China's Great Wall north of Beijing is one of the world's most famous sights. Millions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountains. We all feel we know the Wall. But we are wrong. It is too big, too varied, too complex to be captured by a few images or a...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-11-30

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Through his writings, the leading East India Company servant, Sir John Malcolm helped to shape the historical thought of British empire-building in India. This book uses his works to examine the intellectual history of British expansion in South Asia, and shed light on...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2010-11-14

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**A SOURCE FOR MARCO POLO, A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES**Marco Polo's journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of the most audacious in history. His account of his experiences, known simply as The Travels, uncovered...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries of all time. 6,000 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China - each is individually carved, and they are thought to...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time.A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-10-28

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A 16th century Italian Jesuit, Matteo Ricci was the founder of the Catholic Mission in China and one of the most famous missionaries of all time.A pioneer in bringing Christianity to China, Ricci spent twenty eight years in the country, in which time he crossed the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2010-10-28

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How did different parts of the Indian subcontinent interact throughout its ancient history? This book presents a new approach for understanding the political history of ancient India. It underlines how politics was enacted in various geographical orbits that kept...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2010-10-18

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The Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942 is a military disaster of enduring fascination. For the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the island, Peter Thompson tells the explosive story of the Malayan campaign, the siege of Singapore, the ignominious surrender to a...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2010-10-07

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This book offers new translations of the Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli, composed by the ninth-century Tamil mystic and poetess Kotai. Two of the most significant compositions by a female mystic, the Tiruppavai and Nacciyar Tirumoli give expression to her powerful...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-09-30

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The captivating million copy bestseller of three young women in search of freedom and love in 1920s India.India 1928. A land of heat, dust and dreams, and the promise of love ...Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind. Rose, a beautiful...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-08-26

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The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during the Han...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-07-09

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This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. It deals with paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities. The book takes up several...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2010-06-02

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On September 30, 2006 gunfire echoed through the thin air near Advance Base Camp on Cho Oyu Mountain. Frequented by thousands of climbers each year, Cho Oyu lies nineteen miles east of Mt. Everest on the border between Tibet and Nepal. To the elite mountaineering...

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2010-06-01

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Entertaining and masterly biography of Madame Chiang Kai-shek - the woman who built modern China.THE LAST EMPRESS revolves around a fascinating, manipulative woman and her family who were largely responsible for dragging China into the modern world. Soong May-ling, or...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-02-25

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After finally achieving what had eluded even his grandfather Genghis Khan - the conquest of China - and inheriting the world's largest navy, Khubilai Khan set his sights on Japan. He commanded an immense armada, the largest fleet the world had ever seen and his success...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-02-23

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Japan in World History ranges from Japan's prehistoric interactions with Korea and China, to the Western challenge of the late 1500s, the partial isolation under the Tokugawa family (1600-1868), and the tumultuous interactions of more recent times, whenJapan modernized...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-02-04

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'THE VIETNAMESE ANNE FRANK'Last Night I Dreamed of Peace is the moving diary kept by a 27-year-old Vietnamese doctor who was killed by the Americans during the Vietnam War, while trying to defend her patients. Not only is it an important slice of history, from the...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2010-01-26

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Through a study of the readership of the most popular commercial daily newspaper in China during the early twentieth century, Reading Shenbao investigates ideas of nationalism, consumerism and individuality, looking at the relationship between advertising, modern...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-11-30

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The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets this challenge in China:The Pessoptimist Nation by using new Chinese sources and innovative analysis to see how Chinese people understand...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-19

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The rise of China presents a long-term challenge to the world not only economically, but politically and culturally. Callahan meets this challenge in China:The Pessoptimist Nation by using new Chinese sources and innovative analysis to see how Chinese people understand...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-11-19

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