Source: Century Company, The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, William Dwight Whitney, Supervisor (New York: Century Company, 1911), 4656. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Century_Dictionary_and_Cyclopedia_Th/0E9AAQAAMAAJ .
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Clothing & Sumptuary Laws
- Donald Quataert, “Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720-1829” International Journal of Middle East Studies 29, no. 3 (1997): 403–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/164587.
- “A Thirteenth-Century Castilian Sumptuary Law,” Business History Review, 37, no. 1/2 (1963): 98–100, https://doi.org/10.2307/3112097.
- Also mentioned is Giorgio Riello and Ulinka Rublack, The Right To Dress: Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c. 1200–1800 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Spanish Colonial Officials
- Alejandro Cañeque, The King’s Living Image: The Culture and Politics of Viceregal Power in Colonial Mexico, eBook edition via EBSCO (New York: Routledge, 2004).
- The main Spanish theorist of government mentioned in this section is the Franciscan friar named Juan de Santa María. His book is available via Google Books: Juan de Santa María (O.F.P.), Tratado de república y policía christiana para reyes y principes y para los que en el govierno tienen sus vezes (Barcelona: Sebastian de Cormellas, 1618). Available at https://books.google.com/books?id=Mw8xCIF-OdYC.
Blora region of Java, Indonesia
- Adrian Vickers, A History of Modern Indonesia, Second Kindle Edition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), 34–40.
Eunuchs
- Louise Levathes, When China Ruled the Seas (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).
Statues
- Adrienne Mayor, Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018). https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvc779xn.
