wyszukanych pozycji: 25
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Geographical Sources of Ming-Qing History: Volume 58
ISBN: 9780892641536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. First published in 1988 in response to the growing need for documentation concerning local history in the late imperial period, Geographical Sources provides bibliographical data regarding two distinct genres: route books, and topographical and institutional gazetteers. In its second edition, this essential research tool has been completely revised and expanded with close to one hundred new entries, which provide complete coverage of these important sources for research in Chinese social, cultural, and religious history. The separate introductions to the two genres introduce the...
First published in 1988 in response to the growing need for documentation concerning local history in the late imperial period, Geographical Source...
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107,79 |
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Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea
ISBN: 9781781250396 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city's first Orientalist scholar. Largely ignored, it remained in the bowels of the library, until called up by an inquisitive reader. When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realised that the Selden Map was 'a puzzle that had to be solved': an exceptional artefact, so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is astonishing. It shows China, not...
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, politica...
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65,23 |
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The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
ISBN: 9780691250403 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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125,51 |
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China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
ISBN: 9780521525916 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Until recently, capitalism has been regarded as unique to Europe and as an organic outgrowth of Western civilization. By examining China in these Eurocentric terms, China has been perceived, by Westerners and Asians alike, to be a failed version of the West. The aim of this collaborative project is to examine how the experience of capitalism as a European social formation, and as a world system, has shaped knowledge of China. In addition the volume seeks to establish new foundations on which a theory of Chinese society might be built.
Until recently, capitalism has been regarded as unique to Europe and as an organic outgrowth of Western civilization. By examining China in these Euro...
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204,67 |
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The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties
ISBN: 9780674072534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. The Troubled Empire explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions. If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the...
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire--a millennium and a half in the making--was suddenly thru...
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110,21 |
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The Asiatic Mode of Production in China
ISBN: 9780873325424 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Brook (history, U. of Toronto) surveys the history of the concept of the AMP (a concept formulated by Karl Marx in the 1850s) in China in relation to debates elsewhere, and examines the particular issues raised in recent Chinese discussions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Brook (history, U. of Toronto) surveys the history of the concept of the AMP (a concept formulated by Karl Marx in the 1850s) in China in relation to ...
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879,80 |
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Documents on the Rape of Nanking
ISBN: 9780472086627 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. What ended in one atrocity began with another: the savage military takeover of China's capital city, which quickly became known as the Rape of Nanking. The Japanese Army's conduct from December 1937 to February 1938 constitutes one of the most barbarous events not just of the war but of the century. The violence was documented at the time and then redocumented during the war crimes trial in Tokyo after the war. This book brings...
The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Na...
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112,94 |
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Great State: China and the World
ISBN: 9780063143449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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76,44 |
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Opium Regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952
ISBN: 9780520222366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerful mechanism for concentrating and transferring wealth and power between nations, and the anchor for a now vanished sociocultural world in and around China. Opium Regimes integrates the pioneering research of sixteen scholars to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation but involved Chinese merchants, Chinese state agents, and Japanese imperialists as well. The book presents a coherent historical arc that moves from...
Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a palliative medicine, an addictive substance, a powerf...
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154,35 |
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Collaboration: Japanese Agents and Local Elites in Wartime China
ISBN: 9780674023987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new work, Timothy Brook breaks the silence surrounding the sensitive topic of wartime collaboration between the Chinese and their Japanese occupiers. Japan's attack on Shanghai in August 1937 led to the occupation of the Yangtze Delta. In spite of the legendary violence of the assault, Chinese elites throughout the delta came forward to work with the conquerors. Using archives on both sides of... Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct ... |
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148,95 |
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The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
ISBN: 9780691253695 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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95,35 |
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Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement
ISBN: 9780804736381 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a riveting, day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events in Beijing during the previous weeks that largely precipitated the massacre. The author focuses on the army-the People's Liberation Army-which, with its motto "Serve the People," had always prided itself on its close ties to the civilian population. What were the intentions of the Chinese government in mobilizing the army against civilians? Why did the troops act as they did, and what does this say about how the army would act on the next such...
This is a riveting, day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events in...
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107,02 |
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The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
ISBN: 9780520221543 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade routes to the Far East. In this book, Timothy Brook eloquently narrates the changing landscape of life over the three centuries of the Ming (1368-1644), when China was transformed from a closely administered agrarian realm into a place of commercial profits and intense competition for status. The Confusions of Pleasure marks a...
The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the wor...
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166,56 |
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China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge
ISBN: 9780521640299 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Until recently, capitalism has been regarded as unique to Europe and as an organic outgrowth of Western civilization. By examining China in these Eurocentric terms, China has been perceived, by Westerners and Asians alike, to be a failed version of the West. The aim of this collaborative project is to examine how the experience of capitalism as a European social formation, and as a world system, has shaped knowledge of China. In addition the volume seeks to establish new foundations on which a theory of Chinese society might be built.
Until recently, capitalism has been regarded as unique to Europe and as an organic outgrowth of Western civilization. By examining China in these Euro...
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483,24 |
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Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world
ISBN: 9781846681202 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. From the epicentre of Delft in the Netherlands, Timothy Brook takes the paintings of Johannes Vermeer and uses details of them as a series of entry points in the widest circles of world trade and cultural exchange in the 17th century.
From the epicentre of Delft in the Netherlands, Timothy Brook takes the paintings of Johannes Vermeer and uses details of them as a series of entry po...
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65,23 |
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Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities
ISBN: 9780472087648 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical examples from Asian countries--China, India, Korea, and Japan--to enrich our understandings of the origin and growth of nations.
Asia provides fertile ground for this inquiry, the volume argues, because in Asia the history of the modern nation has been inseparable from global influences in the form... As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has ...
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Vermeers Hut : Das 17. Jahrhundert und der Beginn der globalen Welt
ISBN: 9783893201334 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 2009 / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Timothy Brook verfolgt das schnell wachsende Handelsnetz, durch das ein Biberpelz, ein trkischer Teppich oder eine chinesische Schale in einem Wohnzimmer in Delft enden konnten. Die Kais der Niederlande, schrieb ein franzsischer Besucher, waren damals ein Inventar des Mglichen. Vermeers Hut zeigt in sieben exemplarischen Kapiteln, wie reich diese Bestnde waren und wie das Bedrfnis, solche exotischen Dinge zu erwerben, die Welt tiefer umgestaltete, als die Rede von Globalisierung heute vermuten lt. Das Buch bietet einen neuen Blick auf die Gemlde Vermeers und auf das Zeitalter, das sie...
Timothy Brook verfolgt das schnell wachsende Handelsnetz, durch das ein Biberpelz, ein trkischer Teppich oder eine chinesische Schale in einem Wohnzim...
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80,33 |
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The Chinese State in Ming Society
ISBN: 9780415345071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present day state and society in China. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship and argues that contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical responses within society that led to a 'constitution', not periods of fluctuation within the dynasty itself. Brook's outstanding scholarship demonstrates that it was changes in commercial relations and social networks...
The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present day state and s...
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273,66 |
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The Chinese State in Ming Society
ISBN: 9780415345064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present day state and society in China. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship and argues that contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical responses within society that led to a 'constitution', not periods of fluctuation within the dynasty itself. Brook's outstanding scholarship demonstrates that it was changes in commercial relations and social networks...
The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present day state and s...
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708,73 |
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Civil Society in China
ISBN: 9780765600912 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China.
The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regim...
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708,73 |