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  • See his "Chinese Century: The Eighteenth Century in the China Sea Region," Archipel 58 (1999): 107 – 30, esp.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • Note 25: Marie-Sybille de Vienne, "La Part des Chinois dans les fermes fiscales de Batavia au XVIIème siècle," Archipel 22 (1981): 105 – 32. back

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • Administrative divisions: none (overseas lands of France); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are five archipelagic divisions named Archipel des Marquises, Archipel des Tuamotu, Archipel des Tubuai, Iles du Vent, Iles Sous-le-Vent

    French Polynesia 2008

  • French Polynesianone (overseas lands of France); there are no first-order administrative divisions as defined by the US Government, but there are five archipelagic divisions named Archipel des Marquises, Archipel des Tuamotu, Archipel des Tubuai, Iles du Vent, Iles Sous-le-Vent

    Administrative divisions 2008

  • Note 28: See Leonard Blussé, "Chinese Century: The Eighteenth Century in the China Sea Region," Archipel 58 (1999): 107 – 30. back

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • Note 10: Leonard Blussé and Marius P.H. Roessingh, "A Visit to the Past: Soulang, a Formosan Village Anno 1623," Archipel 27 (1984): 63 – 80, quote at 75.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • It was breezy flamboyance that led the French imprint Folio to opt for Hurlemont (Howling Mount), or for Archipel to change it to Hurlevent (Howling Wind), or for the publishing house Robert Laffont to restore a title that every Frenchman in need of the translated version wouldn't know what to make of: Wuthering Heights.

    'Proust's Way?': An Exchange Davis, Lydia 2006

  • The first of them, Sulloway writes, “involves the claim that the different forms of the finches, along with the tortoises and the mockingbirds, first convinced Darwin that species must be mutable while he was still in the Galapagos Archipel ago.”

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • The first of them, Sulloway writes, “involves the claim that the different forms of the finches, along with the tortoises and the mockingbirds, first convinced Darwin that species must be mutable while he was still in the Galapagos Archipel ago.”

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

  • It is near the Archipel du Nord or northern Archipelago.

    John Adams diary 41, 23 May - 19 June 1783 1961

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