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| The Early Modern World, 1500-1800 | |
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| East and Southeast Asia, 1500-1800 A Chinese Official Criticizes Commercial Practices in His Native Land (1580) | |
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| Essay on Merchants A Spanish Missionary Collects Observations of Chinese Society (1580s) | |
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| The History of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China A Scottish Diplomat Visits China in the Service of Russia (1719-1722) | |
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| A Journey from St | |
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| Petersburg to Pekin A British Diplomat Depicts Daily Life in China (1793-1794) | |
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| An Embassy to China A Japanese Ruler Criticizes European Attitudes (1591) | |
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| Letter to the Viceroy of the Indies A French Employee of the Dutch East India Company Describes Japanese Family Customs (1619-1641) | |
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| A True Description of the Mighty Kingdoms of Japan and Siam A German Physician Describes Travelers' Lodgings in Japan (1690-1692) | |
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| History of Japan A Portuguese Friar Describes Religion in Upper Burma (1629-1643) | |
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| Travels of Fray Sebastien Manrique | |
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| South and Southwest Asia, 1500-1800 An Italian Scoundrel Brags about His Adventures in Damascus (1503-1508) | |
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| The Travels of Ludovico di Varthema A Turkish Historian Remembers His Travels in Turkey and Persia (mid-1600s) | |
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| Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa The Mongol Conqueror of India Describes Hindustan (1526) | |
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| Babur: Baburnama An Advisor to the Emperor Akbar Describes the Imperial Harem (c 1600) | |
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| The Ain-I Akbari An Italian Adventurer Describes Daily Life in India (1614-1626) | |
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| The Indian Letters of "Il Fantastico" An Italian Physician Comments on the Manners and Customs of the Hindus (late 1600s) | |
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| Mogul India, 1653-1708 An Employee of the Dutch East India Company Reports on Sri Lankan Society (early 1700s) | |
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| Fran?ois Valentijn's Description of Ceylon | |
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| Africa, 1500-1800 A Moor from Granada Recounts His Travels in West and Central Africa (1507) | |
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| The History and Description of Africa A Portuguese Missionary Describes "Strange Customs" in Ethiopia (1590) | |
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| Ethiopia Oriental (Eastern Ethiopia) A Portuguese Trader Describes People and Trade of Gambia (c 1594) | |
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| Brief Treatise on the Rivers of Guinea A Portuguese Clergyman Describes a Visit to East Africa (1606) | |
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| Itinerario da India A Portuguese Soldier Describes the Plight of Castaways on the East African Coast (1622) | |
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| The Tragic History of Sea, 1529-1622 A French Merchant Observes Life Along the Coast of Guinea (1678-1712) | |
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| The Writings of Jean Barbot on West Africa A Former African Slave Remembers His Life (late 1700s) | |
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| The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano A French Ship's Captain Describes Economic Opportunities and the Slave Trade on the East African Coast (1784-1785)J | |
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| The French Slave Trade in Kilwa | |
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| The Americas and Oceania, 1500-1800 A French Friar Describes Life Among the Florida Natives (1575) | |
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| Cosmographie Universelle A Spanish Priest Recreates the History of Meso-American Peoples (mid-1500s) | |
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| Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain A Spanish Friar Describes the Funeral of an Aztec Warrior (c 1575) | |
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| The History of the Indies of New Spain An English Privateer Recounts His Experiences on the Orinoco River (1595) | |
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| The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana An English Traveler Discusses Life Among Escaped African Slaves on the Caribbean Coast (1648) | |
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| Travels in the New World A German Mercenary Remembers His Captivity Among Brazilian Cannibals (mid-1500s) | |
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| The True History of His Captivity A Spanish Jesuit Describes Life Along the Amazon (1639) | |
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| A New Discovery of the Great River of the Amazons A Spanish Adventurer Encounters Natives in the South Seas (1595) | |
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| The Voyages of Pedro Fernandez de Quiros A Spanish Cleric Relates His Dealings with Tribal Leaders in the New Hebrides (1617-1627) | |
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| The Journal of Fray Mart?n de Munilla A Dutch Observer Depicts Native Life in New Guinea (1678) | |
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| Noord en Oost Tartarye | |
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| Europe, 1500-1800 An Italian Archbishop Prescribes Proper Dress and Table Manners (early 1550s) | |
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| Galateo An Italian Clergyman Compares Customs in France and Lower Germany (1517) | |
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| The Travel Journal of Antonio de Beatis An English Servant Writes about Serbia, Bulgaria, Wallachia, and Moldavia (1589) | |
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| Journey of Harry Cavendish (by his servant, Fox) An English Protestant Examines Roman Catholicism in Paris (1608) | |
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| Coryat's Crudities An English Merchant Describes Turkey (1647) | |
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| The Travel Diary of Robert Bargrave, Levant Merchant An English Noblewoman Praises Turkish Women and Their Clothing (1717) | |
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| The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Two Japanese Views of the Dutch and the Russians | |
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| Introduction to Dutch Learning (1775) and Hirata Atsutane: Summary of the Ancient Way (1800) | |
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| On the Eve of Modernity, 1800-1918 | |
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| East and Southeast Asia, 1800-1918 An English Botannical Illustrator Describes Indonesian Town Life (1876) | |
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| Recollections of a Happy Life A Scottish Horticulturist Travels Incognito in China (c 1850) | |
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| A Journey to the Tea Countries of China An English Tourist Describes Life in Canton (1896) | |
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| The Golden Chersonese Two Chinese Women Oppose Footbinding (early 1900s) | |
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| Rules and Regulations on Marriage, Letter from Ch'en Shu-hsien to Ch'en Pan-hsien and Ch'iu Chin: Address to Two Hundred Million Fellow Countrywomen A Cosmopolitan American Journalist Remembers His First Day in Japan (1889) | |
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| Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan An American Reporter Spends 120 Hours in Japan (1890) | |
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| Nellie Bly's Book A British Author Describes High Society in Tokyo (c 1890) | |
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| Letters from Japan A Japanese Novelist Portrays a Son's Reaction to His Father's Death and Funeral (1906) | |
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| Hakai (The Broken Commandment) | |
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| South and Southwest Asia, 1800-1918 An American Archaeologist Observes Jews in Jerusalem (1835-1836) | |
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| Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land A Lithuanian Rabbi Examines Jewish Life in India (1824-1832) | |
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| Unknown Jews in Unknown Lands An English Newspaper Editor Describes Crowds in Delhi (1837) | |
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| Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan A Scottish Woman Observes a Wedding Procession in Delhi (1847) | |
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| Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenana; or, Six Years in India An Indian Nobel Laureate Describes a Bengali Village (1891) | |
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| Glimpses of Bengal A Celebrated American Author Describes the Towers of Silence in Bombay (1896) | |
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| Following the Equator | |
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| Africa, 1800-1918 A Scottish Surgeon Describes Life Along the Niger River (1795-1797) | |
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| Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa A French Slaving Captain Describes the East Coast of Africa (1804) | |
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| Manuscript from the Mauritius Archives A French Sailor Depicts Live Along the Gambia and Senegal Rivers (1816) | |
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| Travels in Africa An English Missionary Describes Life Along the Zambezi River (1840-1856) | |
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| Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa A British Observer Investigates a Muslim Town in Dahomey (1845-1846) | |
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| Travels in Western Africa in 1845 and 1846 A Methodist Missionary Recounts Her Observations on the Kroo Coast of West Africa (1890s) | |
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| A Lone Woman in Africa An Indian Icon Remembers His Experiences in South Africa (1893) | |
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| An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth | |
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| The Americas and Oceania, 1800-1918 An American Explorer Recounts His Exchanges with Native Americans at the Continental Divide (1805) | |
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| The Journals of Lewis and Clark An American Author Visits Hawaii (1866) | |
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| Roughing It in the Sandwich Islands An American Businessman Describes Life in Buenos Aires (1911) | |
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| South America: Observations and Impressions A German Scholar Describes the People of Peru (1838-1842) | |
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| Travels in Peru During the Years 1838-1842 An American Archeologist Examines Mayan Society (mid-1800s) | |
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| Incidents of Travel in Yucatan An English Author Comments on Floridians in Cuba (1856) | |
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| Anahuac: Or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern An American Muckraking Socialist Comments on Mexico During the Revolution (1910) | |
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| Barbarous Mexico A Russian Naval Officer Observes Life in San Francisco (1860-1861) | |
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| Civil and Savage Encounters A Japanese Student Experiences Life in Boston (1872) | |
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| A Japanese Student's Views of the United States An English Educator Discusses Society in the United States (1834) | |
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| Society in America | |
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| Europe, 1800-1918 A Mexican Friar Describes Life in Paris (1801) | |
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| Memoirs Two Japanese Views of Europeans | |
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| Dutch Ship (1818) and Aizawa Seishisai: Shinron (New Theses) (1825) An American Novelist Analyzes the German Character (1839-1840) | |
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| Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home A Chinese Ambassador Describes the British Upper Classes (1876-1877) | |
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| Journal of a Voyage to England An American Novelist Describes Poverty in London's East End (1902) | |
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| The People of the Abyss An English Newspaper Correspondent Reports on the Balkans (1906) | |
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| Through Savage Europe An American Author Describes Life in Berlin (1911) | |
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| A Traveler at Forty An Englishman Describes Turkish Family Life (1911) | |
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| Turkey and Its People | |
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| Toward the Contemporary World, 1918 to the Present | |
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| East and Southeast Asia, 1918 to the Present An African Student Discusses Life in China (1960-1962) | |
