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Author : Paul Kekai Manansala
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781329855342
Continuation of the multi-volume set Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan by Paul Kekai Manansala. This is the fourth and last volume of the series based on the online blog of the same name.
Author : Paul Kekai Manansala
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781430308997
"Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan" examines how the seafaring trading people known as the "Nusantao" from Insular Southeast Asia influenced world history. This is a "blook," a book based on a weblog (blog). The decision to publish the book came after requests to make the information in the blog available in an easier-to-read and more portable format. The advantage of the printed work is that the blog entries are arranged in easy-to-manage chronological order with out the need for the clicking through the blog archives. The glossary entries are also in alphabetical order for easy look-up, and a word index and table of contents further increase the readiblity of the blog/book. Important supplementary articles have also been included in the appendices. A must-read for those who think there is more to history than what we find in "mainstream" publications.
Author : Paul Kekai Manansala
Publisher : Booksurge Llc
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1419676970
Long ago, beginning in the New Stone Age, a people that included the ancestors of the Malayo-Polynesian people, known as the Nusantao, spread news of the world's center to the far reaches of the globe. A great churning of the ocean, a major volcanic eruption had left clues convincing these ancient navigators that they had discovered the axis mundi, the link between the three worlds of old mythology. Author Paul Kekai Manansala searched deep into arcane archives, museums and other repositories to uncover the mysteries of these ancient argonauts.
Author : John Lie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520289789
"[A] most impressive achievement by an extraordinarily intelligent, courageous, and—that goes without saying—'well-read' mind. The scope of this work is enormous: it provides no less than a comprehensive, historically grounded theory of 'modern peoplehood,' which is Lie’s felicitous umbrella term for everything that goes under the names 'race,' 'ethnicity,' and nationality.'" Christian Joppke, American Journal of Sociology "Lie's objective is to treat a series of large topics that he sees as related but that are usually treated separately: the social construction of identities, the origins and nature of modern nationalism, the explanation of genocide, and racism. These multiple themes are for him aspects of something he calls 'modern peoplehood.' His mode of demonstration is to review all the alternative explanations for each phenomenon, and to show why each successively is inadequate. His own theses are controversial but he makes a strong case for them. This book should renew debate." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University and author of The Decline of American Power: The U.S. in a Chaotic World
Author : H. Nooy-Palm
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004487758
Until about 1870 the Sa’dan-toraja of Sulawesi had little contact with the outside world. Several factors, of which the introduction of the coffee-growing and the coffee trade was chronologically one of the first, have changed their life as a megalithic people enmeshed in mythology and ritual drastically. The conversion of nearly half the population to Christianity after 1945 brought a particularly profound change in Sa’dan-Toraja society. Old customs, in particular as regards funerary rites, have a tenacious life, however. In autochthonous Toraja culture rituals are the main focus of attention. They are divided into ceremonies of the East and those of the West. The former, associated with sunrise and life, comprise feasts of the living; yellow and white are the colours belonging to these joyous festivals. The West is associated with sunset, death and darkness; the main colour connected with it is black. So death rituals are referred to a “night ceremonies”. In time these death feasts grew more and more complicated, finally overshadowing the festivals of the East.
Author : Charles Edward Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : WISC:89060392719
Author : Aurobindo Ghose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : India
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023598795
Author : John S. Bowman
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231500043
Containing more information on Asian culture than any other English-language reference work, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture is the first of its kind: a set of more than thirty chronologies for all the countries of Asia—East, South, Southeast, and Central—from the Paleolithic era through 1998. Each entry is clearly dated and, unlike most chronologies found in standard history texts, the entries are complete and detailed enough to provide virtually a sequential history of the vast and rich span of Asian cultures. The contributing writers and editors have ensured the book's usefulness to general readers by identifying individuals and groups, locating places and regions, explaining events and movements, and defining unfamiliar words and concepts. The thirty-two chronologies on individual countries, in conjunction with a detailed index, allow readers to find specific information quickly and efficiently, whether they seek the date for the invention of the iron plow or gunpowder, the fall of the Han Dynasty in China, or Ho Chi Minh's declarations of Vietnamese independence. This invaluable reference culminates with three appendices: "National/Independence Days," "Scientific-Technological Achievements in Asia," and "Asia: A Chronological Overview," which provides an accessible summary of key events and developments in various fields of activity throughout the continent. The Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture features: three discrete chronologies on (1) Politics/History, (2) Art/Culture/Religion, and (3) Science/Economics/Everyday Life for each of Asia's three major cultures—China, India, and Japan—as well as a combined chronology for each of the other nations; detailed entries of thousands of historical events as well as important milestones in religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts; entries on technological developments and natural events (famines, floods, etc.) affecting the lives of ordinary people; and authoritative and accessibly written entries by a team of Asian scholars from Columbia, Harvard, and other major research universities. Beyond its detailed accounting of Asia's political history, Columbia Chronologies of Asian History and Culture also gives full recognition to religious, intellectual, artistic, and general cultural achievements, as well as to scientific, technological, industrial, agricultural, and economic developments. Concise yet complete, it will stand as an indispensable reference work in the field of Asian studies.
