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  • The Private World of Ottoman Women

    par Godfrey Goodwin ...
    Collections Livre 2 - Saqi Essentials
    Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical records tend to favour the glitter of palaces over the trials of daily life, Goodwin also reconstructs ordinary women's domestic toil. As the Ottoman Empire first expanded and then shrank, women travelled its width and ... En savoir plus

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  • The Janissaries

    par Godfrey Goodwin ...
    Collections Livre 4 - Saqi Essentials
    From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. They set up semi-independent states along the North African coast and ... En savoir plus

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    The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image

    par Juan Pablo Cardenal, Heriberto Araújo ...
    China's Silent Army is a revealing and gripping piece of investigative journalism into the unknown extent of China's global power, from China-based reporters Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto AraújoThis book stems from the remarkable, determined work of these two China-based journalists who, frustrated by the facile, pro-business commentary of so much writing on China and the evasions of Beijing's ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Forged From Silver Dollar

    par Li Feng ...
    'Deeply moving story of self-sacrifice and pride' - Jennifer Byrne, Australian Women's WeeklyOne family's epic tale of survival in tumultuous twentieth-century China.Li Feng grew up in Mao's communist China with her mother's motto burning in her ears - Success demands two things: unconditional sacrifice and absolute mental focus. Finally breaking free of her mother's overbearing clutches and ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400–1830

    par Barbara Watson Andaya, Leonard Y. Andaya ...
    Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast Asia, when the region became tightly integrated into the world economy because of international demand for its unique forest and sea products. Proceeding chronologically, each chapter covers a specific time frame in which Southeast ... En savoir plus

    $51.99 CAD

  • Modern Greece

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    par Stathis Kalyvas ...
    Collections series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    When Greece's economic troubles began to threaten the stability of the European Union in 2010, the nation found itself in the center of a whirlwind of international finger-pointing. In the years prior, Greece appeared to be politically secure and economically healthy. Upon its emergence in the center of the European economic maelstrom, however, observers and critics cited a century of economic ... En savoir plus

    $9.59 CAD

  • No Exit from Pakistan

    America's Tortured Relationship with Islamabad

    par Daniel S. Markey ...
    This book tells the story of the tragic and often tormented relationship between the United States and Pakistan. Pakistan's internal troubles have already threatened US security and international peace, and Pakistan's rapidly growing population, nuclear arsenal, and relationships with China and India will continue to force it upon America's geostrategic map in new and important ways over the ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800

    Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions

    par John E. Wills, Jr, John Cranmer-Byng, Willard J. Peterson, Jr, John W. Witek ...
    China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • Mad About the Mekong

    Exploration and Empire in South East Asia (Text Only)

    par John Keay ...
    The story of both a dramatic journey retracing the historic voyage of France’s greatest 19th-century explorer up the mysterious Mekong river, and a portrait of the river and its peoples today.Any notion of sailing up the Mekong in homage to Francis Garnier has been unthinkable until now. From its delta in Vietnam up through Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and on into China, the Mekong has been a ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

    Perceptions, Power, and Primacy

    par S. C. M. Paine ...
    The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the traditional power balance and fracturing the ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Makings of Indonesian Islam

    Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past

    par Michael Laffan ...
    Collections series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    Indonesian Islam is often portrayed as being intrinsically moderate by virtue of the role that mystical Sufism played in shaping its traditions. According to Western observers--from Dutch colonial administrators and orientalist scholars to modern anthropologists such as the late Clifford Geertz--Indonesia's peaceful interpretation of Islam has been perpetually under threat from outside by more ... En savoir plus

    $79.19 CAD

  • The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it

    par Suraiya Faroqhi ...
    In Islamic law the world was made up of the 'House of Islam' and the 'House of War' with the Ottoman Sultan - successor to the early Caliphs - as supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, in this ground-breaking study of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no 'iron curtain' between the Ottoman and 'other' worlds but rather a long ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD