Sources of Indian Tradition
Sources of Indian Tradition

Author: Stephen N. Hay

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 547

ISBN-13: 9780140154610

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Since 1958 Sources Of Indian Tradition Has Been One Of The Most Important And Widely Used Texts On Civilization In South Asia (Now The Nation-States Of Indian, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, And Nepal). It Has Helped Generations Of Students And Lay Readers Understand How Leading Thinkers There Have Looked At Life, The Traditions Of Their Ancestors, And The World They Lived In. This Second Edition Has Been Extensively Revised, With Much New Material Added. Introductory Essays Explain The Particular Setting In Which These Thinkers Have Expressed Their Ideas About Religious, Social, Political, And Economic Questions. Brief Summaries Precede Each Passage From Their Writings Or Sayings. The Traditions Represented Include Brahmanism, Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam And Sikhism. The Book Includes A Chronology Of Indian History From 3000 Bc To Ad 1858.

The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800
The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800

Author: David E. Mungello

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780742538146

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In the twenty-first century, China has emerged as the leading challenger to U.S. global dominance. China is often seen as a sleeping giant, emerging out of poverty, backwardness, and totalitarianism and moving toward modernization. However, history shows that this vast country is not newly awakening, but rather returning to its previous state of world eminence. With this compelling perspective in mind, D. E. Mungello convincingly shows that contemporary relations between China and the West are far more like the 1500-1800 period than the more recent past. This fully revised second edition retains the clear and concise qualities of its predecessor, while developing important new social and cultural themes such as gender, sexuality, music, and technology. Drawing from the author's thirty years of experience teaching world history, this book illustrates the importance of history to students and general readers trying to understand today's world.

The Coming of the Book
The Coming of the Book

Author: Lucien Febvre

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9781859841082

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Books, and the printed word more generally, are aspects of modern life that are all too often taken for granted. Yet the emergence of the book was a process of immense historical importance and heralded the dawning of the epoch of modernity. In this much praised history of that process, Lucien Febvre and Henri-Jean Martin mesh together economic and technological history, sociology and anthropology, as well as the study of modes of consciousness, to root the development of the printed word in the changing social relations and ideological struggles of Western Europe.