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This study represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the tsarist conquest of the region.
This book demonstrates exact scholarship (and an) understanding of the way in which business works...(it has) a capacity to reduce a mass of apparently unrelated facts into the neat shape of theory." - The Economist
China has a population of 1.3 billion people which puts enormous strain on her natural resources. This volume, by one of the leading scholars on the earth's biosphere, provides the fullest account yet of the environmental challenges that China faces.
Examining the debacle of Russian reform, especially the emergence of oligarchs accused of using guile, intimidation and violence to reap riches, this text expertly explains Russia's problems and how they could have been avoided.
This is a conversational approach to the teaching and learning of the Tajiki language.
Following the emancipation of the serfs in 1861, and again during the 1990s, individual legal rights... Læs mere
This book dispels the widely-held view that paganism survived in Russia alongside Orthodox Christianity, demonstrating that 'double belief', dvoeverie, is in fact an academic myth.
This book is a translation of Vasubandhu's Atmavadapratisedha, the treatise he added to his Abhidharmakoshbhasya, one of the most important works of medieval Indian Buddhist philosophy.
Presents a study of social spaces of the capital of Ming Qing China (1420-1911). Focusing on early Ming and early and middle Qing, it explores architectural, urban and geographical space of Beijing.
Well-known authors use the Manchu summer capital of Chengde and associated architecture, art and ritual activity as the focus for an exploration of the importance of Inner Asia and Tibet to the Qing Empire (1636-1911).
This book provides a comprehensive overview of Xinjiang. It introduces Xinjiang's history, economy and society, and above all outlines the political and religious opposition by the Turkic peoples of Xinjiang to Chinese communist rule.
This book explores the transformation of the Chinese capital both socially and physically during the final decades of the twentieth century.