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  • Historical Dictionary of Tibet

    par John Powers, David Templeman ...
    Collections series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    Historical Dictionary of Tibet, Second Edition is a comprehensive resource for Tibetan history, politics, religion, major figures, prehistory and paleontology, with a primary emphasis on the modern period. It also covers the surrounding areas influenced by Tibetan religion and culture, including India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Central Asia, and Russia.It contains a chronology, a glossary, an ... En savoir plus

    $269.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Tibet

    par John Powers, David Templeman ...
    Collections series Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East
    Tibet is a land bounded by the world’s highest mountains, and it is the repository of an ancient culture. For centuries it was viewed by Europeans as a remote, mystical place populated by Buddhist masters with supernatural powers and profound wisdom. In contrast to this image, it was once a warlike country whose expansionist rulers conquered a vast empire that incorporated much of central Asia and ... En savoir plus

    $231.99 CAD

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    The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883

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    The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic volcanic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth’s most dangerous volcano — Krakatoa.The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa — the name has since become a byword for a cataclysmic natural disaster — was ... En savoir plus

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  • Mountain of Fame

    Portraits in Chinese History

    par John E. Wills ...
    Through biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities, John Wills displays the five-thousand-year sweep of Chinese history from the legendary sage emperors to the tragedy of Tiananmen Square. This unique introduction to Chinese history and culture uses more than twenty exemplary lives--biographies of China's most colorful and famous personalities--including those of statesmen, ... En savoir plus

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  • The First Emperor

    Selections from the Historical Records

    par Sima Qian, K. E. Brashier ...
    Traduit par Raymond Dawson ...
    Collections series Oxford World's Classics
    'The following year Qin unified all under Heaven and the title of August Emperor was immediately adopted.' The short-lived Qin dynasty unified China in 221 BC and created an imperial legacy that lasted until 1911. The extraordinary story of the First Emperor, founder of the dynasty, is told in the Historical Records of Sima Qian, the Grand Historiographer and the most famous Chinese historian. He ... En savoir plus

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  • The Epic of Gesar of Ling

    Gesar's Magical Birth, Early Years, and Coronation as King

    The epic of Gesar has been the national treasure of Tibet for almost a thousand years. An open canon of tales about a superhuman warrior-king, the epic is still a living oral tradition, included on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This book is a translation of the beginning portion of this enormous corpus, covering all the events from Gesar’s divine ... En savoir plus

    $41.59 CAD

  • Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages

    par Sanping Chen ...
    Collections series Encounters with Asia
    In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of East Asian civilization occurred during this period, although much of this multiculturalism has long ... En savoir plus

    $88.99 CAD

  • Women in the Middle East

    Past and Present

    par Nikki R. Keddie ...
    Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of ... En savoir plus

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  • Ocean of Trade

    South Asian Merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean, c.1750–1850

    par Pedro Machado ...
    Ocean of Trade offers an innovative study of trade, production and consumption across the Indian Ocean between the years 1750 and 1850. Focusing on the Vāniyā merchants of Diu and Daman, Pedro Machado explores the region's entangled histories of exchange, including the African demand for large-scale textile production among weavers in Gujarat, the distribution of ivory to consumers in Western ... En savoir plus

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  • Japan and the Wider World

    From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Present

    par Akira Iriye ...
    Akira Iriye assesses Japan's international relations, from a Japanese perspective, in the century and a half since she ended her self-imposed isolation and resumed her place in the international community. The book is the author's own adaptation of two highly successful short studies, up to and after 1945, that he wrote for Japan. It ends with a consideration of Japan's international relations ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

  • China's Long March to Freedom

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  • Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia

    Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia

    par Charles K. Armstrong, Gilbert Rozman, Samuel S. Kim, Stephen Kotkin ...
    The common images of Korea view the peninsula as a long-standing battleground for outside powers and the Cold War's last divided state. But, Korea's location at the very center of Northeast Asia gives it a pivotal role in the economic integration of the region and the dynamic development of its more powerful neighbors. A great wave of economic expansion, driven first by the Japanese miracle and ... En savoir plus

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