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  • A Vietnamese Moses

    Philiphe Binh and the Geographies of Early Modern Catholicism

    A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.A Vietnamese Moses is the story of Philiphê Binh, a Vietnamese Catholic priest who in 1796 traveled from Tonkin to the Portuguese court in Lisbon to persuade its ruler to appoint a bishop for his community of ex-Jesuits. Based on... ... Read more

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  • Asian Anthropology

    Series series Anthropology of Asia
    Asian Anthropology raises important questions regarding the nature of anthropology and particularly the production and consumption of anthropological knowledge in Asia. Instead of assuming a universal standard or trajectory for the development of anthropology in Asia, the contributors to this volume begin with the appropriate premise that anthropologies in different Asian countries have developed ... Read more

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  • Manhole Manifesto: A Deeper Push

    The Shanghai Manholes franchise was started to document the forgotten remnants of infrastructure installed by the foreign powers that once called Shanghai their own.Manhole Manifesto: A Deeper Push builds in the areas Shanghai Manholes, the original book in this series, did not cover, the numbers, costs and people behind the manholes. Greater research has been carried out on the two main elements ... Read more

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  • Medicine and Memory in Tibet

    Amchi Physicians in an Age of Reform

    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295743004Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet’s medical establishment in Lhasa ... Read more

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  • Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295806570Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State views modern Chinese political history from the perspective of Han officials who were tasked with governing Xinjiang. This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant “colony” of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the ... Read more

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  • The Mandate of Heaven and The Great Ming Code

    by Jiang Yonglin ...
    Series series Asian Law Series
    After overthrowing the Mongol Yuan dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), proclaimed that he had obtained the Mandate of Heaven (Tianming), enabling establishment of a spiritual orientation and social agenda for China. Zhu, emperor during the Ming’s Hongwu reign period, launched a series of social programs to rebuild the empire and define Chinese cultural identity. To ... Read more

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  • Der Wolkenpavillon: Sano Ichir?s vierzehnter Fall

    Historischer Kriminalroman. Fesselnde Japan-Spannung: »Einfach meisterhaft«, sagt Publishers Weekly

    Series Book 14 - Ein Fall für Sano Ichir?
    In den Gassen Edos tobt ein kalter Krieg: Der historische Kriminalroman »Der Wolkenpavillon« von Laura Joh Rowland jetzt als eBook bei dotbooks. Edo, 1701. Es herrscht ein brüchiger Friede im Herzen des japanischen Kaiserreichs: Sano Ichir?, der Kammerherr des Shoguns muss mittlerweile seinen Posten mit Fürst Yanagisawa teilen - seinem Erzfeind, der aus dem Exil zurückgekehrt und wieder zu Ruhm ... Read more

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  • The Evolution of China’s Anti-Poverty Strategies

    Cases of 20 Chinese Changing Lives

    This open access book presents the findings of the author’s 3 decades of studying China’s evolving anti-poverty strategies. It argues that much of the billions that nations spend yearly on economic aid is used inefficiently or to treat the symptoms but not the root causes of poverty. China, however, has evolved an effective sustainable alternative by providing the means for self-reliance to not ... Read more

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  • Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955

    by Ying Jia Tan ...
    In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955**, Ying Jia Tan explores the fascinating politics of Chinese power consumption as electrical industries developed during seven decades of revolution and warfare.**Tan traces this history from the textile-factory power shortages of the late Qing, through the struggle over China's electrical industries during its civil war, to the 1937 Japanese ... Read more

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  • Хранить вечно

    Морозными ночами пятьдесят зэков «укладывались, как сельди в бочке, тесно прижавшись, друг к другу, а один кто-нибудь накрывал оставшейся одеждой сверху». Так начинается рассказ очевидца.Четыре достоверных рассказа Александра Соколенко дают захватывающе живое представление не только о неожиданных подлостях и опасностях, подстерегавших зэка на каждом шагу, но и о напряженном повседневном быте ... Read more

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  • Behind Civilization

    by Gavin Huang ...
    In this new edition, a hypothesis is put forward for the first time to unify the Big Bang theory and the evolutionary theory by showing both events following the same set of fundamental interrelationships. Thus, they express many fundamental similarities. Moreover, the evolution of multicellular organisms, development of the human body, social development and technological development, all follow ... Read more

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  • Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine

    Everyday Religiosity and the Politics of Belonging in Ukraine reveals how and why religion has become a pivotal political force in a society struggling to overcome the legacy of its entangled past with Russia and chart a new future. If Ukraine is "ground zero" in the tensions between Russia and the West, religion is an arena where the consequences of conflicts between Russia and Ukraine keenly ... Read more

