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Ennin's Diary - The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law (Hardcover): Ennin Ennin's Diary - The Record of a Pilgrimage to China in Search of the Law (Hardcover)
Ennin; Translated by Edwin O. Reischauer; Foreword by Valerie Hansen
R1,016 Discovery Miles 10 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Evolution of Power - China's Struggle, Survival, and Success (Hardcover): Xiao-Bing Li, Xiansheng Tian Evolution of Power - China's Struggle, Survival, and Success (Hardcover)
Xiao-Bing Li, Xiansheng Tian; Contributions by Changfu Chang, Qiang Fang, Zhaohui Hong, …
R3,810 Discovery Miles 38 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Evolution and Power: China's Struggle, Survival, and Success, edited by Xiaobing Li and Xiansheng Tian, brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to provide a comprehensive look at China s rapid socio-economic transformation and the dramatic changes in its political institution and culture. Investigating subjects such as party history, leadership style, personality, political movements, civil-military relations, intersection of politics and law, and democratization, this volume situates current legitimacy and constitutional debates in the context of both the country s ideology, traditions, and the wider global community. The contributors to this volume clarify key Chinese conceptual frameworks to explain previous subjects that have been confusing or neglected, offering case studies and policy analyses connected with power struggles and political crises in China. A general pattern is introduced and developed to illuminate contemporary problems with government accountability, public opposition, and political transparency. Evolution and Power provides essential scholarship on China s political development and growth.

Disability in Contemporary China - Citizenship, Identity and Culture (Hardcover): Sarah Dauncey Disability in Contemporary China - Citizenship, Identity and Culture (Hardcover)
Sarah Dauncey
R2,821 Discovery Miles 28 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese sources, from film and documentary to literature and life writing, media and state documents, she sheds important new light on the ways in which disability and disabled identities have been represented and negotiated over this time. She exposes the standards against which disabled people have been held as the Chinese state has grappled with expectations of what makes the 'ideal' Chinese citizen. From this, she proposes an exciting new theoretical framework for understanding disabled citizenship in different societies - 'para-citizenship'. A far more dynamic relationship of identity and belonging than previously imagined, her new reading synthesises the often troubling contradictions of citizenship for disabled people - the perils of bodily and mental difference and the potential for personal and group empowerment.

Islamic and Cultural Foundations of Kashmiriyat (Hardcover): Mohammed Ishaq Khan Islamic and Cultural Foundations of Kashmiriyat (Hardcover)
Mohammed Ishaq Khan
R1,275 Discovery Miles 12 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Israel, Palestine, & the Quest for Middle East Peace (Paperback): Dennis J. Deeb Israel, Palestine, & the Quest for Middle East Peace (Paperback)
Dennis J. Deeb
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

After the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, Pakistan's then President Pervez Musharraf declared: "The Palestinian front is affecting the entire Muslim world. All terrorists and militant activity in the world today has been initiated because of the Palestinian problem. This is because of the sense of hopelessness, alienation, and powerlessness." The decade following the aftermath of September 11th has only proven that a comprehensive peace settlement in the Middle East and a resolve to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are a crucial necessity to global stability. In this well-researched and thoroughly-documented work, Professor Dennis J. Deeb II objectively aims to provide both a historical narrative of the events surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a historiography exploring the failures to achieve the end result of a final settlement between the Israelis and the Palestinians. What went wrong with peace? This book explores the issues of contention that must be resolved between the parties to reach a lasting settlement.

Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year ..; v.51 (1920) (Hardcover): Royal Asiatic Society... Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year ..; v.51 (1920) (Hardcover)
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britai
R901 Discovery Miles 9 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The History of Ancient Israel: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover): Philip R Davies The History of Ancient Israel: A Guide for the Perplexed (Hardcover)
Philip R Davies
R3,198 Discovery Miles 31 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The History of Ancient Israel: A Guide for the Perplexed provides the student with the perfect guide to why and how the history of this most contested region has been studies, and why it continues to be studied today. Philip R. Davies, one of the leading scholars of Ancient Israel in recent years, begins by examining the relevance of the study of Ancient Israel, giving an overview of the sources and issues facing historians in approaching the material. Davies then continues by looking at the various theories and hypotheses that scholars have advanced throughout the 20th century, showing how different approaches are presented and in some cases how they are both underpinned and undermined by a range of ideological perspectives. Davies also explains the rise and fall of Biblical Archaeology, the 'maximalist/minimalist' debate. After this helpful survey of past methodologies Davies introduces readers to the current trends in biblical scholarship in the present day, covering areas such as cultural memory, the impact of literary and social scientific theory, and the notion of 'invented history'. Finally, Davies considers the big question: how the various sources of knowledge can be combined to write a modern history that combines and accounts for all the data available, in a meaningful way. This new guide will be a must for students of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament.

