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‎Cabbages and Kings. - [COINING THE TERM ""BANANA REPUBLIC""]‎

‎New York, McClure, Phillips & Co, 1904. Original pictorial full cloth in red, green and black, depiCting kings and a cabbage head on the front board. Binding with minor wear to extremities. With a red cloth dust-jacket with gilt green title-label (original?). Dust-jacket with a bit of wear to capitals and corners and its title-label with very minor loss, far from affecting lettering. With the large book-plate of Darryl Zanuck (laid in loose).‎

‎First edition, first issue (""Mc Clure/ Philips/ & co"" to bottom of spine) - with an excellent provenance - of this classic work, which coined the term ""banana republic"", a term that came to greatly influence our view of Latin America and which is now used in everyday vocabulary throughout the Western world. ""Violent, poor and politically wobbly, Honduras meets most people's definition of banana republic... Its murder rate is the highest in the world"" its economy in a pickle. Its problems are not new: the turbulent country has the dubious honour of being the place that first inspired the description ""banana republic"" more than a century ago... It was coined in a 1904 book of fiction by O. Henry, an American writer. Henry (whose real name was William Sydney Porter) was on the run from Texan authorities, who had charged him with embezzlement. He fled first to New Orleans and then to Honduras where, staying in a cheap hotel, he wrote ""Cabbages and Kings"", a collection of short stories. One, ""The Admiral"", was set in the fictional land of Anchuria, a ""small, maritime banana republic"". It is clear that the steamy, dysfunctional Latin republic he described is based on Honduras, his jungle hideaway. Henry eventually returned to the United States, where he spent time in prison before publishing his short stories and then hitting the bottle, leading to an early death. (T.W. in The Economist, Nov. 2013). O. Henry's phrase is appropriate in all senses of the expression. First, of course, it conjures up the image of a tropical, agrarian country. But more importantly, it refers to the influence of the American fruit companies of the period, which came to exercise an enormous influence over the countries in the region. In the early twentieth century, the United Fruit Company, a multinational American corporation, was instrumental to the creation of the banana republic as an economic and political phenomenon of geopolitics. Together with other American corporations - with occasional political, diplomatic, and military support from the U.S. government - the corporations created the political, economic, and social circumstances that established a banana-republic culture for the colonial exploitation of Central American countries such as Honduras and Guatemala. Thus, as the meaning of ""banana republic"" generally describes a politically unstable country in Latin America, dependent on the exportation of a limited-resource product, like bananas, it could also be defined as ""a country in which foreign enterprises push the government around"" (The Economist). The term ""babana republic"" is not only used as part of a general vocabulary, it is also used specifically in political science and in economic science. _________________________Darryl Francis Zanuck (1902 - 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive"" he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. He played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors. ""Darryl F. Zanuck was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable men ever to become a Hollywood mogul. "" (IMDb)‎

‎Trade in Good Taste. Relations in Architecture and Culture between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic World in the Seventeenth Century, ‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2005 Paperback, XII+219 pages ., 67 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503514895.‎

‎During the seventeenth century Dutch influence on the Baltic region, both economic and aesthetic, was unrivaled. In the wake of the Dutch monopoly on Baltic trade, cultural contacts between the Dutch Republic and the Baltic world flourished. The Dutch Republic was even to fulfil an exemplary function in the Baltic world (particularly in the Swedish Empire, the dominating power in the region), not solely limited to the commerce of commodities but extending to the domain of architecture and art as well. In this intensive cultural traffic, an important role was set aside for Dutch immigrants, architects, artists, and their agents. Apart from their regular activities as diplomats or news correspondents, agents mediated in cultural affairs for patrons in the North. As such, they occupied a key role in the relations between the Baltic world and the Dutch Republic. The pivotal element in these networks, they negotiated between Baltic commissioners and Dutch architects, artists, and suppliers of luxury items, including sculptures, tapestries, paintings, as well as a wide range of books and prints - all of which were available on the Amsterdam market. These extensive networks mark the Dutch Republic as a major centre of architecture, art, and information, crucial to the cultural development of northern Europe. The history of this lively trade in good taste is told on the basis of rich archival material, including drawings, book and art collection inventories, correspondence, travel journals, and diaries. New.‎

