Land of Plants in Motion

Thomas R H Havens

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japan... Lees meer

Transcending Patterns

Mariachiara Gasparini

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin a... Lees meer

Transcending Patterns

Mariachiara Gasparini

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin a... Lees meer

At the Edge of the Nation

Paul B Richardson

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Debates over the remote and beguiling Southern Kuril Islands have revealed a kaleidoscope of divergent and contradictory ideas, convictions, and belie... Lees meer

Land of Plants in Motion

Thomas R H Havens

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japan... Lees meer

Liminality of the Japanese Empire

Hiroko Matsuda

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the pe... Lees meer

Creating the New Man

Yinghong Cheng

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• The idea of eliminating undesirable traits from human temperament to create a "new man" has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for mi... Lees meer

Migrant Ecologies

Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, James Beattie, William Matt Cavert, Holger Droessler, Katsuya Hirano, Hannah Cutting-Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth's large... Lees meer

Sudden Appearances

Roxann Prazniak

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible... Lees meer

Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary region... Lees meer

Burnt by the Sun

Jon K Chang

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet ... Lees meer

Shipped But Not Sold

Nancy Um

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• In the early decades of the eighteenth century, Yemen hosted a bustling community of merchants who sailed to the southern Arabian Peninsula from the e... Lees meer

At the Edge of the Nation

Paul B Richardson

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Debates over the remote and beguiling Southern Kuril Islands have revealed a kaleidoscope of divergent and contradictory ideas, convictions, and belie... Lees meer

Burnt by the Sun

Jon K Chang

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet ... Lees meer

Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian mari... Lees meer

Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary region... Lees meer

Exile in Colonial Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks ... Lees meer

A Power in the World

Lorenz Gonschor

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Few people today know that in the nineteenth century, Hawai'i was not only an internationally recognized independent nation but played a crucial role ... Lees meer

Exile in Colonial Asia

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks ... Lees meer

The Qing Opening to the Ocean

Gang Zhao

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Did China drive or resist the early wave of globalization? Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that ... Lees meer

Spreading Protestant Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a moderniza... Lees meer

Liminality of the Japanese Empire

Hiroko Matsuda

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the pe... Lees meer

Encounters Old and New in World History

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historica... Lees meer