Shadow States - India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 (Hardcover): Berenice Guyot-Rechard Shadow States - India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962 (Hardcover)
Berenice Guyot-Rechard
R2,831 Discovery Miles 28 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and India tried to expand into the Himalayas in the twentieth century, their lack of strong ties to the region and the absence of an easily enforceable border made their proximity threatening - observing China and India's state-making efforts, local inhabitants were in a position to compare and potentially choose between them. Using rich and original archival research, Berenice Guyot-Rechard shows how India and China became each other's 'shadow states'. Understanding these recent, competing processes of state formation in the Himalayas is fundamental to understanding the roots of tensions in Sino-Indian relations.

History of the Jews - A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World... History of the Jews - A Captivating Guide to Jewish History, Starting from the Ancient Israelites through Roman Rule to World War 2 (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R675 R602 Discovery Miles 6 020 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia - The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620-1720 (Hardcover):... Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia - The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620-1720 (Hardcover)
Xing Hang
R2,829 Discovery Miles 28 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East Asia. Under four generations of leaders over six decades, the Zheng had come to dominate trade across the China Seas. Their average annual earnings matched, and at times exceeded, those of their fiercest rivals: the Dutch East India Company. Although nominally loyal to the Ming in its doomed struggle against the Manchus, the Zheng eventually forged an autonomous territorial state based on Taiwan with the potential to encompass the family's entire economic sphere of influence. Through the story of the Zheng, Xing Hang provides a fresh perspective on the economic divergence of early modern China from western Europe, its twenty-first-century resurgence, and the meaning of a Chinese identity outside China.

The Khilafat and England; 2 (Hardcover): Syed 1889- Mahmud The Khilafat and England; 2 (Hardcover)
Syed 1889- Mahmud
R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Law of Divorce Applicable to Christians in India (The Indian Divorce Act 1869) (Hardcover): Henry Adolphus Byden Rattigan The Law of Divorce Applicable to Christians in India (The Indian Divorce Act 1869) (Hardcover)
Henry Adolphus Byden Rattigan
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World (Hardcover): Christoph Mauntel Geography and Religious Knowledge in the Medieval World (Hardcover)
Christoph Mauntel
R3,411 Discovery Miles 34 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the medieval world, geographical knowledge was influenced by religious ideas and beliefs. Whereas this point is well analysed for the Latin-Christian world, the religious character of the Arabic-Islamic geographic tradition has not yet been scrutinised in detail. This volume addresses this desideratum and combines case studies from both traditions of geographic thinking. The contributions comprise in-depth analyses of individual geographical works as for example those of al-Idrisi or Lambert of Saint-Omer, different forms of presenting geographical knowledge such as TO-diagrams or globes as well as performative aspects of studying and meditating geographical knowledge. Focussing on texts as well as on maps, the contributions open up a comparative perspective on how religious knowledge influenced the way the world and its geography were perceived and described int the medieval world.

Iranian History - A Captivating Guide to the Persian Empire and History of Iran, Starting from the Achaemenid Empire, through... Iranian History - A Captivating Guide to the Persian Empire and History of Iran, Starting from the Achaemenid Empire, through the Parthian, Sasanian and Safavid Empire to the Afsharid and Qajar Dynasty (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R771 R687 Discovery Miles 6 870 Save R84 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Unopened Letter - A Dose of Reality Changes a Young Man's Life Forever (Hardcover): Richard W Herman The Unopened Letter - A Dose of Reality Changes a Young Man's Life Forever (Hardcover)
Richard W Herman
R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Upheavals in the Middle East - The Theory and Practice of a Revolution (Paperback): Ronen A. Cohen Upheavals in the Middle East - The Theory and Practice of a Revolution (Paperback)
Ronen A. Cohen
R1,322 Discovery Miles 13 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution engages with some of the most sensitive issues in the Middle East-revolutions and social protests. The book offers theoretical paradigms that suit the Middle East's conditions-culturally, religiously and historically. It deals with seventeen case studies from a range of Muslim and Arab states and provides a theoretical framework to study other situations all over the world, including cases from the recent Arab Spring. Revolution, as political action, can occur in all societies, but in recent years it has appeared most frequently in the Middle East. Will this trend continue? What makes the Middle Eastern revolution unique and surprising? This book seeks to answer these questions, placing side by side those cases that were successful and those that were doomed to fail.

Obstacle to Peace - The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Hardcover): Jeremy R. Hammond, Richard (Foreward) Falk,... Obstacle to Peace - The US Role in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Hardcover)
Jeremy R. Hammond, Richard (Foreward) Falk, Gene (Intro) Epstein
R994 Discovery Miles 9 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Sources of Vijayanagar History (Hardcover): Sakkottai 187 Krishnaswami Aiyangar Sources of Vijayanagar History (Hardcover)
Sakkottai 187 Krishnaswami Aiyangar
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Blades of Thunder - Book One of Two (Hardcover): W Larry Dandridge Blades of Thunder - Book One of Two (Hardcover)
W Larry Dandridge
R1,011 Discovery Miles 10 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Anglo-american Pottery - Old English China With American Views, A Manual For Collectors (Hardcover): Edwin Atlee Barber Anglo-american Pottery - Old English China With American Views, A Manual For Collectors (Hardcover)
Edwin Atlee Barber
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas - Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (Hardcover): Manja... Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas - Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus (Hardcover)
Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Philipp Schroeder
R1,430 Discovery Miles 14 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Arab Awakening - The Story of the Arab National Movement (Hardcover, Reprint ed.): George Antonius The Arab Awakening - The Story of the Arab National Movement (Hardcover, Reprint ed.)
George Antonius
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War (Hardcover): Dalia Gavriely-Nuri Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War (Hardcover)
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri
R2,576 Discovery Miles 25 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The surprise of the Yom Kippur War rivals that of the other two major strategic surprises in the 20th century Operation Barbarossa, the 1941 German surprise attack on the Soviet Union and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The major difference between these events is that Israeli intelligence had a lot more and better quality information leading up to the attack than did the Americans or the Soviet Union prior to those attacks. Why, then, was the beginning of the war such a surprise? The sudden eruption of the Yom Kippur War in 1973 took Israel and the world by surprise. While many scholars have tried to explain why Israel was caught unawares despite its sophisticated military intelligence services, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri looks beyond the military, intelligence, and political explanations to a cultural explanation. Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War reveals that the culture that evolved in Israel between the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War played a large role in the surprise. Gavriely-Nuri lays out the cultural environment at the time to show that an attack of any kind would have been experienced as a strategic surprise despite the amount of intelligence available.

A Military History of Japan - From the Age of the Samurai to the 21st Century (Hardcover): John T. Kuehn A Military History of Japan - From the Age of the Samurai to the 21st Century (Hardcover)
John T. Kuehn
R2,791 Discovery Miles 27 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive volume traces the evolution of Japanese military history-from 300 AD to present day foreign relations-and reveals how the country's cultural views of power, violence, and politics helped shape Japan's long and turbulent history of war. The legacy of Japanese warfare is steeped in honor, duty, and valor. Yet, some of the more violent episodes in this country's military history have tainted foreign attitudes toward Japan, oftentimes threatening the economic stability of the Pacific region. This book documents Japan's long and stormy history of war and military action, provides a thorough analysis of the social and political changes that have contributed to the evolution of Japan's foreign policy and security decisions, and reveals the truth behind the common myths and misconceptions of this nation's iconic war symbols and events, including samurais, warlords, and kamikaze attacks. Written by an author with military experience and insight into modern-day Japanese culture gained from living in Japan, A Military History of Japan: From the Age of the Samurai to the 21st Century examines how Japan's history of having warrior-based leaderships, imperialist governments, and dictators has shaped the country's concepts of war. It provides a complete military history of Japan-from the beginning of the Imperial institution to the post-Cold War era-in a single volume. This thoughtful resource also contains photos, maps, and a glossary of key Japanese terms to support learning. Compiles Japan's complete military history in one volume Reveals the strategic blunders and poor choices that led to Japan's surrender to the United States in 1945 Provides in-depth coverage of the popular and compelling Samurai, Imperial, and Shogun periods of history

The History of Galilee, 1538-1949 - Mysticism, Modernization, and War (Hardcover): M M Silver The History of Galilee, 1538-1949 - Mysticism, Modernization, and War (Hardcover)
M M Silver
R2,877 Discovery Miles 28 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study of Galilee in modern times reaches back to the region's Biblical roots and points to future challenges in the Arab-Jewish conflict, Israel's development, and inter-faith relations. This volume covers an array of subjects, including Kabbalah, the rise of Palestinian nationalism, modern Christian approaches to Galilee's past and present, Zionist pioneering, the roots of the Arab-Jewish dispute, and the conflict's eruption in Galilee in 1948. The book shows how the modernization of Galilee intertwined with mystical belief and practice, developing in its own grassroots way among Palestinians, Orthodox Jews, Christians, and Druze, rather than being a byproduct of Western intervention. In doing so, The History of Galilee, 1538-1949: Mysticism, Modernization, and War offers fresh, challenging perspectives for scholars in the history of religion, military history, theology, world politics, middle eastern studies, and other disciplines.

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