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Jean Price-Mars
Jean Price-Mars (1876-1969)

anthropologist, diplomat, ethnologist, ethnographer, politician, historian

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Silhouettes de nègres et de négrophiles
Antenor Firmin
Ainsi parla l'oncle
La vocation de l'élite
Ainsi parla l'oncle suivi de revisiter l'oncle
Formation ethnique, folklore et culture du peuple haitien
Une étape de l' évolution haïtienne
Ébauches, 2. série
Lettre ouverte au Dr. Rene Piquion
La Re publique d'Hai ti et la Re publique dominicaine
De Saint Domingue à Haïti
Vocation de L'élite
Une étape de l'évolution haïtienne
Folklore et patriotisme
Femme de Demain
La república de Haití y la República Dominicana
Jean-Pierre Boyer Bazelais et le drame de Miragoâne
Le sentiment et le phénomène religieux chez les Nègres de St. Domingue
Vilbrun Guillaume Sam, ce méconnu
La République d'Haïti et la République dominicaine
Ainsi parla l'oncle
Formation ethnique, folk-lore et culture de peuple haïtien
Haïti et la restauration de l'indépendance dominicaine
La República de Haití y la República Dominicana
Kofi Awoonor
Kofi Awoonor (1935-2013)

poet, diplomat, professor, politician

  • University College London, Achimota School

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The Ghana revolution
This earth, my brother
Africa, the marginalized continent
Comes the voyager at last
The breast of the Earth
Messages: poems from Ghana
Until the morning after
Ghana
Ride me, memory
Rediscovery
The Promise of Hope
Guardians of the sacred word
Latin American and Caribbean notebook
ERGO! The Bumbershoot Literary Magazine (1986)
Fire in the Valley
Guardians of the Sacred Word
Night of my blood ..
The house by the sea
The house by the sea
Teatro africano
This earth, my brother
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922)

poet, diplomat

  • Stonyhurst College, Twyford School

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Gordon at Khartoum
Secret history of the English occupation of Egypt
India under Ripon
The land war in Ireland
The Future of Islam
The poetical works of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
My diaries, being a personal narrative of events, 1888-1914
In vinculis
Satan absolved
The celebrated romance of the stealing of the mare
Lettre adressée au congrès national Egyptien à Paris
A new pilgrimage
Atrocities of justice under British rule in Egypt
Griselda
Francis Thompson
Desert hawk
Bedouin Tribes of the Euphrates; Volume 2
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Lady of Shallot, the Lady of the Fountain, and other Classic Poems and Tales of Camelot
Fand of the fair cheek
The military fox-hunting case at Cairo
Mr. Blunt and the "Times"
Ideas about India
The Poetry of Wilfred Blunt
The wind and the whirlwind
The Seven Golden Odes Of Pagan Arabia
The love sonnets of Proetus
Pilgrimage to Nejd; Volume 2
Poems
1900-1914, the Coalition Against Germany
Ideas about India
Love poems of W. S. Blunt
Esther
The bride of the Nile
Tārīkh al-sirrī li-iḥtilāl Injiltarā Miṣr
Proteus and Amadeus
The little left hand
Sonnets and songs
Statement of facts relating to [his] arrest at Woodford, [Ireland] Oct. 23, 1887 ... with the joint opinion thereon of Sir Charles Russell, R.T. Reid, H.H. Asquith, & W.S. Robson
Memorandum on prison reform
Denshawai Memorial School
Dag Hammarskjöld
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961)

