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Author : United States. Patent Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office written by United States. Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ali Humayun Akhtar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781503638136
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (381 download)
Download or read book 1368 written by Ali Humayun Akhtar and published by . This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With the goal of understanding China's future in a changing international landscape, this book offers a new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The establishment of the Great Ming dynasty in 1368 was a monumental event in world history. A century before Columbus, Beijing sent a series of diplomatic missions across the South China Sea and Indian Ocean that paved the way for China's first modern global era. In 1368, Ali Humayun Akhtar maps China's ascendance from the embassies of Admiral Zheng He to the arrival of European mariners and the shock of the Opium Wars. In Akhtar's new picture of world history, China's current rise evokes an earlier epoch, one that sheds light on where Beijing is heading today. Spectacular accounts in Persian and Ottoman Turkish describe palaces of silk and jade in Beijing's Forbidden City. Malay legends recount stories of Chinese princesses in Melaka with gifts of porcelain and gold. During Europe's Age of Exploration, Iberian mariners charted new passages to China that the Dutch and British East India Companies transformed into lucrative tea routes. Among the ships' passengers were Italian Jesuits, whose linguistic skills facilitated book projects with local mapmakers and botanists published in Amsterdam. But there was a shift during the British Industrial Revolution, one that pointed to Europe's high-tech future. Across the British Empire, the rise of steam engines and factories allowed the export of the very commodities once imported from China. By the end of the Opium Wars and the arrival of Commodore Perry in Japan, Chinese and Japanese reformers called for their own industrial revolutions, one that would accelerate in the twentieth century. What has the world learned from China since the Ming, and how did China reemerge in the 1970s as a manufacturing superpower? Akhtar's book provides much-needed context for understanding China's rise today and the future of its connections with the West and a resurgent Asia"--
Author : Lo Jung-pang
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971695057
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book China as a Sea Power, 1127-1368 written by Lo Jung-pang and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lo Jung-pang argues that during each of the three periods when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises (the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and early Tang dynasties, and Song, Yuan, and early Ming dynasties), coastal states took the initiative at a time when China was divided, maritime trade and exploration subsequently peaked when China was strong and unified, and declined as Chinese power weakened. At such times, China's people became absorbed by internal affairs, and state policy focused on threats from the north and the west. These cycles of maritime activity, each lasting roughly five hundred years, corresponded with cycles of cohesion and division, strength and weakness, prosperity and impoverishment, expansion and contraction. In the early 21st century, a strong and outward looking China is again building up its navy and seeking maritime dominance, with important implications for trade, diplomacy and naval affairs. Events will not necessarily follow the same course as in the past, but Lo Jung-pang's analysis suggests useful questions for the study of events as they unfold and decades to come.
Author : Ping-ti Ho
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674852457
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Studies on the Population of China, 1368-1953 written by Ping-ti Ho and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1959 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David M. Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684174740
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Culture, Courtiers, and Competition written by David M. Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection of essays reveals the Ming court as an arena of competition and negotiation, where a large cast of actors pursued individual and corporate ends, personal agency shaped protocol and style, and diverse people, goods, and tastes converged. Rather than observing an immutable set of traditions, court culture underwent frequent reinterpretation and rearticulation, processes driven by immediate personal imperatives, mediated through social, political, and cultural interaction. The essays address several common themes. First, they rethink previous notions of imperial isolation, instead stressing the court’s myriad ties both to local Beijing society and to the empire as a whole. Second, the court was far from monolithic or static. Palace women, monks, craftsmen, educators, moralists, warriors, eunuchs, foreign envoys, and others strove to advance their interests and forge advantageous relations with the emperor and one another. Finally, these case studies illustrate the importance of individual agency. The founder’s legacy may have formed the warp of court practices and tastes, but the weft varied considerably. Reflecting the complexity of the court, the essays represent a variety of perspectives and disciplines—from intellectual, cultural, military, and political to art history and musicology."
Author : Peter B. Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781944733162
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (331 download)
Download or read book 1368 Days written by Peter B. Marshall and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There are not many of us WWII POWs left now. I'm 96 years old and have outlived all of us captured by the Japanese on Guam the day after Pearl Harbor....All of us in Zentsuji and Osaka POW camps went through those 1368 days together. Not all of us made it home." Pete Marshall was the tenth of twelve children raised on a farm in rural Missouri during the Depression. After joining the Navy in 1939, he trained as a hospital corpsman and was stationed in Guam. The Japanese invaded Guam the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed. Pete was taken prisoner and sent to Japan for the duration of the war, living in primitive conditions with little food or medical supplies and working as slave labor. The stories illustrate how his childhood experiences helped him survive captivity. His POW experiences, so poignantly remembered here, had a continuing impact throughout his life.