Author : Zhenping Wang
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824837884
Using a synthetic narrative approach, this ambitious work uses the lens of multipolarity to analyze Tang China’s (618–907) relations with Turkestan; the Korean states of Koguryŏ, Silla, and Paekche; the state of Parhae in Manchuria; and the Nanzhao and Tibetan kingdoms. Without any one entity able to dominate Asia’s geopolitical landscape, the author argues that relations among these countries were quite fluid and dynamic—an interpretation that departs markedly from the prevalent view of China fixed at the center of a widespread “tribute system.” To cope with external affairs in a tumultuous world, Tang China employed a dual management system that allowed both central and local officials to conduct foreign affairs. The court authorized Tang local administrators to receive foreign visitors, forward their diplomatic letters to the capital, and manage contact with outsiders whose territories bordered on China. Not limited to handling routine matters, local officials used their knowledge of border situations to influence the court’s foreign policy. Some even took the liberty of acting without the court’s authorization when an emergency occurred, thus adding another layer to multipolarity in the region’s geopolitics. The book also sheds new light on the ideological foundation of Tang China’s foreign policy. Appropriateness, efficacy, expedience, and mutual self-interest guided the court’s actions abroad. Although officials often used “virtue” and “righteousness” in policy discussions and announcements, these terms were not abstract universal principles but justifications for the pursuit of self-interest by those involved. Detailed philological studies reveal that in the realm of international politics, “virtue” and “righteousness” were in fact viewed as pragmatic and utilitarian in nature. Comprehensive and authoritative, Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia is a major work on Tang foreign relations that will reconceptualize our understanding of the complexities of diplomacy and war in imperial China.
Author : K G Jayne
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 102144457X
This in-depth study of Vasco da Gama and his successors offers a fascinating look at the history of European exploration and colonization in the 15th and 16th centuries. Drawing on extensive research, author Kingsley Garland Jayne provides a nuanced view of the Portuguese navigators who opened up new worlds of trade and commerce. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Yihong Pan
Publisher : Center for East Asian Studies Western Washington
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028657257
Author : Eric Trombert,Étienne de La Vaissière
Publisher : Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015077635202
Les Sogdiens en Chine ne furent pas seulement ces grands marchands internationaux, tels que les sources unanimes les décrivent, qui assurèrent pendant plusieurs siècles les échanges commerciaux entre la Chine et l'Asie centrale ; ces iranophones, venus de Samarcande ou Boukhara comme agriculteurs, soldats, artisans, diplomates ou traducteurs, participèrent également â tous les aspects de la vie sociale, artistique, économique et politique des grandes villes de Chine du Nord du Ve au VIIIe siècle. Cet ouvrage utilise l'ensemble des découvertes les plus récentes, aussi bien archéologiques que textuelles, pour proposer un large panorama de l'histoire de ces communautés influentes. Il regroupe 21 communications d'auteurs chinois, occidentaux et japonais.
Author : Christophe Roy Hudleston,R. S. Boumphrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Crests
ISBN : 1873124082
Author : A. K. Bag
Publisher : Arts
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004758497
Papers presented at a seminar held at New Delhi.
Author : Dennis Michael Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Akan (African people)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038343468