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  • Japan's Modern Myths

    Ideology in the Late Meiji Period

    by Carol Gluck ...
    Series series Studies of the East Asian Institute
    Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Sources of Japanese Tradition

    From Earliest Times to 1600

    Edited by Carol Gluck, Arthur Tiedemann, Wm. Theodore De Bary ...
    Series series Introduction to Asian Civilizations
    Sources of Japanese Tradition is a best-selling classic, unrivaled for its wide selection of source readings on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion in the Land of the Rising Sun. In this long-awaited second edition, the editors have revised or retranslated most of the texts in the original 1958 edition, and added a great many selections not included or translated before ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Sources of Japanese Tradition

    1600 to 2000

    Edited by Carol Gluck, Arthur Tiedemann, Wm. Theodore De Bary ...
    Series series Introduction to Asian Civilizations
    Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings from modern ... Read more

    $109.59 CAD

  • Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching

    A Guide for Teaching

    by Ainslie T. Embree, Carol Gluck ...
    A guide aimed at introducing students to the history of Asia in conjunction with Western and world history. ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Suggested Resources for Maps to Use in Conjunction with Asia in Western and World History

    by Ainslie T. Embree, Carol Gluck ...
    Suggested Resources for MAPS to use in conjunction with Asia in Western and World History A Guide for Teaching. ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Words in Motion

    Toward a Global Lexicon

    by Itty Abraham ...
    On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Balkans

    A Short History

    by Mark Mazower ...
    Series Book 3 - Modern Library Chronicles
    Throughout history, the Balkans have been a crossroads, a zone of endless military, cultural and economic mixing and clashing between Europe and Asia, Christianity and Islam, Catholicism and Orthodoxy. Subject to violent shifts of borders, rulers and belief systems at the hands of the world's great empires--from the Byzantine to the Habsburg and Ottoman--the Balkans are often called Europe's ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Day of Empire

    How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall

    by Amy Chua ...
    In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most powerful cultures in history—from the ancient empires of Persia and China to the recent global empires of England and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Reinventing Knowledge

    From Alexandria to the Internet

    by Ian F. McNeely, Lisa Wolverton ...
    A dazzling intellectual history of the West served up with verve and insight by two brilliant young historians.Here is an intellectual entertainment, a sweeping history of the key institutions that have organized knowledge in the West from the classical period onward. With elegance and wit, this exhilarating history alights at the pivotal points of cultural transformation. The motivating question ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

  • The Silk Road

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James A. Millward ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The City

    A Global History

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    Series Book 21 - Modern Library Chronicles
    If humankind can be said to have a single greatest creation, it would be those places that represent the most eloquent expression of our species’s ingenuity, beliefs, and ideals: the city. In this authoritative and engagingly written account, the acclaimed urbanist and bestselling author examines the evolution of urban life over the millennia and, in doing so, attempts to answer the age-old ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Mongols

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Morris Rossabi ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Mongols carved out the largest land-based empire in world history, stretching from Korea to Russia in the north and from China to Syria in the south, and unleashing an unprecedented level of violence. But as Morris Rossabi reveals in this Very Short Introduction, within two generations of their bloody conquests, the Mongols evolved from conquerors ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD