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Sudden Appearances
The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art
Av Roxann Prazniak, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
337 kr
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An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of the secular within received …
Anthropology's Global Histories
The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935
Inbunden, 2008
674 kr
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Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, …
Nomads As Agents of Cultural Change
The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors
Av Reuvan Amitai, Michal Biran
Inbunden, 2014
908 kr
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Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbours often saw them as an ongoing …
Exile in Colonial Asia
Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Av Ronit Ricci
Inbunden, 2016
413 kr
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Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration explores the phenomenon of exile within and from colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries from several disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific …
Liminality of the Japanese Empire
Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan
Av Hiroko Matsuda, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
311 kr
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Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the people's resistance against them. In recent years, alternative discourses on Okinawa have emerged due to the territorial disputes over the Senkaku …
Nomads As Agents of Cultural Change
The Mongols and Their Eurasian Predecessors
Av Reuven Amitai, Michal Biran
Häftad, 2017
355 kr
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Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing …
Sudden Appearances
The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art
Av Roxann Prazniak, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
947 kr
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An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of the secular within received …
Transcending Patterns
Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions Through Central Asian Textile Images
Av Mariachiara Gasparini, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
998 kr
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In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through …
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Häftad, 2019
355 kr
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Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long …
Land of Plants in Motion
Japanese Botany and the World
Av Thomas R. H. Havens, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
926 kr
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Exile in Colonial Asia
Kings, Convicts, Commemoration
Av Ronit Ricci
Häftad, 2019
311 kr
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Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial …
Spreading Protestant Modernity
Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1889-1970
Av Harald Fischer-Tiné, Stefan Huebner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
781 kr
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A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a modernization agenda around the globe. Soon followed by a sister organization, the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), founded in 1855, the Y-movement …
Power in the World
The Hawaiian Kingdom in Oceania
Av Lorenz Gonschor, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
311 kr
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Few people today know that in the nineteenth century, Hawai'i was not only an internationally-recognised independent nation but played a crucial role in the entire Pacific region and left an important legacy throughout Oceania. As the first non-Western state to gain full recognition as a coequal of …
Transcending Patterns
Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions Through Central Asian Textile Images
Av Mariachiara Gasparini, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
311 kr
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In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through …
At the Edge of the Nation
The Southern Kurils and the Search for Russia's National Identity
Av Paul B. Richardson, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
311 kr
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Debates over the remote and beguiling Southern Kuril Islands have revealed a kaleidoscope of divergent and contradictory ideas, convictions, and beliefs on what constitutes the "national" identity of post-Soviet Russia. Forming part of an archipelago stretching from Kamchatka to Hokkaido, …
Imperial Islands
Art, Architecture, and Visual Experience in the US Insular Empire After 1898
Inbunden, 2021
797 kr
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When the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana’s harbor on February 15, 1898, the United States joined local rebel forces to avenge the Maine and "liberate" Cuba from the Spanish empire. "Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!" so went the popular slogan. Little did the Cubans know that the …
Land of Plants in Motion
Japanese Botany and the World
Av Thomas R. H. Havens, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
337 kr
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Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japanese islands evolved an astonishing wealth of plant species, and (2) the growth of Japanese botanical sciences.The majority of plant species regarded …
Imperial Islands
Art, Architecture, and Visual Experience in the US Insular Empire After 1898
Av Alejandro T. Acierto, Chris Balaschak m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
311 kr
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When the USS Maine mysteriously exploded in Havana’s harbor on February 15, 1898, the United States joined local rebel forces to avenge the Maine and "liberate" Cuba from the Spanish empire. "Remember the Maine! To Hell with Spain!" So went the popular slogan. Little did the Cubans know that the …
Migrant Ecologies
Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
Av Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
797 kr
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Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth’s largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their astounding …
Shipped but not Sold
Material Culture and the Social Protocols of Trade During Yemen’s Age of Coffee
Av Nancy Um, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
294 kr
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In the early decades of the eighteenth century, Yemen hosted a bustling community of merchants who sailed to the southern Arabian Peninsula from the east and the west, seeking and offering a range of commodities, both luxury and mundane. In Shipped but Not Sold, Nancy Um opens the chests these …
Spreading Protestant Modernity
Global Perspectives on the Social Work of the YMCA and YWCA, 1889-1970
Av Lou Antolihao, Ryan Bean m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a modernization agenda around the globe. Soon followed by a sister organization, the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), founded in 1855, the Y movement …
Migrant Ecologies
Environmental Histories of the Pacific World
Av Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
311 kr
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Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth’s largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their astounding …
Navigating the Spanish Lake
The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521-1898
Av Rainer F. Buschmann, Edward R. Slack m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
311 kr
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Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain’s long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521–1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical "Spanish …
Arts of Governance
Sinitic Political Advice Literature from Medieval Times to the Present
Inbunden, 2026
817 kr
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The Arts of Governance offers a global history of the creation, uses, and adaptations of the political advice literature produced at the court of or about the reign of Tang Emperor Taizong (r. 626–649). This book is the first to place the history of Sinitic mirror texts in a global and comparative …
Interactions
Transregional Perspectives on World History
Av Jerry H. Bentley, Renate Bridenthal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
688 kr
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The essays presented here reflect recent widespread interest in reconsidering the political, geographical, and cultural boundaries conventionally observed by area specialists and others. They intentionally range widely through time and space, dealing with diverse issues and contexts, but each …
Creating the New Man
From Enlightenment Ideals to Socialist Realities
Inbunden, 2008
703 kr
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The idea of eliminating undesirable elements from human nature to create a ""new man"" has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was only …
Glamour in the Pacific
Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific
Inbunden, 2009
645 kr
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Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA) has witnessed and contributed to enormous changes in world and Pacific history. Operating out of Honolulu, this women's network established a series of conferences that promoted social reform and an internationalist outlook …
Navigating the Spanish Lake
The Pacific in the Iberian World, 1521–1898
Av Rainer F. Buschmann, Edward R. Slack Jr. m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
558 kr
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Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain’s long presence in? the Pacific Ocean (1521–1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical “Spanish …
Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai
Maritime East Asia in Global History, 1550–1700
Inbunden, 2016
978 kr
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Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the contested and fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for centuries, but it was …
Burnt by the Sun
The Koreans of the Russian Far East
Av Jon K. Chang, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
935 kr
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Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet Union in the late 1930s. Chang argues that Tsarist influences and the various forms of Russian nationalism(s) and mindsets blinded the Stalinist …
