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First published in 1980. This book analyzes Chinese society and
evaluates the achievements and failures of the Maoist ideology. The
central theme is the urban and rural balance in China's development
from the Revolution to the late twentieth century. The Fading of
the Maoist Vision shows how the original Revolutionary blueprint
was altered and the ways in which China has steered a different
course from that charted by Mao as the ideological vision
encountered an increasingly pressing set of economic realities. The
book: * Is particularly valuable in setting China's achievements in
the larger context of global ideas about the problems of national
development and by comparing them to the experience of India in its
pursuit of the Gandhian ideal.
A study of the Ottoman military machine and its successes in
Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in a period when they were
feared by western European states and the focus of much military
concern. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in early
modern history, Ottoman history, history of the Middle East and
North Africa, and for military historians.
This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts,
materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it
presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the
chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on
abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for
undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical
bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition,
which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded
cartographic coverage.
Modern historiography has become accustomed to portraying the
emperor Theophilos of Byzantium (829-842) in a favourable light,
taking at face value the legendary account that makes of him a
righteous and learned ruler, and excusing as ill fortune his
apparent military failures against the Muslims. The present book
considers events of the period that are crucial to our
understanding of the reign and argues for a more balanced
assessment of it. The focus lies on the impact of Oriental politics
on the reign of Theophilos, the last iconoclast emperor. After
introductory chapters, setting out the context in which he came to
power, separate sections are devoted to the influence of Armenians
at the court, the enrolment of Persian rebels against the caliphate
in the Byzantine army, the continuous warfare with the Arabs and
the cultural exchange with Baghdad, the Khazar problem, and the
attitude of the Christian Melkites towards the iconoclast emperor.
The final chapter reassesses the image of the emperor as a good
ruler, building on the conclusions of the previous sections. The
book reinterprets major events of the period and their chronology,
and sets in a new light the role played by figures like Thomas the
Slav, Manuel the Armenian or the Persian Theophobos, whose identity
is established from a better understanding of the sources.
A History of Asia is the only text to cover the area known as
"monsoon Asia" - India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast
Asia--from the earliest times to the present. Written by leading
scholar Rhoads Murphey, the book uses an engaging, lively tone to
chronicle the complex political, social, intellectual, and economic
histories of this area. Popular because of its scope and coverage,
as well as its illustrations, maps, and many boxed primary sources,
the new edition of A History of Asia continues as a leader in its
field.
The studies presented in this collection are concerned most
particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature
Ottoman state of the 16th-18th centuries. They range from the
evaluation of sources of livelihood and conditions in the workplace
on the one hand, to notions of domesticity and organization of the
private sphere on the other, and deal with the provinces, in both
the Balkans and in Asia, as much as with Istanbul. At the same time
the volume aims to illuminate Ottoman imperial institutional forms
and norms as they existed in the high imperial era before the rapid
change and transformation associated with late imperial times when
the empire was more exposed both to global economic forces and
external political pressures. This concentration on the relatively
stable conditions that prevailed in the empire throughout the bulk
of the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1750) provides the reader
with an opportunity to assess Ottoman institutional development and
observe social and economic organization in their relatively 'pure'
state before the double impact of industrialization and increasing
Westernization in the late nineteenth century.
A study of the Ottoman military machine and its successes in
Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in a period when they were
feared by western European states and the focus of much military
concern. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in early
modern history, Ottoman history, history of the Middle East and
North Africa, and for military historians.
First published in 1980. This book analyzes Chinese society and
evaluates the achievements and failures of the Maoist ideology. The
central theme is the urban and rural balance in China's development
from the Revolution to the late twentieth century. The Fading of
the Maoist Vision shows how the original Revolutionary blueprint
was altered and the ways in which China has steered a different
course from that charted by Mao as the ideological vision
encountered an increasingly pressing set of economic realities. The
book: * Is particularly valuable in setting China's achievements in
the larger context of global ideas about the problems of national
development and by comparing them to the experience of India in its
pursuit of the Gandhian ideal.
This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts,
materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it
presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the
chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on
abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for
undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical
bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition,
which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded
cartographic coverage.
