nami - History 1

This is a true story. Under a communist philosophy, China labeled religion as an opium and started to go about eliminating it. In the 70 years since then, the number of religious people in China, es……続きを見る

This book provides a critical feminist analysis of the Korean Protestant Right’s gendered politics. Specifically, the volume explores the Protestant Right’s responses and reactions to the presumed w……続きを見る

The first installment in a multi-volume guide on the lost arts of the samuraiーpresented in the English language for the very first time Antony Cummins and Yoshie Minami have brought the teachings o……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY. CHAPTER I.ーSKETCH OF SOCIAL HISTORY. The Importation of the Africans. Character of the Colore……続きを見る

Why is it that terrorism has become such a central factor in our lives despite all the efforts to eradicate it? Ranging from early modern Europe to the contemporary Middle East, Martin Miller reveal……続きを見る

China today is never out of the news: from human rights controversies and the continued legacy of Tiananmen Square, to global coverage of the Beijing Olympics, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It……続きを見る

This book examines Southerners' claims to loyal citizenship in the reunited nation after the American Civil War. Southerners - male and female; elite and non-elite; white, black, and American Indian……続きを見る

The Tudors are one of history's most infamous families and the era over which they reigned still captures the public's interest without rival. 'Tudor England' in itself has become a well known phras……続きを見る

Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India’s increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia ……続きを見る

Since the very beginning of American history, African Americans have served alongside their white counterparts in virtually every major armed conflict on the high seas. This was especially true duri……続きを見る

This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real worldーintellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, estheticーcreative engageme……続きを見る

Stillness in Motion brings together the writing of scholars, theorists, and artists on the uneasy relationship between Italian culture and photography. Highlighting the depth and complexity of the I……続きを見る

China is now poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. Rana Mitter goes back to this pivotal moment in Chines……続きを見る

This book introduces a multilayered approach to the study of democracy, combining specific knowledge of Japan with theoretical insights from the literature on democratization. It examines different ……続きを見る

First Published in 1978. Working with adolescents is never easy, as any school teacher will confirm. Working with psychiatrically-disturbed adolescents is a highly complex and demanding task, which ……続きを見る

Fundamentally concerned with place, and our ability to understand human relationships with environment over time, Historical Geographic Information Systems (HGIS) as a tool and a subject has direct ……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Asien, Note: 1,0, Universität Trier, Veranstaltung: Kriegsführung und Kriegsfolgen im Spätmittelalter und der Frühen Neuzeit, Sprache: Deu……続きを見る

La toponímia és el conjunt de noms de lloc d’un territori determinat i, a la vegada, la branca de l’onomàstica que estudia els topònims. Aquests noms propis serveixen per anomenar llocs precisos i ú……続きを見る

Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture during the colonial ……続きを見る

"Few peoples have drawn the 'us' and 'them' line so clearly and maintained it for so long." -From The Jews and the Japanese It is difficult to imagine two more widely different-almost incompatible-s……続きを見る

In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to……続きを見る

This history of the Greeks in Houston is really the story of individuals who worked diligently to forge new lives for themselves even as they maintained their Greek identity and their Orthodox faith……続きを見る

The Wars of the Roses saw family fight family over the greatest prize – the throne of England. But what gave the eventual victor of these brutal and complex wars, Henry Tudor, the right to claim the……続きを見る

This collection surveys the three South Caucasian states’ economic, social and political evolution since their independence in 1991. It assesses their successes and failures in these areas, includin……続きを見る

La storia non è concatenazione di accadimenti reali, né la descrizione riflessa degli stessi. La storia è sintesi di vita e pensiero. È al tempo stesso vita del pensiero e pensiero della vita. Il la……続きを見る

A history of the Chinese experience in WWII, named a Book of the Year by both the Economist and the Financial Times: “Superb” (The New York Times Book Review). In 1937, two years before Hitler invad……続きを見る

Au cours des années qui ont précédé le coup d’état du 27 juin 1973, l’Uruguay est la proie de la violence.Anahí, comme tant d’autres jeunes universitaires, s’intéresse à la politique, prend parti po……続きを見る

Tibetan Subjectivities on the Global Stage: Negotiating Dispossession explores the many ways Tibetans are reimagining their cultural identity since the communist takeover of Tibet in the 1950s. Focu……続きを見る

This pioneering study of samurai weapons, armor, and strategies is a fascinating slice of martial arts history, as seen through the eyes of an authentic seventeenth-century samurai master Part of th……続きを見る

Questo studio ha come scopo quello di definire le origini della storia e della cultura della città di Gaeta, o meglio del territorio a cui verrà conferito questo nome: il nome, infatti, così come pe……続きを見る