Asiens historia

This book seeks to understand the obligation of the international community to implement the principles of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). With a focus on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the volume examines what formal responsibility and ac...

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Chosôn är Koreas ursprungliga namn och betyder Morgonstillhetens land. Men stillhet är knappast vad som utmärker Koreahalvöns historia, eller dess samtid. Med sitt läge, mellan Kina och Japan, har Korea under årtusenden utgjort slagfält för f...

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This book seeks to understand the obligation of the international community to implement the principles of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). With a focus on the humanitarian crisis in Syria, the volume examines what formal responsibility and ac...

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»Lysande!« Per T. Ohlsson, Sydsvenskan »En mycket läsvärd bok« Upsala Nya Tidning »Gerners bok blir säkert ett standardverk för lång tid framöver.« Populär Historia En gedigen och modern framställning om rysk historia! I Rysslands historia berätta...

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The first model of accelerated psychodynamic therapy to make the theoretical why as important as the formula for how, Fosha's original technique for catalyzing change mandates explicit empathy and radical engagement by the therapist to elicit and ...

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This illustrated introduction to the history of China offers a fresh understanding of China's progress from the Neolithic age to the present. Told in six chapters arranged chronologically, through art, artefacts, people and places, and richly illu...

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»Fascinerande läsning.» Allt om Resor »Japans historia ger en aha-upplevelse.» Smålands-Tidningen Obs! Detta är en uppdaterad utgåva, som sträcker sig ända fram till år 2017. Japan är världens näst största ekonomi, trots att landet till ytan är mi...

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A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign ...

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The fourteenth edition of The Middle East brings important new coverage to this comprehensive, balanced, and superbly researched text. There is intensive coverage of major developments such as the ongoing conflict in Syria, continuing tensions bet...

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In the wake of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, countless words have been written and uttered about nationalism-many accusing nationalists of racism, hatred, and violence. But nationalism wasn't always considered evil. Indeed, such venerat...

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During China's "socio-economic transition period", stretching from 1978 to the present day, the nation's social structure underwent enormous changes. The economic restructuring from a centrally-planned economy to a market-oriented one, c...

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This pioneering book provides a comprehensive survey of ancient Chinese women's history, covering thousands of years from the Neolithic era to China's unification in 221 BCE. For each period-Neolithic, Shang, Western Zhou, and Eastern Zhou-Hinsch ...

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Polarforskaren Johan Gunnar Andersson kom 1914 att bli rådgivare åt Kinas regering. Tillsammans med ledande kinesiska vetenskapsmän tog han upp jakten med stormakterna om att lösa dåtidens stora gåtor om landets naturhistoria och arkeologi. För at...

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Saudi¿arabien är världens största exportör inte bara av olja, utan också av wahhabism, den sekteristiska gren av islam som är landets statsreligion, och till vars ¿utlöpare räknas vålds¿inriktade jihadistiska rörelser som talibanerna, ¿Isla¿miska ...

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The Dutch East India Company was a hybrid organization combining the characteristics of both corporation and state that attempted to thrust itself aggressively into an Asian political order in which it possessed no obvious place and was transforme...

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Life at the Court of the Early Qajar Shahs, a memoir translated into English for the first time, offers a uniquely intimate look at a world veiled by privilege and power. Its author, Soltan Ahmad Mirza, was a prince-the forty-ninth son of Fath Ali...

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This study of Sino-Tibetan northern Sichuan provides a framework for understanding changes in western China's landscape and among its indigenous populations from late imperial to contemporary times. It highlights the significant role that Tibetans...

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»Den är som den låter: lärd. Karlsson, en ex-diplomat, är Sveriges främsta auktoritet på Mellanösternfrågor. Jag är ganska bra på ämnet men jag lärde mig mycket, mycket. Karlsson skriver fängslande och pedagogiskt.« Staffan Heimersson, Aftonbladet...

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Hannah Arendt's portrayal of the terrible consequences of blind obedience, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil contains an introduction by Amos Elon in Penguin Classics. Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's autho...

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I skydd av nattens mörker inleder ungdomarna Jun San och Mi Ran i hemlighet en relation. Under långa promenader går de hand i hand och pratar om allt utom den regim som tvingar dem att smyga med sin kärlek. I Inget att avundas får vi också möta fl...

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In this major study - regarded as his most important work - the pioneering anthropologist, Berthold Laufer documents the cultural transfers that took place between China and Iran in ancient times. He does so by tracing the history of cultivated pl...

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»Boken är skriven med driv och den är både lättläst och lättförståelig, precis som populär historia ska vara. Hägerdal skriver kunnigt och berikar även boken genom att ta med den senaste forskningen om Kinas historia.« Sundsvalls tidning »Hägerdal...

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'A gripping investigation of Israel's assassination policy' Sunday Times 'Remarkable' Observer 'Riveting' Daily Mail 'Compelling' John le Carre Shortlisted for the Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize The Talmud says: "If someone comes to kill you...

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In this book, David McMahan offers the first comprehensive attempt to chart the development of "modern Buddhism." His position is critical but empathetic: while he presents modern Buddhism as a construction of numerous parties with varying interes...

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In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulen...

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Russia and the newly independent states of Central Asia are struggling to reassert or create national identities and are receiving fresh attention from the West. After decades of oblivion, the vast Eurasian continent is once again divulging its in...

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This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of the West" is the story of the coming of the modern worl...

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