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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 392 páginas
PVP: 27,29 €
ISBN 978-0-8223-4610-4
EAN 9780822346104
Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, Mother India, the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country's diverse communities. Soon after Mother India's emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14568-6
EAN 9780691145686
Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence today.Thomas Barfield introduces readers to the bewildering diversity of tribal and ethnic groups in Afghanistan, explaining what unites them as Afghans despite the regional, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-1-85168-747-3
EAN 9781851687473
A story of oil and gas, corruption and naked power, Oilopoly traces the rise of the Russian oil economy from its origins in the nineteenth century right through to Vladimir Putin's determined efforts to rein in the oil oligarchs, re-nationalize Russia's industries, and pay off its international debt.Charting Putin's astounding success in transforming the country ...
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This book, first published in 1973, was regarded on publication as the definitive study of the 'Young Turks', or Committee of Union and Progress, the name given to a group of Turkish army officers who sought to reform the Ottoman Empire and who in 1908 led a constitutional revolution against Sultan Ahmed Hamid II. The ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 472 páginas
PVP: 29,89 €
ISBN 978-1-4051-9509-6
EAN 9781405195096
New edition of Burton Stein's classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century Includes updated and extended coverage of the modern period, with a new chapter covering the death of Nehru in 1964 to the present Expands coverage of India's internal political and economic development, and its wider diplomatic role ...
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Review Quotes:"Meera Nanda is a unique scholar. She combines valuable criticisms of postmodern science studies with a close reading of how these ideas influence actual political developments in India. An appealing and powerful read."
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 48,90 €
ISBN 978-1-4051-0207-0
EAN 9781405102070
In this major intervention into the 'Asian Century', Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak challenges the reader to re-think Asia, in its political and cultural complexity, in the global South and in the metropole. Major work from one of the world's most distinguished literary and cultural theorists * Intervenes in the fraught issues generated by ideas of Asia. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 17,55 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14189-5
EAN 9780231141895
Throughout the past three decades East Asia has seen more peace and stability than at any time since the Opium Wars of 1839-1841. During this period China has rapidly emerged as a major regional power, averaging over nine percent economic growth per year since the introduction of its market reforms in 1978. Foreign businesses have ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 10,40 €
ISBN 978-0-330-44736-2
EAN 9780330447362
Head and shoulders above almost all other new books about China, this unflinching and yearningly compassionate portrait of the lives and loves of ordinary Chinese workers is quite unforgettable' Simon Winchester Every year in China millions of migrant workers leave their rural towns to find jobs in the cities. These people are the driving forces ...
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For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the center stage it occupied for eighteen centuries before the rise of the West.By 2050, three of the world's largest economies will be Asian: China, India, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 11,70 €
ISBN 9780753826706
EAN 9780753826706
The new China, the nation that in 25 years has changed beyond all recognition is becoming an industrial powerhouse for the world. James Kynge shows not only the extraordinary rise of the Chinese economy, but what the future holds as China begins to influence the world. On the eve of the British industrial revolution some ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 15,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-722178-3
EAN 9780007221783
Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume. Despite the recent rise of China to a position of dominance on the world economic stage, Chinese history remains an elusive subject. Yet it is this vast narrative of appalling loss, superhuman endeavour and incredible invention that has made China the superpower ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-0-00-722177-6
EAN 9780007221776
Most histories of China appear to have been written by sinologists for sinologists. As China rejoins and perhaps comes to dominate our world order, the need for an authoritative yet engaging history is universally acknowledged. Modelled on the author's own 'India: A History', 'China: A History' is informed by a wide knowledge of the Asian ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-307-38121-7
EAN 9780307381217
Once wealthy landowners, Thong Van Pham's family was shattered by the tumultuous events of the twentieth century: the festering French occupation of Indochina, the Japanese invasion during World War II, and the Vietnam War.Told in dazzling chapters that alternate between events in the past and those closer to the present, The Eaves of Heaven brilliantly ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 20,79 €
ISBN 978-0-230-60258-8
EAN 9780230602588
This is the first overview in English of the rise of the armed forces in Russia, from the Muscovite army of the fifteenth century through the Napoleon in 1812-1815. Essays also highlight the ideological conflict between Westernization and Russiafication, and the revolution that brought down the Romanovs in 1917.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84737-697-8
EAN 9781847376978
How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? Prisoner of the State is the first book to give readers a front row seat to the inner workings of China. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to that ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 341 páginas
PVP: 54,80 €
ISBN 978-0-415-54582-2
EAN 9780415545822
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