Descriptive List of Miscellaneous Persian Documents, 1633-1867 A.D.
Author: National Archives of India
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 118
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Author: National Archives of India
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 118
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Published: 1994-07
Total Pages: 1306
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nile Green
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-04-09
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0520300920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAt publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact, and mechanisms remain underexplored. A world historical inquiry into pre-modern cosmopolitanism, The Persianate World traces the reach and limits of Persian as a Eurasian language in a comprehensive survey of its geographical, literary, and social frontiers. From Siberia to Southeast Asia, and between London and Beijing, this book shows how Persian gained, maintained, and finally surrendered its status to imperial and vernacular competitors. Fourteen essays trace Persian’s interactions with Bengali, Chinese, Turkic, Punjabi, and other languages to identify the forces that extended “Persographia,” the domain of written Persian. Spanning the ages expansion and contraction, The Persianate World offers a critical survey of both the supports and constraints of one of history’s key languages of global exchange.
Author: Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 606
ISBN-13: 0674036476
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
Author: Charles Stewart
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Published: 1809
Total Pages: 480
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 416
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 544
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Published: 1868
Total Pages: 612
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