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  • Civilization And Modernization - Proceedings Of The Russian-chinese Conference 2012

    by Chuanqi He, Nikolay Lapin ...
    Modernization has been a profound change of human civilizations — a worldwide phenomenon and trend since the 18th century. It includes not only the great change and transformation from traditional to modern politics, economy, society and culture, but also all human development and the rational protection of the natural environment at present. It has changed not only people's lives in many aspects, ... Read more

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    Enriched edition. Exploring the Spiritual Tapestry of Ancient China

    by Herbert Allen Giles, Liam Hightower ...
    In "Religions of Ancient China," Herbert Allen Giles offers a comprehensive examination of the complex tapestry of spiritual traditions that shaped pre-modern Chinese society. With a scholarly yet accessible style, Giles navigates through historical texts, philosophical treatises, and archaeological findings to explore how various religious practices'—Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism' ... Read more

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  • Against the Grain

    A Deep History of the Earliest States

    by James C. Scott ...
    An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrativeWhy did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle ... Read more

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  • Chinese Civilization

    A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed

    by Patricia Buckley Ebrey ...
    This updated version of a fantastic account of Chinese culture and civilization provides analysis of notable historical documents, social records, and laws.Setting the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses, the newly expanded edition of Chinese Civilization includes coverage of personal documents, social records, laws, and previously ignored reports.With insight to the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Roman Empire

    Fall of the West; Survival of the East

    by James F Morgan ...
    The Western Roman Empire collapsed more than 1500 years ago, while the Eastern Roman Empire survived for almost a thousand more years. When the west collapsed, no one questioned why. It was simply the way things were. Than about 500 years ago scholars begin to question just why the west should fail and the east survive. A long list of reasons have been presented, but they are seen as contributors ... Read more

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  • Ancient China Simplified

    by Edward Harper Parker ...
    Boswell once remarked to Dr. Johnson that "the history of England is so strange that, if it were not well vouched as it is, it would be hardly credible." To which Johnson replied in his usual style: "Sir, if it were told as shortly, and with as little preparation for introducing the different events, as the history of the Jewish kings, it would be equally liable to objections of improbability." Dr ... Read more

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  • Central Asia in World History

    by Peter B. Golden ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging ... Read more

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  • A Legal History of Rome

    by George Mousourakis ...
    This book equips both lawyer and historian with a complete history of Roman law, from its beginnings c.1000 BC through to its re-discovery in Europe where it was widely applied until the eighteenth century.Combining a law specialist’s informed perspective of legal history with a socio-political and cultural focus, it examines the sources of law, the ways in which these laws were applied and ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • All About: Formidable First Chinese Dynasties

    by P S Quick ...
    Series Book 9 - All About...
    This book, filled with amazing facts and photographs, describes what life was like for people living in ancient China during the periods known as the Mythological, Historical and First Dynasty period of the Imperial era. It covers the Xia Dynasty, Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, Qin Dynasty and Han Dynasty with information about the emperors who ruled as well as inventions and achievements in science ... Read more

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  • Whither China?

    Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China

    by Gan Yang, Zhiyuan Cui, Wang Shaoguang, Wang Hui ...
    Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that event, Chinese intellectuals were forced in the early 1990s to search for new analytical and ... Read more

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  • Anarchy in the Pure Land

    Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism

    by Justin Ritzinger ...
    Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the twentieth-century reinvention of the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, conceived by the reformer Taixu and promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind of concern for ritual, supernatural beings, and the afterlife that the reformers supposedly rejected in the name of "modernity." ... Read more

    $87.19 CAD

  • Social History of Britain

    From First Humans to the Creation of Great Britain

    by Kenneth Cashion ...

    $5.48 CAD