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Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture (3rd Edition)
By William H. Stiebing, Susan N. Helft. 2018
p Organized by the periods kingdoms and empires generally used in ancient Near Eastern political history Ancient…
Near Eastern History and Culture interlaces social and cultural history with a political narrative Charts figures maps and historical documents introduce the reader to the material world of the ancient Near East including Egypt The emphasis on historical debates and areas of uncertainty helps students understand how historians use evidence to create interpretations and that several different interpretations of history are possible New features in this edition include p li Reorganization of the chapters on the early periods with discussions incorporating the latest archaeological finds li New Debating the Evidence sections discussing current controversial issues in Near Eastern history These sections make it easy for students and teachers to find and use the portions of the text devoted to scholarly arguments about various aspects of ancient Near Eastern history li A new chapter Ancient Israel and Judah has been added to cover more completely the crucial issues of ancient Israelite history and religion li More emphasis has been placed on the role and contributions of women in the ancient Near East li p p The most important change is the addition of co-author Susan N Helft a specialist in the art and archaeology of the ancient Near East who has applied her considerable knowledge insight research and editing skills throughout the book This new edition of Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture will remain a crucial text for students beginning to learn about the fascinating civilizations of the Near East pThe Badlands
By Paul French. 2012
An evocative account of the infamous nightlife district of pre-communist Beijing, from the internationally acclaimed author of the book Midnight…
in Peking. The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of old Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city's drifters, misfits and the odd bohemian, it was a place of opium dens, dive bars, brothels, flophouses and cabarets, and was infamous for its ability to satisfy every human desire from the exotically entertaining to the criminally depraved. In these vignettes of eight non-Chinese residents of the precinct - White Russians, Americans and Europeans - internationally acclaimed author Paul French brings the Badlands vividly back to life, providing a short but potent account of a place and a way of life until now largely forgotten, but here rendered unforgettable.Rethinking China's Rise: A Liberal Critique (The Cambridge China Library)
By Jilin Xu, David Ownby. 2015
China s rise to power is the signal event of the twenty-first century and this volume offers a contemporary…
view of this nation in ascendancy from the inside Eight recent essays by Xu Jilin a popular historian and one of China s most prominent public intellectuals critique China s rejection of universal values and the nation s embrace of Chinese particularism the rise of the cult of the state and the acceptance of the historicist ideas of Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss Xu s work is distinct both from better-known voices of dissent and also from the New Left perspectives offering instead a liberal reaction to the complexity of China s rise Yet this work is not a shrill denunciation of Xu s intellectual enemies but rather a subtle and heartfelt call for China to accept its status as a great power and join the world as a force for goodFreedom in the Arab World
By Wael Abu-ʿuksa. 2016
A preoccupation with the subject of freedom became a core issue in the construction of all modern political ideologies. Here,…
Wael Abu-'Uksa examines the development of the concept of freedom (hurriyya) in nineteenth-century Arab political thought, its ideological offshoots, their modes, and their substance as they developed the dynamics of the Arabic language. Abu-'Uksa traces the transition of the idea of freedom from a term used in a predominantly non-political way, through to its popularity and near ubiquity at the dawn of the twentieth century. Through this, he also analyses the importance of associated concepts such as liberalism, socialism, progress, rationalism, secularism, and citizenship. He employs a close analysis of the development of the language, whilst at the same time examining the wider historical context within which these semantic shifts occurred: the rise of nationalism, the power of the Ottoman court, and the state of relations with Europe.The Civilization of China
By Herbert A. Giles.
Wanderings Among South Sea Savages and in Borneo and the Philippines
By H. Wilfrid Walker.
