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"Marcel Granet m'avait laissé entendre à ses cours que la route de la soie avait probablement permis aux Grecs de connaître plus qu'un peu de la culture chinoise. Cela continua durant l'Empire romain : on a trouvé sur les côtes du Viêt-nam quantité de monnaies romaines qui prouvaient que la voie maritime doublait pour eux la voie terrestre : au point qu'il fallut interdire aux citoyens romains de se vêtir de soie ruineuse : les seules femmes dès lors eurent droit à ce luxe. Jusqu'à l'ambassade de Macartney, qui marque les débuts de l'impérialisme européen, dès lors acharné à s'asservir à l'Empire du Milieu, j'étudiai cinq années durant cette Europe chinoise, dont je livre ici la première moitié. Je m'arrête à Leibniz, sinophile entre tous. Le tome second commencera par un examen de Montesquieu, qui représente, lui, le début du courant contraire, instruit qu'il avait été par un jésuite dissident qui lui avait dit pis que pendre de la Chine. Avec la route de la soie, ce sont les missionnaires en effet, les jésuites au premier chef, qui renseignèrent l'Europe sur un pays qu'ils connaissaient fort bien, lui fournissant mathématiciens, fondeurs de bons canons pour battre la Russie, s'efforçant même d'installer le catholicisme là-bas en prônant des rites chinois, ce qui suscita, aux environs de 1700, une véhémente querelle entre les ordres rivaux, qui prétendaient avoir leur part du gâteau. [...]"Étiemble.

A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war In this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria, from Kashmir to the West Bank, conflict is as contagious and poisonous as Japanese knotweed. Living through it are people just like us with ordinary jobs, ordinary pressures and ordinary lives. Against a new landscape of horror and violence it is up to them to maintain a modicum of normality and colour. For some, gardening is the way to achieve this. Working in the world's most dangerous war zones, freelance war correspondent and photographer Lally Snow has often chanced across a very moving sight, a testimony to the triumph of the human spirit in adversity, a celebration of hope and beauty: a war garden. In Kabul, the royal gardens are tended by a centenarian gardener, though the king is long gone; in Camp Bastion, bored soldiers improvise tiny gardens to give themselves a moment's peace; on both sides of the dividing line in Jerusalem families tend groves of olives and raise beautiful plants from the unforgiving, disputed landscape; in Ukraine, families tend their gardens in the middle of a surreal, frozen war. War Gardens is a surprising, tragic and beautiful journey through the darkest places of the modern world, revealing the ways people make time and space for themselves and for nature even in the middle of destruction. Illustrated with Lally Snow's own award-winning photography, this is a book to treasure. Autorid: Lalage Snow

*This limited deluxe edition will include designed edges.* From #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes the complete Summer King saga-three parts, one epic romance. Cold. Heartless. Deadly. Whispers of his name alone bring fear to fae and mortals alike. Caden, the Prince, is the most dangerous being in the mortal world-haunted by a past he couldn't control and driven by a singular desire: revenge. And there's only one person who can help him. Brighton Jussier knows better than to trust him. Raised in the Order, she's seen the atrocities Caden is capable of. Reformed or not, she wants nothing to do with him...until he leaves her no choice. Forced into an uneasy alliance, she discovers the man beneath the ice-a man whose touch burns with forbidden heat and whose gaze holds a wicked promise. But there's someone out there who wants to return the Prince to his former self. A walking, breathing nightmare hell-bent on destroying the world-and everyone close to him. The more Brighton and Caden work together, the harder it is to deny the hunger between them. And when Brighton is bestowed with the forbidden Summer's Kiss, becoming something no longer human, Caden refuses to let her go-even at the cost of his Court. Now, as the doorway to the Otherworld is breached, Brighton and Caden must do the unthinkable-not just to survive, but to save mankind from the evil that threatens to consume the world. Previously published as the novellas The Prince, The King, and The Queen.

In this deeply researched volume, Stephen Dow Beckham brings together commentary by Native Americans about the events affecting their lives in Oregon. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume presents first-person accounts of events threatening, changing, and shaping the lives of Oregon Indians, from “first encounters” in the late eighteenth century to modern tribal economies. The book's seven thematic sections are arranged chronologically and prefaced with introductory essays that provide the context of Indian relations with Euro-Americans and tightening federal policy. Each of the nearly seventy documents has a brief introduction that identifies the event and the speakers involved. Most of the book's selections are little known. Few have been previously published, including treaty council minutes, court and congressional testimonies, letters, and passages from travelers’ journals. Oregon Indians opens with the arrival of Euro-Americans and their introduction of new technology, weapons, and diseases. The role of treaties, machinations of the Oregon volunteers, efforts of the US Army to protect the Indians but also subdue and confine them, and the emergence of reservation programs to “civilize” them are recorded in a variety of documents that illuminate nineteenth-century Indian experiences. Twentieth-century documents include Tommy Thompson on the flooding of the Celilo Falls fishing grounds in 1942, as well as Indian voices challenging the "disastrous policy of termination," the state's prohibition on inter-racial marriage, and the final resting ground of Kennewick Man. Selections in the book's final section speak to the changing political atmosphere of the late twentieth century, and suggest that hope, rather than despair, became a possibility for Oregon tribes. In this deeply researched volume, Stephen Dow Beckham brings together commentary by Native Americans about the events affecting their lives in Oregon. Now available in paperback for the first time, this volume presents first-person accounts of events threatening, changing, and shaping the lives of Oregon Indians, from “first encounters” in the late eighteenth century to modern tribal economies. The book's seven thematic sections are arranged chronologically and prefaced with introductory essays that provide the context of Indian relations with Euro-Americans and tightening federal policy. Each of the nearly seventy documents has a brief introduction that identifies the event and the speakers involved. Most of the book's selections are little known. Few have been previously published, including treaty council minutes, court and congressional testimonies, letters, and passages from travelers’ journals. Oregon Indians opens with the arrival of Euro-Americans and their introduction of new technology, weapons, and diseases. The role of treaties, machinations of the Oregon volunteers, efforts of the US Army to protect the Indians but also subdue and confine them, and the emergence of reservation programs to “civilize” them are recorded in a variety of documents that illuminate nineteenth-century Indian experiences. Twentieth-century documents include Tommy Thompson on the flooding of the Celilo Falls fishing grounds in 1942, as well as Indian voices challenging the "disastrous policy of termination," the state's prohibition on inter-racial marriage, and the final resting ground of Kennewick Man. Selections in the book's final section speak to the changing political atmosphere of the late twentieth century, and suggest that hope, rather than despair, became a possibility for Oregon tribes. Autorid: Stephen Dow Beckham