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Author : R. K. I. Quested
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Total Pages : 345 pages
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Download or read book Further Light on the Expansion of Russia in East Asia: 1792-1860 written by R. K. I. Quested and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R. Quested
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Download or read book Further Light on the Expansion of Russia in East Asia 1857-60 written by R. Quested and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.K.I. Quested
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136575251
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Sino-Russian Relations written by R.K.I. Quested and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a systematic history of Sino-Russian relations, a history which is invaluable in forming an understanding of relations between the two nations today. Becoming neighbours in the seventeenth century, their changing relations in peace and war, in isolation, cooperation and confrontation have steadily assumed a greater importance in world politics and become increasingly important to the stability of international relations.
Author : Aram A. Yengoyan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472069187
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)
Download or read book Modes of Comparison written by Aram A. Yengoyan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Modes of Comparison: Theory and Practice, the contributors highlight how theoretical problems have brought forth new ideas on comparison and how comparison has become pivotal in the human sciences. Each of the essays questions a number of critical and contemporary issues in history, sociology, and anthropology as they relate to various ideas of comparison."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Gregory Afinogenov
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674246578
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Spies and Scholars written by Gregory Afinogenov and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Financial Times Best Book of the Year The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire made concerted efforts to collect information about China. It bribed Chinese porcelain-makers to give up trade secrets, sent Buddhist monks to Mongolia on intelligence-gathering missions, and trained students at its Orthodox mission in Beijing to spy on their hosts. From diplomatic offices to guard posts on the Chinese frontier, Russians were producing knowledge everywhere, not only at elite institutions like the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg. But that information was secret, not destined for wide circulation. Gregory Afinogenov distinguishes between the kinds of knowledge Russia sought over the years and argues that they changed with the shifting aims of the state and its perceived place in the world. In the seventeenth century, Russian bureaucrats were focused on China and the forbidding Siberian frontier. They relied more on spies, including Jesuit scholars stationed in China. In the early nineteenth century, the geopolitical challenge shifted to Europe: rivalry with Britain drove the Russians to stake their prestige on public-facing intellectual work, and knowledge of the East was embedded in the academy. None of these institutional configurations was especially effective in delivering strategic or commercial advantages. But various knowledge regimes did have their consequences. Knowledge filtered through Russian espionage and publication found its way to Europe, informing the encounter between China and Western empires. Based on extensive archival research in Russia and beyond, Spies and Scholars breaks down long-accepted assumptions about the connection between knowledge regimes and imperial power and excavates an intellectual legacy largely neglected by historians.
Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307957594
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of China’s nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion, one of the largest civil wars in history. Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and often gruesome battles—a sweeping yet intimate portrait of the conflict that shaped the fate of modern China. The story begins in the early 1850s, the waning years of the Qing dynasty, when word spread of a major revolution brewing in the provinces, led by a failed civil servant who claimed to be the son of God and brother of Jesus. The Taiping rebels drew their power from the poor and the disenfranchised, unleashing the ethnic rage of millions of Chinese against their Manchu rulers. This homegrown movement seemed all but unstoppable until Britain and the United States stepped in and threw their support behind the Manchus: after years of massive carnage, all opposition to Qing rule was effectively snuffed out for generations. Stephen R. Platt recounts these events in spellbinding detail, building his story on two fascinating characters with opposing visions for China’s future: the conservative Confucian scholar Zeng Guofan, an accidental general who emerged as the most influential military strategist in China’s modern history; and Hong Rengan, a brilliant Taiping leader whose grand vision of building a modern, industrial, and pro-Western Chinese state ended in tragic failure. This is an essential and enthralling history of the rise and fall of the movement that, a century and a half ago, might have launched China on an entirely different path into the modern world.
Author : Mark Gamsa
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487533764
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Harbin written by Mark Gamsa and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants. The deep social and intellectual fissures between the Russian and Chinese worlds were matched by a multitude of small efforts to cross the divide as the city underwent a wide range of social and political changes. Using surviving letters, archival photographs, and rare publications, this book also tells the personal story of a forgotten city resident, Baron Roger Budberg, a physician who, being neither Russian nor Chinese, nevertheless stood at the very centre of the cross-cultural divide in Harbin. The biography of an important city, fleshing out its place in the global history of East-West contacts and twentieth-century diasporas, this book is also the history of an individual life and an original experiment in historical writing.
Author : Peter H. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351125958
Total Pages : 611 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Warfare in Europe 1815914 written by Peter H. Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of nineteenth-century European warfare is framed by the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The Crimean War and the struggles for Italian and German unification divide this century in two. In the first half, armies struggled to emerge from the shadow of Napoleon amidst an era of financial retrenchment, political unrest and accelerating technological change. The mid-century wars left an equally problematic legacy, including aspects that pointed towards 'total war'. The 26 essays in this volume examine these changes from a variety of innovative and fresh perspectives.
Author : Paul Hibbert Clyde
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Far East written by Paul Hibbert Clyde and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1971 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Western impact and the Eastern response (1830-1970).
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Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Papers on Far Eastern History written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Z. Elgin
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262341387
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)
Download or read book True Enough written by Catherine Z. Elgin and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of an epistemology that explains how science and art embody and convey understanding. Philosophy valorizes truth, holding that there can never be epistemically good reasons to accept a known falsehood, or to accept modes of justification that are not truth conducive. How can this stance account for the epistemic standing of science, which unabashedly relies on models, idealizations, and thought experiments that are known not to be true? In True Enough, Catherine Elgin argues that we should not assume that the inaccuracy of models and idealizations constitutes an inadequacy. To the contrary, their divergence from truth or representational accuracy fosters their epistemic functioning. When effective, models and idealizations are, Elgin contends, felicitous falsehoods that exemplify features of the phenomena they bear on. Because works of art deploy the same sorts of felicitous falsehoods, she argues, they also advance understanding. Elgin develops a holistic epistemology that focuses on the understanding of broad ranges of phenomena rather than knowledge of individual facts. Epistemic acceptability, she maintains, is a matter not of truth-conduciveness, but of what would be reflectively endorsed by the members of an idealized epistemic community—a quasi-Kantian realm of epistemic ends.
Author : David MacKenzie
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Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Russia, the Soviet Union, and Beyond written by David MacKenzie and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The HISTORY OF RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION is a general survey of Russian history from earliest times to the present. The authors present a balanced coverage of political, diplomatic, economic, social, intellectual, and cultural history..
Author : David MacKenzie
Publisher : Irwin Professional Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A History of Russia and the Soviet Union written by David MacKenzie and published by Irwin Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Journal of Asian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of Asian History written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsü
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Modern China written by Immanuel Chung-Yueh Hsü and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 1144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ch'ing Empire, political, social and economic conditines People's Republic - Sino-Soviet split - Great Cultural Revolution - Fall of Lin Pao - China rejoins the international community - Nationalist government in Taiwan - China after Mao - Gang of four - Four modernizations - Economic success in Taiwan - Tienanmen Square - Chinese model of development.
