Empire of the winds, Bowring Philip

Автор: S. C. M. Paine
Название: The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
ISBN: 1107676169 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107676169
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Charting the rise and fall of Japan, the model developing country of the nineteenth century, the overthrow of the traditional Asian balance of power, and enduring animosities, this is an essential guide for those interested in Asian and world history, comparative politics, international relations, security studies and Asian politics today.

Автор: Allsen Thomas T.
Название: The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire
ISBN: 0812251172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812251173
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Khan) ordered that they cut open every slain person on the battlefield. Pearls, valued for aesthetic, economic, religious, and political reasons, were the ultimate luxury good of the Middle Ages, and the Chingissid imperium, the largest contiguous land empire in history, was their unmatched collector, promoter, and conveyor. Thomas T. Allsen examines the importance of pearls, as luxury good and political investment, in the Mongolian empire—from its origin in 1206, through its unprecedented expansion, to its division and decline in 1370—in order to track the varied cultural and commercial interactions between the northern steppes and the southern seas.
Focusing first on the acquisition, display, redistribution, and political significance of pearls, Allsen shows how the very act of forming such a vast nomadic empire required the massive accumulation, management, and movement of prestige goods, and how this process brought into being new regimes of consumption on a continental scale. He argues that overland and seaborne trade flourished simultaneously, forming a dynamic exchange system that moved commodities from east to west and north to south, including an enormous quantity of pearls. Tracking the circulation of pearls across time, he highlights the importance of different modes of exchange—booty-taking, tributary relations, market mechanisms, and reciprocal gift-giving. He also sheds light on the ways in which Mongols' marketing strategies made use of not only myth and folklore but also maritime communications networks created by Indian-Buddhist and Muslim merchants skilled in cross-cultural commerce.
In Allsen's analysis, pearls illuminate Mongolian exceptionalism in steppe history, the interconnections between overland and seaborne trade, recurrent patterns in the employment of luxury goods in the political cultures of empires, and the consequences of such goods for local and regional economies.

Автор: George N. Shirinian
Название: Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
ISBN: 1785334328 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781785334320
Издательство: Berghahn
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The final years of the Ottoman Empire were catastrophic ones for its non-Turkish, non-Muslim minorities. From 1913 to 1923, its rulers deported, killed, or otherwise persecuted staggering numbers of citizens in an attempt to preserve “Turkey for the Turks,” setting a modern precedent for how a regime can commit genocide in pursuit of political ends while largely escaping accountability. While this brutal history is most widely known in the case of the Armenian genocide, few appreciate the extent to which the Empire’s Assyrian and Greek subjects suffered and died under similar policies. This comprehensive volume is the first to broadly examine the genocides of the Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks in comparative fashion, analyzing the similarities and differences among them and giving crucial context to present-day calls for recognition.

Автор: Bonea, Amelia
Название: The News of Empire: Telegraphy, Journalism, and the Politics of Reporting in Colonial India, c. 1830-1900
ISBN: 0199467129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199467129
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: On 14 July 2013, India closed down its telegraph service, drawing the curtain over an important chapter in its history of telecommunications. Introduced during the colonial period, the telegraph network was opened for public use on 1 February 1855; both the beginning and the end of the service
were marked by striking scenes of people 'rushing' to the telegraph office in order to send messages. Like the internet today, the new technology came to play an important role in the conduct of journalism in nineteenth-century India.

The News of Empire reconstructs the interconnected history of telegraphy and journalism by drawing on a wide range of historical material and through an in-depth analysis of the newspaper press. Questioning grand narratives of 'media revolutions', Amelia Bonea argues that the use of telegraphy in
journalism was gradual and piecemeal. News itself emerged as the site of many contestations, as imperial politics, capitalist enterprise, and individual agency shaped not only access to technologies of communication, but also the content and form of reporting.

Автор: Timothy May
Название: The Mongol Empire
ISBN: 0748642366 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748642366
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This book explores the rise and establishment of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well as its expansion and evolution under his successors. It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, Chaghatayid Khanate, the Jochid Ulus (Golden Horde), and the Yuan Empire) from the dissolution of the empire in 1260 to the end of each state.

Автор: May, Timothy
Название: The mongol empire
ISBN: 0748642374 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780748642373
Издательство: Macmillan
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Описание: This book explores the rise and establishment of the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan, as well as its expansion and evolution under his successors. It also examines the successor states (Ilkhanate, Chaghatayid Khanate, the Jochid Ulus (Golden Horde), and the Yuan Empire) from the dissolution of the empire in 1260 to the end of each state.

Автор: Faruqui
Название: The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719
ISBN: 1107547865 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107547865
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This rigorous new interpretation of the Mughals, from the founding of empire to its decline, explores the pivotal role of the Mughal princes. Challenging previous scholarship, the book suggests that far from undermining the foundations of empire, the political intrigues of courtly life boosted Mughal power through an empire-wide network of friends and allies.

Автор: Eden Jeff
Название: Slavery and Empire in Central Asia
ISBN: 1108470513 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108470513
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This in-depth study of the slave trade that spurred the Russian conquest of Central Asia offers an unprecedented window into slaves` lives from eyewitness accounts, autobiographies, and newly-uncovered interviews which demonstrate that the slaves brought about their own emancipation by fomenting the largest slave uprising in the region`s history.

Автор: Norman Smith
Название: Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria
ISBN: 0774832894 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774832892
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: For centuries, some of the world’s largest empires fought for sovereignty over the resources of Northeast Asia. This compelling analysis of the region’s environmental history examines the interplay of climate and competing imperial interests in a vibrant – and violent – cultural narrative. Families that settled this borderland reaped its riches while at the mercy of an unforgiving and hotly contested landscape. As China’s strength as a world leader continues to grow, this volume invites exploration of the indelible links between empire and environment – and shows how the geopolitical future of this global economic powerhouse is rooted in its past.

Автор: Dreyer June
Название: Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present
ISBN: 0195375661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195375664
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: June Teufel Dreyer`s historical synthesis of China and Japan`s relationship, Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun, provides a jargon-free, concise, and readily understandable overview of one of the world`s great civilizational rivalries.

Автор: Kalra, Prajakti
Название: The Silk road and the political economy of the mongol empire
ISBN: 0415786991 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415786997
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book compares present day networks of Central and Inner Asia with the similar connections that existed at the time of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century and its successor states. The book shows the Mongol Empire anticipated many networks and connections which now exist in the region.

Автор: S. C. M. Paine
Название: The Japanese Empire: Grand Strategy from the Meiji Restoration to the Pacific War
ISBN: 1107011957 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107011953
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Charting the rise and fall of Japan, the model developing country of the nineteenth century, the overthrow of the traditional Asian balance of power, and enduring animosities, this is an essential guide for those interested in Asian and world history, comparative politics, international relations, security studies and Asian politics today.