Download or read book The Grey Foreigners written by Benjamin James Baillie and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foreigners written by James Lovegrove and published by Solaris. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century written by Włodzimierz Borodziej and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-19 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century challenges widespread conceptions of Central and Eastern European countries as merely countries of origin. It sheds light on their experience of immigration and the establishment of refugee regimes at different stages in the history of the region. The book brings together a variety of case studies on Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia, and the experiences of return migrants from the United States, displaced Hungarian Jews, desperate German social democrats, resettled Magyars, resourceful tourists, labour migrants, and Zionists. In doing so, it highlights and explores the variety of experience across different forms of immigration and discusses its broader social and political framework. Presenting the challenges within the history of immigration in Eastern Europe and considering both immigration to the region and emigration from it, Immigrants and Foreigners in Central and Eastern Europe during the Twentieth Century provides a new perspective on, and contribution to, this ongoing subject of debate.
Download or read book Foreigners under Mao written by Beverley Hooper and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the lives of six different groups of Westerners: ‘foreign comrades’ who made their home in Mao’s China, twenty-two former Korean War POWs who controversially chose China ahead of repatriation, diplomats of Western countries that recognized the People’s Republic, the few foreign correspondents permitted to work in China, ‘foreign experts’, and language students. Each of these groups led distinct lives under Mao, while sharing the experience of a highly politicized society and of official measures to isolate them from everyday China. ‘This book is enjoyable and engaging. The author introduces a small but dynamic collection of enthusiastic international participants in post-1949 China showing unquestioned loyalty to Mao’s ideals. Equally intriguing are the alternate stories of diplomats and reporters existing far outside the mainstream of Chinese life and trusted by neither the Chinese nor the international supporters.’ —Edgar A. Porter, Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University; author of The People’s Doctor: George Hatem and China’s Revolution ‘A well-written survey about the variety of Westerners who lived and worked in the People’s Republic of China between 1949 and 1976. This is a welcome addition to the “sojourner” literature about foreigners who lived in twentieth-century socialist countries. The scholarship, which includes the review of memoirs, archival materials, and secondary works, is impressive and comprehensive.’ —Stephen R. MacKinnon, Arizona State University; co-author of China Reporting: An Oral History of American Journalism in the 1930s and 1940s
Download or read book The English in the Twelfth Century written by John Gillingham and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining essays on questions of newly-emerging English nationalism and the political importance of chivalric values and knightly obligations, as perceived by contemporary historians. Six of the greatest twelfth-century historians - William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Geoffrey Gaimar, Roger of Howden, and Gerald of Wales - are analysed in this collection of essays, focusing on their attitudesto three inter-related aspects of English history. The first theme is the rise of the new and condescending perception which regarded the Irish, Scots and Welsh as barbarians; set against the background of socio-economic and cultural change in England, it is argued that this imperialist perception created a fundamental divide in the history of the British Isles, one to which Geoffrey of Monmouth responded immediately and brilliantly. The secondtheme treats chivalry not as a mere gloss upon the brutal realities of life, but as an important development in political morality; and it reconsiders some of the old questions associated with chivalric values and knightly obligations -home-grown products or imports from France? The third themeis the emergence of a new sense of Englishness after the traumas of the Norman Conquest, looking at the English invasion of Ireland and the making of English history. John Gillingham is Professor Emeritus, Department of History, London School of Economics.
Download or read book The Foreigner written by Arun Joshi and published by Orient Paperbacks. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Foreigner is a story of a young man who is detached, almost alienated — a man who sees himself as a stranger wherever he lives or goes — in Kenya, where he is born, in England and USA where he is a student and in India where he finally settles down. His detachment transcends barriers of geography, nationality and culture. It propels him from one crisis to another, sucking in the wake several other people, including June, an attractive American with whom he has a short lived but passionate affair. The transitoriness associated with the word 'foreigner' permeates the novel and is handled with remarkable maturity reminding the reader of epoch-making The Outsider by Albert Camus. The protagonist's anguish at the meaninglessness of the human condition and the eventual release from the anxieties of life through karmayoga, the principle of action without attachment, add to the aesthetics of the work.
Download or read book A Foreigner written by E. Gerard and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Happy Foreigner written by Enid Bagnold and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Happy Foreigner" is a post-World War 1 romance and adventure novel by Enid Bagnold. Fanny, an Englishwoman is serving as an army driver in France and she recounts her experiences at the end of the war, when the leaders of the Allied Nations are expected in the country. Life is tough as can be expected with food rations the order of the day and quality garments being scarce. But things take a different turn when at an event, a young man asks Fanny to dance with him... The novel is inspired by the author's own experiences as a nurse and driver during the First World War
Download or read book The Young Foreigner written by V. Ananya and published by V. Ananya. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wizard seeking his fortune, a princess driven from her home. Two legends lost in time and space. A lady dreaming of love, a soldier fighting for a kingdom lost. Three prophecies to rule them all. *** The Master of Darkness is rising his head before his time, throwing all of Sahara into chaos. Right after his studies, young Light alchemist Yor Castel sets off on a journey around the world to seek his fortune. He encounters a runaway in danger, tied to the awakening of an ancient evil. In just a day, Elmeida Yuri, heir to the Dark tribe of Sahara, loses her entire family to a gruesome death. Her only hope lies in a small island-country far away from home, where she meets a promising young mage. But her refuge is short-lived, and, together with her new friend, flees once again, this time - on a quest to save the world. The ones who first defeated the ancient evil are now too weak; it's up to the new mages to step up and fulfil the role set by the prophecy. Who will win and who will lose? Are the lost truly defeated? Read The Young Foreigner to find out. --- "The Young Foreigner" is the first in a fantasy adventure series, "The Sahara Chronicles". This book is suitable for readers above 14 years of age. BOOK 2 "THE LOST FABLE" IS OUT NOW!
