Author: Helene W. KoppejanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"Strange Parallel"
Author: Helene W. KoppejanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands
Author: Victor LiebermanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139485172
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pattern whereby local isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more complex political and cultural systems. With accelerating force, climatic, commercial, and military stimuli joined to produce patterns of linear-cum-cyclic construction that became remarkably synchronized even between regions that had no contact with one another. Yet this study also distinguishes between two zones of integration, one where indigenous groups remained in control and a second where agency gravitated to external conquest elites. Here, then, is a fundamentally original view of Eurasia during a 1,000-year period that speaks to both historians of individual regions and those interested in global trends.
Strange Parallels: Volume 1, Integration on the Mainland
Author: Victor LiebermanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139437623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of accelerating integration punctuated by recurrent collapse. These trajectories were synchronized not only between corridors, but most curiously, between the mainland as a whole, much of Europe, and other sectors of Eurasia. He describes in detail the nature of mainland consolidation - which was simultaneously territorial, religious, ethnic, and commercial - and dissects the mix of endogenous and external factors responsible. Here, then, is a fundamentally original analysis not only of Southeast Asia, but of the pre-modern world.
Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands
Author: Victor LiebermanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521823528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 977
Book Description
Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks to rethink 1,000 years of Eurasian history.
The Synoptic Gospels and the Book of Acts
Author: Doremus Almy HayesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
A new Study of Shakespeare: an Inquiry into the Connection of the Playsand Poems, with the Origins of the classical Drama, and with the Platonic Philosophy, trough the Mysteries
Author: Scribner's Monthly
Author: Josiah Gilbert HollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
A Brief History of King Arthur
Author: Mike AshleyPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472107659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
Who was the real King Arthur? What do the historical documents tell us about the Knight of the Round Temple? It is just a chivalric fantasy? The story of Arthur has been handed down to us by Medieval poets and legends - but what if he actually existed and was in fact a great king in the early years of Britain's story. Mike Ashley visits the source material and uncovers unexpected new insights into the legend: there is clear evidence that the Arthurian legends arose from the exploits of not just one man, but at least three originating in Wales, Scotland and Brittany. The true historical Arthur really existed and is distantly related to the present royal family.
Miscellaneous
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Immortal Fire Within
Author: William SheehanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521444897
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
This, the first full-length biography of Edward Emerson Barnard, tells the remarkable tale of endurance and achievement of one of the leading astronomers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Through his career, Barnard scoured the heavens endlessly, leaving an astonishing legacy of observations - of planets, satellites, comets, double stars, bright and dark nebulae, and globular clusters - that make him one of the greatest observers of all time.Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book includes many of Barnard's famous wide-field photographs of comets and the Milky Way. It provides a complete history of Barnard's fascinating life and work, and offers unusual insight into the astronomers he knew and observatories with which he was associated and will be of interest to astronomers and historians of science.