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  • BOOKS CONDEMNED TO BE BURNT
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    BOOKS CONDEMNED TO BE BURNT
    JAMES ANSON FARRER
    Excerpt: "Historians are generally too engrossed with the details of battles, all as drearily similar to one another as scenes of murder and rapine must of necessity be, to spare a glance for the far brighter and more instructive field of the mutations or of the progress of manners. This work is attempt to supply the deficiency on the particular subject of burning books. Here i...

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  • MILITARY MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
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    MILITARY MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
    JAMES ANSON FARRER
    Excerpt: "In the present volume I have attempted within the limits of the historical period and of our European civilisation, and without recognising any hard and fast line between ancient and modern, Christian and Pagan, to allude, in the places that seemed most appropriate, to all points in the history of war that appeared to be either of special interest or of essential impo...

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  • CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
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    CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
    JAMES ANSON FARRER
    Excerpt: "‘All men, whether singly or collectively, naturally do wrong, nor is there any law which will prevent it. For every kind of punishment has been successively tried by mankind, if haply they might suffer less injury from malefactors. And it is probable that in their origin punishments for even the gravest crimes are comparatively mild, but that, as they are disregarded,...

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  • INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS IN CHINA'S GLOBAL CITY
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    INTERNATIONAL MIGRANTS IN CHINA'S GLOBAL CITY
    JAMES FARRER
    Long a source of migrants, China has now become a migrant destination. In 2016, government sources reported that nearly 900,000 foreigners were working in China, though international migrants remain a tiny presence at the national level. Shanghai is China’s most globalized city and has attracted a full quarter of Mainland China’s foreign resident population. This book analyzes ...

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  • SHANGHAI NIGHTSCAPES
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    SHANGHAI NIGHTSCAPES
    JAMES FARRER / ANDREW DAVID FIELD
    The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city’s image as a global metropolis. In Shanghai Nightscapes, sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew David Field examine the cosmopolitan nightlife culture that first arose in Shanghai in the 1920s and that has been experiencing a rev...

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