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pt. 1. Images of Taiwan and the discovery of the Taiwanese landscape -- 1. Colonial encounters : Japanese travel writing on colonial Taiwan / Naoko Shimazu -- 2. The beauty of the untamed : ...

While house hunting, you may have come across a mention of a “saltbox” and wondered: What the heck is a saltbox house? Well, wonder no longer! Named for the shape of the container used to hold salt in ...

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When historian Jon Butler looks at early America, he sees the lineaments of contemporary secular pluralism. In many respects, the unrestricted vistas of Butler’s home prairie offer an apt metaphor for ...