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  • Softpower, Soccer, Supremacy

    The Chinese Dream

    Edición de J.A. Mangan, Peter Horton, Christian Tagsold ...
    Series Libro 1 - Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies
    Xi Jinping’s "Soccer Revolution" is unique: the most extensive politicization and geo-politicization of the Global Game. His purpose is to extend the global softpower projection of "the Middle Kingdom": an ancient Western imperial mantra ("bread and circuses") has been replaced by a modern Eastern "imperial" mantra ("rice and pitches"). The Asian Football Federation shares this "allopathic" vision ... Leer más

    $117.99 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century British Music Studies

    Volume 3

    de Peter Horton ...
    Series series Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
    Selected from papers given at the third biennial conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain, this volume, in common with its two predecessors, reflects the interdisciplinary character of the topic. The introductory essay by Julian Rushton foregrounds some of the questions that are key to this area of study: what is the nineteenth century? what is British music? and did London influence the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Japanese Imperialism: Politics and Sport in East Asia

    Rejection, Resentment, Revanchism

    Edición de Gwang Ok, Tianwei Ren, Peter Horton, J.A. Mangan ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This cutting edge collection presents a political reading of the power of modern sport in Asia. Providing an interdisciplinary study of political and cultural tensions in Asia, past and present, through the key case-study of sport, it illuminates the complex practices and legacies of Japanese imperialism across East and Southeast Asia through the 20th century and beyond. Focusing on the deep ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • Soft Power Politics - Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim

    Edición de Rob Hess, Peter Horton, J.A. Mangan ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Soft Power Politics- Past and Present: Football and Baseball on the Western Pacific Rim illustrates the momentous expanse and moment of sport in the Asia Pacific region and through these essays dealing with two of the most prodigious global team sports confronts various cultural clashes that Samuel Huntington would ensure the end of civilisation. They also demonstrate the power sport has to change ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • Sport in Taiwan

    History, Culture, Policy

    Edición de Alan Bairner, Tzu-hsuan Chen, Ying Chiang ...
    Series Libro 2 - Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies
    This is the first comprehensive study of sport in Taiwan to be published in English. It appears at a time when Taiwan has the attention of the global community to the greatest extent since the years following the creation of the People’s Republic of China and the formation by the Chinese Nationalist Party of an alternative seat of government for the Republic of China in Taiwan’s capital, Taipei. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Handel

    The Man & His Music

    de Jonathan Keates ...
    Jonathan Keates original biography of Handel was hailed as a masterpiece on its publication in 1985. This fully revised and updated new edition - published to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composers death - charts in detail Handel's life, from his youth in Germany, through his brilliantly successful Italian sojourn, to the opulence and squalor of Georgian London where he made his ... Leer más

    $22.09 USD

  • Silent Invasion

    China's influence in Australia

    de Clive Hamilton ...
    In 2008 Clive Hamilton was at Parliament House in Canberra when the Beijing Olympic torch relay passed through. He watched in bewilderment as a small pro-Tibet protest was overrun by thousands of angry Chinese students. Where did they come from? Why were they so aggressive? And what gave them the right to shut down others exercising their democratic right to protest? The authorities did nothing ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Red Zone

    China's Challenge and Australia's Future

    de Peter Hartcher ...
    What does China want from Australia? In this incisive and original book, Peter Hartcher reveals how decades of economic dependence left Australia open to the strategic ambitions of the most successful authoritarian regime in modern history. He shows how ideology, paranoia and Xi Jinping’s personal story have reshaped China, and shines new light on Beijing’s overt and covert campaign for influence ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • Handel

    de Donald Burrows ...
    Series series Composers Across Cultures
    Handel is one of the most remarkable figures in the history of western music. His compositions form one of the peaks of creative achievement in the Baroque period, and cover a remarkable range: full-scale Italian operas and English oratorios (including Messiah), but also shorter works such as the Water Music and the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest. His compositional processes were often complex ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • When China Rules the World

    The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order: Second Edition

    de Martin Jacques ...
    Greatly revised and expanded, with a new afterword, this update to Martin Jacques’s global bestseller is an essential guide to understanding a world increasingly shaped by Chinese powerSoon, China will rule the world. But in doing so, it will not become more Western.Since the first publication of When China Rules the World, the landscape of world power has shifted dramatically. In the three years ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Hallelujah – The story of a musical genius and the city that brought his masterpiece to life

    George Frideric Handel's Messiah in Dublin

    de Jonathan Bardon ...
    18 November, 1741. George Frideric Handel, one of the world's greatest composers, arrives in Dublin – the second city of the Empire – to prepare his masterpiece, Messiah, for its maiden performance the following spring …In Hallelujah, Jonathan Bardon, one of Ireland's leading historians, explores the remarkable circumstances surrounding the first performance of Handel's now iconic oratorio in ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Messiah

    The Composition and Afterlife of Handel's Masterpiece

    de Jonathan Keates ...
    From Handel's renowned biographer, the story of one of the most celebrated compositions of Western classical music, Handel's famous oratorio, MessiahIn the late summer of 1741, George Friderick Handel, composed an oratorio set to words from the King James Bible, rich in tuneful arias and magnificent choruses. Jonathan Keates recounts the history and afterlife of Messiah, one of the best-loved ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD