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Schiller's Homage of the Arts - With Miscellaneous Pieces from Ruckert, Freiligrath, and Other German Poets (Paperback):... Schiller's Homage of the Arts - With Miscellaneous Pieces from Ruckert, Freiligrath, and Other German Poets (Paperback)
Charles Timothy Brooks
R446 Discovery Miles 4 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Simplicity of Christ's Teachings - Set Forth in Sermons (Paperback): Charles Timothy Brooks The Simplicity of Christ's Teachings - Set Forth in Sermons (Paperback)
Charles Timothy Brooks
R599 Discovery Miles 5 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Formational Power of Worship - Leading Your Community with Intention (Paperback): Timothy Brooks The Formational Power of Worship - Leading Your Community with Intention (Paperback)
Timothy Brooks
R351 R329 Discovery Miles 3 290 Save R22 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Controversy Touching the Old Stone Mill... Volume 1 (Paperback): Charles Timothy Brooks The Controversy Touching the Old Stone Mill... Volume 1 (Paperback)
Charles Timothy Brooks
R405 Discovery Miles 4 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Max and Maurice, a Juvenile History in Seven Tricks (Hardcover): Charles Timothy Brooks, Wilhelm Busch Max and Maurice, a Juvenile History in Seven Tricks (Hardcover)
Charles Timothy Brooks, Wilhelm Busch
R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Titan - A Romance. from the German of Jean Paul Richter (Hardcover): Charles Timothy Brooks, Jean Paul Titan - A Romance. from the German of Jean Paul Richter (Hardcover)
Charles Timothy Brooks, Jean Paul
R1,111 Discovery Miles 11 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Controversy Touching the Old Stone Mill, in the Town of Newport, Rhode-Island - With Remarks, Introductory and Conclusive... The Controversy Touching the Old Stone Mill, in the Town of Newport, Rhode-Island - With Remarks, Introductory and Conclusive (Hardcover)
Charles Timothy Brooks
R818 Discovery Miles 8 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Titan - A Romance; Volume 1: Charles Timothy Brooks, Jean Paul Titan - A Romance; Volume 1
Charles Timothy Brooks, Jean Paul
R1,112 Discovery Miles 11 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
No Bees, PLEASE! (Hardcover): Nicole S Dennis No Bees, PLEASE! (Hardcover)
Nicole S Dennis; Illustrated by Timothy Brooks
R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Bride Of The Rhine - Two Hundred Miles In A Mosel Row-boat (Hardcover): George Edwin Waring The Bride Of The Rhine - Two Hundred Miles In A Mosel Row-boat (Hardcover)
George Edwin Waring; Created by Charles Timothy Brooks
R938 Discovery Miles 9 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Early Chinese Empires - Qin and Han (Paperback): Mark Edward Lewis The Early Chinese Empires - Qin and Han (Paperback)
Mark Edward Lewis; Edited by (general) Timothy Brook
R619 Discovery Miles 6 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. The Qin and Han constitute the "classical period" of Chinese history-a role played by the Greeks and Romans in the West. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on the history of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism-events whose residual influence can still be discerned today.

The Price of Collapse - The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China (Hardcover): Timothy Brook The Price of Collapse - The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China (Hardcover)
Timothy Brook
R843 R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Save R161 (19%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empires In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule. The mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster, the Ming price regime collapsed, and with it the Ming political regime. A masterful work of scholarship, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it.

The Troubled Empire - China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (Paperback): Timothy Brook The Troubled Empire - China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (Paperback)
Timothy Brook; Edited by (general) Timothy Brook
R621 Discovery Miles 6 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire-a millennium and a half in the making-was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the Yuan dynasty in 1279 was no longer what it would be in the future. Four centuries later, another wave of steppe invaders would replace the Ming dynasty with yet another foreign occupation. The Troubled Empire explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions. If anything defined the complex dynamics of this period, it was changes in the weather. Asia, like Europe, experienced a Little Ice Age, and as temperatures fell in the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan moved south into China. His Yuan dynasty collapsed in less than a century, but Mongol values lived on in Ming institutions. A second blast of cold in the 1630s, combined with drought, was more than the dynasty could stand, and the Ming fell to Manchu invaders. Against this background-the first coherent ecological history of China in this period-Timothy Brook explores the growth of autocracy, social complexity, and commercialization, paying special attention to China's incorporation into the larger South China Sea economy. These changes not only shaped what China would become but contributed to the formation of the early modern world.

The Age of Confucian Rule - The Song Transformation of China (Paperback): Dieter Kuhn The Age of Confucian Rule - The Song Transformation of China (Paperback)
Dieter Kuhn; Edited by (general) Timothy Brook
R631 Discovery Miles 6 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. Within two centuries, China was home to nearly half of all humankind. In this concise history, we learn why the inventiveness of this era has been favorably compared with the European Renaissance, which in many ways the Song transformation surpassed.

