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The World in Flames
A Global History of the Seven Years' War
Inbunden, 2025
1588 kr
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In the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), two European rivalries—between England and France and between Prussia and Austria—collided to spark a global conflagration. In the United States, it is known as the French and Indian War, a precursor to the Revolutionary War. In India, by contrast, it marked a …
The Company and the Shogun
The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Av Adam Clulow
Inbunden, 2013
1236 kr
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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 transformed in the process. This study focuses on the …
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia
Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
Av Cemil Aydin
Inbunden, 2007
1239 kr
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In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in the Muslim world is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency …
The Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia
Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought
Av Cemil Aydin
Häftad, 2019
315 kr
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In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and …
Melancholy Order
Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders
Inbunden, 2008
1412 kr
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As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of globalization. Not only are modern passports and national borders inseparable from the rise of global mobility, but they are also tied to the emergence of …
Melancholy Order
Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders
Häftad, 2011
746 kr
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As Adam M. McKeown demonstrates, the push for increased border control and identity documentation is the continuation of more than 150 years of globalization. Not only are modern passports and national borders inseparable from the rise of global mobility, but they are also tied to the emergence of …
Fixing the Sky
The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
Inbunden, 2010
1201 kr
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As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, bounce sunlight back into space by pumping reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into orbit around the Earth. Make clouds thicker …
Fixing the Sky
The Checkered History of Weather and Climate Control
Häftad, 2012
392 kr
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As alarm over global warming spreads, a radical idea is gaining momentum. Forget cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, some scientists argue. Instead, bounce sunlight back into space by pumping reflective nanoparticles into the atmosphere. Launch mirrors into orbit around the Earth. Make clouds thicker …
The African Diaspora
A History Through Culture
Inbunden, 2009
1415 kr
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Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories …
The African Diaspora
A History Through Culture
Häftad, 2010
358 kr
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Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories …
Global Population
History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth
Inbunden, 2014
1588 kr
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Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem concerned the …
Global Population
History, Geopolitics, and Life on Earth
Häftad, 2016
402 kr
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Concern about the size of the world's population did not begin with the "population bomb" in 1968. It arose in the aftermath of World War I and was understood as an issue with far-reaching ecological, agricultural, economic, and geopolitical consequences. The world population problem concerned the …
The Other Cold War
Av Heonik Kwon
Inbunden, 2010
666 kr
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In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the …
Global Intellectual History
Av Samuel Moyn, Andrew Sartori
Inbunden, 2013
1236 kr
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Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may …
Global Intellectual History
Av Samuel Moyn, Andrew Sartori
Häftad, 2015
315 kr
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Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may …
The Company and the Shogun
The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Av Adam Clulow
Häftad, 2016
315 kr
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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 transformed in the process. This study focuses on the …
The Postwar Origins of the Global Environment
How the United Nations Built Spaceship Earth
Inbunden, 2018
646 kr
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In the wake of the Second World War, internationalists identified science as both the cause of and the solution to world crisis. Unless civilization learned to control the unprecedented powers science had unleashed, global catastrophe was imminent. But the internationalists found hope in the idea …
The Wheel
Inventions and Reinventions
Inbunden, 2016
329 kr
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In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on …
Wiring the World
The Social and Cultural Creation of Global Telegraph Networks
Inbunden, 2016
562 kr
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The successful laying of a transatlantic cable in 1866 remade world communications. A message could travel across the ocean in minutes, shrinking the space between continents, cultures, and nations. An eclectic group of engineers, entrepreneurs, politicians, and media visionaries then developed …
Identifying with Nationality
Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria
Av Will Hanley
Inbunden, 2017
1413 kr
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Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although this system may appear universal, even natural, Will …
Identifying with Nationality
Europeans, Ottomans, and Egyptians in Alexandria
Av Will Hanley
Häftad, 2022
359 kr
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Nationality is the most important legal mechanism sorting and classifying the world's population today. An individual's place of birth or naturalization determines where he or she can and cannot be and what he or she can and cannot do. Although this system may appear universal, even natural, Will …
The Limits of Westernization
A Cultural History of America in Turkey
Av Perin Gürel
Inbunden, 2017
1061 kr
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In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?" When the pollsters reversed the question-"Which country is Turkey's number one enemy in international relations?"-the United States came in second. How did Turkey's …
The Limits of Westernization
A Cultural History of America in Turkey
Av Perin Gürel
Häftad, 2020
269 kr
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In a 2001 poll, Turks ranked the United States highest when asked: "Which country is Turkey's best friend in international relations?" When the pollsters reversed the question—"Which country is Turkey's number one enemy in international relations?"—the United States came in second. How did Turkey's …
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
A Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds
Inbunden, 2018
1596 kr
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Born into a low-level literati family in the port city of Ningbo, the seventeenth-century Chinese Christian convert Zhu Zongyuan likely never left his home province. Yet Zhu nonetheless led a remarkably globally connected life. His relations with the outside world, ranging from scholarly activities …
The Making of a Periphery
How Island Southeast Asia Became a Mass Exporter of Labor
Av Ulbe Bosma
Inbunden, 2019
578 kr
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Island Southeast Asia was once a thriving region, and its products found eager consumers from China to Europe. Today, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia are primarily exporters of their surplus of cheap labor, with more than ten million emigrants from the region working all over the world. …
Imperial Mecca
Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Inbunden, 2020
1371 kr
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With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose their …
Imperial Mecca
Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Häftad, 2020
348 kr
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With the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose their …
Tianjin Cosmopolis
An Alternative History of Globalization
Inbunden, 2025
1236 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Tianjin was the diplomatic capital of the Middle Kingdom, where foreign consuls met Chinese dignitaries, and a hub of commerce and culture. Yet in the eyes of foreigners, the city remained provincial. After the tumult of the Boxer Rebellion, …
Tianjin Cosmopolis
An Alternative History of Globalization
Häftad, 2025
315 kr
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At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Tianjin was the diplomatic capital of the Middle Kingdom, where foreign consuls met Chinese dignitaries, and a hub of commerce and culture. Yet in the eyes of foreigners, the city remained provincial. After the tumult of the Boxer Rebellion, …
Asian Place, Filipino Nation
A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887–1912
Inbunden, 2020
1236 kr
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The Philippine Revolution of 1896–1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia. Yet scholarship on the revolution and the turn of the twentieth century in Asia more broadly has …
