The Sasanian Empire was one of the most significant empires of late antiquity. As the dominant force in the Middle East, spanning Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, the Sasanian kings from Ardashir I (224CE) ruled an imperial, centrally administrated, mul...Loe edasi...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....Loe edasi...
This book asks how democratic values and civic culture can take shape without equal rights, and even without a state. Focusing on the Kurdish experience across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, it draws on fieldwork, survey research, and historical ana...Loe edasi...
In the early Islamic age, the city of Balkh was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Situated on the northern plains of modern Afghanistan, Balkh flourished from the 7th to the 13th centuries, home to a wide variety of schola...Loe edasi...
The first English-language translation of former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavis penultimate book, published in Persian on the eve of the revolution that brought the downfall of the monarchy. In the late 1970s, on the eve of the Islam...Loe edasi...
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of the West, in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini...Loe edasi...
This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution. In this study, Marouf Cabi shines a spotlight on the modern history of Iranian Kurdistan an area of Greater Kurdi...Loe edasi...
This book studies the history of twentieth-century Chinese architecture, focusing on the integration of modern transformational works and ideas. It is an essential resource for understanding modern Chinese architecture. It showcases the remarkable a...Loe edasi...
This book traces 300 years of sumos economic and social history, examining how it survived and evolved through major historical upheavals including the Great Fire of Edo, the Meiji Restoration, and World War II. It explores how sumo developed as im...Loe edasi...
This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prose—complemented by extensive color imagery...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645677)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-chang...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526176233)
This book examines the role of artefacts and design practice in representing and commemorating a new political community of Turks within the cultural transformation from empire to nation-state between 1908-50s. It offers an expanded understanding of...Loe edasi...
This fully revised 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan provides a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field. This fully revised 2nd edition of the Routledge H...Loe edasi...
Korea is a historical region of prominence in the global political economy. Still, a comprehensive overview of its early modern era has yet to receive a book-length treatment in English. Comprising topical chapters written by 22 experts from 11 co...Loe edasi...
This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate groups historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries....Loe edasi...
As the first of a two-volume set examining the distinctive social structure and governance of Huizhou, China, this book focuses on the internal elements of this social functioning. As the first of a two-volume set examining the dist...Loe edasi...
As the second volume of a two-volume set that examines the distinctive social structure and governance of Huizhou, China, this book focuses on the external factors that influence and renew social functioning.From the sixteenth century to th...Loe edasi...
This is the second volume of a two-volume set on the names of China, focusing on the domestic and foreign names of the country in ancient and modern times....Loe edasi...
This book offers a nuanced historical analysis of the profound impact of Ibn Battuta’s extensive travels across Asia, Africa, and Europe. As one of the most significant figures of medieval Islamic history, Ibn Battuta’s journey not only d...Loe edasi...
This book explores the tangible societal contributions of Zhu Xi (11301200) and his disciples during their lifetimes, alongside the enduring impact of their practices on contemporaries and subsequent generations. A towering Neo-Confucian philosopher...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...
This volume adopts the perspectives of historical hermeneutics and technological anthropology to explore the cultural evolution of Wushu. Drawing extensively on classical historical sources, excavated manuscripts, unearthed martialarts artifacts, an...Loe edasi...
This book challenges the long-prevailing interpretation of Chinas legal tradition as virtue given priority over penalty, arguing that this proposition is a projection of modern Western rule-of-law discourse and fails to accurately reveal the structu...Loe edasi...
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne marked a decisive moment in international diplomacy, laying the foundations for stability and peaceful coexistence in Southeast Europe and the Middle East. By completing the transition from empire to nation-state, the tre...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...
This book serves as a sacred site that empirically attests to the 5,000-year-long history of Chinese civilization. It represents an earthen construction-based civilization, a water conservancy-oriented civilization, and a rice cultivation-centered c...Loe edasi...
The Sasanian Empire was one of the most significant empires of late antiquity. As the dominant force in the Middle East, spanning Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, the Sasanian kings from Ardashir I (224CE) ruled an imperial, centrally administrated, mul...Loe edasi...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir ‘Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....Loe edasi...
This book asks how democratic values and civic culture can take shape without equal rights, and even without a state. Focusing on the Kurdish experience across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, it draws on fieldwork, survey research, and historical ana...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Imperial War Museum, ISBN-13: 9781911748014)
The War Against Japan offers a detailed and visual account of the campaign in South East Asia and the Pacific during the Second World War. The historical narrative is enriched with photographs, artworks and personal testimony from IWMs collections,...Loe edasi...
In the early Islamic age, the city of Balkh was one of the largest and most influential cities in the world. Situated on the northern plains of modern Afghanistan, Balkh flourished from the 7th to the 13th centuries, home to a wide variety of schola...Loe edasi...
The first English-language translation of former Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavis penultimate book, published in Persian on the eve of the revolution that brought the downfall of the monarchy. In the late 1970s, on the eve of the Islam...Loe edasi...
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of the West, in the works of canonical 20th and 21st century Egyptian novelists. Beginning with the writings of Muhammad Husayn Haykal, Lorenzo Casini...Loe edasi...
This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution. In this study, Marouf Cabi shines a spotlight on the modern history of Iranian Kurdistan an area of Greater Kurdi...Loe edasi...
This book studies the history of twentieth-century Chinese architecture, focusing on the integration of modern transformational works and ideas. It is an essential resource for understanding modern Chinese architecture. It showcases the remarkable a...Loe edasi...
This book traces 300 years of sumos economic and social history, examining how it survived and evolved through major historical upheavals including the Great Fire of Edo, the Meiji Restoration, and World War II. It explores how sumo developed as im...Loe edasi...
This richly illustrated volume presents an accessible history of Chinese silk art. Combining an expansive perspective with systematic analysis and engaging prose—complemented by extensive color imagery...Loe edasi...
This brilliant distillation traces Turkeys long and complicated history from the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire – the most enduring, and perhaps the most important, Islamic empire in history – to the emergence of the modern Turkish Republic...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503645677)
Purist Pursuits chronicles how and why Armenians in the Ottoman Empire fashioned a new language called Western Armenian. Tracing its rise from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, Jennifer Manoukian studies the evolution of an ever-chang...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526176233)
This book examines the role of artefacts and design practice in representing and commemorating a new political community of Turks within the cultural transformation from empire to nation-state between 1908-50s. It offers an expanded understanding of...Loe edasi...
This fully revised 2nd edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan provides a comprehensive overview of both contemporary Taiwan and the Taiwan studies field. This fully revised 2nd edition of the Routledge H...Loe edasi...
Korea is a historical region of prominence in the global political economy. Still, a comprehensive overview of its early modern era has yet to receive a book-length treatment in English. Comprising topical chapters written by 22 experts from 11 co...Loe edasi...
This book examines the radicalization of beliefs, tactics and oppression by a dominant governing group when faced with a subordinate groups historic quest for basic human rights dating back for five centuries....Loe edasi...
