History of the Late War in the Western Country - Scholar's Choice Edition

History of the Late War in the Western Country - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: Robert Breckinridge McAfee

Publisher: Scholar's Choice

Published: 2015-02-19

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9781298374349

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Choice Books

Choice Books

Author: Elder, Paul, and Company, Firm, Booksellers, San Francisco

Publisher:

Published: 1930

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13:

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The Decline of the West

The Decline of the West

Author: Oswald Spengler

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 9780195066340

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Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.


Imperial Twilight

Imperial Twilight

Author: Stephen R. Platt

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2018-05-15

Total Pages: 609

ISBN-13: 0307961745

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As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.


East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries)

East and West Entangled (17th-21st Centuries)

Author: Rolando Minuti

Publisher: Firenze University Press

Published:

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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«History has to reorient», as the historian and sociologist Andre Gunder Frank observed. In the global or globalised age, a culture is no longer regarded as a discrete entity, but rather as a hybrid formation that interacts with other cultures in an incessant process of multidirectional exchange. Bringing together «Eastern» and «Western» case studies ranging from the seventeenth to the twenty-first centuries, this volume reminds historians that to conduct transcultural analyses they need to be alert to the multiple ways, comic intents included, in which difference is negotiated within contacts and encounters – from selective appropriation to rejection or resistance.


The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations 1600–2000

The History of Anglo-Japanese Relations 1600–2000

Author: G. Daniels

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2002-10-02

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0230373607

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This pioneering collection of essays by Japanese, British and Canadian scholars demonstrates how individuals, government agencies and non-governmental organizations have confirmed and challenged the ideas of diplomats and statesmen. Case studies of mutual perceptions, feminism, ceremonial, theatre, economic and social thought, fine arts, broadcasting, labour and missionary activity all illustrate how varieties of nationalism and internationalism have shaped the development of Anglo-Japanese relations. Furthermore it reveals the British admiration of Japan and a desire to emulate Japanese efficiency as a recurring theme in debates on the condition of Britain in the twentieth century.


Global History, Globally

Global History, Globally

Author: Sven Beckert

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1350036374

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In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global history in different world regions. Divided into three distinct but tightly interweaved sections, the book's chapters provide regional surveys of the practice of global history on all continents, review some of the research in four core fields of global history and consider a number of problems that global historians have contended with in their work. The authors hail from various world regions and are themselves leading global historians. Collectively, they provide an unprecedented survey of what today is the most dynamic field in the discipline of history. As one of the first books to systematically discuss the international dimensions of global historical scholarship and address a wealth of questions emanating from them, Global History, Globally is a must-read book for all students and scholars of global history.


The Rinderpest Campaigns

The Rinderpest Campaigns

Author: Amanda Kay McVety

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-23

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1108422748

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Examines the struggle against rinderpest - a devastating cattle disease - and explores the history of international development.


Books in Series

Books in Series

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 1814

ISBN-13:

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Vols. for 1980- issued in three parts: Series, Authors, and Titles.