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  • The Routledge Companion to East Asian Historiography

    Edited by Q. Edward Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to East Asian Historiography offers a comprehensive exploration of the rich and dynamic traditions of historical writing in East Asia, tracing their evolution across two millennia. Rooted in the influential Chinese historiographical tradition and enriched by the distinctive contributions of Korean and Japanese scholars, the book examines how these practices have adapted to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Staple to Superfood

    A Global History of the Sweet Potato

    by Q. Edward Wang ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Sweet potatoes were among the American crops Christopher Columbus brought back to Europe—where they were thought to be an aphrodisiac. In China, this versatile root became a staple that fueled rapid population growth. Introduced to Japan to stave off famine, sweet potatoes later sustained the country’s imperial expansion. Because this hardy plant can thrive in almost any soil, it has long been ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Chopsticks

    A Cultural and Culinary History

    by Q. Edward Wang ...
    Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Japanese, Chinese and Korean culinary experience across the globe, with more than one fifth of the world's population using them daily to eat. In this vibrant, highly original account of the history of chopsticks, Q. Edward Wang charts their evolution from a simple eating implement in ancient times to their status as a much more complex, cultural ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • A Global History of Modern Historiography

    by Georg Iggers, Q. Edward Wang, Supriya Mukherjee ...
    The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative perspective on the topic*, A Global History of Modern Historiography* looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a half centuries.This second edition contains fully updated sections ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Marxist Historiographies

    A Global Perspective

    Edited by Q. Edward Wang, Georg G. Iggers ...
    Marxist Historiographies is the first book to examine the ebb and flow of Marxist historiography from a global and cross-cultural perspective. Since the eighteenth century, few schools of historical thought have exerted a more lasting impact than Marxism, and this impact extends far beyond the Western world within which it is most commonly analysed.Edited by two highly respected authors in the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Across Cultural Borders

    Historiography in Global Perspective

    by Arif Dirlik, Andreas Eckert, Michael Gottlob, Wang Hui, Maghan Keita, Gabriele Lingelbach, Jochen Meissner, Matthias Middell, Jörn Rüsen, Stefan Tanaka, Q Edward Wang ...
    This innovative work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess, but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the book offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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  • How To Be a Tudor

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