‎Contending Representations I: The Dutch Republic and the Lure of Monarchy‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 212 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:157 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503605173.‎

‎Summary This volume is the first book-length study to thematise the representation of power in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. Bringing together scholars from different backgrounds, the volume aims to stimulate a cross-disciplinary dialogue about representations in art, literature, ritual, and other media. Within the Dutch Republic, different state actors - the city, the provincial states, the States General, the stadtholders, and individual power-holders - vied for the supremacy of power. A vital aspect of this persistent struggle was its representative dimension. In making representative claims about their place in the balance of power, these institutions all faced the challenge of developing a republican language that was both distinctive enough and universally understood. In the cultural repertoires available to political figures, artists, and intellectuals, republican models contended with monarchical ones. In visual and literary depictions, public ritual, and diplomatic encounters alike, the temptation to stand up to the grandeur of powerful European monarchies by borrowing from their representative traditions was not always easy to resist. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction 1. Joris Oddens (Huygens Institute - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Alessandro Metlica (University of Padova), and Gloria Moorman (University of Manchester) Representing Power in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic 2. Peter Arnade (University of Hawaii) The Royal and the Republican in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries 3. Suzanne van de Meerendonk (Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen's University) Treated like Royalty: Ceremonial Entries into Amsterdam in 1580, 1638, and 1660 4. Stijn Bussels (Leiden University) and Bram Van Oostveldt (Ghent University) Animating the Amsterdam Town Hall 5. Laura Plezier (Leiden University) International Acclaim for the Republican Town Hall of Amsterdam: A Victory for the Princely Family of Orange 6. Lauren Lauret (Leiden University / University College London) and Ida Nijenhuis (Huygens Institute - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) Power Brokers for Province or Prince? The Political Careers of Johan Kelffken and Alexander van der Capellen 7. Marianne Klerk (Erasmus University College, Rotterdam) Beyond Republicanism: Representations of the Rohanesque Genre of Interest of State in Pieter de la Court's Interest van Holland (1662) 8. Alexander Dencher (Leiden University / Rijksmuseum Amsterdam) Facing Change: Gold and Ivory Portraits of William III of Orange and Mary II Stuart after the Glorious Revolution 9. Lidewij Nissen (Radboud University Nijmegen) Dynastic Marriages as Power Play: Constructing the Marriages of the Nassau Stadtholders in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic 10. Arthur Weststeijn (University of Padova) Empire Portrayed: The Representation of Dutch Colonial Authority in the Seventeenth Century 11. Margriet van Eikema Hommes (Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands) & Tatjana van Run (independent scholar) Changing Heavens: Political Messages in Gerard de Lairesse's Ceiling Painting for Andries de Graeff in the Year of Disaster 1672 Bibliography Notes on Contributors‎

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‎10 years of the national currency of the Republic of Kazakhstan. 10 years of the national currency of the Republic of Kazakhstan In Russian (ask us if in doubt)/10 let natsionalnoy valyute Respubliki Kazakhstan. 10 years of the national currecy of Republic of Kazakhstan. In Russian Kazakh and English Almaty 2003. 241 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb1336ebc53392fc11‎

‎Bali, Isle of Temples and Dances Issued by the Republic of Indonesia, Department of Information, Third Edition, n° 56 (Indonésie)‎

‎Republic of Indonesia, Department of Information Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1962 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's black and white wrappers, illustrated by a black and white photography In-8 1 vol. - 96 pages‎

‎numerous black and white photographies with a large folding map at the end of the volume (Indonesia and Bali) 3rd edition, 1963 Contents, Chapitres : Preface - General introduction - Bali, history and situation - Communication - Village organisation - Subak - Religious observances - Temples - Cremation - Adolescence - Tooth-filing - Dances - Arts - Cock-fighting - Den Pasar, capital - Other places of importance - Appendix, praedicates - Bibliography wrappers very lightly yellowing, else near fine copy, no marking, complete of the large folding map, a rather near fine copy‎