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Zhongguo feng su tong shi. Qing dai juan = Zhongguofengsutongshi / Lin Yongkuang, Yuan Lize zhu

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2001 1644-1912 Qing dynasty, 1644-1912
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Journal of Victorian culture : JVC

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1996 C1996- 19th century Victoria, 1837-1901
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The Confucian transformation of Korea : a study of society and ideology / Martina Deuchler

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1992 1392-1910
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La France a Moscou : exposition de 1891 / Léon Plarr

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1891 [1891] 19th century 1801-1917
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Cultural and artistic upheavals in modern Europe 1848 to 1945 / edited by Sally Metzler and Elizabeth Lovett Colledge

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1996 19th century 20th century
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Sounds of modern history : auditory cultures in 19th- and 20th- century Europe / edited by Daniel Morat

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2014 19th century 20th century
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An American album : one hundred and fifty years of Harper's magazine / edited by Lewis H. Lapham & Ellen Rosenbush ; foreword by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr

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2000 19th century 20th century
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Gothic art in the gilded age : Medieval and Renaissance treasures in the Gavet-Vanderbilt-Ringling collection / Virginia Brilliant ; with texts by Françoise Barbe ... [et al.]

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2009 C2009 19th century 20th century 1865-1918
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A season of renewal : the Columbian Exposition and Victorian America / Dennis B. Downey

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2002 19th century 1865-1918
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John Singer Sargent & Chicago's Gilded Age / Annelise K. Madsen ; with contributions by Richard Ormond and Mary Broadway

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2018 19th century 20th century
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La France a Moscou : exposition de 1891 / Léon Plarr

La France a Moscou : exposition de 1891 / Léon Plarr

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1891 [1891] 1801-1917 19th century
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Creating a dignified past : museums and the colonial revival / Geoffrey L. Rossano, editor

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1991 19th century 1865-1918
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Geisha : beyond the painted smile / edited by the Peabody Essex Museum

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2004 C2004 1600-1868 1868-1912
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Subjects of the Sultan : culture and daily life in the Ottoman Empire / Suraiya Faroqhi

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2005 1288-1918
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