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The last kings of Shanghai : the rival Jewish dynasties that helped create modern China / by Kaufman, Jonathan,author.(CARDINAL)767035;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The Patriarch -- Empire of the Sons-and Opium -- Laura and Elly -- Shanghai Rising -- The Impresario -- "Me Voila Therefore Walking a Tightrope" -- War -- "I Gave Up India and China Gave Me Up" -- The Reckoning -- The Last Taipan -- Back on the Bund."An epic, multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as twentieth-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Shanghai, 1936. The Cathay Hotel, located on the city's famous waterfront, is one of the most glamorous in the world. Built by Victor Sassoon--billionaire playboy and scion of the Sassoon dynasty--the hotel hosts a who's who of global celebrities: Noel Coward has written a draft of Private Lives in his suite, Charlie Chaplin entertained his wife-to-be, and the American socialite Wallis Simpson reportedly posed for dirty photographs. A few miles away, Mao and the nascent communist party have been plotting revolution before being forced to flee the city. By the 1930's, the Sassoons had been doing business in China for a century, rivaled in wealth and influence by only one other dynasty--the Kadoories. These two Jewish families, both originally from Baghdad, stood astride Chinese business and politics for more than one hundred seventy-five years, profiting from the Opium Wars; surviving Japanese occupation; courting Chiang Kai-shek; and nearly losing everything as the Communists swept into power. In The Last Kings of Shanghai, Jonathan Kaufman tells the remarkable story of how these families ignited an economic boom and opened China to the world, but remained blind to the country's deep inequality and to the political turmoil on their doorsteps. In a story stretching from Baghdad to Hong Kong to Shanghai to London, Kaufman enters the lives and minds of these ambitious men and women to forge a tale of opium smuggling, family rivalry, political intrigue, and survival. He also tells the triumphant story of how they joined to rescue and protect eighteen thousand Jewish refugees fleeing Nazism."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Kadoorie, Elly, 1865-1944; Sassoon, David, 1792-1864; Kadoorie family.; Sassoon family.; Jewish businesspeople; Jews; Jews;
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The Sassoons [large print] : the great global merchants and the making of an empire / by Sassoon, Joseph,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-627) and index.Baghdad Beginnings, 1802-1830 -- Exile and a New Life, 1831-1839 -- Wars and Opportunities, 1839-1857 -- Branching Out, 1858-1864 -- Death and Division, 1864-1867 -- Competition within the Family, 1867-1871 -- London Calling, 1872-1880 -- High Society, 1880-1894 -- The Matriarch, 1895-1901 -- A New Century, 1902-1914 -- War and Uncertainty, 1914-1924 -- From Bombay to Shanghai, 1925-1949 -- The Final Countdown, 1949-1982"For more than two centuries, from the 18th to the 20th, they were one of the richest families in the world, known as 'the Rothschilds of the East.' Mesopotamian in origin, they descended from 12th century court families of Eurasia, and for more than forty years, were the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Iraq. Forced to flee the tyranny of Bagdadhi Moslems to Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, David Sassoon with his fourteen children, started over with nothing, intent on reclaiming what had once been theirs. They began to trade in cotton and opium, expanded to India, taking control of the country's opium export. The Sassoons built textile mills and factories, developed ports, and set up branches in banking, shipping, mining, oil, in Burma, Malaya, and China; expanding beyond, to Japan, and further west, to Paris and London. Sassoons became members of British parliament, barons; were knighted; owned and edited Britain's leading newspapers, including The Sunday Times and The Observer. And in 1887, the exalted dynasty of Sassoon joined forces with the banking empire of Rothschild and were soon joined by marriage, fusing together two of the biggest Jewish commerce and banking families in the world. Against the monumental canvas of two centuries of the Ottoman Empire and the changing face of the Far East, across Europe and Great Britain during the time of its farthest reach, Joseph Sassoon gives us a riveting generational saga of the making of this magnificent family dynasty."--
Subjects: Large print books.; Biographies.; Sassoon, David, 1792-1864; Sassoon family.; David Sassoon & Co.; Jewish families; Jewish businesspeople; Jewish businesspeople; Jewish businesspeople; Opium trade; Jews;
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The Sassoons : the great global merchants and the making of an empire / by Sassoon, Joseph,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-386) and index."A spectacular story, the making of a dynasty, one of the great untold sagas of a gilded Jewish Bagdadi family-the merchant princes of the orient, that built a vast empire through finance and trade: opium, cotton, oil, shipping, banking, that reached across three continents, and ultimately changed the destinies of nations. For more than two centuries, from the 18th to the 20th, they were one of the richest families in the world, known as 'the Rothschilds of the East.' Mesopotamian in origin, they descended from 12th century court families of Eurasia, and for more than forty years, were the chief treasurers to the pashas of Baghdad and Iraq. Forced to flee the tyranny of Bagdadhi Moslems to Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, David Sassoon with his fourteen children, started over with nothing, intent on reclaiming what had once been theirs. They began to trade in cotton and opium, expanded to India, taking control of the country's opium export. The Sassoons built textile mills and factories, developed ports, and set up branches in banking, shipping, mining, oil, in Burma, Malaya, and China; expanding beyond, to Japan, and further west, to Paris and London. Sassoons became members of British parliament, barons; were knighted; owned and edited Britain's leading newspapers, including The Sunday Times and The Observer. And in 1887, the exalted dynasty of Sassoon joined forces with the banking empire of Rothschild and were soon joined by marriage, fusing together two of the biggest Jewish commerce and banking families in the world. Against the monumental canvas of two centuries of the Ottoman Empire and the changing face of the Far East, across Europe and Great Britain during the time of its farthest reach, Joseph Sassoon gives us a riveting generational saga of the making of this magnificent family dynasty."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Sassoon, David, 1792-1864; Sassoon family.; David Sassoon & Co.; Jewish businesspeople; Jewish businesspeople; Jewish businesspeople; Jewish families; Jews; Opium trade;
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Memoirs of an infantry officer / by Sassoon, Siegfried,1886-1967.(CARDINAL)152737;
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer -- At the Army School -- The Raid -- Before the Push -- Battle -- Escape -- At the Depot -- Rouen in February -- The Second Battalion -- Hospital and Convalescence -- Independent action."A highly decorated English soldier and an acclaimed poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon won fame for his trilogy of fictionalized autobiographies that wonderfully capture the vanishing idylls of Edwardian England and the brutal realities of war. The second volume of Siegfried Sassoon's semiautobiographical George Sherston trilogy picks up shortly after Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man: in 1916, with the young Sherston deep in the trenches of WWI. For his decoratged bravery, and also his harmful recklessness, he is soon sent to the Fourth Army School for officer training, then dispatched to Morlancourt, a raid, and on through the Somme. After being wounded by a bullet through the lung, he returns home to convalesce, where his questioning of the war and the British Military establishment leads him to write a public anti-war letter (verbatim the letter Sassoon wrote in 1917, entitled "Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration", which was eventually read in the British House of Commons). Through the help of close friend David Cromlech (based on Sassoon's friend Robert Graves) a medical board decides not to prosecute, but instead deem him to be mentally ill, suffering from shell-shock, and sends him to a hospital for treatment. Sassooon's stunning portrayal of a mind coming to terms with the brutal truths he has encountered in war - as well as his unsentimental, though often poetic, portrayal of class-defined life in England at wartime - is amongst the greatest books ever written about World War I, or war itself."--Book description, Amazon.com.
Subjects: Autobiographical fiction.; World War, 1914-1918;
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Letters to T.E. Lawrence. / by Lawrence, A. W.(Arnold Walter),1900-1991.(CARDINAL)167514; Lawrence, T. E.(Thomas Edward),1888-1935.(CARDINAL)145437;
LETTERS FROM: A.J. Balfour (Earl of Balfour) -- Gertrude Bell -- Edmund Blunden -- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt -- Robert Bridges -- John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) -- Winston S. Churchill (Sir Winston Churchill) -- Joseph Conrad -- Noel Coward -- R.B. Cunninghame Graham -- C. Day Lewis -- Caroline Doughty -- Charles M. Doughty -- Sir Edward Elgar -- King Feisal I of Iraq -- James Elroy Flecker -- E.M. Forster -- David Garnett -- Edward Garnett -- Harley Granville-Barker -- Robert Graves -- D.G. Hogarth -- Augustus John -- Rudyard Kipling -- Sir George Lloyd (Lord Lloyd) -- Frederic Manning -- Ezra Pound -- Siegfried Sassoon -- G.B. Shaw -- Elliott Springs -- Lord Stamfordham -- Air Vice-Marshal Sir Oliver Swann -- H.M. Tomlinson -- Sir Hugh Trenchard (Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Viscount Trenchard) -- A.P. Wavell (Field-Marshal Earl Wavell) -- H.G. Wells -- W.B. Yeats.
