Mark Twain's weapons of satire : anti-imperialist writings on the Philippine-American War / by Twain, Mark, 1835-1910

Irreverent pilgrims; Melville, Browne, and Mark Twain in the Holy Land, by Walker, Franklin Dickerson, 1900-

Letters from the Sandwich Islands, by Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910

China and the United States / by Lee, George

From Pompeii : the afterlife of a Roman town / by Rowland, Ingrid D.

Table of Contents: “…Freeman goes to Herculaneum -- The rediscovery of Pompeii, 1748-1770 -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1770 -- Further excavations, 1771-1832 -- Karl (Kyrill) Bryullov, 1828 -- Railway tourism -- Charles Dickens, 1845, and Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), 1867 -- Giuseppe Fiorelli, "the pope" of Pompeii -- Bartolo Longo, 1872 -- The social role of tourist cameos -- Pierre Auguste Renoir, 1881 -- The legacy of August Mau -- Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan, 1921 -- Don Amedeo Maiuri, 1937-1961 -- Roberto Rossellini, 1953 -- Autobus gran turismo -- Coda : Atomic Pizza.…”
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Lessons from a dark time and other essays / by Hochschild, Adam

Table of Contents: “…-- Sunday school history -- Pilot on the great river : Mark Twain's nonfiction -- A literary engineer -- A nation of guns -- The continent of words -- You never know what's going to happen yesterday -- Practicing history without a license -- On the road again -- Books and our souls.…”
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Exploration & exchange : a South Seas anthology, 1680-1900 /

Table of Contents: “…The discovery of New Holland / William Dampier -- Lionel Wafer crosses Darien / Lionel Wafer -- Richard Simson at Juan Fernandez / Richard Simson -- Commodore Anson lands at Juan Fernandez / George Anson -- Byron and the Patagonian giants / John Byron -- The discovery of Tahiti / Samuel Wallis -- The unfortunate compiler / James Cook, Joseph Banks, John Hawkesworth -- Providential cannibalism / Johann Reinhold Forster -- William Wales makes observations / William Wales -- Benevolence on the beach / George Keate -- Resident observer / James Morrison -- The brethren and the 'Tayos" / William Wilson -- Falling from grace / George Vason -- A stranger in a strange country / Edward Robarts -- The violence of the beach / Samuel Patterson, Richard Siddons -- Missiles and missives / William Mariner -- Unutterable practices / William Ellis -- Property and providence / John Williams -- Tapu and conceit in the Marquesas / David Darling -- Philanthropic sympathy and the interests of commerce / Abby Jane Morrell -- Among the cannibals / Mary Wallis -- Tapa and Muru in New Zealand / Frederick Maning -- A yankee at the court of Captain Cook / Mark Twain -- Quite alone in a mountain village / Constance F. …”

U.S.-Middle East historical encounters : a critical survey /

Table of Contents: “…Foster -- American Palestine : Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and the Holy Land in the nineteenth-century American Imagination / Hilton Obenzinger -- "Drying up the Euphrates" : Muslims, Millennialism, and Early American missionary enterprise / Timothy Marr -- Missionaries, Peasants, and the protection problem : negotiating Coptic reform in nineteenth-century Egypt / Paul D. …”
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The Israel/Palestine reader /

The greater journey : Americans in Paris / by McCullough, David G.

Archives of Empire Volume I. From The East India Company to the Suez Canal /

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The magnificent Mrs. Tennant : the adventurous life of Gertrude Tennant, Victorian grande-dame / by Waller, David, 1962-

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