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  • Across Cultural Borders

    Historiography in Global Perspective

    par Arif Dirlik, Andreas Eckert, Michael Gottlob, Wang Hui, Maghan Keita, Gabriele Lingelbach, Jochen Meissner, Matthias Middell, Jörn Rüsen, Stefan Tanaka, Q Edward Wang ...
    This innovative work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess, but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the book offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the ... En savoir plus

    $78.99 CAD

  • New Times in Modern Japan

    par Stefan Tanaka ...
    New Times in Modern Japan concerns the transformation of time--the reckoning of time--during Japan's Meiji period, specifically from around 1870 to 1900. Time literally changed as the archipelago synchronized with the Western imperialists' reckoning of time. The solar calendar and clock became standard timekeeping devices, and society adapted to the abstractions inherent in modern notions of time. ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

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  • The Opium War

    Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China

    par Julia Lovell ...
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    ‘A gripping read as well as an important one’ – Rana Mitter, The GuardianIn The Opium War, professor of Modern Chinese History and Literature Julia Lovell offers a compelling account of the causes and fallout of the Opium Wars.In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy: with Victorian hypocrisy, ... En savoir plus

    $16.79 CAD

  • Vietnam, Now

    A Reporter Returns

    par David Lamb ...
    When he left war-ravaged Vietnam some thirty years ago, journalist David Lamb averred "I didn't care if I ever saw the wretched country again." But in 1997, he found himself living in Hanoi, in charge of the Los Angeles Times's first peacetime bureau and in the midst of a country on the move, as it progresses toward a free-market economy and divorces itself from the restrictive, isolationist ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The New Koreans

    The Story of a Nation

    par Michael Breen ...
    Just a few decades ago, the South Koreans were an impoverished, agricultural people. In one generation they moved from the fields to Silicon Valley. They accomplished this through three totally unexpected miracles: economic development, democratization, and the arrival of their culture to global attention.Who are the Koreans? What are they like? The New Koreans examines how they have been ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Crisis of Global Modernity

    Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future

    par Prasenjit Duara ...
    Collections series Asian Connections
    In this major new study, Prasenjit Duara expands his influential theoretical framework to present circulatory, transnational histories as an alternative to nationalist history. Duara argues that the present day is defined by the intersection of three global changes: the rise of non-western powers, the crisis of environmental sustainability and the loss of authoritative sources of what he terms ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Making of the "Rape of Nanking"

    History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States

    par Takashi Yoshida ...
    On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army attacked and captured the Chinese capital city of Nanjing, planting the rising-sun flag atop the city's outer walls. What occurred in the ensuing weeks and months has been the source of a tempestuous debate ever since. It is well known that the Japanese military committed wholesale atrocities after the fall of the city, massacring large numbers of Chinese ... En savoir plus

    $33.99 CAD

  • Book of My Nights

    par Li-Young Lee ...
    Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity.Marketing Plans:o ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Snow Lion and the Dragon

    China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama

    par Melvyn C. Goldstein ...
    Tensions over the "Tibet Question"—the political status of Tibet—are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict? Can the two sides come to an acceptable compromise? In this thoughtful analysis, distinguished professor ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese Identity

    The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms to the Yuan Dynasty (907 - 1368)

    par Jing Liu ...
    Collections Livre 3 - Understanding China Through Comics
    This fun, comic-style series that explores China's relationship with its barbarian neighbors. The Mongols!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.The third volume of the Understanding China Through Comics series, Barbarians and the Birth of Chinese ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Moved by the Past

    Discontinuity and Historical Mutation

    par Eelco Runia ...
    Collections series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. Moved by the Past radically breaks with this tradition of predating the past, incites us to fully acknowledge the discontinuous nature of ... En savoir plus

    $62.99 CAD

  • History Man

    The Life of R. G. Collingwood

    par Fred Inglis ...
    This is the first biography of the last and greatest British idealist philosopher, R. G. Collingwood (1889-1943), a man who both thought and lived at full pitch. Best known today for his philosophies of history and art, Collingwood was also a historian, archaeologist, sailor, artist, and musician. A figure of enormous energy and ambition, he took as his subject nothing less than the whole of human ... En savoir plus

    $42.89 CAD