Author: Michael Burgan
Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
Keywords: empires, past, ancient, persia
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 2009-11
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 160413156X
ISBN-13: 9781604131567

Authors:Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: empires, byzantium, oxford, assyria, studies, power, ancient, state, dynamics
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-01-13
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0195371585
ISBN-13: 9780195371581

The world’s first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers--the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires--ruled perhaps two-thirds of the earth’s entire population. Yet despite empires’ prominence in the early history of civilization, there have been surprisingly few attempts to study the dynamics o

Author: E. F. Knight
Publisher: South Asia Books
Keywords: meet, empires, three
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 1993-02-01
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 8120608283
ISBN-13: 9788120608283

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Longmans, Green in 1895 in 581 pages; Subjects: Tibet (China); Jammu and Kashmir (India); Gilgit District (Pakistan); Gilgit (Pakistan); Kashmir; History / Asia / India &

Author: Meng Yue
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: empires, edges, shanghai
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2006-06-14
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0816644128
ISBN-13: 9780816644124

Even before the romanticized golden era of Shanghai in the 1930s, the famed Asian city was remarkable for its uniqueness and East-meets-West cosmopolitanism. Meng Yue analyzes a century-long shift of urbanity from China’s heartland to its shore. During the period between the decline of Jiangnan cities such as Suzhou and Yangzhou and Shanghai’s early twentieth-century rise, the overlapping cultural edges of a failing Chinese royal order and the encroachment of Western imperialists converged. Simultaneously appropriating and resisting imposing forces, Shanghai opened itself to unruly

Author: Craig Munro
Publisher: University of Queensland Press
Keywords: empires, paper
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-07-01
List price: $56.95
ISBN-10: 0702235733
ISBN-13: 9780702235733

Will Australia’s once booming book industry be replaced by e-publishing? Are independent publishers and booksellers on the way out? In a world where one ‘mega-author’ can sell millions of books, can anyone else compete?Paper Empires tells the inside story of Australian publishing over the past half-century. It begins with the larrikin pioneers of the 1950s and 60s and follows the fortunes of the independents and multinationals that followed in their wake. Two fascinating local successes include the reinvention of Allen & Unwin as our largest independent, and the creation of Lonely Pl

Author: Ben Walsh
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
Keywords: book, citizens, empires
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2003-10
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0748769412
ISBN-13: 9780748769414

This book builds on themes and content covered at Key Stage 2 History and develops a strong course of progression through Key Stage 3 for improved performance at GCSE. It meets the requirements of the National Curriculum Programme of Study using a ready made scheme of work.

Author: Andre Schmid
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: empires, korea
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2002-08-15
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0231125399
ISBN-13: 9780231125390

Korea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuses on two critical periods in Korean history and asks how key concepts and symbols were created and integrated into political programs to create an original Korean understanding of national identity, the nation-state, and nationalism. Looking at the often-ignored questions of representation, narrative, and rhetoric in the construction of public sentiment, Andre Schmid traces the genealogies of cultural assumptions and linguistic turns evident in Korea´s major newspapers during the social and political