politician, diplomat, economist, poet, philosopher

  • Uppsala University, Stockholm University

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Vägmärken
Vägmärken
Markings
To speak for the world
Markings
Markings
The light and the rock
Markings
The servant of peace
To speak for the world
The international civil servant in law and in fact
Från Sarek till Haväng
Markings (Faber Library)
Servant of peace
Från Sarek till Haväng
Servant of Peace
Markings (Translated From Swedish)
The Light and the Rock; the Vision of Dag Hammarskjöld
Vägmärken
Prelude to independence
The Linnaeus tradition and our time
Att föra världens talan
Jalons
The servant of peace
Hammarskjöld
Servant of peace
Zeichen am Weg
Marcas en el camino
Today's world and the United Nations
Sweden's international credit accommodation in 1944 and 1945
Castle hill
From Bretton Woods to full employment
The international civil servant in law and in fact
Zeichen am Weg. Das spirituelle Tagebuch des UN- Generalsekretärs
Fites
Merkstenen
Markings
[Public papers]
Markings
Konjunkturspridningen
Muhammad Asad
Muhammad Asad (1900-1992)

diplomat, journalist, translator, linguist, autobiographer, philosopher

  • University of Vienna

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The Road to Mecca
T̤ūfān se sāḥil tak
Tong wang Maijia zhi lu
Muḥammad Asad, ek Yūrapiyan badvī
The road to Makkah
The Message of the Qurʼān
The message of the Qurʾan
The Message of The Quran
Principles of State and Government in Islam
The Unromantic Orient
The book of revelations
The message of the Qurā̓n
The Spirit of Islam
Islam and politics
Islam at the Crossroads
Al- Islām fī al-Ḥukm
Le Chemin de La Mecque
Al- Islām 'Alā muftaraq al-turuq
Islam on the crossroads
The principles of state and government in Islam
Ham ne Pākistān kiyūn̲ banāyā
al- Islām ʻalā muftaraq al-ṭuruq
The message of the Qura̓̄n
Hadaiq al-ashiq
The unromantic Orient
This Law of Ours and Other Essays
Is religion a thing of the pastà
The road to Mecca
The Principles of State and Government
Azas-azas negara dan pemerintah didalam Islam
Islam at the crossroads
al-Ghināʼ fī aqbiyah ʻamīqah
The message of the Qurā̓n
Unromantisches Morgenland
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Message of the Koran
Massimo d'Azeglio
Massimo d'Azeglio (1798-1866)

politician, painter, historian, diplomat

  • University of Turin

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Things I remember (I miei ricordi)
I miei ricordi
Ettore Fieramosca
Ettore Fieramosca: o, La disfida di Barletta, racconto di Massimo d'Azeglio ..
Ettore Fieramosca: Or, The Challenge of Barletta. The Struggles of an Italian Against Foreign ..
Hector Fieramosca, or The challenge of Barletta, tr. [by M.H. Rankin]
Niccolò de'Lapi: ovvero, I Palleschi e i Piagnoni
Ettore Fieramosca, o, La disfida di Barletta
L' Italie de 1847-1865
Scritti e discorsi politici
Lettere inedite di Massimo d'Azeglio e Filippo Gualterio a Tommaso Tommasoni
Niccolò de'Lapi
Questioni urgenti
The challenge of Barletta, rendered into Engl. [from Ettore Fieramosca] by lady L. Magenis
Massimo d'Azeglio e l'invenzione del paesaggio istoriato
Degli ultimi casi di Romagna
Ettore Fieramosca, ossia, La disfida di Barletta
I miei ricordi
Scritti postumi di Massimo d\'Azeglio
Niccolò Dei Lapi: Or, The Last Days of the Florentine Republic
Proposta d'un programma per l'opinione nazionale italiana
Ettore Fieramosca
Lettere di Massimo d'Azeglio a Giuseppe Torelli: con frammenti di questo in ...
Lettere inedite al marchese Emanuele d'Azeglio
La Sacra di San Michele
La Lega lombarda
Ettore Fieramosca
Scritti politici e letterari di Massimo d'Azeglio
Il sor Checco Tozzi
Massimo D'Azeglio
Hector Fieramosca Or The Challenge Of Barletta
Niccolò de' Lapi: ovvero, I Palleschi e i Piagneni
Lettere a Giuseppe Torelli
Niccolò de'Lapi
I miei ricordi
Recollections of Massimo d'Azeglio
Niccolò de\' Lapi, ovvero, i Palleschi e i Piagnoni
Niccolo de' Lapi, ovvero, I Palleschi e i Piagnoni
Things I remember
Scritti postumi di Massimo d'Azeglio
Lettere a Giuseppe Torelli
I miei ricordi, a cura di Arturo Pompeati
Bisogna far gl'italiani
Florence betrayed
Lettere a sua moglie Luisa Blondel
Massimo d'Azeglio e Diomede Pantaleoni
Lettere inedite al marchese Emanuele d'Azeglio
Niccoló de'Lapi; ovvero, i Palleschi e i Piagnoni
Ettore Fieramosca o la Disfida di Barletta
Niccolo de' Lapi
Things I remember (I miei ricordi) by Massimo D'Azeglio
Lettere a sua moglie Luisa Blondel
Lettere di Massimo D'Azeglio a sua moglie Luisa Blondel
Ettore Fieramosca o la Disfida di Barletta
Lettere di M. d'Azeglio al fratello Roberto
Les derniers jours d'un peuple
Les derniers jours d'un peuple
Niccoló de'Lapi
Hector Fieramosca
Scritti postumi di Massimo d'Azeglio: lettere al duca Lorenzo Sforza Cesarini
Lettere di Massimo d'Azeglio a Giuseppe Torelli
Lettere inedite di Massimo d'Azeglio al marchese Emanuele d'Azeglio
I miei ricordi
Tutte le opere letterarie
Essais sur les principes philosophiques de l'économie politique
