Szablowski, Dancing Bears (2018)

Witold Szablowski.
Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny.
Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
New York: Penguin Books, 2018.
Originally published: Tańczące niedźwiedzie, Warsaw: Agora SA, 2014.

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Author Information :

• Witold Szablowski (b. 1980), Wikipedia.
• Witold Szabłowski. The Assassin From Apricot City. Poland, 2010. Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. London(?): Stork Press Ltd, 2013.
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• Witold Szabłowski. How to Feed a Dictator. Poland, 2019. Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. New York: Penguin Books, 2020.
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• Witold Szabłowski. What's Cooking in the Kremlin. Poland, 2021. Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. New York: Penguin Books, 2023.
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Wikipedia Articles :

• Cold War, 1947–1991.
• Eastern Bloc.
• Post-communism.
• Communist nostalgia.

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Note:

This book's title, Dancing Bears: True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny, seemed a little strange to me, awkward somehow. "Dancing Bears"? No, that evokes only a mildly pleasurable idea of seemingly happy bears. After some reflection the cause of the awkwardness became apparent: the subtitle "Life Under Tyranny". That's quite a contrast, from seemingly happy "Dancing Bears" to an ominous and forbidding "Life Under Tyranny". There are at least two ways of considering this contrast. First, in reading the book you will find that the individual bears were in a sense tyrannized by their keepers by the iron ring their keeper inserted into the bear's nose and used to manipulate the bear's behavior, giving the illusion that the bear "danced". Somehow you might also create a vague metaphor or simile between bears and people, that people living in societies in which the ruling ideology included some variant of communism are like bears controlled by a ring in their nose. I don't think that simile is successful because ALL societies have some kind of ideology in which individuals are indoctrinated and by which their behavior can be manipulated and controlled. Anti-communist ideologues seem to me particularly obnoxious in their jumping up and down exclaiming and pointing at a foreign society, that it is ruled by some kind of communist ideology. What about themselves? What ideologies rule their own society? And is there not also some kind of tyranny in their own society? These reflections point to a second way of viewing the contrast in the book's title: the phrase "Life Under Tyranny" is pure Cold War propaganda. As someone born in the USA in 1960, I lived the first 30 years of my life on the receiving end of American Cold War propaganda; we were constantly instructed on the evils of communist tyranny. So this book's title gives me an uneasy feeling. Further, consider this: nobody wants to live under tyranny and tyranny can rarely be justified, although in rare circumstances of extreme danger all societies will impose some temporary measures considered tyrannous in order to deal with some temporary emergency. Otherwise nobody will argue in favor of tyranny. Note the shift from specific policies considered tyrannous to the more nebulous penumbra of "tyranny". My main point in this note is to point out that the book's subtitle "Life Under Tyranny" screams out to me that this book is engaging in propaganda.

I started wondering whether the book's title had been engineered for the American audience. The USA and United Kingdom editions of this book have the same title with the "Life Under Tyranny" subtitle. HOWEVER, the Australian edition has a different subtitle! : Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days.

• Witold Szabłowski. Dancing Bears: True Stories about Longing for the Old Days. Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Melbourne, Australia: Text Publishing Company, 2018.
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I think this difference in subtitles confirms my suspicions about the propagandistic nature of the title of the USA edition. Looking more closely at the Wikipedia article about Szablowski, and noting the praise he has received from American establishment propaganda outlets (The New York Times, NPR, Foreign Affairs), I can only conclude that Szablowski himself is an experienced propagandist.

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Lippit, editor, The Essential Akutagawa (1999)

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
The Essential Akutagawa: Rashomon, Hell Screen, Cogwheel, A Fool's Life and Other Short Fiction.
Edited by Seiji M. Lippit.
New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1999.

Book Information: Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892 – 1927).
• Japanese literature: Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa-period literature (1868–1945).
• Akutagawa Prize.
• Seiji M. Lippit, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California at Los Angeles.
• Contents of The Essential Akutagawa :
  1. Rashōmon (short story), 1915.
  2. The Nose (Akutagawa short story), 1916.
  3. Kesa and Morito, 1918.
  4. The Spider's Thread, 1918.
  5. Hell Screen, 1918.
  6. The Ball, 1920.
     The Ball refers to the novel Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti (1850–1923) first published in 1887 [Archive.org; Amazon.com].
  7. Tu Tze-chun, 1920.
  8. Autumn Mountain, 1921.
  9. In a Grove, 1922.
  10. The Faint Smiles of the Gods, 1922.
  11. San Sebastian, 1927.
  12. Cogwheels, 1927.
  13. A Fool's Life, 1927.
  14. A Note to a Certain Old Friend, 1927 (Akutagawa's suicide note).

