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  • Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography

    The Case of Hong Kong's Evolving Political Identity

    de J. Flowerdew ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    The book shows how the study of the evolving discourse employed during a political process spanning more than a decade can provide insights for critical discourse analysis, on the one hand, and understanding of a real world political process on the other, thereby demonstrating the potential role for critical discourse analysis in historiography. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

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  • The Opium War

    Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China

    de Julia Lovell ...
    This "crisp and readable account" of the nineteenth century British campaign sheds light on modern Chinese identity through "a heartbreaking story of war" ( The Wall Street Journal).In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting voted to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a healthy dose of political opportunism and collaboration followed. Rich in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • History and Popular Memory

    The Power of Story in Moments of Crisis

    de Paul Cohen ...
    When people experience a traumatic event, such as war or the threat of annihilation, they often turn to history for stories that promise a positive outcome to their suffering. During World War II, the French took comfort in the story of Joan of Arc and her heroic efforts to rid France of foreign occupation. To bring the Joan narrative more into line with current circumstances, however, popular ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Gongyang Commentary on The Spring and Autumn Annals

    A Full Translation

    Edición de H. Miller ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is a full translation of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals, a history of the Chinese state of Lu from 722 to 481 BCE, annotated so as to highlight the moral philosophy of its supposed writer, Confucius. ... Leer más

    $161.99 USD

  • Chinese History in Geographical Perspective

    de Kathlene Baldanza, Peter K. Bol, Andrew Chittick, Luke Hambleton, Laura Hostetler, Huei-Ying Kuo, Yajun Mo, Gregory Rohlf, Karl Ryavec, Daoqin Tong, Stephen Whiteman, Jiang Wu, Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang ...
    The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred years of the history of China have been no less geographical than social, political, or economic. From the dialectics of local-empire relations to the imperial state’s persistent array of projects for absorbing and transforming ethnic regions on the margins of empire; from the ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • An Historical Sketch of Chinese Historiography

    de Huaiqi Wu ...
    Traducido por Chi Zhen ...
    Series series China Academic Library
    This book systematically traces the development of Chinese historiography from the 2nd century B.C. to the 19th century A.D. Refusing to fit the Chinese historical narration into the modern Western discourse, the author highlights the significant questions that concern traditional historians, their philosophical foundations, their development over three thousand years and their influence on the ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • Marco Polo's China

    A Venetian in the Realm of Khubilai Khan

    de Stephen G. Haw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia
    Marco Polo’s famous book about his journey to China, written in 1298, continues to be a subject of considerable controversy. One recent work on the subject argues that Marco Polo never went to China at all, and other scholars have pointed out apparent mistakes and important omissions in Marco’s writings, including his failure to mention the Great Wall, and his apparently erroneous description of ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Linguistic Diasporas, Narrative and Performance

    The Irish in Argentina

    de Sarah O'Brien ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the present-day Irish Diaspora in Argentina, using oral narrative and a sociolinguistic theoretical framework to draw out the features that define contemporary Hiberno-Argentine identity. The author analyzes the spoken memories and discourses of Irish-Argentine descendants to trace the socio-political evolution of a bilingual, bicultural community from World War II to the ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900-1795

    de Peter Lorge ...
    Series series Warfare and History
    This comprehensive survey of Chinese military history is the only book in English to span the significant years from 900 – 1795. Peter Lorge questions current theories on China’s relationship to war, and argues that war was the most important tool used by the Chinese in building and maintaining their empire.Emphasizing the relationship between the military and politics, chapters are organised ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Mapping Memory in Translation

    de Siobhan Brownlie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a map of the application of memory studies concepts to the study of translation. A range of types of memory from personal memory and electronic memory to national and transnational memory are discussed, and links with translation are illustrated by detailed case studies. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Yiddish and Power

    de D. Katz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Yiddish and Power surveys the social, linguistic and intellectual history of the Yiddish language within the traditional civilisation of Jewish Ashkenaz in central, and then in eastern Europe, and its interaction with the surrounding non-Jewish culture. It explores the various ways in which Yiddish has empowered masses and served political agendas. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Media and Crime in Argentina

    Punitive Discourse During the 1990s

    de Cynthia Fernandez Roich ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book analyses the punitive crime discourse in the Argentinean press during the 1990s. Fernandez Roich focusses on several features of media discourse during this time, such as: the notion that petty criminals ‘deserve to die' in reference to police brutality and killings, the phenomenon of ‘vindicators’ or how common citizens turned into ‘evil’ modern heroes in the press, and the parallelism ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD