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Tournament of Shadows

The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

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Tournament of Shadows

The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. Many believed that control of the vast Eurasian heartland was the key to world dominion. The original Great Game ended with the Russian Revolution, but the geopolitical struggles in Central Asia continue to the present day. In this updated edition, the authors reflect on Central Asia's history since the end of the Russo-Afghan war, and particularly in the wake of 9/11.

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078673678X

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Resisting Hitler

Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra

By: Shareen Blair Brysac

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Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra

By: Shareen Blair Brysac

The life and death of an American woman in Nazi Germany"--Jacket.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195152409

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The China Collectors

America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

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The China Collectors

America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent. The principal gatherers are mostly little known and defy invention. They included "foreign devils" who braved desert sandstorms, bandits and local warlords in acquiring significant works. Adventurous curators like Langdon Warner, a forebear of Indiana Jones, argued that the caves of Dunhuang were already threatened by vandals, thereby justifying the removal of frescoes and sculptures. Other Americans include George Kates, an alumnus of Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood, who fell in love with Ming furniture. The Chinese were divided between dealers who profited from the artworks' removal, and scholars who sought to protect their country's patrimony. Duanfang, the greatest Chinese collector of his era, was beheaded in a coup and his splendid bronzes now adorn major museums. Others in this rich tapestry include Charles Lang Freer, an enlightened Detroit entrepreneur, two generations of Rockefellers, and Avery Brundage, the imperious Olympian, and Arthur Sackler, the grand acquisitor. No less important are two museum directors, Cleveland's Sherman Lee and Kansas City's Laurence Sickman, who challenged the East Coast's hegemony. Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer even-handedly consider whether ancient treasures were looted or salvaged, and whether it was morally acceptable to spirit hitherto inaccessible objects westward, where they could be studied and preserved by trained museum personnel. And how should the US and Canada and their museums respond now that China has the means and will to reclaim its missing patrimony?

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St. Martin's Press

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1466879297

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Tournament of Shadows

The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

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The China Collectors

America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

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America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures

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The untold and fascinating history of the unlikely artistic encounters between the US and China, the youngest and oldest of major powers

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1137279761

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Resisting Hitler

Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra

By: Shareen Blair Brysac

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Resisting Hitler

Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra

By: Shareen Blair Brysac

This gripping and heartbreaking narrative is the first full account of an American woman who gave her life in the struggle against the Nazi regime. As members of a key resistance group, Mildred Harnack and her husband, Arvid, assisted in the escape of German Jews and political dissidents, and for years provided vital economic and military intelligence to both Washington and Moscow. But in 1942, following a Soviet blunder, the Gestapo arrested, tortured, and tried some four score members of the Harnacks' group, which the Nazis dubbed the Red Orchestra. Mildred Fish-Harnack was guillotined in Berlin on February 16, 1943, on the personal instruction of Adolf Hitler--she was the only American woman to be executed as an underground conspirator during World War II. Yet as the war ended and the Cold War began, her courage, idealism, and self-sacrifice went largely unacknowledged in America and the democratic West, and were distorted and sanitized in the Communist East. Only now, with the opening of long-sealed archives from Germany, the KGB, the CIA, and the FBI, can the full story be told. In this superbly told life of an unjustly forgotten woman, Shareen Blair Brysac depicts the human side of a controversial resistance group that for too long has been portrayed as merely a Soviet espionage network.

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Oxford University Press

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0199923884

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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

By: Shareen Blair Brysac,Karl E. Meyer

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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

By: Shareen Blair Brysac,Karl E. Meyer

A brilliant narrative history tracing today’s troubles back to the grandiose imperial overreach of Great Britain and the United States. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel’s godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq). All helped enthrone rulers in a region whose very name is an Anglo-American invention. The aim of this engrossing character-driven narrative is to restore to life the colorful figures who gave us the Middle East in which Americans are enmeshed today.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393342433

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Pax Ethnica

Where and How Diversity Succeeds

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

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Pax Ethnica

Where and How Diversity Succeeds

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

In a world replete with stories of sectarian violence, we are often left wondering: Are there places where people of different ethnicities, especially with significant Muslim minorities, live in peace? If so, why haven't we heard more about them, and what explains their success? To answer these questions, Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac undertook a two-year exploration of oases of civility, places notable for minimal violence, rising life-expectancy, high literacy, and pragmatic compromises on cultural rights. They explored the Indian state of Kerala, the Russian republic of Tatarstan, the city of Marseille in France, the city of Flensburg, Germany, and the borough of Queens, New York. Through scores of interviews, they document ways and means that have proven successful in defusing ethnic tensions. This pathbreaking book elegantly blends political history, sociology, anthropology, and journalism, to provide big ideas for peace.

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1610390482

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Pax Ethnica

Where and How Diversity Succeeds

By: Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

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Where and How Diversity Succeeds

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Tournament of Shadows

The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Karl Ernest Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

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The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Karl Ernest Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac

The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland, was believed by some to be the key to world domination. Teeming with improbable drama and exaggerated tensions, the conflict featured soldiers, mystics and spies, among them some of history's most colourful and romantic characters. While the original Great Game ended with the Russian Revolution, the geopolitical wrangles for territory and power have continued into the late twentieth century - culminating in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Karl Meyer and Shareen Brysac's magisterial one-volume survey chronicles nearly two centuries of conflict in vivid and compelling fashion.

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0316855898

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Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

By: Shareen Blair Brysac,Karl E. Meyer

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Book's by Shareen Blair Brysac

Tournament of Shadows

Tournament of Shadows

Resisting Hitler

Resisting Hitler

The China Collectors

The China Collectors

Tournament of Shadows

Tournament of Shadows

The China Collectors

The China Collectors

Resisting Hitler

Resisting Hitler

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

Pax Ethnica

Pax Ethnica

Pax Ethnica

Pax Ethnica

Tournament of Shadows

Tournament of Shadows

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East

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