Author : California
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Total Pages : 1532 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Summary Digest of Statutes Enacted and Resolutions, Including Proposed Constitutional Amendments, Adopted in ... and ... Statutory Record written by California and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 1532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes include: Statutory record.
Author : Shane McCausland
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9780824851453
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (514 download)
Download or read book The Mongol Century written by Shane McCausland and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mongol Century explores the visual world of China's Yuan dynasty (1271–1368), the spectacular but relatively short-lived regime founded by Khubilai Khan, regarded as the pre-eminent khanate of the Mongol empire. This book illuminates the Yuan era – full of conflicts and complex interactions between Mongol power and Chinese heritage – by delving into the visual history of its culture, considering how Mongol governance and values imposed a new order on China's culture and how a sedentary, agrarian China posed specific challenges to the Mongols' militarist and nomadic lifestyle. Shane McCausland explores how an unusual range of expectations and pressures were placed on Yuan culture: the idea that visual culture could create cohesion across a diverse yet hierarchical society, while balancing Mongol desires for novelty and display with Chinese concerns about posterity. Although in recent years exhibitions have begun to open up the inherent paradoxes of Yuan culture, this is the first book in English to adopt a comprehensive approach. It incorporates a broad range of visual media of the East Asia region to reconsider the impact Mongol culture had in China, from urban architecture and design to tomb murals and porcelain, and from calligraphy and printed paper money to stone sculpture. Fresh and invigorating, The Mongol Century explores, in fascinating detail, the visual culture of this brief but captivating era of East Asian history.
Author : John W. Dardess
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442204907
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Ming China, 1368-1644 written by John W. Dardess and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging, deeply informed book provides the first concise history of one of China's most important eras. Leading scholar John W. Dardess offers a thematically organized political, social, and economic exploration of China from 1368 to 1644. He examines how the Ming dynasty was able to endure for 276 years, illuminating Ming foreign relations and border control, the lives and careers of its sixteen emperors, its system of governance and the kinds of people who served it, its great class of literati, and finally the mass outlawry that, in unhappy conjunction with the Manchu invasions from outside, ended the once-mighty dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century. The Ming witnessed the beginning of China's contact with the West, and its story will fascinate all readers interested in global as well as Asian history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Massachusetts Register written by and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Schuyler Allen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Modern Philology written by Philip Schuyler Allen and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 30-54 include 1932-56 of "Victorian bibliography," prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.
Author : Jancis Robinson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062325515
Total Pages : 1434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (623 download)
Download or read book Wine Grapes written by Jancis Robinson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 1434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the James Beard Award for Best Beverage Book, Named "Best Drinks Book" by Wine & Spirits magazine, Faiveley International Wine Book of the Year, OIV Best Viticulture Book "A fantastic Christmas present for any wine geek, and one that will provide an endless source of fiendish questions for quiz-setters" —The Guardian An indispensable book for every wine lover, from some of the world's leading wine experts. Where do wine grapes come from and how are grape varieties related to one another? What is the historical background of each one? Where are they grown? What sort of wines do they make? Using cutting-edge DNA analysis and detailing almost 1,400 distinct grape varieties, as well as myriad correct (and incorrect) synonyms, this book examines grapes and wine as never before. Here is a complete, alphabetically presented profile of all grape varieties of relevance to the wine lover, charting the relationships between them and including unique and astounding family trees, their characteristics in the vineyard, and—most important—what the wines made from them taste like. Presented in a stunning design with eight-page gatefolds that reveal the family trees, and a rich variety of full-color illustrations from Viala and Vermorel's century-old classic ampelography, the text will deepen readers' understanding of grapes and wine with every page. Combining Jancis Robinson's worldview and nose for good writing and good wines with Julia Harding's research, expertise, and attention to detail plus Dr. Vouillamoz's unique level of scholarship, Wine Grapes offers essential and original information in greater depth and breadth than has ever been available before. This is a book for wine students, wine experts, and wine lovers everywhere.
Author : United States
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book United States Code written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Dardess
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538135116
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book More Than the Great Wall written by John W. Dardess and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Ming China’s pursuit of national security along its 1,700 miles of northern frontier. Drawing on a wealth of original sources, John Dardess vividly portrays how Ming China’s emperors, officials, and commanders in the field thought, argued, and made decisions in real time as they worked to defend their country. Despite common perceptions of the central role of the so-called Great Wall of China, Dardess convincingly shows that the wall was but a minor piece in a much bigger effort to battle Tatar looting. Dardess immerses readers in the day-to-day world of the Ming as he explores the question of how leaders kept their country safe over the 276 years the dynasty ruled.
Author : Boston (Mass.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Document written by Boston (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Eugene Best
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Genealogy of the Nye Family written by Frank Eugene Best and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Journal written by Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes extra sessions.
