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22 produkter
Daemons Are Forever
Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium
Häftad, 2021
372 kr
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A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Daemons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings--daemons--and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of …
Sacred Mandates
Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan
Av Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
385 kr
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Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex …
Islam and World History
The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson
Av Edmund Burke, Robert J. Mankin
Häftad, 2018
297 kr
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Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative …
Geocultural Power
China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century
Av Tim Winter
Inbunden, 2019
807 kr
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Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching …
Geocultural Power
China's Quest to Revive the Silk Roads for the Twenty-First Century
Av Tim Winter
Häftad, 2019
271 kr
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Launched in 2013, China's Belt and Road Initiative is forging connections in infrastructure, trade, energy, finance, tourism, and culture across Eurasia and Africa. This extraordinarily ambitious strategy places China at the center of a geography of overland and maritime connectivity stretching …
Compensations of Plunder
How China Lost Its Treasures
Inbunden, 2020
789 kr
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From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely seen as "stolen" or "plundered" from their countries of origin, and demands for their return grow louder by the day. In this pathbreaking study, Justin …
Compensations of Plunder
How China Lost Its Treasures
Häftad, 2020
306 kr
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From the 1790s until World War I, Western museums filled their shelves with art and antiquities from around the world. These objects are now widely seen as "stolen" or "plundered" from their countries of origin, and demands for their return grow louder by the day. In this pathbreaking study, Justin …
Gifts in the Age of Empire
Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500–1639
Inbunden, 2023
756 kr
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Explores the Safavid and Ottoman empires through the lens of gifts.When the Safavid dynasty, founded in 1501, built a state that championed Iranian identity and Twelver Shi'ism, it prompted the more established Ottoman Empire to align itself definitively with Sunni legalism. The political, …
Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall
The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia
Av TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
877 kr
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A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on China’s minority nationality policies to the present. During the Great Leap Forward, as hundreds of thousands of Chinese famine refugees headed to Inner …
Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall
The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia
Av TJ Cheng, Uradyn E. Bulag m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
249 kr
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A striking first-person account of the Cultural Revolution in Inner Mongolia, embedded in a close examination of the historical evidence on China’s minority nationality policies to the present. During the Great Leap Forward, as hundreds of thousands of Chinese famine refugees headed to Inner …
Ryukyu Islands
A New History from the Stone Age to the Present
Inbunden, 2025
1018 kr
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The first comprehensive history of the Ryukyu Islands region in English.The Ryukyu Islands between Japan and Taiwan consist of around 160 islands and are home to about 1.5 million inhabitants. Across the islands’ history, sea-lanes and trade patterns have connected them to the East China Sea …
Ryukyu Islands
A New History from the Stone Age to the Present
Häftad, 2025
315 kr
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The first comprehensive history of the Ryukyu Islands region in English.The Ryukyu Islands between Japan and Taiwan consist of around 160 islands and are home to about 1.5 million inhabitants. Across the islands’ history, sea-lanes and trade patterns have connected them to the East China Sea …
Neighborhood
Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City
Inbunden, 2025
1018 kr
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This masterful blend of history and urban storytelling brings to life the people and politics that shaped a single neighborhood in a Manchurian city across several centuries. What can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? The Neighborhood deciphers the unexpected significance …
Neighborhood
Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City
Häftad, 2025
271 kr
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This masterful blend of history and urban storytelling brings to life the people and politics that shaped a single neighborhood in a Manchurian city across several centuries. What can one neighborhood reveal about the making of a modern nation? The Neighborhood deciphers the unexpected significance …
Territorial Natures
Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question
Inbunden, 2026
1018 kr
Kommande
A critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia. Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. As imperial Japan expanded into the area, this crisis between nomadic and settler communities posed fundamental problems in …
Territorial Natures
Imperial Japan and the Mongolian Question
Häftad, 2026
249 kr
Kommande
A critical account of the Japanese occupation in Inner Mongolia. Early in the twentieth century, the steppe borderlands between China and Mongolia erupted in violence. As imperial Japan expanded into the area, this crisis between nomadic and settler communities posed fundamental problems in …
Silk Road Idea
Ancient Contact in the Modern Human Sciences
Inbunden, 2027
1018 kr
Kommande
Traces the rise and fall of a set of modern disciplinary fields devoted to premodern historical contact that drew on intellectual currents across and beyond China and Europe.The Silk Road Idea examines how the transnational past became a modern object of inquiry. Tamara T. Chin argues that between …
Silk Road Idea
Ancient Contact in the Modern Human Sciences
Häftad, 2027
315 kr
Kommande
Traces the rise and fall of a set of modern disciplinary fields devoted to premodern historical contact that drew on intellectual currents across and beyond China and Europe.The Silk Road Idea examines how the transnational past became a modern object of inquiry. Tamara T. Chin argues that between …
Silk Roads
Av Sue Brunning, Luk Yu-Ping m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
678 kr
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Explores how the movement of people, objects, and ideas from 500 to 1000 CE shaped cultures and historiesIn the ninth century CE, an Arabian ship sank off the coast of Indonesia. The objects found in the wreckage, which include Chinese ceramics and precious metals, have provided extraordinary …
Sacred Mandates
Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan
Av Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
893 kr
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Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex …
Islam and World History
The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson
Av Edmund Burke, Robert J. Mankin
Inbunden, 2018
753 kr
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Published in 1974, Marshall Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam was a watershed moment in the study of Islam. By locating the history of Islamic societies in a global perspective, Hodgson challenged the orientalist paradigms that had stunted the development of Islamic studies and provided an alternative …
Daemons Are Forever
Contacts and Exchanges in the Eurasian Pandemonium
Inbunden, 2021
988 kr
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A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Daemons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic contacts and transactions between humans and protean spirit beings--daemons--and an account of exchanges, among human populations, of the science of …
