Bøger af Pamela Kyle Crossley
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- Three Manchu Generations and the End of the Qing World
746,95 kr. Focusing on three generations of a Manchu family (from 1750 to the 1930s), this book is an attempt to understand the social and cultural life of the bannermen within the context of the decay of the Qing regime. It reveals that the Manchus were growing in consciousness of their ethnicity in response to changes in their own position.
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- 746,95 kr.
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- Nomad Rulers at the Forge of the Modern World
410,95 kr. Weaving new interpretive approaches and grand themes of world history from 1000 to 1500, distinguished historian Pamela Kyle Crossley boldly argues that nomadic regimes such as the Mongols and Turks profoundly shaped Eurasia's economic, technological, and political evolution to create our modern world.
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- 410,95 kr.
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- History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology
425,95 kr. This volume presents an exploration of the origins of nationalism and cultural identity in China, tracing the ways in which a large, early modern empire of Eurasia, the Qing, incorporated neighbouring, but disparate, political traditions into a new style of emperorship.
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- 425,95 kr.
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229,95 - 682,95 kr. Global and world history address the deep structural changes that have shaped human experience. Many are material, related to environmental and climatic alteration, to the domestication of livestock and development of agriculture, to technology, to disease, and to variations in human immunity, reproduction, and physiology.
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- 229,95 kr.
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775,95 kr. * A history from the origins of the Manchus to the murder of the former last Manchu emperor by the guards of the people who ruled China from 1685 to 1912 * Explains how the Manchus achieved their empire and what the consequences were for themselves and their subjects.
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- 775,95 kr.