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Note:

A reviewer on Amazon points out that this 1999 Marsilio Publications edition of Akutagawa stories (Lippit, ed., The Essential Akutagawa) consists of translations that are old, poorly done in some cases, and need to be replaced by newer, more competent translations. Since then, in 2006, Penguin published a new collection of translations by Jay Rubin:

• Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. Translated by Jay Rubin. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
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Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters (1995)

Junichiro Tanizaki.
The Makioka Sisters.
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.
New York: Vintage Books (Penguin Random House), 1995.
This translation was first published in 1957.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (1886 – 1965).
• Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters, first published in parts from 1943 to 1948.
  The original Japanese title of the novel, Sasameyuki, translates as "Light Snow".
  People say that "yuki" (snow) in the title echoes the name of the character Yukiko around whom a major storyline of the novel revolves.
• Edward Seidensticker (1921–2007).
• Some historical events mentioned in The Makioka Sisters :
  (Note: the politics, militarism, and wars of the period of the novel, 1936-1941, are rarely and mostly only indirectly mentioned.)
  • Marco Polo Bridge incident, July 1937.
  • Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.
  • 1938 Hanshin flood, July 1938.
  • 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.
    In Book Two, Chapter 10, in the aftermath of the 1938 flood, the destruction reminds the character Teinosuke "of Tokyo and Yokohama after the great earthquake," referring to the 1923 event in which more than 100,000 people died.
    Tanizaki may also have been thinking of the relatively less destructive 1894 Tokyo earthquake which he experienced as a child.
    The Wikipedia article for the 1894 event says "The earthquake is also mentioned by author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki in his autobiographical work, Yosho-jidai, in which he described how his family's house collapsed during the earthquake, a traumatic event to which he attributed his lifelong phobia of earthquakes."
• History of Japan:
  • History of Japan: Modern Japan.
  • Empire of Japan, 1868 – 1947.
  • Meiji era, 1868 – 1912.
  • Taishō era, 1912 – 1926.
  • Shōwa era, 1926 – 1989.
• Japanese literature:
  • Japanese literature: Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa-period literature (1868–1945).
  • Japanese literature: Postwar literature (1945–onwards).
• Tanizaki Prize.

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Nakajima, The Moon Over the Mountain and Other Stories (2011)

Atsushi Nakajima.
The Moon Over the Mountain and Other Stories.
Translated by Paul McCarthy and Nobuko Ochner.
Bloomington, Indiana: Autumn Hill Books, 2011.

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Author Information:

• Atsushi Nakajima (1909 – 1942).
• Japanese literature: Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa-period literature (1868–1945).

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Mearsheimer, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities (2018)

John J. Mearsheimer.
The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities.
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018.

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Author Information:

• Mearsheimer, his website.
• John Mearsheimer, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago.
• John Mearsheimer (b. 1947), Wikipedia.
• John’s Substack | John J. Mearsheimer, Substack.
• Mearsheimer AI Chatbot.

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Other Books by John Mearsheimer:

• John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato. How States Think: The Rationality of Foreign Policy. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023.
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• John J. Mearsheimer. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, Updated Edition. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014. (First edition 2001.)
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• John J. Mearsheimer. Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
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• John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
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• John J. Mearsheimer. Liddell Hart and the Weight of History. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1988, 2010.
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• John J. Mearsheimer. Conventional Deterrence. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1983.
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Selected Articles by John Mearsheimer:

• John J. Mearsheimer, "Why the West is to Blame for the Ukraine Crisis", Foreign Affairs, September/October 2014, 18 August 2014.
• John J. Mearsheimer, "Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal International Order", International Security, volume 43, number 4, pages 7–50, 2019.
• John J. Mearsheimer, "Playing With Fire in Ukraine: The Underappreciated Risks of Catastrophic Escalation", Foreign Affairs, 17 August 2022.
• John J. Mearsheimer, "Who Caused the Ukraine War?", Substack, 05 August 2024.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Liberalism (international relations).
• Idealism in international relations.
• Liberal internationalism.
• Liberal international order.
• Polarity (international relations).
• Realism (international relations).
• Nationalism.

