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  • The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516–1918

    A Social and Cultural History

    par Bruce Masters ...
    The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Demokrasi

    Indonesia in the 21st Century

    par Hamish McDonald ...
    Indonesia, a nation of thousands of islands and almost 250 million people, straddles the junction of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has presided over 6 per cent average yearly growth of its economy, to surpass $1 trillion. If this rate continues, Indonesia will join the world's ten biggest economies in a decade or so, just behind the so-called BRIC ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Joss and Gold

    A Novel

    par Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Leong Liew Geok ...
    A piercing tale of a Malaysian woman's quest for independence that combines "the nuance of a poet with the ear of a born storyteller" (Julia Watson, coeditor of Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader).Li An, a young Malaysian woman of Chinese descent, seeks to understand herself as the country around her struggles to determine its own identity. And much like the politically charged atmosphere of ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean

    The Birth of Eurasia

    par Barry Cunliffe ...
    By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean is nothing less than the story of how humans first started building the globalized world we know today. Set on a huge continental stage, from Europe to China, it is a tale covering over 10,000 years, from the origins of farming around 9000 BC to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century AD. An unashamedly 'big history', it charts the development of ... En savoir plus

    $11.59 CAD

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  • The Dragon's Teeth

    The Chinese People's Liberation Army - Its History, Traditions, and Air Sea and Land Capability in the 21st Century

    par Benjamin Lai ...
    An in-depth look at the past, present, and future of China's military.When Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunder-zone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the late 1980s—when domestic policy brought about monumental changes. The result ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Martial Arts

    From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

    par Peter A. Lorge ...
    In the global world of the twenty-first century, martial arts are practised for self-defense and sporting purposes only. However, for thousands of years, they were a central feature of military practice in China and essential for the smooth functioning of society. This book, which opens with an intriguing account of the very first female martial artist, charts the history of combat and fighting ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Yengishiki/The Englishiki

    par Various ...
    Shinto ("the way of the gods") is the indigenous faith of the Japanese people and as old as Japan herself. It remains Japan's major religion besides Buddhism. "Shinto gods" are called kami. They are sacred spirits which take the form of things and concepts important to life, such as wind, rain, mountains, trees, rivers and fertility. Humans become kami after they die and are revered by their ... En savoir plus

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Appearances of Memory

    Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urban Form in Indonesia

    par Abidin Kusno ...
    In The Appearances of Memory, the Indonesian architectural and urban historian Abidin Kusno explores the connections between the built environment and political consciousness in Indonesia during the colonial and postcolonial eras. Focusing primarily on Jakarta, he describes how perceptions of the past, anxieties about the rapid pace of change in the present, and hopes for the future have been ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Division to Unification in Imperial China

    The Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty (220907)

    par Jing Liu ...
    Collections Livre 2 - Understanding China Through Comics
    The second volume in this fun, comic-style series that explores China's transition from the Three Kingdoms to the Tang Dynasty.Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics series answers these questions and more.Division to Unification in Imperial China is series volume two. It explores one of ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of China: Volume 5, Sung China, 960–1279 AD, Part 2

    Modifié par Denis Twitchett, John W. Chaffee ...
    Collections Livre 2 - The Cambridge History of China
    This is the second of two volumes on the Sung Dynasty, which together provide a comprehensive history of China from the fall of the T'ang Dynasty in 907 to the Mongol conquest of the Southern Sung in 1279. With contributions from leading historians in the field, Volume 5, Part Two paints a complex portrait of a dynasty beset by problems and contradictions, but one which, despite its military and ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Origins of the Modern Chinese Press

    The Influence of the Protestant Missionary Press in Late Qing China

    par Xiantao Zhang ...
    Collections series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book traces the emergence of the modern Chinese press from its origins in the western Christian missionary press in the late nineteenth century.It shows how the western missionaries and their evangelical/educational newspapers changed the long-standing traditional practices, styles, content, print culture and printing technology of Chinese newspapers and, in the process, introduced some of ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Contemporary Indian Dance

    New Creative Choreography in India and the Diaspora

    par K. Katrak ...
    Collections series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Through discussion of a dazzling array of artists in India and the diaspora, this book delineates a new language of dance on the global stage. Myriad movement vocabularies intersect the dancers' creative landscape, while cutting-edge creative choreography parodies gender and cultural stereotypes, and represents social issues. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD