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The Russian General Staff and Asia, 1860-1917
ISBN: 9780415355612 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book deals with an important region, the southern frontier of Russia, from Tbilisi to Vladivostok, at a vital point in modern history, when new political forces where transforming the states of Turkey/the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Afghanistan and China. The strategic significance of this region remains crucially important today, as, again, new political forces make an impact. Importantly, the book looks at the region from the standpoint of the Russian general staff, who were much concerned with 'the security perspective', with regional wars both actual and potential, the development and...
This book deals with an important region, the southern frontier of Russia, from Tbilisi to Vladivostok, at a vital point in modern history, when new p...
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911,22 zł |
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Labour in Southeast Asia: Local Processes in a Globalised World
ISBN: 9780415405997 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In seeking to provoke debate, the book reveals the variety of experiences evident in countries and regions marked by capitalist and (post) socialist regulatory frameworks, and contrasting labour regimes, histories and cultures. The contributions show the importance of critically examining both the complex nature of global-local links and the particular ways economic processes are around the themes of labour regimes, labour processes, labour mobility and labour communities, the essays show how economic development is not only shaped by market forces but is also interlocked in systems of...
In seeking to provoke debate, the book reveals the variety of experiences evident in countries and regions marked by capitalist and (post) socialist r...
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229,06 zł |
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The Post-Soviet Decline of Central Asia: Sustainable Development and Comprehensive Capital
ISBN: 9780415406062 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Draws on the author's experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian states (Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), and the turn of these states towards despotism.
Draws on the author's experience of Central Asia to take on the task of explaining the remarkable economic declines of the post-Soviet Central Asian s...
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281,13 zł |
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Afghanistan : Political Frailty and External Interference
ISBN: 9780415702058 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Afghan society is analyzed from a fresh standpoint in this book which discusses the countries two and a half centuries of socio-political disquiet and outside interference. The author explores the continuous struggle between the central government and the cornerstone of the present state, the tribes. In its examination of the interchange between the center and the periphery the book presents a compelling review of Afghan history, the role of Islam and the contemporary theories of state, Islam, nationalism, ethnicity, and tribalism. Afghan society is analyzed from a fresh standpoint in this book which discusses the countries two and a half centuries of socio-political disquiet ... |
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781,04 zł |
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Courtesans and Tantric Consorts: Sexualities in Buddhist Narrative, Iconography, and Ritual
ISBN: 9780415914826 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, the rhetoric of Buddhist texts, the symbolism of its iconography, and the performative import of its rituals, tell different, and often contradictory, stories. In Courtesans and Tantric Consorts, Serinity Young takes the reader on a journey through more than 2000 years of biographical writings, iconographic depictions, and ritual practices revealing Buddhism's deep struggles with gender. Juxtaposing empowering images of women with their textual...
The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, t...
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702,94 zł |
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Managing Transitions: The Chinese Communist Party, United Front Work, Corporatism and Hegemony
ISBN: 9780415934305 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Managing Transitions examines the history and roles of China's minor parties and groups (MPG's) in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) united front between the 1930's and 1990's using Antonio Gramsci's principles for the winning and maintaining of hegemony. Gramsci advocated a "war of position," the building of political alliances to isolate existing state powers and win consent for revolutionary rule and transform society. Economic reform is now creating new socio-economic groups and the CCP is adjusting the united front and the MPGs to co-opt their representatives and deliberately...
Managing Transitions examines the history and roles of China's minor parties and groups (MPG's) in the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) united...
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859,15 zł |
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Alliance in Anxiety: Detente and the Sino-American-Japanese Triangle
ISBN: 9780415934350 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This text analyses the structural dynamics of the Sino-American-Japanese triangular relationship by exploring how the 1971 Nixon-Kissinger announcement to pursue rapprochement with the People's Republic of China (PRC), in the context of the overall detente strategy, fundamentally altered the US-Japanese relationship. It argues that the systematic structure of international relations in East Asia during the detente period was similar in significant ways to today's post-Cold War period. Highlighting the importance of China to US policy options towards East Asia enables us to provide a more...
This text analyses the structural dynamics of the Sino-American-Japanese triangular relationship by exploring how the 1971 Nixon-Kissinger announcemen...
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781,04 zł |
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Genghis Khan and the Mongol Conquests 1190-1400
ISBN: 9780415968621 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This is an historical account of the Mongol conquests of 1190-1400, including the rise of Genghis Khan and the unification of the tribes. It examines the strategies, tactics and logistics that enabled the Mongols to fight successfully against enemies as far apart as Prussia and Korea.
This is an historical account of the Mongol conquests of 1190-1400, including the rise of Genghis Khan and the unification of the tribes. It examines ...
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702,94 zł |
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Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia
ISBN: 9780465045761 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces the struggle for control of Central Asia and Tibet from the 1830s to the present. The original Great Game, the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts in history. Many believed that control of the vast Eurasian heartland was the key to world dominion. The original Great Game ended with the Russian Revolution, but the geopolitical struggles in...
From the romantic conflicts of the Victorian Great Game to the war-torn history of the region in recent decades, Tournament of Shadows traces t...
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192,62 zł |
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Rickshaw Beijing: City People & Politics in the 1920s
ISBN: 9780520082861 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place in or near China's cities. Bound together by rail, telegraph, and a shared urban mentality, cities like Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Beijing formed an arena in which the great issues of the day--the quest for social and civil peace, the defense of popular and national sovereignty, and the search for a distinctively modern Chinese society--were debated and fought over. People were drawn into this conflicts because they knew that the passage of...
In the 1920s, revolution, war, and imperialist aggression brought chaos to China. Many of the dramatic events associated with this upheaval took place...
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158,95 zł |
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Becoming "Japanese": Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation
ISBN: 9780520225534 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule devastated and transformed the entire socioeconomic and political fabric of Taiwanese society. In Becoming Japanese, Leo Ching examines the formation of Taiwanese political and cultural identities under the dominant Japanese colonial discourse of assimilation (doka) and imperialization (kominka) from the early 1920s to the end of the Japanese Empire in 1945. Becoming Japanese analyzes the ways in which the...
In 1895 Japan acquired Taiwan as its first formal colony after a resounding victory in the Sino-Japanese war. For the next fifty years, Japanese rule ...
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192,38 zł |
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Cultural Citizenship in Island Southeast Asia: Nation and Belonging in the Hinterlands
ISBN: 9780520227484 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Nation-building and the construction of citizenship, so often conducted--or coerced--from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as well. This book moves the view of cultural citizenship to the periphery--specifically to the perspective of hinterland groups in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Sarawak, East Malaysia--to show that notions of nationhood and citizenship are not given, but created in dialogue between the state and local communities.
Written by an emergent generation of anthropologists, these essays address the question of how the identities of peoples whose... Nation-building and the construction of citizenship, so often conducted--or coerced--from the center, are all too commonly studied from the center as ...
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216,43 zł |
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Empire at the Margins: Culture, Ethnicity, and Frontier in Early Modern Chinavolume 28
ISBN: 9780520230156 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional, and religious identities. The contributors examine the role of the state in a variety of environments on China's "peripheries," paying attention to shifts in law, trade, social stratification, and cultural dialogue. They find that local communities were critical participants in the shaping of their own identities and consciousness as well as the character and behavior of the state. At certain times the state was institutionally definitive, but...
Focusing on the Ming (1368-1644) and (especially) the Qing (1364-1912) eras, this book analyzes crucial moments in the formation of cultural, regional...
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517,35 zł |
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Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603-1868volume 7
ISBN: 9780520232693 / Angielski / Twarda / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, travel writing, popular fiction, and encyclopedias--to chart the emergence of a new geographical consciousness in early modern Japan. Marcia Yonemoto's wide-ranging history of ideas traces changing conceptions and representations of space by looking at the roles played by writers, artists, commercial publishers, and the Shogunal government in helping to fashion a new awareness of space and place in this period. Her impressively researched study...
This elegant history considers a fascinating array of texts, cultural practices, and intellectual processes--including maps and mapmaking, poetry, tra...