The studies presented in this collection are concerned most
particularly with the material conditions of life in the mature
Ottoman state of the 16th-18th centuries. They range from the
evaluation of sources of livelihood and conditions in the workplace
on the one hand, to notions of domesticity and organization of the
private sphere on the other, and deal with the provinces, in both
the Balkans and in Asia, as much as with Istanbul. At the same time
the volume aims to illuminate Ottoman imperial institutional forms
and norms as they existed in the high imperial era before the rapid
change and transformation associated with late imperial times when
the empire was more exposed both to global economic forces and
external political pressures. This concentration on the relatively
stable conditions that prevailed in the empire throughout the bulk
of the early modern era (ca. 1450-ca. 1750) provides the reader
with an opportunity to assess Ottoman institutional development and
observe social and economic organization in their relatively 'pure'
state before the double impact of industrialization and increasing
Westernization in the late nineteenth century.
A History of Asia is the only textbook to provide a historical
overview of the whole of this region, encompassing India, China,
Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Engaging and lively, it
chronicles the complex political, social, and intellectual
histories of the area from prehistory to the present day. Taking a
comparative approach throughout, the book offers a balanced history
of each major tradition, also dedicating coverage to countries or
regions such as Vietnam and Central Asia that are less frequently
discussed in depth. This eighth edition has been streamlined and
updated to reflect the most recent scholarship on Asian history,
bringing the book up to date with recent events and key trends in
historical research. Highlights of the book include close-up
portraits of significant Asian cities, detailed discussion of
environmental factors that have shaped Asian history, quotes from
Asian poetry and philosophical writing, and attention to questions
of gender and national identity. Highly illustrated with images and
maps, each chapter also contains discussion questions, primary
source excerpts, and in-depth boxed features. Written clearly
throughout, A History of Asia is the perfect introductory textbook
for all students of the history, culture, and politics of this
fascinating region.
The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed
in the widest possible global historical perspective with
comparison of New World empires such as the Aztecs and Incas side
by side with the history of imperial Rome and the empires of China
and Russia in the medieval and modern periods. Surprisingly little
work has been carried out focusing on the evolution of state
control and imperial administration in the same territory;
approached in a rigorous and historically grounded fashion over a
wide extent of historical time from late antiquity to the twentieth
century. The empires of Rome, Byzantium, the Ottomans and the
latter-day imperialists in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, all inherited or seized and sought to develop
overlapping parts of a common territorial base in the Eastern
Mediterranean and all struggled to contain, control or otherwise
alter the political, cultural and spiritual allegiances of the same
indigenous population groups that were brought under their rule and
administration. The task undertaken in Imperial Lineages and
Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean is to investigate the balance
between continuity and change adopted at various historical
conjunctures when new imperial regimes were established and to
expose common features and shared approaches to the challenge of
imperial rule that united otherwise divergent societies and
imperial administrations. The work incorporates the contributions
by twelve scholars, each leading practitioners in their respective
fields and each contributing their particular insights on the
shared theme of imperial identity and legacy in the Mediterranean
World of the pagan, Christian and Muslim eras.
A History of Asia is the only textbook to provide a historical
overview of the whole of this region, encompassing India, China,
Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Engaging and lively, it
chronicles the complex political, social, and intellectual
histories of the area from prehistory to the present day. Taking a
comparative approach throughout, the book offers a balanced history
of each major tradition, also dedicating coverage to countries or
regions such as Vietnam and Central Asia that are less frequently
discussed in depth. This eighth edition has been streamlined and
updated to reflect the most recent scholarship on Asian history,
bringing the book up to date with recent events and key trends in
historical research. Highlights of the book include close-up
portraits of significant Asian cities, detailed discussion of
environmental factors that have shaped Asian history, quotes from
Asian poetry and philosophical writing, and attention to questions
of gender and national identity. Highly illustrated with images and
maps, each chapter also contains discussion questions, primary
source excerpts, and in-depth boxed features. Written clearly
throughout, A History of Asia is the perfect introductory textbook
for all students of the history, culture, and politics of this
fascinating region.
The comparative study of empires has traditionally been addressed
in the widest possible global historical perspective with
comparison of New World empires such as the Aztecs and Incas side
by side with the history of imperial Rome and the empires of China
and Russia in the medieval and modern periods. Surprisingly little
work has been carried out focusing on the evolution of state
control and imperial administration in the same territory;
approached in a rigorous and historically grounded fashion over a
wide extent of historical time from late antiquity to the twentieth
century. The empires of Rome, Byzantium, the Ottomans and the
latter-day imperialists in the nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries, all inherited or seized and sought to develop
overlapping parts of a common territorial base in the Eastern
Mediterranean and all struggled to contain, control or otherwise
alter the political, cultural and spiritual allegiances of the same
indigenous population groups that were brought under their rule and
administration. The task undertaken in Imperial Lineages and
Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean is to investigate the balance
between continuity and change adopted at various historical
conjunctures when new imperial regimes were established and to
expose common features and shared approaches to the challenge of
imperial rule that united otherwise divergent societies and
imperial administrations. The work incorporates the contributions
by twelve scholars, each leading practitioners in their respective
fields and each contributing their particular insights on the
shared theme of imperial identity and legacy in the Mediterranean
World of the pagan, Christian and Muslim eras.
Ottoman Warfare is an impressive and original examination of the
Ottoman military machine, detailing its success in Europe, North
Africa, and the Middle East. Focusing primarily on the evolution of
the Ottoman military organization and its subsequent impact on
Ottoman society in a period of change, the book redresses the
historiographical imbalance in the existing literature, analyzing
why the Ottomans were the focus of such intense military concern.
Several books have been written on the fiscal, technological,
tactical, and political dimensions of Ottoman military history;
little has been attempted, however, to recreate or evoke the
physical and psychological realities of war as experienced by
Ottoman soldiers. Rhoads Murphey seeks to rectify this imbalance,
favoring operational matters and providing a detailed study of a
number of campaigns: we are offered, for example, vivid
descriptions of life in the trenches with the diggers at Baghdad in
1638, who dug a total of five miles at 50 yards a day. Murphey's
analysis does not focus on the Ottoman's success or failure in
particular campaigns per se; he focuses on understanding the actual
process of how the Ottoman military machine worked. This
long-awaited work will become the definitive study of Ottoman
warfare in the early modern period, and will be invaluable to those
studying the Ottoman Empire and early modern European history in
general.
Is it possible to identify the 'essence' of Ottoman kingship? And
if so, what were the core principles that governed the dynasty over
its 600 year lifespan? Following the death of the dynasty's
eponymous founder Osman in 1324, 35 successors held the throne.
Despite the wide range of character traits, dispositions and
personal preferences, they led the expansion, stagnation and
eventual collapse of the empire. Rhoades Murphey offers an
alternative way of understanding the soul of the empire as
reflected in its key ruling institution: the sultanate. For much of
the period of centralized Ottoman rule between ca. 1450 and 1850
each of the dynasty's successive rulers developed and used the
state bureaucratic apparatus to achieve their ruling priorities,
based around the palace and court culture and rituals of
sovereignty as well as the sultan's role as the head of the central
state administrative apparatus.Sovereignty was attached to the
person of the sultan who moved (with his court) both often and for
prolonged stays away from his principal residence. In the period
between 1360 and 1453 there were dual capitals at Bursa and Edirne
(Adrianople) and even after 1453 several Ottoman sultans showed a
preference for Edirne over Istanbul. Even Sultan Suleyman the
Magnificent - held by the Ottomans, western contemporaries and
modern analysts alike to be the pinnacle and paragon of Ottoman
kingship - spent far more time away from his residence at the
Topkapi Palace than in it. This book explores the growing
complexity of the empire as it absorbed cultural influences and
imperial legacies from a wide diversity of sources each in turn
engendering a further interpretation of existing notions of
kingship and definitions of the role and function of the ruler.
"Frontiers of Ottoman Studies" provides a comprehensive overview of
the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture over the
past two decades. This first volume reflects the growing interest
in the provinces, communities and cultures outside the imperial
capital of Istanbul and covers four major areas: politics and
Islam; economy and taxation; and development of Ottoman towns and
Arab and Jewish communities. Chapters on the development of Ottoman
legal and fiscal institutions provide a fascinating insight into
the Ottoman government's interaction with the Empire's subjects,
while reviews of Egypt and the Arab provinces emphasize the
stirrings of Arab nationalism in the late nineteenth and twentieth
centuries that ultimately contributed to the demise of the
Empire.
Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of
the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture of the past
two decades. The second volume covers Ottoman-European
International Relations; Ottoman manuscripts in Europe;
Ottoman-European cultural exchange and Christian influence and the
advent of the Europeans. The work makes a significant contribution
to diplomatic history and international relations; Ottoman
geographical knowledge; the nature of Ottoman artistic and cultural
aesthetics and the intellectual, cultural, technological and human
interactions between the Ottoman world and Europe.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which
commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and
impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes
high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using
print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in
1976.
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