Download or read book A Professional Foreigner written by Edward Marks and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young American Foreign Service officers are accustomed to being teased by friends and relatives as to what they do in the “Foreign Legion” or the “Forest Service.” In the United States, unlike in many countries, the role of a professional diplomat is little known or understood. In A Professional Foreigner Edward Marks describes his life as an American diplomat who served during the last four decades of the twentieth century, from 1959 to 2001. Serving primarily in Africa and Asia, Marks was present during the era of decolonization in Africa (but always seemed to be at the opposite end of the continent from the hottest developments), was intimately involved in the early days of the U.S. government’s antiterrorism programs, observed the unfolding of a nasty and tragic ethnic conflict in one of the most charming countries in the world, and saw the end of the Cold War at UN headquarters in New York. Along the way Marks served as the U.S. ambassador to two African nations. In this memoir Marks depicts a Foreign Service officer’s daily life, providing insight into the profession itself and what it was like to play a role in the steady stream of history, in a world of quotidian events often out of the view of the media and the attention of the world. Marks’s stories—such as rescuing an American citizen from a house of ill repute in Mexico and the attempt to recruit mongooses for drug intervention in Sri Lanka—are both entertaining and instructive on the work of diplomats and their contributions to the American story.
Download or read book Foreigner written by Eva Bosch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Foreigner' is the intriguing account of a friendship between two young women (one Polish, the other Russian) who are trying to find their feet in the difficult and complex city that is London today. They find themselves having to deal as best they can with all kinds of problems, not least, the class differences between both themselves Ð they come from very different backgrounds - and their English boyfriends, one of whom is a lumpen lad from Liverpool and the other the wealthy son of a public-school educated father. The story is anything but static, moving from London to Algeria, Russia and France, and dealing with themes ranging from sexual abuse, the police murder of a Muslim and racism in general, to the evils of the British educational system.
Download or read book Report to the Congress on Foreign Portfolio Investment in the United States written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Foreigner s Cinematic Dream of Japan written by Iris Haukamp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1936, a German film team arrived in Japan to participate in a film coproduction, intended to show the 'real' Japan to the world and to launch Japanese films into international markets. The two directors, one Japanese and the other German, clashed over the authenticity of the represented Japan and eventually directed two versions, The Samurai's Daughter and New Earth, based on a common script. The resulting films hold a firm place in film history as an exercise in - or reaction against - politically motivated propaganda, respectively. A Foreigner's Cinematic Dream of Japan contests the resulting oversimplification into nationalised and politicised dichotomies. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and German original sources, as well as a comparative analysis of the 'German-Japanese version' and the elusive 'Japanese-English version', Iris Haukamp reveals the complexities of this international co-production. This exclusive research sheds light not only on the films themselves, but also on the timeframe of its production, with both countries at the brink of war.
Download or read book The Earl Strongbow written by Edward Ruadh Butler and published by Accent Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exiled from court, distrusted and indebted, Richard de Clare is a man whose past is greater than his prospects and whose once-great name overshadows his deeds. Having backed the loser in the civil war, he faces penury and disgrace due to the disfavour of the distant and over-mighty king. He has, however, one last gambit to play, one final attempt to claim a wealth and glory that would eclipse even the greatest exploits of his mighty fathers. And, nothing less than the hand of an Irish princess and a throne will suffice if Richard is to surpass the great feats of his family.
Download or read book The Foreigner the bestselling thriller now starring Jackie Chan written by Stephen Leather and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2008-10-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Leather's BESTSELLING breakthrough thriller, previously published as THE CHINAMAN - perfect for fans of Lee Child and James Patterson. He understood death. Jungle-skilled, silent and lethal, he had killed for the Viet Cong and then for the Americans. He had watched helpless when his two eldest daughters had been raped and killed by Thai pirates. Now all that was behind him. Quiet, hard-working and unassuming, he was building up his South London take-away business. Until the day his wife and youngest daughter were destroyed by an IRA bomb in a Knightsbridge department store. Then, simply but persistently, he began to ask the authorities who were the men responsible, what was being done. And was turned away, fobbed off, treated as a nuisance. Which was when, denied justice, he decided on revenge. And went back to war. Praise for Stephen Leather 'Explores complex contemporary issues while keeping the action fast and bloody' Economist 'Action and scalpel-sharp suspense' Daily Telegraph 'The sheer impetus of his story-telling is damned hard to resist' Sunday Express
Download or read book Historical and Literary Tour of a Foreigner in England and Scotland written by Amédée Pichot and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Foreigner s Ordeal written by Tavuya Jinga and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Foreigners Ordeal is a story of how a Zimbabwean civil servant; a teacher, is caught up in Zimbabwes economic implosion. It chronicles his flight into South Africa and depicts the new challenges that beset him in the new environment. Among these is the search for documentation enabling him to stay in the country legally, xenophobia and the all elusive search for employment. The book is alive. The characters are so real one can feel them and almost touch them. Once I started reading it, I could not put it down. - Tsitsi Dzinoreva Lecturer in African Languages and Literature Great Zimbabwe University. Written with an eye for detail and a sense of humour any reader will find impeccable and refreshinga must read for serious lovers of literature. - Mika Nyoni Lecturer English Great Zimbabwe University.