With the chaotic dissolution of the Tang dynasty, the old aristocratic families vanished. A new class of scholar-officials products of a meritocratic examination system took up the task of reshaping Chinese tradition by adapting the precepts of Confucianism to a rapidly changing world. Through fiscal reforms, these elites liberalized the economy, eased the tax burden, and put paper money into circulation. Their redesigned capitals buzzed with traders, while the education system offered advancement to talented men of modest means. Their rationalist approach led to inventions in printing, shipbuilding, weaving, ceramics manufacture, mining, and agriculture. With a realist s eye, they studied the natural world and applied their observations in art and science. And with the souls of diplomats, they chose peace over war with the aggressors on their borders. Yet persistent military threats from these nomadic tribes which the Chinese scorned as their cultural inferiors redefined China s understanding of its place in the world and solidified a sense of what it meant to be Chinese.

"The Age of Confucian Rule" is an essential introduction to this transformative era. A scholar should congratulate himself that he has been born in such a time (Zhao Ruyu, 1194).

China between Empires - The Northern and Southern Dynasties (Paperback): Mark Edward Lewis China between Empires - The Northern and Southern Dynasties (Paperback)
Mark Edward Lewis; Edited by (general) Timothy Brook
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the changes that both underlay and resulted from this split in a period that saw the geographic redefinition of China, more engagement with the outside world, significant changes to family life, developments in the literary and social arenas, and the introduction of new religions.

The Yangzi River valley arose as the rice-producing center of the country. Literature moved beyond the court and capital to depict local culture, and newly emerging social spaces included the garden, temple, salon, and country villa. The growth of self-defined genteel families expanded the notion of the elite, moving it away from the traditional great Han families identified mostly by material wealth. Trailing the rebel movements that toppled the Han, the new faiths of Daoism and Buddhism altered every aspect of life, including the state, kinship structures, and the economy.

By the time China was reunited by the Sui dynasty in 589 ce, the elite had been drawn into the state order, and imperial power had assumed a more transcendent nature. The Chinese were incorporated into a new world system in which they exchanged goods and ideas with states that shared a common Buddhist religion. The centuries between the Han and the Tang thus had a profound and permanent impact on the Chinese world.

Vermeer's Hat - The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world (Paperback, Main): Timothy Brook Vermeer's Hat - The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world (Paperback, Main)
Timothy Brook 1
R352 Discovery Miles 3 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Elegant and quietly important...Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanity's interdependence."--"Seattle Times

"A painting shows a military officer in a Dutch sitting room, talking to a laughing girl. I n another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. Vermeer's images captivate us with their beauty and mystery: What stories lie behind these stunningly rendered moments? As T imothy Brook shows us, these pictures, which seem so intimate, actually offer a remarkable view of a rapidly expanding world. Moving outward from Vermeer's studio, Brook traces the web of trade that was spreading across the globe. "Vermeer's Hat "shows how the urge to acquire foreign goods was refashioning the world more powerfully than we have yet understood.

The Chinese State in Ming Society (Hardcover, New): Timothy Brook The Chinese State in Ming Society (Hardcover, New)
Timothy Brook
R4,484 Discovery Miles 44 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present day state and society in China. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship and argues that contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical responses within society that led to a 'constitution', not periods of fluctuation within the dynasty itself. Brook's outstanding scholarship demonstrates that it was changes in commercial relations and social networks that were actually responsible for the development of a stable society. This imaginative reconsidering of existing scholarship on the history of China will be fascinating reading for scholars and students interested in China's development.

The Chinese State in Ming Society (Paperback, New): Timothy Brook The Chinese State in Ming Society (Paperback, New)
Timothy Brook
R1,800 Discovery Miles 18 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between the present day state and society in China. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this relationship and argues that contrary to previous scholarship, it was radical responses within society that led to a 'constitution', not periods of fluctuation within the dynasty itself. Brook's outstanding scholarship demonstrates that it was changes in commercial relations and social networks that were actually responsible for the development of a stable society. This imaginative reconsidering of existing scholarship on the history of China will be fascinating reading for scholars and students interested in China's development.

China's Cosmopolitan Empire - The Tang Dynasty (Paperback): Mark Edward Lewis China's Cosmopolitan Empire - The Tang Dynasty (Paperback)
Mark Edward Lewis; Edited by (general) Timothy Brook
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Tang dynasty is often called China's "golden age," a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creativity. Mark Lewis captures a dynamic era in which the empire reached its greatest geographical extent under Chinese rule, painting and ceramic arts flourished, women played a major role both as rulers and in the economy, and China produced its finest lyric poets in Wang Wei, Li Bo, and Du Fu. The Chinese engaged in extensive trade on sea and land. Merchants from Inner Asia settled in the capital, while Chinese entrepreneurs set off for the wider world, the beginning of a global diaspora. The emergence of an economically and culturally dominant south that was controlled from a northern capital set a pattern for the rest of Chinese imperial history. Poems celebrated the glories of the capital, meditated on individual loneliness in its midst, and described heroic young men and beautiful women who filled city streets and bars. Despite the romantic aura attached to the Tang, it was not a time of unending peace. In 756, General An Lushan led a revolt that shook the country to its core, weakening the government to such a degree that by the early tenth century, regional warlordism gripped many areas, heralding the decline of the Great Tang.

