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Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of…
Landscapes of Promise is the first comprehensive environmental history of the early years of a state that has long been associated with environmental protection. Covering the period from early human habitation to the end of World War II, William Robbins shows that the reality of…
This analysis of communalism, along with nationalism and colonialism, offers an understanding of the construction of Indian society and politics in recent times by offering new theoretical cues to grasp their nature and dynamics.
"It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this coll…
"At the periphery of the Chinese empire, a group of innovative entrepreneurs built companies that dominated the Chinese salt trade and created thousands of jobs in the Sichuan region. From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its decline on the eve of the Si…
"The British Empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its repercussions in the wider world are still with us today. It also had a great impact on Britain herself: for example, on her economy, sec…
Welche Folgen hatte die Verbürgerlichung der deutschen Juden im 19. Jahrhundert auf das Geschlechterverhältnis? Inwiefern waren Einbindung, Erfahrung und Verarbeitung dieses Prozesses unterschiedlich für jüdische Männer und Frauen? Diesen für das Verständnis der deutsch-jüdische…
