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"Distinguished scholar Pamela Crossley offers a rich history of Eurasia, pivoting around the Mongol and Turkic empires. Synthesizing new interpretive approaches and grand themes of world history from 1000 to 1500, the author argues that these regimes shaped Eurasia's economic, t…
"This is a multidimensional study of a simulation of modernity that transformed Nantong, a provincial town, from a rural backwater to a model of progress in early twentieth-century China. The author analyzes this transformation by depicting the new institutional and cultural phe…
"Since its creation in 1964, readers from all over the world have loved the comic Mafalda, primarily because of the sharp wit and rebellious nature of its title character--a four-year-old girl who is wise beyond her years. Through Mafalda, Argentine cartoonist Joaquín Salvador L…
In Mafalda: A Social and Political History of Latin America's Global Comic Isabella Cosse examines the history, political commentary, and influence of the world-famous comic character Mafalda from her Argentine origins in 1964 to her global reach in the 1990s.
Introduction: The search for a narrative of transition -- Retrieving historical process : transitions to a modern story -- Repositioning agency and the forces of change -- The compromised empire : ethnicity and faith under state powers -- Governing exchange : boundaries and the …
"This book is inspired by recent scholarship that reexamines the dramatic changes affecting heterogeneous societies in late nineteenth century empires. It expands the analysis of transformation beyond conventional methods of studying failed empires--the emergence of ethnonationa…
Barbara Bush examines key concepts in the historical coverage of colonialism in a comparative perspective.
Barbara Bush examines key concepts in the historical coverage of colonialism in a comparative perspective.
Labor and imperial democracy in prewar Japan
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"This landmark volume examines South Korea's era of development as a study in the complex politics of modernization. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources in both English and Korean, these essays recover and contextualize many of the ambiguities in South Korea's trajector…