Book of My Nights
By Li-Young Lee. 2001
Book of My Nights is the first poetry collection in ten years by one of the world's most acclaimed young…
poets. In Book of My Nights, Li-Young Lee once again gives us lyrical poetry that fuses memory, family, culture and history. In language as simple and powerful as the human muscle, these poems work individually and as a full-sequence meditation on the vulnerability of humanity.Marketing Plans: o National advertising o National media campaign o National and regional author appearances o Advance reader copies o Course adoption mailingLi-Young Lee burst onto the American literary scene with the publication of Rose, winner of the 1986 Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award from The Poetry Society of America. He followed that astonishing book with The City in Which I Love You, which was The Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets. Mr. Lee has appeared on National Public Radio a number of times and The Power of the Word, the PBS television series with Bill Moyers. Rose and The City in Which I Love You are in the 19th and 17th printings respectively, making them two of the highest-selling contemporary poetry books in the United States. Moreover, Mr. Lee's poems have been translated into more than a dozen languages. He currently lives in Chicago.Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century
By John D. Wong. 2016
In this engaging new study, John Wong examines the Canton trade networks that helped to shape the modern world through…
the lens of the prominent Chinese merchant Houqua, whose trading network and financial connections stretched from China to India, America and Britain. In contrast to interpretations that see Chinese merchants in this era as victims of rising Western mercantilism and oppressive Chinese traditions, Houqua maintained a complex balance between his commercial interests and those of his Western counterparts, all in an era of transnationalism before the imposition of the Western world order. The success of Houqua and Co. in configuring its networks in the fluid context of the early nineteenth century remains instructive today, as the contemporary balance of political power renders the imposition of a West-centric world system increasingly problematic, and requires international traders to adapt to a new world order in which China, once again, occupies center stage.The Indian Army and the End of the Raj
By Daniel Marston. 2014
The Partition of British India in 1947 resulted in the establishment of the independent states of India and Pakistan and…
the end of the British Raj. The decision to divide British India along religious lines led to widespread upheaval and communal violence in the period leading up to and following the official day of independence, 15 August 1947. In this book, Daniel Marston provides a unique examination of the role of the Indian army in post-World War II India. He draws upon extensive research into primary source documents and interviews with veterans of the events of 1947 to provide fresh insight into the vital part that the Indian Army played in preserving law and order in the region. This rigorous book fills a significant gap in the historiography of the British in India and will be invaluable to those studying the British Empire and South Asia more generally.The Two Faces of Islam
By Stephen Schwartz. 2003
Since its formation in 1932, Saudi Arabia has been ruled by two interdependent families. The Al Sa'uds control politics and…
the descendants of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab impose Wahhabism--a violent, fanatical perversion of the pluralistic Islam practiced by most Muslims. Stephen Schwartz argues that Wahhabism, vigorously exported with the help of Saudi oil money, is what incites Palestinian suicide bombers, Osama bin Laden, and other Islamic terrorists throughout the world.Schwartz reveals the hypocrisy of the Saudi regime, whose moderate facade conceals state-sponsored repression and terrorism. He also raises troubling questions about Wahhabi infiltration of America's Islamic community and about U.S. oil companies sanitizing Saudi Arabia's image for the West. This sharp analysis and eye-opening expose illuminates the background to the September 11th terrorist attacks and offers new approaches for U.S. policy toward its closest ally in the Middle East.From the Trade Paperback edition.This revisionist history of caste politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that the decline of this form of political mobilization in…
the region was as much the result of coercion as of consent It traces this process through the political career of Jogendranath Mandal the leader of the Dalit movement in eastern India and a prominent figure in the history of India and Pakistan over the transition of Partition and Independence Utilising Mandal s private papers this study reveals both the strength and achievements of his movement for Dalit recognition as well as the major challenges and constraints he encountered Departing from analyses that have stressed the role of integration Dwaipayan Sen demonstrates how a wide range of coercions shaped the eventual defeat of Dalit politics in Bengal The region s acclaimed castelessness was born of the historical refusal of Mandal s struggle to pose the caste questionJoin the Revolution, Comrade
By Charles Foran. 2008
In this collection of essays, Foran visits places in Vietnam that have been 'colonized' by western war films, talks to…
Shanghai residents about their colossal city, and commiserates with the people of Bali about the effects of terrorist bombs on their island. He also 'encounters' Miguel de Cervantes, the Buddha of Compassion, and the pumped-up American Tom Wolfe.Maharanis
By Lucy Moore. 2004
In MAHARANIS Lucy Moore brilliantly recreates the lives of four princesses - two grandmothers, a mother and a daughter -…
of the Royal courts of India. Their extraordinary story takes in tiger hunts, exotic palaces and lavish ceremonies in India, as well as the glamorous international scene of the Edwardian and interwar era. It is also an intimate portrait of four remarkable women - Chimnabai, Sunity, Indira and Ayesha - who changed the world they lived in. Through their lives Lucy Moore tells the history of a nation during an era of great change: the rise and fall of the Raj from the Indian Mutiny to Independence and beyond.Cobra II
By Michael R. Gordon, Bernard E. Trainor. 1991
Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the…
definitive account of the invasion of Iraq.A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail how the American rush to Baghdad provided the opportunity for the virulent insurgency that followed. As Gordon and Trainor show, the brutal aftermath was not inevitable and was a surprise to the generals on both sides. Based on access to unseen documents and exclusive interviews with the men and women at the heart of the war, Cobra II provides firsthand accounts of the fighting on the ground and the high-level planning behind the scenes. Now with a new afterword that addresses what transpired after the fateful events of the summer of 2003, this is a peerless re-creation and analysis of the central event of our times.From the Trade Paperback edition.New Forces in Old China
By Arthur Judson Brown.
Immigration and Citizenship in Japan
By Erin Aeran Chung. 2010
Japan is currently the only advanced industrial democracy with a fourth-generation immigrant problem. As other industrialized countries face the challenges…
of incorporating postwar immigrants, Japan continues to struggle with the incorporation of prewar immigrants and their descendants. Whereas others have focused on international norms, domestic institutions, and recent immigration, this book argues that contemporary immigration and citizenship politics in Japan reflect the strategic interaction between state efforts to control immigration and grassroots movements by multi-generational Korean resident activists to gain rights and recognition specifically as permanently settled foreign residents of Japan. Based on in-depth interviews and fieldwork conducted in Tokyo, Kawasaki, and Osaka, this book aims to further our understanding of democratic inclusion in Japan by analyzing how those who are formally excluded from the political process voice their interests and what factors contribute to the effective representation of those interests in public debate and policy.A Financial Centre for Two Empires
By David C. Donald Jefferson P. Vanderwolk, Wang Jiangyu, David C. Donald, Jefferson P. Vanderwolk. 2014
This is a case study of legal transplant, economic development, cultural adaptation and political integration. Hong Kong's journey from British…
entrepôt to China's international financial centre is one of the most interesting legal stories of our time. But Hong Kong's future is even more interesting: will this region with British-origin institutions survive full integration into China and become its permanent international financial centre? Does Hong Kong have the legal infrastructure to compete effectively with Shanghai and Singapore, and even New York and London? A Financial Centre for Two Empires presents Hong Kong's story, examines its corporate economy and securities market, assesses its corporate, securities and tax laws for doctrinal soundness and appropriate remedies, and evaluates the quality of their enforcement empirically. It closes with a view of Hong Kong from the perspective of developments in Beijing and Shanghai, including an examination of the important political dimension.This volume undertakes the important task of envisioning a regional history of Asia based on its unique internal characteristics …
going beyond the usual West non-West dichotomy The regional trade zone of modern Asia was debated in the 1980s Since then Japanese historians of the socioeconomic history of Asia have explored how the traditional trade relations that had developed over the centuries in Asia responded to the so-called Western impacts in the mid-nineteenth century including the opening of ports and tariff reduction under free trade regimes and the advance in transportation technology Against this academic background the four chapters in this volume examine how overseas Chinese some of the key actors in regional and local trade dealt with their Western counterparts and how Asian commodities penetrated other parts of the world through the newly created web of global commerce The book reviews discuss theoretical issues to explore various connections among and comparisons of the economies in the region This volume provides readers with critical insights into the Asian region in the past and present by investigating the long-term trajectory of its linkages to the global economyStones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan
By Greg Mortenson. 2009
From the author of the phenomenal No. 1 bestseller Three Cups of Tea, the continuing story of this determined humanitarian's…
efforts to promote peace through education. In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords and surviving an eight-day armed abduction by the Taliban. He shares for the first time his broader vision to promote peace through education and literacy, as well as touching on military matters, Islam, and women - all woven together with the many rich personal stories of the people who have been involved in this remarkable two-decade humanitarian effort.In this major new history of Muslim merchants and their trade links with China John W Chaffee uncovers…
700 years of history from the eighth century when Muslim communities first established themselves in southeastern China through the fourteenth century when trade all but ceased These were extraordinary and tumultuous times Under the Song and the Mongols the Muslim diaspora in China flourished as legal and economic ties were formalized At other times the Muslim community suffered hostility and persecution Chaffee shows how the policies of successive dynastic regimes in China combined with geopolitical developments across maritime Asia to affect the fortunes of Muslim communities He explores social and cultural exchanges and how connections were maintained through faith and a common acceptance of Muslim law This ground breaking contribution to the history of Asia the early Islamic world and to maritime history explores the networks that helped to shape the pre-modern world