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389,15 zł |
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Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000
ISBN: 9780520234628 / Angielski / Miękka / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The title of this unique insider's look at a crucial decade of Sino-American interchange derives from a Chinese expression that describes a relationship of two people whose lives are intimately intertwined but who do not fundamentally communicate with each other. David M. Lampton, former president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, demonstrates that while the United States and China have enormous interests at stake in their bilateral relationship, neither has been particularly deft in dealing with the other. His fascinating account shows how the processes of globalization,...
The title of this unique insider's look at a crucial decade of Sino-American interchange derives from a Chinese expression that describes a relationsh...
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164,43 zł |
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Seeing Through Zen: Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism
ISBN: 9780520237988 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The tradition of Chan Buddhism--more popularly known as Zen--has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how modern critical techniques, supported by recent manuscript discoveries, make possible a more skeptical, accurate, and--ultimately--productive assessment of Chan lineages, teaching, fundraising practices, and social organization. Synthesizing twenty years of scholarship, Seeing through Zen offers new, accessible analytic models for the interpretation of Chan spiritual practices and religious history. Writing in a lucid and engaging style,...
The tradition of Chan Buddhism--more popularly known as Zen--has been romanticized throughout its history. In this book, John R. McRae shows how moder...
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164,43 zł |
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The Embarrassment of Slavery: Controversies Over Bondage and Nationalism in the American Colonial Philippines
ISBN: 9780520240711 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A series of controversies over the existence and meaning of slavery shaped American colonialism and nationalist resistance in the Philippines. While American officials claimed colonialism would free Filipinos from various forms of slavery and American anti-imperialists countered that colonialism itself would constitute new kinds of bondage, the first generation of Filipino nationalists had already appropriated anti-slavery rhetoric in their struggles with Spanish colonialism in the late nineteenth century. From these contentions about slavery as a political metaphor, new disputes erupted when...
A series of controversies over the existence and meaning of slavery shaped American colonialism and nationalist resistance in the Philippines. While A...
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228,46 zł |
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The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia
ISBN: 9780521243049 / Angielski / Twarda / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Originally announced as Volume I of The Cambridge History of Central Asia, this book will now be published as a one volume history. (Volumes 2 and 3, previously announced, will not now be published.) This book introduces the geographical setting of Inner Asia and follows its history from the paleolithic era to the rise of the Mongol empire in the thirteenth century. From earliest times Inner Asia has linked and separated the great sedentary civilizations of Europe and Asia. In the pre-modern period it was definable more as a cultural than a geographical entity, its frontiers shifting accORD...
Originally announced as Volume I of The Cambridge History of Central Asia, this book will now be published as a one volume history. (Volumes 2 and 3, ...
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1002,75 zł |
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The Cambridge History of China: Volume 9, Part 1, the Ch'ing Empire to 1800
ISBN: 9780521243346 / Angielski / Twarda / 780 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume of The Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The period begins with the end of the resurgent Ming dynasty, covered in Volumes 7 and 8, and ends with the beginning of the collapse of the imperial system in the nineteenth century, described in Volume 10. Ten chapters elucidate the complexities of the dynamic interactions between emperors and their servitors, Manchus and non-Manchu populations, various elite groups, competing regional interests, merchant networks and agricultural producers, and...
This volume of The Cambridge History of China considers the political, military, social, and economic developments of the Ch'ing empire to 1800. The p...
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608,12 zł |
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The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan: An Introduction to Roman Culture
ISBN: 9780521375771 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Nearly ten years of bloodshed and political turmoil have followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Soviet occupation not only proved a major trauma for the people of Afghanistan; invasion ended at a stroke the growth in superpower detente that had characterized the late 1970s; and back home in the Soviet Union the effects of escalating military costs and over 13,000 young military casualties have been felt at every level of society. The decision to withdraw combat forces under the provisions of the Geneva Accords of April 1988 is one of the most dramatic developments in the...
Nearly ten years of bloodshed and political turmoil have followed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Soviet occupation not only proved a majo...
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455,14 zł |
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