In the early 1800s thousands of American and European traders arrived in Hawai'i to lay in supplies for the long trip east or to take on Hawaiian sandalwood, which commanded a high price in China. In
The Russian church is central to an understanding of early Russian and Slav history, but for many years there has been no accessible, up-to-date introduction to the subject in English - until now. The
Examines the influences of Friedrich Nietzsche on Russian formalists and Russian modernism. Kujundzic (Russian, U. of Memphis), suggests that Nietzscheanism is an approach largely overlooked by the i
From dust jacket: "This is a documentary history of Russia's nineteenth-century settlement in California. It contains 492 documents, mostly translated from the Russian for the first time, fully annota
Russian literature has always been inseparable from Russian history. D. S. Mirsky constantly keeps in mind the ever-colorful and ever-changing aspects of the one in discussing the other. Sound in judg
Koriak have been described as a nomadic people, migrating with the reindeer through rugged terrain. Their autonomy and mobility are salient cultural features that ethnographers and state administrator
Shortly after withdrawing from World War I, Russia descended into a bitter civil war unprecedented for its savagery: epidemics, battles, mass executions, forced labor, and famine claimed millions of
This book takes up the obtrusive problem of visual representation of fiction in contemporary Russian book design. By analyzing a broad variety of book covers, the study offers an absolutely unique mat
Francis Maes's comprehensive and imaginative book introduces the general public to the scholarly debate that has revolutionized Russian music history over the past two decades. Based on the most recen
In his introduction, Alexander Obolonsky notes that Russian history and life are full of paradoxes, most of them rather sad. Why, he asks, have the Russians, who have not only been endowed by nature w
