Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “stephen whiteman”
Skip side bar filters

  • Where Dragon Veins Meet

    The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe

    by Stephen H. Whiteman ...
    **Winner of the 2023 On the Brinck Book Award, presented by the University of New Mexico School of Architecture + PlanningAn auspicious political landscape, represented in image and text**In 1702, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty ordered construction of a new summer palace in Rehe (now Chengde, Hebei) to support his annual tours north among the court’s Inner Mongolian allies. The Mountain ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Chinese History in Geographical Perspective

    by Kathlene Baldanza, Peter K. Bol, Andrew Chittick, Luke Hambleton, Laura Hostetler, Huei-Ying Kuo, Yajun Mo, Gregory Rohlf, Karl Ryavec, Daoqin Tong, Stephen Whiteman, Jiang Wu, Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang ...
    The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World

    by John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all affected how states articulated and projected visions of authority into ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Landscape and Authority in the Early Modern World

    by John Dixon Hunt ...
    Series series Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
    Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all affected how states articulated and projected visions of authority into ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Theologies of Power and Crisis

    Envisioning / Embodying Christianity in Hong Kong

    by Stephen Pavey ...
    Series Book 10 - American Society of Missiology Monograph Series
    Theologies of Power and Crisis provides a case study for Eric Wolf's research directive to better comprehend the interplay of cultural (webs of meaning) and material (webs of power) forms of social life. More specifically, the book demonstrates how theological discourse and practice engage with historical and material relations of power. It has been normative to speak of power in terms of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • A Global History of Architecture

    by Francis D. K. Ching, Mark M. Jarzombek, Vikramaditya Prakash ...
    A GLOBAL HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURENOW FEATURING ADDITIONAL COVERAGE OF CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL ARCHITECTURE AND MORE SUPERB DRAWINGS BY FRANCIS D.K. CHING!The book that forever changed the way architectural history is viewed, taught, and studied, A Global History of Architecture examines 5,000 years of the built environment.Spanning from 3,500 BCE to the present, and organized along a global timeline, ... Read more

    $113.00 USD

  • On the Origins of Global History

    Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 28 November 2013

    by Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    How does one think of history on a world scale? Should one turn to the intellectuals of the past or the historians of the present? Universal history as it was practised from Antiquity started to change from the sixteenth century in varied contexts, from East Asia to Spanish America. Applying his extensive knowledge of archives across the world and his command of languages and historiographic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West

    by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Amilcare Iannucci ...
    Few figures from history evoke such vivid Orientalist associations as Marco Polo, the Venetian merchant, explorer, and writer whose accounts of the "Far East" sparked literary and cultural imaginations. The essays in Marco Polo and the Encounter of East and West challenge what many scholars perceived to be an opposition of "East" and "West" in Polo's writings. These writers argue that Marco Polo's ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing

    Edited by Carl Thompson ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    As many places around the world confront issues of globalization, migration and postcoloniality, travel writing has become a serious genre of study, reflecting some of the greatest concerns of our time. Encompassing forms as diverse as field journals, investigative reports, guidebooks, memoirs, comic sketches and lyrical reveries; travel writing is now a crucial focus for discussion across many ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Death and Changing Rituals

    Function and meaning in ancient funerary practices

    Edited by J. Rasmus Brandt, Håkon Roland, Marina Prusac ...
    Series series Studies in Funerary Archaeology
    The forms by which a deceased person may be brought to rest are as many as there are causes of death. In most societies the disposal of the corpse is accompanied by some form of celebration or ritual which may range from a simple act of deportment in solitude to the engagement of large masses of people in laborious and creative festivities. In a funerary context the term ritual may be taken to ... Read more

    $34.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chora 5

    Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture

    by Alberto Pérez-Gomez, Stephen Parcell ...
    Series Book 5 - CHORA: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture
    Provocative views on why architecture matters offer vital information for developing a richer architecture. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • A History of Architectural Conservation

    by Jukka Jokilehto ...
    The first book to provide a full history of the development of architectural conservation, A History of Architectural Conservation is considered a landmark publication by architectural conservation students and professionals the world over. Twenty years after its first publication, this new edition of Jukka Jokilehto’s groundbreaking book continues the story to bring the history of architectural ... Read more

    $103.99 USD