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Akutagawa, Rashōmon and Other Stories (2018)

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
Rashōmon and Other Stories.
Translated by Takashi Kojima.
Forward by Seiji Lippit.
Introduction by Howard Hibbett.
Tokyo; Rutland, Vermont; and Singapore: Tuttle Publishing [Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.], 2018.
(This collection of translations was first published in 1952 by Tuttle and by Liveright Publishing Corporation, and reprinted in 1999 under the Liveright imprint by W.W. Norton & Company.)

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892 – 1927).
• Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, In a Grove, 1922.
  ("In a Grove" provides the main storyline in Akira Kurosawa's film Rashomon, 1950.)
• Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Rashōmon (short story), 1915.
• Japanese literature: Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa-period literature (1868–1945).

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Notes:

The Tuttle Publishing (and Liveright/Norton) edition of Rashōmon and Other Stories contains only six stories. In contrast, the collection of Akutagawa stories first published by Penguin in 2006 (and reprinted in Penguin "Deluxe" and "Vitae" editions) has eighteen stories. On the basis of numbers alone, in hindsight I would have rather purchased one of the Penguin edition first (although Tuttle generally uses higher quality paper and binding than Penguin).

• Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories. Translated by Jay Rubin. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
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Tuttle recently published a Manga version of these stories:

• Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Akutagawa's Rashomon and Other Stories: The Manga Edition. Adapted by mkdeville. Illustrated by Philippe Nicloux. Tokyo; Rutland, Vermont; and Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2024.
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Diesen, The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order (2024)

Glenn Diesen.
The Ukraine War & the Eurasian World Order.
Atlanta, Georgia: Clarity Press, 2024.

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Author Information:

• Glenn Diesen, University of Southeast Norway.
• Glenn Diesen (b. 1979), Wikipedia.
• Glenn Diesen, YouTube channel.
• Glenn Diesen. EU and NATO Relations with Russia: After the Collapse of the Soviet Union. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2015. London: Routledge, 2016.
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• Glenn Diesen. Russia's Geoeconomic Strategy for a Greater Eurasia. London: Routledge, 2018.
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• Glenn Diesen. The Decay of Western Civilisation and Resurgence of Russia. London: Routledge, 2019.
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• Glenn Diesen. Russian Conservatism: Managing Change under Permanent Revolution. Lanhan, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
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• Glenn Diesen. Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia: Geoeconomic Regions in a Multipolar World. Lanhan, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021.
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• Glenn Diesen. Great Power Politics in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: The Geoeconomics of Technological Sovereignty. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
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• Glenn Diesen. Russophobia: Propaganda in International Politics. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
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• Glenn Diesen. The Think Tank Racket: Managing the Information War with Russia. Atlanta, Georgia: Clarity Press, 2023.
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Wikipedia Articles:

• Realism (international relations).
• Liberalism (international relations).
• Idealism in international relations.
• Liberal internationalism.
• Liberal international order.
• Polarity (international relations).

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Diesen provides a very good summary of international relations theory, contrasting realism and liberalism, which then provides a very insightful framework for understanding geopolitical events over the last 500 years. He then describes events since the late-1980s end of the Cold War, how the West's/USA's dismissal of Russia's security concerns and aggressive expansion of NATO eastwards eventually provoked the recent war in Ukraine, and the consequences this has for the now emerging (already emerged) multipolar world order and the end of previous world order of liberal hegemony dominated by the USA. This book is an excellent introduction to understanding past events and the approaching future.

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Lao-Tzu; Addiss & Lombardo trans, Tao Te Ching (2007)

Lao-Tzu.
Tao Te Ching.
Translated by Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo.
Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 2007.
Originally published: Hackett Publishing Company, 1993.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Laozi.
• Tao Te Ching.
• Tao.
• Wu wei.
• Taoism.
• Taoist philosophy.

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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

• Laozi.
• Daoism.
• Religious Daoism.