Subjects: Personal correspondence.; Biographies.; Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935; Authors;
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Poetry of the First World War : an anthology / by Kendall, Tim,1970-editor of compilation.(CARDINAL)634869;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) -- A. E. Housman (1859-1936) -- May Sinclair (1863-1939) -- W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) -- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -- Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) -- Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) -- Robert Service (1874-1958) -- Edward Thomas (1878-1917) -- Wilfrid Gibson (1878-1962) -- Mary Borden (1886-1968) -- Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) -- Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) -- Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) -- T. P. Cameron Wilson (1888-1918) -- Patrick Shaw Stewart (1888-1917) -- Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) -- Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) -- Arthur Graeme West (1891-1917) -- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) -- Margaret Postgate Cole (1893-1980) -- May Wedderburn Cannan (1893-1973) -- Charles Sorley (1895-1915) -- Robert Graves (1895-1985) -- David Jones (1895-1974) -- Edmund Blunden (1896-1974) -- Edgell Rickword (1898-1982) -- Music-hall and trench songs.
Subjects: War poetry, English.; Poetry.; World War, 1914-1918;
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Notable writers of LGBTQ+ literature / by Evans, Robert C.,1955-editor.(CARDINAL)809088;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Volume 1 -- Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- About the Editor -- Contributors -- Complete Table of Contents -- Edward Albee -- Paula Gunn Allen -- Paula Gunn Allen Publishes The Sacred Hoop 1986 -- Gloria E. Anzaldua -- Anzaldua Publishes Borderlands/La Frontera 1987 -- Reinaldo Arenas -- W. H. Auden -- James Baldwin -- Djuna Barnes -- Men Playing Women during World War I Theatricals -- Aphra Behn -- Elizabeth Bishop -- Elizabeth Bishop as a Lesbian Poet -- Elizabeth Bowen -- Rita Mae Brown -- Lord Byron -- Truman Capote -- Truman Capote's "The Diamond Guitar" -- Willa Cather -- Constantine P. Cavafy -- Postcolonialism in "New" Poems by Cavafy -- Michelle Cliff -- Hart Crane -- Countee Cullen -- Illustrations in Countee Cullen's Works -- The Fugitive Erotic in the Poetry of Mae V. Cowdery -- Emily Dickinson -- Emily Dickinson's "Homoerotic" Poetry -- Katherine V. Forrest -- E. M. Forster -- Carpenter Publishes The Intermediate Sex 1908 -- E. M. Forster's Maurice: The First "Gay" Novel in English -- Jean Genet -- Stefan George -- "Gay" Poems by Stefan George? -- Andre Gide -- Gide Publishes the Signed Edition of Corydon 1924 -- Andre Gide -- Allen Ginsberg -- Angelina Weld Grimke -- Angelina Weld Grimke and the Birth Control Movement -- Thom Gunn -- The Homosocial, Homoerotic Poetry of Robert Francis -- Thom Gunn's "Lament" -- Don't Call Us Dead, by Danez Smith -- Marilyn Hacker -- A Stranger's Mirror -- Radclyffe Hall -- Hall Publishes The Well of Loneliness 1928 -- H.D -- H.D.'s Bisexual and/or Lesbian Poems -- Foster Publishes Sex Variant Women in Literature 1956 -- Lillian Hellman -- Patricia Highsmith -- Love and the Country in Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt -- Rechy Publishes City of Night 1963 -- John Rechy -- A. E. Housman -- Male Love and Friendship in Poems by A. E. Housman -- Langston Hughes. "Gay"(?) Writings by Langston Hughes -- Alain Locke and the Harlem Renaissance -- Richard Bruce Nugent -- Christopher Isherwood -- Isherwood Publishes Goodbye to Berlin 1939 -- Christopher Isherwood's A Single Man: A Sample Paragraph -- Henry James -- Larry Kramer -- The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer -- M. Butterfly Opens on Broadway 1988 -- Tony Kushner -- Angels in America Officially Opens on November 8, 1992 -- The History Boys Officially Opens on May 18, 2004 -- Alan Bennett -- D. H. Lawrence -- David Leavitt -- Matthew Gregory ("Monk") Lewis -- "Which of the Closets?": The Deflected Gay Subtext of A Raisin in the Sun -- Audre Lorde -- Audre Lorde and Intersectionality: Examining Race, Sexuality, -- Social Class, and Age -- The Front Runner by Patricia Nell Warren Makes the New York Times -- Bestseller List 1974 -- Amy Lowell -- Critical Pluralism and Politics: Amy Lowell's "Orientation" -- Thomas Mann -- Katherine Mansfield -- Christopher Marlowe -- W. Somerset Maugham -- Carson McCullers -- Claude McKay -- Herman Melville -- Homoeroticism in the Novels of Herman Melville -- Literary Criticism on Melville and Sexuality -- Homoeroticism in Rockwell Kent's Illustrations of Melville's Moby-Dick -- Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Edna St. Vincent Millay's Openly Sexual Poetry -- Yukio Mishima -- Volume 2 -- Complete Table of Contents -- Michael Nava -- Frank O'Hara -- Gay Poems by Rafael Campo -- Joe Orton -- Wilfred Owen -- The Homoerotic Poetry of Wilfred Owen: Survey and Assessment -- Katherine Philips -- Katherine Philips's Love Poems for Other Women -- Marcel Proust -- Mary Renault -- Barney Opens Her Paris Salon 1909 -- Natalie Clifford Barney -- Adrienne Rich -- Rich Publishes "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" -- 1980 -- Vita Sackville-West -- Sappho -- May Sarton -- The Poetry of May Sarton -- Siegfried Sassoon. -- Some Homoerotic War Poems by Sigfried Sassoon -- Vikram Seth -- The Stray Greatness of Vikram Seth: Sexuality and Form in -- The Golden Gate and Beyond -- William Shakespeare -- Richard Barnfield's Homoerotic Poetry -- Gertrude Stein -- Stein Writes Q.E.D. 1903 -- Gertrude Stein -- Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and World War I -- May Swenson -- Gore Vidal -- Gore Vidal's "The Zenner Trophy" -- Alice Walker -- Expressing Lesbian Desire Through the Epistolary Form in -- The Color Purple -- "This Is How It Happened" -- John Cleland -- Horace Walpole -- Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Edmund White -- Edmund White's "Reprise" -- Paul Monette Wins National Book Award for Becoming a Man 1993 -- Andrew Holleran's "Friends at Evening" -- Patrick White -- Walt Whitman -- Whitman Publishes Leaves of Grass 1855 -- Walt Whitman and the "Homophile" Movement in the 1950s: -- Evidence in the Archives of the "One Institute" -- Oscar Wilde -- Oscar Wilde Is Convicted of Gross Indecency 1895 -- Tennessee Williams -- Angus Wilson -- Virginia Woolf -- Marguerite Yourcenar -- Bibliography -- Glossary of Literary Terms -- LGBTQ Literature: 1890-1969 -- LGBTQ Literature: 1970 and Beyond -- An Overview of Contemporary Guides to LGBTQ Literature -- A Sheaf of Some Neglected Gay Poems -- A Sheaf of Some Neglected Lesbian Poems -- Author Awards -- Author Birth and Death Information -- Subject Index.A two volume set that features the work of both prominent and lesser-known authors in this ever-expanding field.
Subjects: Informational works.; Reference works.; Bisexuality in literature.; Gay peoples' writings; Gender identity in literature.; Homosexuality in literature.; Lesbians' writings; Sexual minorities' writings; Bisexual literature.; Gay literature.; Lesbian literature.; LGBTQ+ literature.;
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T. E. Lawrence, by his friends / by Lawrence, A. W.(Arnold Walter),1900-1991.(CARDINAL)167514;