Scritti postumi, a cura di M. Ricci
Recollections of Massimo D'Azeglio
Scritti postumi
Tutte le opere letterarie di M. D'Azeglio
Confidenze di Massimo d'Azeglio
Parla un italiano
The challenge of Barletta
Niccolò de' Lapi, ovvero, I Palleschi e i Piagnoni
Massimo d'Azeglio e Diomede Pantaleoni
Ettore Fieramosca, o, La disfida di Barletta
Thing I remember (I miei ricordi)
Lettere al fratello Roberto
Ai suoi elettori
Lettere al fratello Roberto
Gli ebrei sono uomini!
Epistolario (1819-1866)
I miei Ricordi
Epistolario (1819-1866)
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz (1758-1841)

diplomat, translator, poet, opinion journalist, historian, political activist

  • Corps of Cadets

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Żywoty znacznych w XVIII wieku ludzi
Dziennik z czynności moich w Ursinowie 1822-1831
Under their vine and fig tree
Pamiętniki czasów moich
Dzienniki 1837-1838
Śpiewy historyczne
Jan z Tczyna
Dzienniki 1835-1836
Śpiewy historyczne Niemcewicza
Dzieje panowania Zygmunta III, Króla Polskiego, Wielkiego Księcia Litewskiego, itd
Listy z Ameryki do Kazimierza Czartoryskiego (1798-1806)
Dzieje panowania Zygmunta III, Króla Polskiego ..
Skarbczyk polski
Powrót posła
Podróże po Ameryce, 1797-1801
Spiewy historyczne
Dzieje panowania Zygmunta III
Jan z Tęczyna. Opracował Jan Dihm
Dwaj panowie Sieciechowie
Dziennik, 1839-1841
Pamiętniki czasów moich
Bayki i powieści
Tryptyk piastowski "Kazimierz Wielki", "Jadwiga, królowa polska", "Piast" Juliana Ursyna Niemcewicza
Meine Gefangenschaft zu St Petersburg in denJahren 1794, 1795, und 1796
Leybe i Sióra, czyli Listy dwoch kochanków
Juliana Niemcewicza pism różnych wierszem i prozą
Johann von Tenczyn
J.U. Niemcewicza Pamiętniki z 1830-1831 roku
Śpiéwy historyczne z muzyką i rycinami
Śpiewy historyczne z muzyką i rycinami
The American diaries of Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, 1797-1799, 1805
Pamiętniki, 1804-1807
Notes sur ma captivité a Saint-Pétersbourg en 1794, 1795 et 1796
Levi und Sara
Demetrius der Erste
Lejbe i Siora, czyly, Listy dwóch kochanów
Powro t po¿a
Podróże po Ameryce, 1797-1807
Zbior pamiętnikow historycznych o dawnéy Polszcze
Dwaj panowie Sieciechowie; powieść
Podróże historyczne po ziemiach polskich
Puławy
Mowy Sejmowe 1788-1792
Powrót posła
Pamietniki Juljana Ursyna Niemcewicza
Pamiętnik Juljana Ursyna Niemcewicza
Piast
Spiwy historyczne Juliana Ursyna Niemcewicza, a źyciorysem autora i objaśnieniami Wiktora Czermaka
Dzieje panowania Zygmunta III, Króla Polskiego, Wielkiego Ksicia Litewskiego, itd
ŚPIEWY HISTORYCZNE
Jan z Tęczyna
Leibe i Sióra czyli Listy dwóch kochanków
Vassilis Vassilikos
Vassilis Vassilikos (1933-2023)

poet, journalist, diplomat, politician

  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Anatolia College

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Hē mnēmē epistrephei me lastichenia pedila
"Hē zoē mou holē"
"Hē zōē mon holē"
Hē zōē mou holē
Mnēmē apo melani
Stelios Kazantzidēs 1931-2001
290 prosōpa
Mnēmē apo melani
Outside the walls
The photographs
Zēta
The few things I know about Glafkos Thrassakis
The Monarch
--And dreams are dreams
Z
The monarch
Z
The plant, the well, the angel
O komitis tou Halley, iparhoun oneira
The few things I know about Glafkos Thrassakis
To teleftaio antio
I zoi mou oli
Tesseris prosanatolismenes polis
Kath Odon
O Komitis tou haley
The harpoon gun
I trilogia
I Trilogia
Group-Ellas
To strato
The coroner's assistant
O iatrodikastis
Lounik II
To psarotoupheko
Laka-Souli
20:20'
To Gramma tēs agapēs
Kroup-Ellas
25 etia
To limani tēs agōnias (kai alla diēgēmata)
E kathodos
Oi phōtographies
To helikoptero
Hē dikē tōn ex
To portraito enos agōnistē
Imantes
Tesseris prosanatolismenes poleis
O iatrodikastēs
To paravan
To kalokairi tou Erōtokritou
Ta silō
Kapheneion "Eminkrek"
To magnētophōno
To psarotoupheko
Anamnēseis apo ton Cheirōna
Ho asvos, hē, Hoi peripeteies mias dyskolēs anarrōsēs
O thanatos tou Amerikanou
Bella ciao
To sphrato
Ho monarchēs
Lounik II
Ē kathodos tou Makedona
Hē vathia hellēnikē krisē
Anepidotē epistolē ston Alexandro Panagoulē
Ho Chordistēs
Ta chaza boutia
Ho tromeros mēnas Augoustos (13.8.78-30.9.78)
To Teleutaio Antio
Portraita
Glaukos Thrasakēs, mythistorēma
Hē asprē arkouda
Ē mythologia tēs Amerikēs
Kroup-Hellas
Chrono graphēmata
To magnētophōno dyo
Ho Eurōpeos kai hē hōraia tou hyperperan
Ho iatrodikastēs
Trochalies
To elikoptero
Thymata eirēnēs
Autoktonia me ero te matiko
E zo e mou ole
To phyllo ; To pēgadi ; T' angeliasma
Ektos tōn teichōn
Anamnēseis apo ton cheirōna, kai alles istories
To teleutaio antio
Ho planodios plasie
Ta "Kamakia"
Ho anthrōpos me to adeio
Ē asprē arkouda
Hē kathodos
20:20 ́
Anamnēseis apo ton Cheirōna, kai alles histories
Trilogie
Hē m ythologia tēs Amerikēs
Le journal de Z
Oi lōtophagoi
Hēlie mou, Artaxerxē mou
Pascha stous Gargalianous
To vrachioli
Peri logotechnias kai allōn daimōniōn
Hoi rempetes, kai alla diēgēmata
Thymata eirēnēs
Portraita
To magnētophōno dyo
Ē phloga tēs agapēs (foco d'amor)
Phiphty-phiphty
To teleutaio antio
Kapheneion "Eminkrek"
Himantes
O tromeros mēnas Augoustos (13.8.78-30.9.78)
Hena-hena-tessara metōkēsen eis agnōston dieuthynsin
Hoi phōtographies
To "nero", to "helion" tēs Kō
Hors les murs
Mathēma anatomias, 1965-1978
Metōkēsen eis agnōston dieuthynsin
K
To phyllo
To lacheio
Ē dikē tōn ex ..
Aisthēmatōn nomismata
Ta silo
Anepidote epistole ston Alexandro Panagoule
Ho Apostolos Paulos stē philakē tōn Philippōn
Metōkēsen eis agnōston dieuthynsin
To kalokairi tou erōtokritou
Hē diēgēsē tou Iasona
To phyllo
He doloktonia
Phiphty-phiphty
Hoi " Prosōkratikoi"
Ta apokrypha tou Glaukou Thrasakē
Se gnōrizō apo tēn kopsē--
O monarchēs
Aftokonia me erotimatiko
Ho thanatos tou Amerikanou
Mia historia agapēs
To "Nero" (to "helion" te s Ko )
To phyllo
Hoi lōtophagoi
To magnētophōno
Ē " doloktonia"
Autoktonia me erōtēmatiko
Ē diēgēsē tou Iasona
Yparchoun oneira
Glaukos Thrasakēs
Pascha stous Gargalianous
Dyo syngrapheis, mia dekaetia
To limani tēs agōnias
O apostolos Paulos stē phylakē tōn Philippōn
O planodios plasie
To limani tes agonias (Kai alla dingnmata)
[Zēta]
Ektos tōn teichōn
To prōto kai teleutaio poiēma tou L.K. Ligo prin autoktonēsei sta dekaennia tou chronia
Diva
Tesseris prosanatolismenes poleis
To hēmerologio tou "Z"
Enklēma stēn Kopenchagē
Se gnōrizō apo tēn kopsē ...
Parisi - korydallos
Ta poiēmata (1948-1949)
Erga Vasilē Vasilikou
To " nero"
Z
O chordistēs
Hē ateleiōtē epistolē
Ē ateleiōtē epistolē
To Lacheio
20.20' [i.e. Eikosi.eikosi] kai Phiphty phiphty
Laka-Souli
Neanikē allēlographia, 1954-1960
Magia
Thymata eirēnēs
Hē apologia tou Z
Poste restante
Ho monarchēs
Hoi ōraioi oreoi
To psarotoupheko ; Hē "doloktonia"
Un po©·te est mort
Hēmerologio Thasou
Hoi phōtographies
Onar hēmerophanton
Les photographies
Les soleils couchants
Hē diēgēsē tou Iasona
Alfatride
Ho monarchēs
Dyo syngrapheis, mia dekaetia
Lyra Hellēnikē
Hē mythologia tēs Amerikēs
Ta silo
To phyllo, to pēgadi, t'angeliasma
D̲iva
Le Monarque ...
Esy ki egō
Ta poiēmata
Hoi rempetes
En ptēsei
Hoi gates tēs Rue d'Hauteville
Lunik II
L'hélicoptère
Z
To psarotoupheko ; Hē "doloktonia"
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