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El Gran Estado
- 512 páginas
- China, la nación más grande de la tierra, es uno de los Estados más antiguos del mundo. Prácticamente ha mantenido las mismas fronteras desde el siglo XIII, cuando fue invadida por los mongoles de Kubilai Kan, quien fundó...
30,50€28,98€
Sombrero De Vermeer, El
- 352 páginas
- A partir de la descripción pormenorizada de algunos de los cuadros más emblemáticos del pintor de Delft, Brook estudia el súbito intercambio de mercancías a escala global, entre Europa, América y Asia,
21,00€19,95€
The Chinese State In Ming Society
- The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading schol...
220,47€209,45€
Nation Work: Asian Elites And National Identities
- 270 páginas
- As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and André...
32,72€31,08€
Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations Since Chinggis Khan
- Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present,..
48,34€45,92€12,39€11,77€
Quelling The People: The Military Suppression Of The Beijing Democracy Movement
- 269 páginas
- This is a riveting, day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events in Beijing during the previous weeks that largely precipitated the massacre. The author focuses on the army...
23,25€22,09€
The Confusions Of Pleasure: Commerce And Culture In Ming China
- 320 páginas
- The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were searching not just for new lands but also for new trade rout...
32,79€31,15€
The Troubled Empire: China In The Yuan And Ming Dynasties
- 329 páginas
- The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empireÃa millennium and a half in the makingÃwas suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been before its reunification as the...
22,48€21,36€
Vermeer's Hat
- 296 páginas
- "In one painting, a Dutch military Officer leans toward a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. Vermeer's images haunt us with their beauty...
17,35€16,48€
Death By A Thousand Cuts
- 320 páginas
- In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers âdeath by a thousand cuts...
53,20€50,54€17,49€16,62€
China And Historical Capitalism
- Until recently, capitalism has been regarded as unique to Europe and as an organic outgrowth of..
56,61€53,78€
Opium Regimes: China, Britain, And Japan, 1839-1952
- 444 páginas
- Opium is more than just a drug extracted from poppies. Over the past two centuries it has been a..
42,26€40,14€
