Timothy Brook Forfatter
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Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers an understanding of Vermeer's paintings and of the era they portray.
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Mr Selden's Map of China: The spice trade, a lost chart & the South China Sea (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Forensic history at its best: an ancient map reveals the origins of world trade, and surprising twists in China's history.
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The Troubled Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire - a millennium and a half in the making - was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. This title explores what happened to China between these two dramatic invasions.
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Great State: China and the World (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The last eight centuries of China's relationship with the world told through the eyes of traders, invaders, civil servants, visionaries, and traitors
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Civil Society in China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The concept of "civil society" was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes elsewhere. This book asks whether this concept is useful for analyzing China.
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The Chinese State in Ming Society (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines the relationship between the present day state and society in China.
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The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
