For centuries the exchange of letters between Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584) and Prince Kurbskii, Muscovy's first notable defector, has been considered an authentic and important source for sixteenth-century Russian history. Keenan draws on all the tools of source study and liter…
"The seventeenth century was a time of great social and political upheaval in China. In Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China, Chun-shu and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang offer a detailed and engaging analysis of society, culture, and the state in China during this cri…
"The seventeenth century was a time of great social and political upheaval in China. In Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China, Chun-shu and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang offer a detailed and engaging analysis of society, culture, and the state in China during this cri…
"The seventeenth century was a time of great social and political upheaval in China. In Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth-Century China, Chun-shu and Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang offer a detailed and engaging analysis of society, culture, and the state in China during this cri…