Civil Society in China (Hardcover, New): Timothy Brook, B.Michael Frolic Civil Society in China (Hardcover, New)
Timothy Brook, B.Michael Frolic
R4,483 Discovery Miles 44 830 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The concept of "civil society" was borrowed from eighteenth-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and postcommunist regimes elsewhere. In China, the Democracy Movement forced the concept onto the intellectual agenda during the struggle to come to terms with the growth of dissent and the failure of student activism to find a secure foothold. The question that drives this book is whether this concept is useful for analyzing China, and if so, in what ways and within what limits.

Civil Society in China (Paperback, New): Timothy Brook, B.Michael Frolic Civil Society in China (Paperback, New)
Timothy Brook, B.Michael Frolic
R1,497 Discovery Miles 14 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The concept of "civil society" was borrowed from eighteenth-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and postcommunist regimes elsewhere. In China, the Democracy Movement forced the concept onto the intellectual agenda during the struggle to come to terms with the growth of dissent and the failure of student activism to find a secure foothold. The question that drives this book is whether this concept is useful for analyzing China, and if so, in what ways and within what limits.

Great State - China and the World (Paperback, Main): Timothy Brook Great State - China and the World (Paperback, Main)
Timothy Brook
R367 Discovery Miles 3 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynasty to the next, it has maintained them for the eight centuries since. Even the European colonial powers at the height of their power could not move past coastal enclaves. Thus, China remained China through the Ming, the Qing, the Republic, the Occupation, and Communism. But, despite the desires of some of the most powerful people in the Great State through the ages, China has never been alone in the world. It has had to contend with invaders from the steppe and the challenges posed by foreign traders and imperialists. Indeed, its rulers for the majority of the last eight centuries have not been Chinese. Timothy Brook examines China's relationship with the world from the Yuan through to the present by following the stories of ordinary and extraordinary people navigating the spaces where China met and meets the world. Bureaucrats, horse traders, spiritual leaders, explorers, pirates, emperors, invaders, migrant workers, traitors, and visionaries: this is a history of China as no one has told it before.

China's Last Empire - The Great Qing (Paperback): William T. Rowe China's Last Empire - The Great Qing (Paperback)
William T. Rowe; Edited by (general) Timothy Brook
R654 Discovery Miles 6 540 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. The Great Qing was the second major Chinese empire ruled by foreigners. Three strong Manchu emperors worked diligently to secure an alliance with the conquered Ming gentry, though many of their social edicts-especially the requirement that ethnic Han men wear queues-were fiercely resisted. As advocates of a "universal" empire, Qing rulers also achieved an enormous expansion of the Chinese realm over the course of three centuries, including the conquest and incorporation of Turkic and Tibetan peoples in the west, vast migration into the southwest, and the colonization of Taiwan. Despite this geographic range and the accompanying social and economic complexity, the Qing ideal of "small government" worked well when outside threats were minimal. But the nineteenth-century Opium Wars forced China to become a player in a predatory international contest involving Western powers, while the devastating uprisings of the Taiping and Boxer rebellions signaled an urgent need for internal reform. Comprehensive state-mandated changes during the early twentieth century were not enough to hold back the nationalist tide of 1911, but they provided a new foundation for the Republican and Communist states that would follow. This original, thought-provoking history of China's last empire is a must-read for understanding the challenges facing China today.

The Asiatic Mode of Production in China (Hardcover): Timothy Brook The Asiatic Mode of Production in China (Hardcover)
Timothy Brook
R5,520 Discovery Miles 55 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Brook (history, U. of Toronto) surveys the history of the concept of the AMP (a concept formulated by Karl Marx in the 1850s) in China in relation to debates elsewhere, and examines the particular issues raised in recent Chinese discussions. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Nation Work - Asian Elites and National Identities (Paperback): Timothy Brook, Andre Schmid Nation Work - Asian Elites and National Identities (Paperback)
Timothy Brook, Andre Schmid
R868 Discovery Miles 8 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and Andre Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical examples from Asian countries--China, India, Korea, and Japan--to enrich our understandings of the origin and growth of nations.
Asia provides fertile ground for this inquiry, the volume argues, because in Asia the history of the modern nation has been inseparable from global influences in the form of Western imperialism. Yet, while the impetus for building a modern national identity may have come from the need to fashion a favorable place in a world system dominated by Western nations, those engaged in nationalist enterprises found their particular voices more often in relation to tensions within Asia than in relation to more generic tensions between Asia and the West.
With topics ranging from public health measures in nineteenth-century Japan through textual scholarship of Tamil intellectuals, the willful division of Korea's history from China's, the development of China's cotton industry, and the meaning of "postnational-ism" for Chinese artists, the essays reveal the fascinating array of sites at which nation work can take place.
This will be essential reading for historians and social scientists interested in Asia.
Timothy Brook is Professor of History, Stanford University. Andre Schmid is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto.

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