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Redrawing the map and resetting the clock of the Age of Revolutions In 2015, Bryan Banks and Cindy Ermus launched Age of Revolutions, a website offering critical reconsideration of the foundational ……続きを見る

Israel and the Arab States: The Middle East in History, is the book I wrote to tell this story through people, not slogans. It begins on November 29, 1947 ー the day the UN vote upended the region o……続きを見る

The Holocaust and the Birth of Israel: The Middle East in History, is the book I wrote after realizing how often this history is told in fragments. We hear the namesーStanley Milgram, Auschwitz, Kri……続きを見る

Origins of the Jewish World: The Middle East in History, opens with a journey that predates the state of Israel by millennia. I begin with figures like Gilgamesh, Noah, and the Tower of Babel becaus……続きを見る

Turkey and the Arab World Reborn: The Middle East in History, pulls you into that moment when an old order imploded and a new map of power was hammered into being. I wrote this book to trace how per……続きを見る

The Decline of the Ottoman World: The Middle East in History, takes you inside the long, uneasy journey from imperial glory to crisis. I start with Suleiman the Magnificent ー the sultan under whom ……続きを見る

L’Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, née il y a plus de cinquante ans, rassemble aujourd’hui 88 États et gouvernements représentant plus de 300 millions de francophones répartis sur cin……続きを見る

Crusades: Civilizations of the Middle East, PART ONE, plunges you into a world where faith, ambition, and human courage crash together on an enormous stage. When I first set out to write this book, ……続きを見る

Mossad: Civilizations of the Middle East, pulls you into the hidden world where politics, faith, and espionage collide. From David Ben-Gurion's early calls to arms to Golda Meir's covert meetings in……続きを見る

Persia: Civilizations of the Middle East, PART ONE, carries you back to the very beginnings ー to the stirrings of the Indo‑Iranian peoples long before names like Cyrus or Darius became household wo……続きを見る

Uskomaton tositarina juutalaisnaisesta, joka pelasti tuhansia natsien keskitysleireiltä. Puolanjuutalaista Janina Mehlbergiä ei ole aiheetta verrattu Oskar Schindleriin. Hän esiintyi natsiviranomais……続きを見る

Despite Japan's long-held reputation as an ethnically homogeneous country largely closed to foreigners, the number of immigrants in Japan has been increasing, partially as a direct result of governm……続きを見る

They killed her father for speaking out For decades, the oil-rich Niger Deltaーan important wetland and farming regionーhas seen its environment devastated by oil extraction that has brought little ……続きを見る

What if one of the world's most beloved legends began long before the world, we imagine it in? We've heard countless stories of Lord Shri Krishna, the divine hero, the wise teacher, the eternal symb……続きを見る

The Qing Dynasty: A History of China, PART THREE, plunges you into the rise and fall of China's last imperial house ー a realm of emperors and generals, reformers and dreamers, all standing on the r……続きを見る

The Qing Dynasty: A History of China, PART ONE, takes you on an unforgettable journey through the rise, glory, and transformation of China's last imperial dynasty. From the scattered Wild Jurchens o……続きを見る

A New York Times Editors' Choice "A welcome addition to the vast literature produced by jailed writers across the centuries . . . [a] thrilling testament to the human spirit." ーAriel Dorfman, The N……続きを見る

With more than 150,000 Japanese restaurants around the world, Japanese cuisine has become truly global. Through the transnational culinary mobilities of migrant entrepreneurs, workers, ideas and cap……続きを見る

The Ming Dynasty: A History of China, PART THREE, sweeps you across the entire span of the last great native dynasty. From the rise of the peasant-turned-emperor Zhu Yuanzhang (the Hongwu Emperor) t……続きを見る

The Spring and Autumn & Warring States Periods, PART TWO takes you deep into one of the most extraordinary periods in Chinese history, where legendary figures clashed and kingdoms rose or fell by th……続きを見る

The Qin Dynasty: A History of China takes you on a journey through one of the most dramatic chapters in Chinese history. From the unification of the warring states to the iron rule of Qin Shi Huang,……続きを見る

The Late Han and Three Kingdoms: A History of China, PART ONE takes you on a fast-paced ride through one of the most dramatic times in Chinese history. It all starts with chaos-peasants in yellow tu……続きを見る

The Eastern Han Dynasty: A History of China, PART TWO takes you on a thrilling ride through one of China's most dramatic and chaotic eras. This book pulls you right into the palace, where figures li……続きを見る

The Western Han Dynasty: A History of China, PART ONE takes you on a captivating journey through one of China's most remarkable dynasties, where ambition, strategy, and power struggles shaped an emp……続きを見る

The Western Han Dynasty: A History of China, PART THREE takes you on a journey through ambition, betrayal, war, and the struggle for power. This book brings to life the rulers, rebels, and visionari……続きを見る

This book examines the China Cultural Centre (CCC) project’s establishment, operation, and programming through the lens of cultural diplomacy. The work illuminates the main structural and operationa……続きを見る

The Yuan Dynasty: A History of China, carries you across more than a century of Mongol ambition, family conflict, and imperial dreams. From the windswept steppes where Genghis Khan carved out the wo……続きを見る

Who was Confucius, and why has his influence lasted for more than two thousand years? This biography, written in easy-to-read Simplified Chinese, introduces readers to the life and ideas of Confuciu……続きを見る

Genghis Khan: A History of China, PART TWO, sweeps you across the windswept steppe into the heart of one of history's most relentless lives. From a boy named Temüjin ー hunted, exiled, and hardened ……続きを見る

The Liao Dynasty: A History of China, PART TWO, plunges you into the lives of the people who built ー and eventually lost ー one of China's most remarkable empires. I wrote this book to breathe life……続きを見る