Imperial China, 9001800

In this history of China for the 900-year span of the late imperial period, Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers and dynastie...

Reducere. Bunicul lui Carmen și al lui Marco păstrează în pivnița casei sale un secret. În ziua când se hotărăște să-l împărtășească nepoților lui, aceștia d...

Reducere. Bunicul lui Carmen si al lui Marco pastreaza in pivnita casei sale un secret. In ziua cand se hotaraste sa-l impartaseasca nepotilor lui, acestia d...

DescriptionDiscover the Terracotta Army, the Silk Road and the great inventions of ancient China--from paper and porcelain to fireworks and acupunc...

Reducere. Dezvoltarea spectaculoasă a Imperiului Chinez începe în urmă cu aproximativ 6 000 de ani, odată cu stabilirea în bazinul Fluviului Galben a unor tr...

Temples dedicated to Confucius are found throughout China and across East Asia, dating back over two thousand years. These sacred and magnificent s...

In 221 BCE, the Qin state conquered its neighbours and created the first unified Chinese empire in history. So began the imperial era, where dynast...

Offers an analysis of the Chinese Armies that fought a series of increasingly fractious wars over nearly a century. Beginning with a run through of...

Considers the important aspects of life during the Han period, when the foundations were laid for the chief political, economic, cultural and socia...

In 1793, George Macartney became Britain's first envoy to imperial China, and set off one of the greatest power shifts in history. The impasse that...

Reducere. During the Asia-Pacific War, the Japanese military forced hundreds of thousands of women across Asia into "comfort stations" where they were repeat...

The untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power.From the seventeenth to th...

This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plu...

The Black Flags raided their way from southern China into northern Vietnam, competing during the second half of the nineteenth century against othe...

Reducere. This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing th...

Reducere. Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The Understanding China Through Comics s...

Contributor(s): Author: Mark C. ElliottIn 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's rude northeastern frontier, overthrew t...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. She considers core oppositio...

Reducere. Crime filled the streets ... Murder hid behind closed doors ...And only one man to fight against the mayhem. Can he succeed?In late 1300 imperial C...

Reducere. Side A: 1. Rotted Futures2. Atomic Age3. Chernobyl BluesSide B: 1. Transmission To Mercury2. Swarming Opulence3. Cosmopolis

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Imperial War MuseumNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 197 x 237 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

Reducere. DescriptionNaturalist Tim Gallagher journeys deep into the savagely beautiful Sierra Madre, home to rich wildlife and other natural treasures and a...

Publisher: Imperial War MuseumsAuthor(s): Imperial War MuseumsIllustration(s): 25 color plates, 25 halftonesNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 20...

Reducere. Povestea fascinantă a împărătesei Ecaterina femeia care a domnit într-o lume a bărbaților Tanya Kagan specialistă în artă rusească la o casă de lic...

Reducere. Povestea fascinanta a imparatesei Ecaterina, femeia care a domnit intr-o lume a barbaților Tanya Kagan, specialista in arta ruseasca la o casa de l...

Lucrarea reconstituie o istorie culturala a secolului al XIX-lea, realizand, in fapt, o fresca a uneia dintre cele mai captivante perioade din isto...

Soția imperială

Familia Imperiala Romanov. Pe calea dragostei si a jertfeiDe ce au fost canonizati Imparatul Nicolae al II-lea si familia saToata mizeria si scarna...

Familia Imperiala Romanov. Pe calea dragostei si a jertfei.De ce au fost canonizati Imparatul Nicolae al II-lea si familia sa Toata mizeria si scar...

Reducere. The Clone Wars are over, but for those with reason to run from the new galactic Empire, the battle to survive has only just begun. . . . The Jedi h...

Reducere. DescriptionFor over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry. Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta transformed the in...

Reducere. Rotted FuturesExcelsiorCity SwineAtomic AgeTransmission to MercuryAlphavilleThe Greater GoodExperiment (Voivod Cover Version)Happy Home (The Reside...

Abandonuri imperiale - Corneliu Berari

Istanbul, fabuloasa capitala a Imperiilor Roman, Bizantin si Otoman, este singurul oras din lume care se intinde pe doua continente – o metropola c...

Reducere. Dupa cel de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial, locuitorii orasului Kyoto asista la metamorfoza lenta, dar imuabila, a stravechilor obiceiuri. Doua surori ge...

Dupa cel de-al Doilea Razboi Mondial, locuitorii orasului Kyoto asista la metamorfoza lenta, dar imuabila, a stravechilor obiceiuri. Doua surori ge...

Reducere. "Does fiction get much darker ... Deliberate and creepy, this taps into genuine human traits like fear, greed, and stupidity."--Library Journal' on...

Reducere. Istanbul, spectaculoasa capitala a Imperiilor Roman, Bizantin si Otoman, este singurul oras din lume care se intinde pe doua continente – o metropo...