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  • Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire

    Edición de David G. Wittner, Philip C Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern Japanese empire and conditioned key elements of post-war development. As the only emerging non-Western country that was a colonial power in its own right, Japan utilized these fields not only to define itself as racially different from other Asian countries and thus justify its imperialist activities, but also to position ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

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  • The Man Who Would Be King

    The First American in Afghanistan

    de Ben Macintyre ...
    The untold story of the nineteenth-century American Quaker who tried to build a kingdom in Afghanistan: "A thrilling real-life yarn." — BooklistIn the year 1838, a young adventurer, surrounded by his native troops and mounted on an elephant, raised the American flag on the summit of the Hindu Kush in the mountainous wilds of Afghanistan. He declared himself Prince of Ghor, Lord of the Hazarahs, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • The Origins of Yoga and Tantra

    Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century

    de Geoffrey Samuel ...
    Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Making of the "Rape of Nanking"

    History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States

    de Takashi Yoshida ...
    On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army attacked and captured the Chinese capital city of Nanjing, planting the rising-sun flag atop the city's outer walls. What occurred in the ensuing weeks and months has been the source of a tempestuous debate ever since. It is well known that the Japanese military committed wholesale atrocities after the fall of the city, massacring large numbers of Chinese ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Re-inventing Japan

    Nation, Culture, Identity

    de Tessa Morris-Suzuki ...
    This text rethinks the contours of Japanese history, culture and nationality. Challenging the mythology of a historically unitary, even monolithic Japan, it offers a different perspective on culture and identity in modern Japan. ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • The Snow Lion and the Dragon

    China, Tibet, and the Dalai Lama

    de Melvyn C. Goldstein ...
    Tensions over the "Tibet Question"—the political status of Tibet—are escalating every day. The Dalai Lama has gained broad international sympathy in his appeals for autonomy from China, yet the Chinese government maintains a hard-line position against it. What is the history of the conflict? Can the two sides come to an acceptable compromise? In this thoughtful analysis, distinguished professor ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The 10 Football Matches That Changed the World

    And The One That Didn't

    de Jim Murphy ...
    The assertion that 'football isn't a matter of life or death, it's much more important than that' has been verified repeatedly throughout modern history. It has bolstered tyrants and helped depose them; contributed to conflict and created ceasefires. It has been an incubator of racism at home and helped bring down a racist regime abroad; shaped cities, changed cultures and inspired resistance. Its ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ming China and Vietnam

    Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia

    de Kathlene Baldanza ...
    Studies of Sino-Viet relations have traditionally focused on Chinese aggression and Vietnamese resistance, or have assumed out-of-date ideas about Sinicization and the tributary system. They have limited themselves to national historical traditions, doing little to reach beyond the border. Ming China and Vietnam, by contrast, relies on sources and viewpoints from both sides of the border, for a ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Asia.com

    Asia Encounters the Internet

    Edición de K. C. Ho, Randy Kluver, C.C. Yang ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia.com
    The internet is developing quicker in Asia than in any other region of the world. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the information society in an Asian context, and the impact of these technologies in Asia. These impacts are inevitably uneven and conditioned by issues of telecommunications infrastructure, government policies, cultural and social values, and economic realities. The ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Buddhism and Violence

    Militarism and Buddhism in Modern Asia

    Edición de Vladimir Tikhonov, Torkel Brekke ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Religion
    It is generally accepted in the West that Buddhism is a ‘peaceful’ religion. The Western public tends to assume that the doctrinal rejection of violence in Buddhism would make Buddhist pacifists, and often expects Buddhist societies or individual Asian Buddhists to conform to the modern Western standards of ‘peaceful’ behavior. This stereotype – which may well be termed ‘positive Orientalism,’ ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Ottomans and Armenians

    A Study in Counterinsurgency

    de Edward J. Erickson ...
    Covering the period from 1878-1915, Ottomans and Armenians is a military history of the Ottoman army and the counterinsurgency campaigns it waged in the last days of the Ottoman empire. Although Ottomans were among the most active practitioners of counterinsurgency campaigning in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in the vast literature available on counterinsurgency in the early ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • The Development of Consumer Credit in Global Perspective

    Business, Regulation, and Culture

    Edición de J. Logemann ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies, emphasizing comparative and transnational historical perspectives. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD