A History of Cultic Images in China: The Domestic Statuary of Hunan, Hardcover - Alain Arrault

DescriptionIn the past twenty years, work on the local culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature...

Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of th...

Chronicles representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer sexualities over one hundred years of American film. This book explores the ever-ch...

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If you want to discover the captivating history of China, then keep reading...The history of China is complex-perhaps more complex than that of oth...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of China, then keep reading...The history of China is complex-perhaps more complex than that of oth...

Reducere. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then keep reading...To understand present-day China, its politics, society, and c...

Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contr...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Taiwan, then keep reading...The history of Taiwan is astonishing. Politically, Taiwan-- was a wa...

Reducere. Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a pr...

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images--whether illustratio...

DescriptionThrough the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20...

Reducere. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an...

Reducere. From the bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers, Flyboys, and The Imperial Cruise, a spellbinding history of turbulent U.S.-China relations fro...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of ancient Asia, then keep reading...Two captivating manuscripts in one book: Ancient China: A Capt...

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ruth DaltonIllustration(s): 88 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 240Publication dat...

Reducere. "This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."--E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books "This is...

This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of the Second World War. Manufacture and the use of biologic...

Reducere. China is both the world's oldest continuing civilization and an emerging global super power. Over the last two millennia, this rich and complex nat...

Reducere. This book is the first complete translation into any modern language of the diary kept by Ennin, a Japanese Buddhist monk who traveled to China in ...

Reducere. In the 140 years since the defeat of George Armstrong Custer and his troops at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, scholars and other visitors have ...

Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectAuthor(s): Professor Ying-Shih (Princeton University) YuIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsNumber of...

Publisher: Historical Images LtdAuthor(s): Paul Leslie LineNumber of pages: 145Collection: Armchair Time Travellers Street AtlasPublication date: 2...

A global future in the history of a single village After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and lite...

Reducere. Imagine a force in nature more powerful than multiple atomic bombs--that was the Great Hinckley Fire of September 1, 1894. In only four hours, the ...

Reducere. DescriptionIf you want to discover the captivating history of ancient China, then keep reading... To understand present-day China, its politics, so...

Reducere. This history of China as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especi...

Reducere. For members of the U.S. Army's "Task Force Faith" and the First Marine Division, the Battle of Chosin Reservoir is an epic story of survival, coura...

Reducere. Early in the 1980s AIDS epidemic, six gay activists created one of the most iconic and lasting images that would come to symbolize a movement: a pr...

Reducere. Mere months before the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent a volunteer group of American airmen to the Far East, convinced...

Publisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): David L. WilliamsIllustration(s): 160 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 120Publication date...

How New York's Lower East Side inspired new ways of seeing AmericaNew York City's Lower East Side, long viewed as the space of what Jacob Riis noto...

Reducere. How were male and female deities understood in ancient Canaan and Israel? Did Yahweh, the God of Israel, ever have a divine consort or partner? How...

Reducere. The Revised Edition of A Source Book of Ancient Chinese Bronze Inscriptions offers English translations and commentary on over eighty-two important...

DescriptionA new illustrated edition of Sun Tzu's classic ancient Chinese meditation on military strategy and human psychology, with a new commenta...

Reducere. Within the common destiny is the individual destiny. So it is that through the telling of one Chinese peasant woman's life, a vivid vision of Chine...

In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow de...