This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the...Loe edasi...
This textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. Designed for students new to the subject, this second edition has been fully updated to include expanded coverage of Africa, the A...Loe edasi...
With world-leading industrial strength, China has achieved remarkable results in the information industry and digital infrastructure, becoming a global leader in digital transformation. In February 2023, it released the Overall Layout Plan for Digit...Loe edasi...
The Crusader Storm traces the rise and fall of the Crusader States from the First Crusade to Saladins conquest of Jerusalem, exploring how diverse cultures collided, coexisted, and reshaped the medieval Middle East. Through the eyes of rulers, rebe...Loe edasi...
In just eleven days, Syrias decades-long dictatorship fell, ending the Assad era. Blending history, reportage, and personal accounts, this book explores the revolutions roots, its staggering costs, and the uncertain future of a nation on the brink o...Loe edasi...
This book integrates field archaeology with multidisciplinary research on the Erlitou site. Beyond its significant archaeological discoveries, Erlitou represents the site subjected to the most extensive analysis by the various scientific and technol...Loe edasi...
First published in 1977, this book gives a brief analysis of Peninsular Malaysias social, economic and political situation so that the reader has a clearly delineated frame within which to understand the development and the present-day definitions o...Loe edasi...
First published in 1980, Images of Maharashtra presents the authors academic interests in defining the multifaceted personality of Maharashtra. All papers were presented at the Annual Conferences of Maharashtra Studies Group of the Association for A...Loe edasi...
Saudi Arabia, the West and the Security of the Gulf (1986) considers the geopolitical environment of the Arab Gulf and the nature and threats to Western interests in the region. It also examines the political, economic and other Gulf resources that...Loe edasi...
Turkish Nationalism and Western Civilization (1959) presents Ziya Gökalps synthesis of nationalism, Islam and Western civilization. Gökalp (18761924) deserves the attention of social practitioners for his insight into the problems of accommodating n...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University, Asia Center, ISBN-13: 9780674302617)
Qingming shanghe (Up the River during Qingming), dubbed China’s Mona Lisa, is a painting whose primordial version is attributed to Zhang Zeduan, a painter who lived during the Northern Song dynasty (960–1127). It is so revered th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649033703)
A broad critical history of the transformation of religious thought in Egypt from ancient to modern periodsWhen a civilization disappears, its heritage does not vanish. It survives in different potentially hybrid forms and becomes p...Loe edasi...
This book examines how contemporary Taiwanese ghost films reimagine trauma, folklore, and identity within a dynamic and globally connected cinematic context....Loe edasi...
A survey of the twenty most important Japanese anime films and filmmakers of all time from Ghost in the Shell by Mamoru Oshii to Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki!Anime Revolution! presents twenty pivotal moments in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649035059)
The inside story of one of the most successful US foreign aid programs in the Middle East in recent decadesWhat happens when the United States launches an unconventional foreign aid program in the aftermath of a national u...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646254)
In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future - a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. The recalcitrance of local and regional histori...Loe edasi...
In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future—a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. The recalcitrance of local and regional histori...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Doubleday & Co Inc., ISBN-13: 9780385550314)
A moving, harrowing and compulsively readable portrait of the lives of Iranians across five decades, tracing the promise of the 1979 revolution and a people’s undying spirit of resistanceIn 1979, a revolution in Iran swept aside a mona...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646278)
Zhongping Chen traces the origins and rise of the Cantonese-dominated Chinese migration to Canada between 1788 and 1898. Combining a diaspora studies approach with both qualitative and quantitative analyses of Chinese and English-language documents,...Loe edasi...
This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was supposed to be more egalitarian than hierarchi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645455)
This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was supposed to be more egalitarian than hierarchi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295754703)
Essential for scholars of anthropology, postcolonial studies, and Asian and diaspora studies, as well as readers seeking a deeper understanding of Philippine life, Town of Dollars exposes how violence lingers not in moments of crisis but in the ordi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295754697)
Essential for scholars of anthropology, postcolonial studies, and Asian and diaspora studies, as well as readers seeking a deeper understanding of Philippine life, Town of Dollars exposes how violence lingers not in moments of crisis but in the ordi...Loe edasi...
Balinese rituals, art and a unique sense of time are what set Bali apart! This unique book describes the concept of time in Bali and the magical significance of religious rites and festivals that are bewilderingly complex yet endlessly in...Loe edasi...
This monograph examines Chosn Dynastys Zun Zhou Si Ming (Revering the Zhou and Longing for the Ming) during the period of 16371800, after Chosn entered tributary relations with the Qing. It shows how the royal family, Confucian scholars, and Ming-l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855804706)
Offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Hindu Great Goddess Durg, tracing her evolution from a minor goddess into a transcendent supreme deity central to Hindu theology and the ultimate refuge accessible to all. This study provides...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197803028)
Vladimir Putins full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has cast a spotlight on Russias burgeoning partnership with Iran. Moscow looked to Tehran for drones and ammunition to fuel its so-called special military operation, and Irans support for Ru...Loe edasi...
