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Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000
Sources and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both interpretation and primary source documents challenges a nation-centred account, exploring the interconnected and interrelated nature of societies in the nineteenth...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Violence and Emotions in Early Modern Europe examines the purposes for which specific forms of violence and particular emotional states functioned, how they operated in relation to each other, or indeed how one provoked, sustained or diminished the other.
These twelve original essays demonstrate...
by Henry Wakeman
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
THE seventeenth century is the period when Europe, shattered in its political and religious ideas by the Reformation, reconstructed its political system upon the principle of territorialism under the rule of absolute monarchs. It opens with Henry IV., it closes with Peter the Great. It reaches its...
by Michael Stolberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Widely considered as the most reliable way to diagnose diseases and pregnancies it was taught at the best universities. Leading...
A History of Modern South Asia
Politics, States, Diasporas
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Noted historian Ian Talbot has written a new history of modern South Asia that considers the Indian Subcontinent in regional rather than in solely national terms. A leading expert on the Partition of 1947, Talbot focuses here on the combined history of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh since 1757 and specifically...
Modern China and the New World
The Reemergence of the Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Modern China and the New World focuses upon a few of the main topics associated with China's recent rise to global prominence. Professor Randall Doyle writes about the impact that China will have on the geopolitical balance throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He also touches upon the effect that China's...
Empires at War
A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011
Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world's population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance. Empires at War gives a dramatic narrative account of how this 'Modern Asia' came into being. Taking...
by Melvin Edelstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Democracy is perhaps the defining characteristic of modern Western society, but even as late as the nineteenth century it was often viewed with suspicion by many who saw it as akin to anarchy and mob rule. It was not until the French and American revolutions of the eighteenth century that electoral...
Statistics and the Public Sphere
Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Contemporary public life in Britain would be unthinkable without the use of statistics and statistical reasoning. Numbers dominate political discussion, facilitating debate while also attracting criticism on the grounds of their veracity and utility. However, the historical role and place of statistics...
Shakespeare Expressed
Page, Stage, and Classroom in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
A collection of essays originally presented on the Blackfriars stage at the American Shakesepeare Center, Shakespeare Expressed brings together scholars and practitioners, often promoting ideas that can be translated into classroom experiences. Drawing on essays presented at the Sixth Blackfriars...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the...
Revolution and Its Past
Identities and Change in Modern Chinese History
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2019
Revolution and Its Past is a comprehensive study of China from the last quarter of the eighteenth century through to 2018.
A fascinating and dramatic narrative, the book compels interest both as a history of an ancient civilization developing into a modern nation-state and as an account of...
Samurai Revolution
The Dawn of Modern Japan Seen Through the Eyes of the Shogun's Last Samurai
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
See the dawn of modern Japan through the lens of the power players who helped shape it — as well as those who fought against it — in this exploration of Samurai history.
Samurai Revolution tells the fascinating story of Japan's historic transformation at the end of the nineteenth century...
by Douglas Q. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
This logical, developmental presentation of the major aspects of modern Greek grammar includes all the necessary tools for speech and comprehension. Designed for adults with limited learning time who wish to acquire the basics of everyday modern Greek, this grammar features numerous shortcuts and timesavers. Ideal as an introduction, supplement, or refresher.