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This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-10
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In 1654 Zen Master Yinyuan traveled from China to Japan. Seven years later his monastery, Manpukuji, was built and he had founded a new tradition, called Obaku.In this sequel to his 2008 book, Enlightenment in Dispute, Jiang Wu tells the story of the tremendous...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-14
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Japan is one of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced nations, and its rapid ascent to global power status after 1853 remains one of the most remarkable stories in modern world history. Yet it has not been an easy path; military catastrophe, political...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-07
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Exploring medieval manuscripts, Gandhi's writings, and performances in multiple religious and non-religious contexts, Narasinha Mehta of Gujarat demonstrates how over five centuries, performers and audiences of devotional songs and hagiographic narratives associated...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-11-03
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On 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India came into force with a unique provision—Article 370. The special status accorded to the state of Jammu and Kashmir in the article meant that its people lived under a different set of laws while being part of the Indian...
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OUP India
Parution :
2014-11-03
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At the end of the First World War, the Raj remained economically or even strategically more central than ever in the general colonial architecture of the British Empire. Yet, between the two World Wars, the colonial regime hung only by a thread when confronted with the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-09-23
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Offering new historical understandings of human responses to climate and climate change, this cutting-edge volume explores the dynamic relationship between settlement, climate, and colonization, covering everything from the physical impact of climate on agriculture and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-17
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Inventing the Way of the Samurai examines the development of the 'way of the samurai' - bushido - which is popularly viewed as a defining element of the Japanese national character and even the 'soul of Japan'. Rather than a continuation of ancient traditions, however,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-12
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This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day. The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility. Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate,...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-09-11
Collection :
Blackwell History of the World
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Slaves, convicts, and unfree immigrants have traveled the oceans throughout human history, but the conventional Atlantic World historical paradigm has narrowed our understanding of modernity. This provocative study contrasts the Atlantic conflation of freedom and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-09-04
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This book introduces a new linguistic reconstruction of the phonology, morphology, and lexicon of Old Chinese, the first Sino-Tibetan language to be reduced to writing. Old Chinese is the language of the earliest Chinese classical texts (1st millennium BCE) and the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-09-02
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Chinese traditional culture cannot be understood without some familiarity with the I Ching, yet it is one of the most difficult of the world's ancient classics. Assembled from fragments with many obscure allusions, it was the subject of ingenious, but often conflicting,...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-09-01
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Adam Schall von Bells (1592-1666) Werke wurden international gut erforscht. Eine einzelne Schrift von ihm blieb währenddessen weitgehend ignoriert: das Jincheng shu xiang – die Darstellung des Lebens Jesu in chinesischer Sprache. Die Geschichte des 1640 in Peking...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-08-26
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The opening of the ports of Japan in 1859 brought a flood of Japanese craft products to the world marketplace. For ivory it was a golden age. This book examines the role that ivory and ivory carvers played in the expression of nationalism and the development of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-08-22
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In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-08-20
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Als ein Aspekt der Kommunikation zwischen Menschen begleitet das Übersetzen und Dolmetschen die menschliche Geschichte seit jeher. Die Geschichte der Translation in Korea im Zeitraum von ca. 700 n. Chr. bis heute ist Thema dieses Buches. Es wird nicht nur die...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-07-28
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Wandering Between Two Worlds: The Formative Years of Cao Xueqin 1715–1745 is a biographical account of the first 30 years of the life of the eighteenth-century Chinese novelist who wrote Honglou meng (Dream of the Red Chamber). It covers Cao Xueqin’s life from his birth...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2014-07-15
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A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among...
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OUP India
Parution :
2014-07-09
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With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-07-01
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Capturing the history of Kashmir and its cultural and social evolution, Nyla Ali Kahn deconstructs the life of her grandmother and other women of her generation to reconceptualize woman's identity in a politically militarized zone. An academic memoir, this book...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-06-25
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