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This edition of the Addiss and Lombardo translation has these dust jacket blurbs by Gary Snyder:

• "Of the many translations I have read in English, this is unquestionably the best."
• "This crystalline translation of the Tao Te Ching is accurate down to the nuance and is as concisely poetic as the original. It preserves the quirks and flavors of the original text. The translators harkened to the message of the book itself, and kept it clear and gently strong."

I chose this book on the basis of these endorsements by Gary Snyder (also, it's a nice little hardback, printed on nice paper). While this translation is very poetic (how would I know that it follows the original text very closely?) I also found it very terse and cryptic. This edition has no explanatory notes or commentary; the Introduction by Burton Watson provides some historical context but is of no help in understanding the text. As a beginner encountering the Tao Te Ching for the first time I often found this edition too cryptic and occasionally, to me, incomprehensible. I think an edition with added commentary or explanatory notes would be very helpful. Here are some alternatives.

• Lao Tzu. Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: with selected commentaries from the past 2,000 years. Translated by Red Pine. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Laozi. Daodejing. Translated by Edmund Ryden. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. Translated by D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1963.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lao Zi. Dao De Jing: A Philosophical Translation. Translated by Roger T. Ames and David L. Hall. New York: Ballantine Books, 2003.
  (has much commentary by the translators)
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• Lao Tzu. The Way and Its Power: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought. Translated by Arthur Waley. New York: Grove Press, 1958.
  (has a lengthy introduction)
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• Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching: A Book about the Way and the Power of the Way. Translated by Ursula K. Le Guin. Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala Publications, 2019.
  (has some explanatory footnotes)
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• Laozi. The Daodejing of Laozi. Translated by Philip J. Ivanhoe. Hackett Classics. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

The Wikipedia article on Tao Te Ching contains a list of "notable translations". The Bibliography of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article "Laozi" includes many translations.

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Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1991)

William Shakespeare.
Measure for Measure.
Edited by N. W. Bawcutt.
The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 1991.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other noteworthy editions of Measure for Measure :

• William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure. Edited by A.R. Braunmuller and Robert N. Watson. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2020.
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• William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure, Second Edition. Edited by Brian Gibbons. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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• William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure. Edited by Grace Ioppolo. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
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• William Shakespeare. Measure for Measure. Edited by Terri Bourus and Emma Smith. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024.
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Editor: N. W. Bawcutt

• Bernard Beatty, Obituary: Dr Nigel Bawcutt, University of Liverpool, 31 October 2023.
• N. W. Bawcutt, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Bawcutt, N. W., The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• N. W. Bawcutt, "'Policy,' Machiavellianism, and the Earlier Tudor Drama", English Literary Renaissance, Volume 1, Number 3, Autumn 1971.
• N. W. Bawcutt, editor. The Control and Censorship of Caroline Drama: The Records of Sir Henry Herbert, Master of the Revels, 1623-73. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
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• Bawcutt also edited editions of Middleton & Rowley, The Changeling; Ford, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Shakespeare & Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen; Marlowe, The Jew of Malta; and Richard Fanshawe.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Measure for Measure, written between summer 1603 and late 1604; first performed in 1604; first printed in 1623.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Measure for Measure (1603–1604).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• Shakespearean problem play.

English Renaissance Literature, Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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Engel & Martin, Russia in World History (2015)

Barbara Alpern Engel and Janet Martin.
Russia in World History.
New Oxford World History.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Book Series: New Oxford World History.

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Author Information: Barbara Alpern Engel

• Barbara A. Engel, Department of History, University of Colorado, Boulder.
• Barbara Engel (historian) (b. 1943), Wikipedia.
• Barbara Alpern Engel. Women in Russia, 1700–2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Five Sisters: Women Against the Tsar. Edited and Translated by Barbara Alpern Engel and Clifford N. Rosenthal. Allen and Unwin, 1975. New York and London: Routledge, 1992. DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Barbara Engel, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Engel, Barbara Alpern, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

Author Information: Janet Martin

• Janet L. B. Martin, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Miami.
• Janet Martin. Medieval Russia, 980–1584, Second Edition. Cambridge Medieval Textbooks. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Martin, Janet, 1945-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of Russia.
• Russia.
• Russians.
• Culture of Russia.
• Russian literature.
• Russian philosophy.
• Religion in Russia.

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