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| An African Student in China A Swedish Travel Writer and Scholar Describes Wedding Customs in a Chinese Village (1962) | |
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| Report from a Chinese Village A Chinese Novelist Remembers the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) | |
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| Red Azalea A Cretan Novelist Considers the Meaning of a Japanese Garden (1935) | |
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| Japan, China An American Author Examines the Lives of Geishas in Postwar Japan (1946-1948) | |
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| Over a Bamboo Fence A Vietnamese Antiwar Activist Returns to Ho Chi Minh City (c 1975) | |
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| After Saigon Fell: Daily Life under the Vietnamese Communists An American Anthropologist Observes the Life of a Thai Sex Worker (1988-1990) | |
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| Patpong Sisters: An American Woman's View of the Bangkok Sex World | |
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| South and Southwest Asia, 1918 to the Present A French Travel Writer Observes Israeli Jews in Jerusalem (1967) | |
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| Turkish Coffee and the Fertile Crescent An American Educator Visits an Iraqi Harem (1956) | |
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| Guests of the Sheik A Swiss Travel Writer and Photographer Encounters Afghan Officials (1935) | |
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| The Cruel Way An American Writer and Foreign Correspondent Travels to Peshawar (1990s) | |
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| Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road An American Wife and Mother Describes Events in Chittagong (1953-1954) | |
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| Letters from Chittagong A Hindi Poet Portrays the Married Life of an Oppressed Woman in India (1935) | |
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| Sketches from My Past: Encounters with India's Oppressed An English Poet Describes a Train Ride in India (1941) | |
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| Unpublished Manuscript A Prominent Indian Novelist Attends the Wedding of Her Cousin, Indira Nehru Gandhi (1942) | |
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| Prison and Chocolate Cake A Correspondent for the BBC Observes an Indian Religious Festival (1989) | |
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| No Full Stops in India | |
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| Africa, 1918 to the Present A British Biologist Visits a Kikuyu Market (1929) | |
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| Africa View A Black Labor Leader Recounts His Life Under Apartheid (1925-1926) | |
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| The Autobiography of an Unknown South African An English Novelist Discusses Race Relations in Morocco (1939) | |
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| "Essay on Marrakech" An American College Student Observes Women of the San (1955) | |
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| The Shy People of the Kalahari A Nigerian Novelist Portrays the Oppression of Women (1966) | |
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| Efuru Two Travel Writers Look at Family Size, Prostitution, and Trains in Cameroon | |
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| Cameroon with Egbert, 1987 and Peter Biddlecombe: French Lessons in Africa, 1993 | |
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| A Global Traveler Contrasts Religion and Political Struggle in Ethiopia (1950) Pico Iyer: Tropical Classical | |
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| Americas and Oceania, 1918 to the Present A Mexican Muralist Portrays Life in New York City (1927-1928) | |
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| The Artist in New York A Chinese Doctor Observes Life in the United States (1924,1938-1939) | |
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| Autobiography of a Chinese Woman A Lithuanian Jewish Activist Comments on Jewish Life in New York City (mid-twentieth Century) | |
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| The Autobiography of Nahum Goldmann: Sixty Years of Jewish Life A Thai Educator Describes Cultural Values in the United States (1990s) | |
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| The Young, the Rich, and the Famous: Individualism as an American Cultural Value An American Black Experiences Living Conditions in Cuba (1964-1967) | |
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| Black Man in Red Cuba An American Explorer Describes a Mexican Village (late 1920s) | |
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| Red Tiger: Adventures in Yucatan and Mexico An American Gourmet Offers Advice About Food in South America (c 1950) | |
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| The South American Gentleman's Companion: Or, Up & Down the Andes with Knife, Fork & Spoon An American Writer Describes Life on Tonga (1920s) | |
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| Loafing Through the Pacific | |
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| Europe, 1918 to the Present Two Views of Collective Agriculture in the Soviet Union | |
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| An American Engineer in Stalin's Russia: The Memoirs of Zara Witkin (1932) | |
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| Report on the Russians (1944) | |
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| A Japanese Woman Ponders Spanish Attitudes Toward Revolution and Bullfights (1931) | |
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| Japanese Lady in Europe An American Reporter Talks to People in Berlin about the Nazis (1934) | |
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| European Journey A Russian-Born Foreign Correspondent Reports on the Experiences of Schoolchildren during the Siege of Leningrad (1943) | |
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| Russia at War An American Soldier Writes Home from Europe During World War II (1945) | |
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| "Letter to Margie" An American Reporter Inspects Conditions in Germany in the Summer of 1945 | |
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| Prelude to Leadership: The European Diary of John F 13 Kennedy An Italian Correspondent Looks at Sexual Freedom in Sweden (1969) | |
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| In Search of Europe: Portraits of the Non-Communist West An Indian Civil Servant Observes the Use of Machines in Liverpool (1982) | |
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| Inside United Kingdom and Europe A German Essayist Describes Warsaw (1986) | |
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| Europe, Europe Web Resources List of Sources | |
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