Preface -- Dates in the life of T. E. Lawrence -- Introductory / Lord Halifax -- HOME / S. Lawrence; M. R. Lawrence; Ernest W. Cox -- THE BOY AND THE MAN / T.W. Chaundy; E.F. Hall; E.T. Leeds; C.F.C. Beeson; Ernest Barker; Charles J. Ffoulkes; Leonard H. Green -- THE EAST: ANCIENT AND MODERN / H. Pirie-Gordon; Fareedeh El Akle; Winifred Fontana; Leonard Woolley; Sheik Hamoudi; W.G. Lawrence; S.F. Newcombe -- MANHOOD / E.H.R. Altounyan; Hubert Young -- THE WAR: HIS COMMANDERS / Ernest M. Dowson; Lord Allenby; A.P. Wavell -- THE WAR: IN ACTION / Ja'far Pasha; W.F. Stirling; T. Henderson; S.H. Brodie; W.H. Brook; S.C. Rolls -- THE WAR AND AFTER / Ronald Storrs; B.H. Liddell Hart; Apsley Cherry-Garrard; Winston Churchill -- PUBLICITY / Lowell Thomas -- EASTERN POLITICS / Chaim Weizmann; L. B. Namier; M.H. Coote -- POST-WAR GENERAL VIEWS / Bernard Shaw; Herbert Baker; Lionel Curtis; Eric Kennington; E. M. Forster; William Rothstein; Ralph H. Isham.PERSONAL CRISIS / Celandine Kennington; Florence Doubleday -- OXFORD AND LONDON / Robert Graves; Hilda Chaundy; Sydney Cockerell -- THE RANKS, ROYAL AIR FORCE / A.E. Chambers; Philip Sassoon; Ira Jones; Ernest Thurtle -- ROYAL TANK CORPS / G.E. Kirby and W.E. Jeffrey; Alec Dixon -- BOOK PRODUCTION / Vyvyan Richards -- A BUSINESS FOOTING / Raymond Savage -- ROYAL AIR FORCE INDIA / W.M.N. Hurley; B. V. Jones; S. Scanes -- LATER GENERAL VIEWS / F. Yeats-Brown; David Garnett; Ian Deheer; John Brophy; B.W.M. Dunn; Henry Williamson -- LITERATURE / Edward Garnett; Jonathan Cape; Books at Clouds Hill -- MUSIC / W. Warwick James; Gramophone records at Clouds Hill -- LATER FRIENDSHIPS / Millicent Candy; Lorna Norrington; James Hanley; H.H. Banbury; H.E.E. Weblin; R.G. Sims -- MOTOR BICYCLING / George Brough -- SPEED BOATS / W.E.G. Beauforte-Greenwood; J.T. Parson; W. Bradbury -- Editor's Postscript / A.E. Lawrence.
Subjects: Biographies.; Lawrence, T. E. (Thomas Edward), 1888-1935.; Great Britain. Army; World War, 1914-1918; Soldiers; Old State Library Collection.;
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Boys who rocked the world : heroes from King Tut to Bruce Lee / by McCann, Michelle Roehm,1968-(CARDINAL)642928; McCann, Michelle Roehm,1968-(CARDINAL)642928; Beyond Words Publishing.(CARDINAL)663424;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-247) and filmography (page 247).King Tutankhamun : Pharaoh -- Galileo Galilei : inventor and physicist -- Blaise Pascal : mathematician, scientist, and philosopher -- Kangxi : Emperor -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : composer -- John Quincy Adams : President, politician, and abolitionist -- Louis Braille : teacher and inventor -- Los Niños Héroes : soldiers -- Crazy Horse : warrior and leader -- Okita Soji : swordsman -- Thomas Alva Edison : inventor -- Chester Greenwood : inventor -- George Washington Carver : botanist -- Matthew Alexander Henson : explorer -- Pablo Picasso : artist -- Albert Einstein : physicist -- José Raúl Capablanca : chess player -- Salvatore Ferragamo : shoe designer -- Jesse Owens : athlete -- Nelson Mandela : activist -- Stan Lee : writer and illustrator -- Vidal Sassoon : hair stylist -- Mau Piailug : explorer -- The Dalai Lama : spiritual and political leader -- Elvis Presley : King of rock 'n' roll -- Bruce Lee : martial artist and actor -- Pelé : athlete -- Bob Dylan : singer -- Chico Mendes : activist -- Stephen King : writer -- Stevie Wonder : singer -- Matt Groening : cartoonist -- Yo-Yo Ma : cellist -- Bill Gates : software developer -- Steve Jobs : computer programmer and inventor -- Cameron Crowe : journalist and movie director -- Sherman Alexie : writer -- Will Smith : actor -- Tony Hawk : athlete -- Hrithik Roshan : actor -- The Black Eyed Peas : musicians -- Mark Zuckerberg : software developer -- Shaun White : athlete -- William Kamkwamba : inventor and engineer -- Om Prakash Gurjar : activist -- The Billy Elliot Boys : dancers.Short profiles of famous men throughout history, from King Tut to Crazy Horse to Stan Lee to Shaun White.008-012.1090LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Biographies.; Boys; Heroes; Men; Boys; Heroes; Men; Boys; Heroes; Men; Boys.; Men.;
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Voices in wartime anthology : a collection of narratives and poems / by Himes, Andrew,1950-(CARDINAL)775701; Bultmann, Jan.(CARDINAL)486587;
MARCIVE 03/01/06
Subjects: War poetry.; Poetry.; War and society.; War in literature.; Peace;
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