend of childhood.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office

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Ward, Peter Arthur, Mullins, John Albert, and Morris, Geoffrey Wi1liam,3,532,129. Morris, Robert B.: SeeMorrill, Stephen A., Price, Donald J., Morris, Robert B., and Cannon, John G.,3,532,878. Morton, James E.: SeeGelfand, Benjamin L., ...
Digital Electronics

Digital Electronics

John Morris

John Morris. ELEEBQQICS DIGITAL ELECTRONICS ]OHN c. MORRIS BA, IENG, FIEIE, CertEd Senior. DIGITAL Cover.
Christine Morris Mysteries 2-Book Bundle: Does Your Mother ...

Christine Morris Mysteries 2-Book Bundle: Does Your Mother ...

Maureen Jennings

(A Christine Morris mystery) ISBN 9781550027631 I. Title. II. Series: Jennings, Maureen. Christine Morris mystery. PS8569.E562K25 2008 C813'.54 C20079046797 We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the ...
Masonic Philanthropies: A Tradition of Caring

Masonic Philanthropies: A Tradition of Caring

Stephen Brent Morris

A Tradition of Caring Stephen Brent Morris. FOREWORD. In 1987 the Supreme Council, 33°, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, published Masonic Charities by 111. -. John H. Van Gorden, 33°, ... S. Brent Morris, Ph.D., 33°, agreed to prepare this ...
Tom Morris of St Andrews: The Colossus of Golf 1821 - 1908

Tom Morris of St Andrews: The Colossus of Golf 1821 - 1908

David Malcolm

In August 1864, Tom Morris arrived at Bideford station to spend ten days as the guest of the Reverend Isaac Gosset and his family at Northam Priory. In Isaac Gosset's words, 'on August 8th Tom Morris arrived to assist in laying out the links.
Is it True What They Say About Freemasonry?

Is it True What They Say About Freemasonry?

S. Brent Morris

In this insightful text, masons de Hoyos and Morris explore the origins of the anti-Masonic mindset and delve into the falsehoods on which critics have based these perennial sentiments.

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