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  • Global Connections: Volume 2, Since 1500

    Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History

    by John Coatsworth, Juan Cole, Peter C. Perdue, Charles Tilly, Michael P. Hanagan, Louise Tilly ...
    The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 2 takes us from the early modern period to speculation about ... Read more

    $56.59 USD

  • Time and Language

    New Sinology and Chinese History

    by Ori Sela, Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, Joshua A. Fogel, Peter C. Perdue, Pingyi Chu, Theodore Huters, Peter Zarrow, Joan Judge0, Janet Y. Chen1, Marten Saarela2, Kang Xiaofei3 ...
    China’s past and present have been in a continuous dialogue throughout history, one that is heavily influenced by time and language: the temporal orientation and the linguistic apparatus used to express and solidify identity, ideas, and practices. Presenting a host of in-depth case studies, Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History argues for and demonstrates the significance of “New ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Asia Inside Out

    Changing Times

    by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Heidi Walcher, Victor Lieberman, Nancy Um, Charles J. Wheeler, Kerry Ward0, Robert I. Hellyer1, Anand A. Yang2, Andrew Willford3, Naomi Hosoda4 ...
    Series Book 1 - Asia Inside Out
    The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries.Each author examines an unnoticed moment—a single year or decade—that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • Shared Histories of Modernity

    China, India and the Ottoman Empire

    Edited by Huri Islamoglu, Peter C. Perdue ...
    Series series Critical Asian Studies
    While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two irreconcilable trajectories: the European and the non-European. The book examines shared experiences of modern ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Asia Inside Out

    by Erik Harms, Biao Xiang, Qiang Ma, David Ludden, Narges Erami, Angela Ki Che Leung, Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Seema Alavi, James Pickett, Tamara Loos, May Bo Ching, Emma Jinhua Teng, William W. Kelly ...
    A pioneering study of historical developments that have shaped Asia concludes with this volume tracing the impact of ideas and cultures of people on the move across the continent, whether willingly or not.In the final volume of Asia Inside Out, a stellar interdisciplinary team of scholars considers the migration of people—and the ideas, practices, and things they brought with them—to show the ways ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Military Culture in Imperial China

    by Robin D. S. Yates, Ralph D. Sawyer, Michael Loewe, Rafe de Crespigny, Edward L. Dreyer, David A. Graff, Jonathan Karam Skaff, Don J. Wyatt, Kathleen Ryor, S. R. Gilbert, Grace S. Fong, Joanna Waley-Cohen, Yingcong Dai, Peter C. Perdue ...
    This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government, historiography, art, philosophy, literature, and politics.The book critically investigates the perception that, due to the influence of Confucianism, ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Global Connections: Volume 1, To 1500

    Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History

    by John Coatsworth, Juan Cole, Peter C. Perdue, Charles Tilly, Michael P. Hanagan, Louise Tilly ...
    The first textbook to present world history via social history, drawing on social science methods and research. This interdisciplinary, comprehensive and comparative textbook is authored by distinguished scholars and experienced teachers, and offers expert scholarship on global history that is ideal for undergraduate students. Volume 1 takes us from the origin of hominids to ancient civilizations, ... Read more

    $61.49 USD

  • Asia Inside Out

    Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue ...
    Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world’s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries—sea ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • Asia Inside Out

    Connected Places

    Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue ...
    Series Book 2 - Asia Inside Out
    Asia Inside Out reveals the dynamic forces that have historically linked regions of the world’s largest continent, stretching from Japan and Korea to the South China Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Middle East. Connected Places, the second installment in this pioneering three-volume survey, highlights the transregional flows of goods, ideas, and people across natural and political boundaries—sea ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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  • World History

    Journeys from Past to Present

    by Candice Goucher, Linda Walton ...
    World History: Journeys from Past to Present uses common themes to present an integrated and comprehensive survey of human history from its origins to the present day. By weaving together thematic and regional perspectives in coherent chronological narratives, Goucher and Walton transform the overwhelming sweep of the human past into a truly global story that is relevant to the contemporary issues ... Read more

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  • Global History

    A Short Overview

    by Noel Cowen ...
    This short book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the history of humankind, from the earliest movements of people to the contemporary epoch of globalization. Cowen traces this complex history in a manner which offers both a compelling narrative and an analytical and comparative treatment. Drawing on a new perspective on global history, he traces the intersection of change in economics, ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Political Order

    From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleVirtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD