The Imperial Middle

Author : Linda Walton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108356299

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Middle Imperial China, 900–1350 by Linda Walton Pdf

In this highly readable and engaging work, Linda Walton presents a dynamic survey of China's history from the tenth through the mid-fourteenth centuries from the founding of the Song dynasty through the Mongol conquest when Song China became part of the Mongol Empire and Marco Polo made his famous journey to the court of the Great Khan. Adopting a thematic approach, she highlights the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural changes and continuities of the period often conceptualized as 'Middle Imperial China'. Particular emphasis is given to themes that inform scholarship on world history: religion, the state, the dynamics of empire, the transmission of knowledge, the formation of political elites, gender, and the family. Consistent coverage of peoples beyond the borders – Khitan, Tangut, Jurchen, and Mongol, among others – provides a broader East Asian context and introduces a more nuanced, integrated representation of China's past.

Author : Benjamin DeMott
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1557100233

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The Imperial Middle by Benjamin DeMott Pdf

Examines the concept of America as a classless society and reveals the social and political problems associated with the myth

Author : L. Dryden
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230597075

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Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance by L. Dryden Pdf

Linda Dryden places Almayer's Folly, An Outcast of the Islands , 'Karain', and Lord Jim in the context of the nineteenth-century imperial romance. Through the thwarted dreams and aspirations of his central characters she argues that Conrad exposes the empty promises of such fiction and challenges assumptions about the superiority of European imperialists and the imperial venture itself. Using illustrations from and references to many well-known novels of Empire, Dryden demonstrates how Conrad's Malay fiction alludes to the conventions and stereotypes of popular imperial fiction.

Author : Arthur Cotterell
Publisher : Random House
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446448397

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The Imperial Capitals of China by Arthur Cotterell Pdf

As China- the oldest continuous civilisation in existence- stands to become the most influential, with its economy expected to exceed that of the United States by 2020, Arthur Cotterell provides a panoramic sweep of an empire that lasted over two millennia through the imperial capitals that were the very foundations of each dynasty. Using original Chinese sources and eyewitness accounts he provides an inside view of the rich array of characters, political and ideological tensions, and technological genius that defined the imperial capitals of China, as each in turn is revealed, explored and celebrated. From the cosmological foundations of the first capital to the politics of empire and cataclysmic civil wars, this absorbing new book offers a level of insight indispensible for a true understanding of China today.

Author : Frank N. Magill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136593062

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The Middle Ages by Frank N. Magill Pdf

Each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains 250 entries on the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. This is not a who's who. Instead, each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. All entries conclude with a fully annotated bibliography.

Author : Konrad H. Jarausch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781400855544

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Students, Society and Politics in Imperial Germany by Konrad H. Jarausch Pdf

Konrad H. Jarausch studies the social structure of the German university and the mentality of its students during the Imperial period as an example of a wider European academic desertion of liberalism. He finds that German higher education combined scientific world leadership and competent professional training with an eroding liberal education (Bildung) to create an educated class that was tragically susceptible to the appeal of the Third Reich. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Gunnel Cederlöf
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000805017

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The Imperial Underbelly by Gunnel Cederlöf Pdf

The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor’s private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and Scandinavian modern history, and ties south Sweden into the British Empire. With deep insights into everyday work practices of Indian and European contractors and manual labourers, the book establishes a bridge across the globe, between two poor regions as sites of extraction and industrial transformation, resulting from global migration and capital flows. Drawing on rich archival sources such as the Joseph Stephens Archive, Maharashtra State Archives, the National Archives of India, and the British Library, the book offers deep insights into everyday business practices of European contractors in India, which were rarely documented and have remained largely inaccessible so far. A unique look into the labour and entrepreneurship practices under British colonial rule in India, as well as its impact on the most transformative years of modern southern Scandinavia, the book will be of great interest to students, academics, and teachers of history, labour studies, subaltern studies, colonialism, imperialism, economic history, railways, economics, and Scandinavian and South Asian studies.

Author : Duncan Fishwick
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004128064

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The Imperial Cult in the Latin West by Duncan Fishwick Pdf

This volume focuses on provincial centres and the worship that was offered there in the name of the province. Despite the inadequacies of fleeting, defective evidence, a rough picture emerges of both the permanent headquarters and the principal features of provincial cults.

Author : Kenneth J. Ruoff
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684176168

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Japan's Imperial House in the Postwar Era, 1945-2019 by Kenneth J. Ruoff Pdf

"With the ascension of a new emperor and the dawn of the Reiwa Era, Kenneth J. Ruoff has expanded upon and updated The People’s Emperor, his study of the monarchy’s role as a political, societal, and cultural institution in contemporary Japan. Many Japanese continue to define the nation’s identity through the imperial house, making it a window into Japan’s postwar history. Ruoff begins by examining the reform of the monarchy during the U.S. occupation and then turns to its evolution since the Japanese regained the power to shape it. To understand the monarchy’s function in contemporary Japan, the author analyzes issues such as the role of individual emperors in shaping the institution, the intersection of the monarchy with politics, the emperor’s and the nation’s responsibility for the war, nationalistic movements in support of the monarchy, and the remaking of the once-sacrosanct throne into a “people’s imperial house” embedded in the postwar culture of democracy. Finally, Ruoff examines recent developments, including the abdication of Emperor Akihito and the heir crisis, which have brought to the forefront the fragility of the imperial line under the current legal system, leading to calls for reform."

Author : G. Tate,L. Randolph
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230108158

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Dimensions of Black Conservatism in the United States by G. Tate,L. Randolph Pdf

Dimensions of Black Conservatism in the US is a collection of twelve essays by leading black intellectuals and scholars on varied dimensions of black conservative thought and activism. The book explores the political role and functions of black neoconservatives. The majority of essays cover the contemporary period. The authors have provided a historical context for the reader with several articles examining the origins and development of black conservatism.

Author : Jung-Sun N. Han
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175222

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An Imperial Path to Modernity by Jung-Sun N. Han Pdf

An Imperial Path to Modernity examines the role of liberal intellectuals in reshaping transnational ideas and internationalist aspirations into national values and imperial ambitions in early twentieth-century Japan. Perceiving the relationship between liberalism and the international world order, a cohort of Japanese thinkers conformed to liberal ideas and institutions to direct Japan’s transformation into a liberal empire in Asia. To sustain and rationalize the imperial enterprise, these Japanese liberals sought to make the domestic political stage less hostile to liberalism. Facilitating the creation of print-mediated public opinion, liberal intellectuals attempted to enlist the new middle class as a social ally in circulating liberal ideas and practices within Japan and throughout the empire. In tracing the interconnections between liberalism and the imperial project, Jung-Sun N. Han focuses on the ideas and activities of Yoshino Sakuzo (1878–1933), who was and is remembered as a champion of prewar Japanese liberalism and Taisho democracy. Drawing insights from intellectual history, cultural studies, and international relations, this study argues that prewar Japanese liberalism grew out of the efforts of intellectuals such as Yoshino who worked to devise a transnational institution to govern the Japanese empire.

Author : Matthew Jefferies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317043218

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The Ashgate Research Companion to Imperial Germany by Matthew Jefferies Pdf

Germany's imperial era (1871-1918) continues to attract both scholars and the general public alike. The American historian Roger Chickering has referred to the historiography on the Kaiserreich as an 'extraordinary body of historical scholarship', whose quality and diversity stands comparison with that of any other episode in European history. This Companion is a significant addition to this body of scholarship with the emphasis very much on the present and future. Questions of continuity remain a vital and necessary line of historical enquiry and while it may have been short-lived, the Kaiserreich remains central to modern German and European history. The volume allows 25 experts, from across the globe, to write at length about the state of research in their own specialist fields, offering original insights as well as historiographical reflections, and rounded off with extensive suggestions for further reading. The chapters are grouped into five thematic sections, chosen to reflect the full range of research being undertaken on imperial German history today and together offer a comprehensive and authoritative reference resource. Overall this collection will provide scholars and students with a lively take on this fascinating period of German history, from the nation’s unification in 1871 right up until the end of World War I.

Author : Rhoads Murphey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317118459

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Imperial Lineages and Legacies in the Eastern Mediterranean by Rhoads Murphey Pdf

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.

Author : Allen J. Frank
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004119752

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Muslim Religious Institutions in Imperial Russia by Allen J. Frank Pdf

In this detailed study, Russia's rural Muslim religious institutions in the Volga-Ural region and the Kazakh steppe, during the imperial period, are examined. It is based on the Turkic manuscript history Tavarikh-i Alti Ata.

Author : Edmund Ollier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:$C16106

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Cassell's Illustrated Universal History: The middle ages. 1895 by Edmund Ollier Pdf