Author: Denis Sinor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521243049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
This volume introduces the geographical setting of Central Asia and follows its history from the palaeolithic era to the rise of the Mongol empire in the thirteenth century. Distinguished international scholars discuss chronologically the varying historical achievements of the disparate population groups in the region.
The Cambridge History of Early Inner Asia
Author: Denis Sinor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521243049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
This volume introduces the geographical setting of Central Asia and follows its history from the palaeolithic era to the rise of the Mongol empire in the thirteenth century. Distinguished international scholars discuss chronologically the varying historical achievements of the disparate population groups in the region.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521243049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
This volume introduces the geographical setting of Central Asia and follows its history from the palaeolithic era to the rise of the Mongol empire in the thirteenth century. Distinguished international scholars discuss chronologically the varying historical achievements of the disparate population groups in the region.
An Agrarian History of South Asia
Author: David Ludden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316025365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when farming communities displaced pastoral and tribal groups, and goes on to consider the development of territoriality from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316025365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Originally published in 1999, David Ludden's book offers a comprehensive historical framework for understanding the regional diversity of agrarian South Asia. Adopting a long-term view of history, it treats South Asia not as a single civilization territory, but rather as a patchwork of agrarian regions, each with their own social, cultural and political histories. The discussion begins during the first millennium, when farming communities displaced pastoral and tribal groups, and goes on to consider the development of territoriality from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Subsequent chapters consider the emergence of agrarian capitalism in village societies under the British, and demonstrate how economic development in contemporary South Asia continues to reflect the influence of agrarian localism. As a comparative synthesis of the literature on agrarian regimes in South Asia, the book promises to be a valuable resource for students of agrarian and regional history as well as of comparative world history.
A History of Inner Asia
Author: Svatopluk Soucek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521657044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521657044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
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Warfare in Inner Asian History (500-1800)
Author: Nicola Di Cosmo
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004391789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Military developments in Inner Asia lay at the basis of the rise of a number of Ancient and Early Modern Empires. This is the first scholarly work to embrace Inner Asian military history across a broad spatial and chronological spectrum, from the Turks and Uighurs to the Pechenegs, and from the Mongol invasion of Syria to the Manchu conquest of China. Based on previously unknown and until now underestimated sources, the contributors to this volume explore the context, development, and characteristic features of Inner Asian warfare, making original contributions to our understanding of Asian and world history.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004391789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Military developments in Inner Asia lay at the basis of the rise of a number of Ancient and Early Modern Empires. This is the first scholarly work to embrace Inner Asian military history across a broad spatial and chronological spectrum, from the Turks and Uighurs to the Pechenegs, and from the Mongol invasion of Syria to the Manchu conquest of China. Based on previously unknown and until now underestimated sources, the contributors to this volume explore the context, development, and characteristic features of Inner Asian warfare, making original contributions to our understanding of Asian and world history.
Human Rights in Asia
Author: D. Kingsbury
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023061549X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book offers a critical reassessment of the 'Asian values' debate, which dominated the human rights discourse in the late 1990s, and a reappraisal of the human rights situation in Asia since then. The chapters in this book contextualize the debate and examine in what ways the issues raised then continue to trouble Asian societies.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023061549X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book offers a critical reassessment of the 'Asian values' debate, which dominated the human rights discourse in the late 1990s, and a reappraisal of the human rights situation in Asia since then. The chapters in this book contextualize the debate and examine in what ways the issues raised then continue to trouble Asian societies.
Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 1, Origins to Constantine
Author: Margaret M. Mitchell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521812399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521812399
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Crime, Gender and Social Order in Early Modern England
Author: Garthine Walker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139435116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139435116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about gender and order, and explores their practical consequences for the men and women who were brought before the criminal courts. Dr Walker's innovative approach demonstrates that, contrary to received opinion, the law was often structured so as to make the treatment of women and men before the courts incommensurable. For the first time, early modern criminality is explored in terms of masculinity as well as femininity. Illuminating the interactions between gender and other categories such as class and civil war have implications not merely for the historiography of crime but for the social history of early modern England as a whole. This study therefore goes beyond conventional studies, and challenges hitherto accepted views of social interaction in the period.
A History of East Asia
Author: Charles Holcombe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107118735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The second edition of Charles Holcombe's acclaimed introduction to East Asian history from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107118735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The second edition of Charles Holcombe's acclaimed introduction to East Asian history from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century.
The Secret History of the Mongol Queens
Author: Jack Weatherford
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307407160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
“A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan” (Booklist) by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan “Enticing . . . hard to put down.”—Associated Press The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. The daughters of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section about the queens from the Secret History of the Mongols, and, with that one act, the dynasty of these royals had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, a groundbreaking and magnificently researched narrative, Jack Weatherford restores the queens’ missing chapter to the annals of history.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307407160
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
“A fascinating romp through the feminine side of the infamous Khan clan” (Booklist) by the author featured in Echoes of the Empire: Beyond Genghis Khan “Enticing . . . hard to put down.”—Associated Press The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. The daughters of the Silk Route turned their father’s conquests into the first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section about the queens from the Secret History of the Mongols, and, with that one act, the dynasty of these royals had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, a groundbreaking and magnificently researched narrative, Jack Weatherford restores the queens’ missing chapter to the annals of history.
The Cambridge History of Russia: Volume 1, From Early Rus' to 1689
Author: Maureen Perrie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521812275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521812275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
An authoritative history of Russia from early Rus' to the reign of Peter the Great.