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  • The Imperial Capitals of China

    A Dynastic History of the Celestial Empire

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    This history of China's imperial capital cities reveals "a picaresque chronicle of dynastic succession and court intrigue" across millennia ( Publishers Weekly).Throughout the long history of Imperial China, emperors designed their capital cities in ways that reveal the heart of their dynasty. The ley lines of these cities reveal religious preoccupations, while the design of important buildings ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Near East

    A Cultural History

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilization in the fourth millennium BCE until modern times. It provides an historical outline of the civilizations and cultures that dominated the region, one that has had an immense impact on ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The First Great Powers

    Babylon and Assyria

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation. The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with the beginnings of civilisation on Earth. It was in Mesopotamia that humanity took the first steps on its path towards the society ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Asia

    A Concise History

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    From one of the world's leading historians?a comprehensive narrative of the 3,000 years that have formed Asia's people, culture, and global destinyTracing its origins in Mesopotamia to its modern role on the global geopolitical stage, historian Arthur Cotterell offers a compelling, lively, and readable account of one of the most culturally diverse, and often misunderstood, parts of the world. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Chariot

    The Astounding Rise and Fall of the World's First War Machine

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    The chariot changed the face of ancient warfare. First in West Asia and Egypt, then in India and China, charioteers came to dominate the battlefield. Its use as a war machine is graphically recounted in Indian epics and Chinese chronicles. Homer's Iliad tells of the attack on Troy by Greek heroes who rode in chariots. In 326 BC Alexander the Great faced charioteers in northern India, while in 55 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Pimlico Dictionary Of Classical Civilizations

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    An original and unique work of reference which breaks new ground by treating for the first time the classical era of the Old World as a whole. Never before have the key peoples and events of Greece, Rome, Persia, India, and China been encompassed in a single volume, despite the fact their civilizations had much in common and laid the foundations of present-day Europe and Asia.Arthur Cotterell ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Dictionary of World Mythology

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    The powerful gods of Greece, Rome, and Scandinavia, the more mystical deities of Buddhist and Hindu India, and the stern spirits of the African and American continents all reflect very different civilizations, yet they also demonstrate the unity of mankind in its fundamental need for explanations of the unknown. Arthur Cotterell sets out clearly the chief myths of the world and explains why ... Read more

    $16.39 CAD

  • China

    A History

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    One of the most far-reaching events since the Second World War is the re-emergence of China as a world power, and its present government's willingness to open up the country to the rest of the world.This comprehensive cultural history ranges from prehistoric times to the present - from the disunity of Pre-Imperial China to the renaissance of the Sung and Tang dynasties, from the Mongol conquest to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Imperial Capitals of China

    An Inside View of the Celestial Empire

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    As China- the oldest continuous civilisation in existence- stands to become the most influential, with its economy expected to exceed that of the United States by 2020, Arthur Cotterell provides a panoramic sweep of an empire that lasted over two millennia through the imperial capitals that were the very foundations of each dynasty. Using original Chinese sources and eyewitness accounts he ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Where War Began

    A Military History of the Middle East from the Birth of Civilization to Alexander the Great and the Romans

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    Bloody fighting between rival tribes and clans has existed since the dawn of Homo sapiens, but war as we knew it began to take the more organized forms we recognize today in the ancient Near East, starting in the vital region near the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers (modern Iraq) and ultimately extending west to the Mediterranean Sea through what became the Holy Land of the Bible, a region eventually ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Bali: A Cultural History

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    Series Book 24 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    Bali is unlike anywhere else. Despite the advent of international tourism, this Indonesian island remains an untarnished cultural gem set in an idyllic landscape. Spirit-haunted as is the rest of Southeast Asia, Bali boasts a unique amalgam of beliefs because Hinduism overlays a much older relationship with the physical world. Nothing is considered to be inanimate. Towering volcanoes, majestic ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • East Asia

    From the Chinese Predominance to the Rise of the Pacific Rim

    by Arthur Cotterell ...
    In recent decades there has been a dramatic transformation around the Pacific Rim. No longer 'the Far East' - that exotic, mysterious land at the distant fringe of Western consciousness - East Asia today commands the attention of the entire world.In East Asia, Arthur Cotterell condenses into a compact, highly readable book an immense amount of historical knowledge, placing this amazing economic ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD