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by Thomas T. Allsen
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the royal hunt was a vital component of the political cultures of the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and China. Besides marking elite status, royal hunts functioned as inspection tours and imperial progresses, a means of asserting kingly authority over...
A Voluntary Exile
Chinese Christianity and Cultural Confluence since 1552
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Western missionaries in China were challenged by something they could not have encountered in their native culture; most Westerners were Christian, and competitions in their own countries were principally denominational. Once they entered China they unwittingly became spiritual merchants who marketed...
Confrontation over Taiwan
Nineteenth-Century China and the Powers
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Confrontation over Taiwan: Nineteenth Century China and the Powers is a full and detailed account of international relations of Taiwan during the nineteenth century and specifically, the period between 1840 and 1895. During this time the western powers and Japan were engaged in imperialist designs...
by Suraiya Faroqhi
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
In Islamic law the world was made up of the House of Islam and the House of War with the Ottoman Sultan - the perceived successor to the Caliphs - supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no iron curtain between the Ottoman and other worlds but rather...
by Robert D. Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism....
Engaging Colonial Knowledge
Reading European Archives in World History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
Within the Four Seas
The Dialogue of East and West
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
First published in 1969.
Contains some of Joseph Needham's most significant essays, lectures and broadcasts on the history of Chinese science, technology and culture. Also included are some more personal thoughts stimulated by his own travels and experiences in China, including a number of poems.
The...
by Carter Vaughn Findley
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2004
Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples' trajectory...
Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Contact and Exchange between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
The great empires of the vast Eurasian continent have captured the imagination of many. Awe-inspiring names such as ancient Rome, Han and Tang China, Persia, Assyria, the Huns, the Kushans and the Franks have been the subject of countless scholarly books and works of literature. However, very rarely,...
Dancing in Shadows
Sihanouk, the Khmer Rouge, and the United Nations in Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2007
This fascinating book recounts the remarkable tale of a career UN official from Indonesia caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia during the tumultuous period after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Writing from his experience first as a member of the UN transitional...
Everyday Malay
Phrase Book and Dictiionary
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
This is a travel sized and easytouse Malay phrasebook, dictionary, and beginning Malay language book
Bahasa Malaysia (literally "the Malaysian language") is based on Malay which is the mother tongue of the Malays of the Peninsula and the people of central eastern Sumatra. Malay...
Samurai President of the Philippines
Spiritual Interview with the Guardian Spirit of Rodrigo Duterte
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
“Donald Trump of the Philippines” “Duterte Harry”—these are nicknames given to the Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, and both portray him as a strong American man. However, he needs another nickname that takes origin in Japan, a country that is as equally on good terms with the Philippines...
by Anton Swanepoel
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
Cambodia: 50 Facts You Should Know When Visiting Cambodia
Your heart is beating wildly and emotions tear at you. An opportunity of a lifetime is in front of you. Cambodia, a magnificent place full of untold mystique and beauty is calling you. A place with a rich history and amazing culture,...
by Anton Swanepoel
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2016
Thailand: 50 Facts You Should Know When Visiting Thailand
Your heart is beating wildly and emotions tear at you. An opportunity of a lifetime is in front of you. Thailand, a magnificent place full of untold mystique and beauty is calling you. A place with a rich history and amazing culture,...