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  • Parliaments in the Late Russian Empire, Revolutionary Russia, and the Soviet Union

    by Ivan Sablin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
    This book examines the meanings that were attached to the terms “parliament” and “parliamentarism” in the different historical and discursive contexts of the late Russian Empire, revolutionary and Soviet Russia, and the Soviet Union. It discusses those institutions referred to as parliaments by contemporaries, gives special attention to their functions, and traces the broader debates on ... Read more

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  • Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century

    Saints, Books and Empires in the Muslim Deccan

    by Nile Green ...
    Series series Routledge Sufi Series
    Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes.Placing the mystical traditions of ... Read more

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  • Hitler vs Stalin: The Battle of Stalingrad

    by Francis Hayes ...
    Series Book 2 - Legendary Battles of History
    It was the most decisive battle of the Second World War. It brought the two most ruthless dictators of the 20th Century against each other in an epic clash of wills. It would kill close to 2 million people. And it would introduce a level of vicious street fighting that had never been seen before.The Battle of Stalingrad was the most horrendous cauldron of warfare that has ever been inflicted on a ... Read more

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  • 小资小情 — 涂涂写写又十年

    by 实充 ...
    作者是退休电视新闻编辑,旧南洋大学历史系毕业,现年73岁。本着对历史的兴趣,作者从学术的角度,客观地评述了中国在1989年发生的天安门事件。(《重读‘六四’-提点问题 说点感想》)古为今用,“中(中国)为新(新加坡)用”,作者也尝试探讨中国“五四运动”中的白话文改革如何影响本地的华文和学生。(《“五四”跟狮城学生有何相干》)在编写新闻的漫长日子里,作者又结合印度尼西亚的时局,回望1960年代的排华事件,理清这段历史的一些疑点。(《久违了!印尼“九三零事件”》)作者曾经在少年法庭当过缓刑与辅导官,对青少年犯罪问题有些感触;于是以嬉笑怒骂的闹剧方式,幽了专家学者们一默。(《闹剧“天堂国”座谈会》)1950年代亚洲篮球神射手余铁军曾经是作者的华文老师。作者从多年的师生情,追忆了老师如何从球星、教师、厨师、发展成洛杉矶的华社闻人。在11万言的作品中,杂感和随笔占了好大的篇幅 ... Read more

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  • From Victory to Peace

    Russian Diplomacy after Napoleon

    Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
    In From Victory to Peace**, Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter brings the Russian perspective to a critical moment in European political history.**This history of Russian diplomatic thought in the years after the Congress of Vienna concerns a time when Russia and Emperor Alexander I were fully integrated into European society and politics. Wirtschafter looks at how Russia's statesmen who served ... Read more

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  • Global History and New Polycentric Approaches

    Europe, Asia and the Americas in a World Network System

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.Rethinking the ways global history is envisioned and conceptualized in diverse countries such as China, Japan, Mexico or Spain, this collections considers how global issues are connected with our local and national communities. It examines how the discipline had evolved in various historiographies, from Anglo Saxon to southern European, and its ... Read more

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  • Global History with Chinese Characteristics

    Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Comparative Global History
    This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of ... Read more

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  • The Cold War in the Classroom

    International Perspectives on Textbooks and Memory Practices

    Series series Palgrave Studies in Educational Media
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how the socially disputed period of the Cold War is remembered in today’s history classroom. Applying a diverse set of methodological strategies, the authors map the dividing lines in and between memory cultures across the globe, paying special attention to the impact the crisis-driven age of our present has on images of the ... Read more

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  • Graciously Welcoming Lady Luck Becoming

    Free. Color Illustrated. A poem of a war escape. ... Read more

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  • Genghis Khan: A Life From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    Genghis Khan was the most unlikely of conquerors. An orphan of the Mongolian Steppes, his rise went all but unnoticed by all the great powers around him. His people had been divided and discounted by the Chinese dynasties to his south and completely dismissed by the encroaching Islamic empires to his west.Inside you will read about...✓ Mystery of the Steppes✓ When Warriors Are Made✓ Rites of ... Read more

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  • Documenting the Armenian Genocide

    Essays in Honor of Taner Akçam

    Series series Palgrave Studies in the History of Genocide
    This open access book brings together contributions from an internationally diverse group of scholars to celebrate Taner Akçam’s role as the first Turkish intellectual to publicly recognize the Armenian Genocide. As a researcher, lecturer, and mentor to a new generation of scholars, Akçam has led the effort to utilize previously unknown, ignored, or under-studied sources, whether in Turkish, ... Read more

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  • Indonesia Etc: ENHANCED EBOOK, FREE SAMPLE CHAPTER

    Exploring the Improbable Nation

    Indonesia is one of the most compelling countries on earth; it offers unexpected adventures that range from taking tea with a corpse or a Sultan to negotiating crowds of thugs dressed as Islamists, protesting against pop stat Lady Gaga. Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation has been celebrated by The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, National Geographic and many other publications as ... Read more

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