Librarians at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives catalog hundreds of materials on a monthly basis. Materials featured in this month’s newly cataloged list include a 1918 linguistic and ethnographic map of Central Europe and the Balkan Peninsula, and a West Point atlas of the Pacific showing the progress of forces leading to Japan’s surrender during World War II. There is also a book of poems in the Nivkh language, which is spoken by fewer than 200 people in Russian Manchuria. Other items are valuable sources of information on the liberation, unification, and independence of Czechoslovakia and on Revolutionary Russia.
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Compiler: Department of Military Art and Engineering, the United States Military Academy
Chief editor: Brigadier General Vincent J. Esposito
Title: The West Point atlas of war
Published: New York, NY : Tess Press, [2007], ©1959
Although cataloged separately, the Library & Archives originally accessioned this atlas with an archival collection, the Richard S. R. Hubert papers on the topic of the U.S. Office of War Information in Saipan. This special edition atlas includes maps of the Pacific during World War II; they show the progress of forces from 1937 to Japan’s surrender in 1945.
Author: René Weiss
Title: En Tchéco-Slovaquie : les fêtes de la libération, 25-30 juin 1920
Published: Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1921
This book describes the memories of Paris city representatives during the Sokol days of celebration. This event celebrated the liberation, independence, and unification of Czechoslovakia. The book describes the activities from their arrival in Prague to their return to Paris, as well as the manifestations within this celebration; it includes mentions of statesmen, military representatives, other foreign dignitaries, representatives of the Sokol society, and other participants in the festivities.
Author: Unknown
Title: Shutki revoli͡ut͡sionnoĭ Rossii : na zlobu dni͡a
Published: Petrograd, 1918
Published in Saint Petersburg in 1918, this volume represents a valuable source for studying social relations and social turmoil in Revolutionary Russia. It contains roughly fifty jokes from the Revolutionary era, such as: ”There is a new saying - A situation worse than the Grand Dukes”.
Printer and Publisher: G. Freytag & Berndt
Title: G. Freytags Völker- und Sprachenkarte von Mittel-Europa nebst Italien und der Balkanhalbinsel
Published: Wien, Kartographische Anstalt G. Freytag & Berndt, [1918]
Freytag und Berndt published this map in Vienna, Austria, in 1918. It shows Central Europe, Italy, and the Balkan Peninsula. This is an ethnographic and linguistic map -- it shows the geographic distribution of ethnic groups and languages spoken. The map presents 32 languages and ethnic groups throughout.
Author: Sangi, Vladimir
Title: Тьагмак эглн = Сын рыбы Тягмак [Tʹagmak ėgln = Syn ryby Ti͡agmak]
Published: I͡Uzhno-Sakhalinsk : Sakhalinskoe oblastnoe knizhnoe izdatelʹstvo, 1995
According to the 2010 census, the Nivkh (or Gilyak) language is spoken by a little less than two hundred people in Priamurie (Russian Manchuria), and it belongs to UNESCO's list of critically endangered world languages, as found in its Atlas of the world's languages in danger. This book, Tʹagmak ėgln, presents poems in the Nivkh (Gilyak) language and provides the Russian translations. It advocates for protection of the cultural heritage of the people who inhabit this area.
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