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  • Guru to the World

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    innbundet, 2022, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674247475

    From the Wolfson History Prize–winning author of The Man on Devil’s Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk who shaped the intellectual and spiritual

  • Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire

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    heftet, 2022, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674271227

    Winner of the Runciman AwardWinner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award“Tells the story of how the Seleucid Empire revolutionized chronology by picking a Year One and counting from

  • A Prince of Our Disorder

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    heftet, 1998, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674704947

    When this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography first appeared in 1976, it rescued T.E. Lawrence from the mythologizing that had seemed to be his fate. In it, John Mack humanely and

  • Wonders and Rarities

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    innbundet, 2023, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674258457

    “As Zadeh concludes, reformers and modernists have closed the rich and varied archive revealed in Wonders and Rarities…In this beautifully written and engaging text, Zadeh takes

  • Imperial China, 900–1800

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    heftet, 2003, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674012127

    This is a history of China for the 900-year time span of the late imperial period. A senior scholar of this epoch, F. W. Mote highlights the personal characteristics of the rulers

  • On the Edge

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    innbundet, 2021, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674979482

    A pioneering examination of history, current affairs, and daily life along the Russia–China border, one of the world’s least understood and most politically charged frontiers.The

  • The Past Before Us

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    innbundet, 2013, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674725232

    The claim, often made, that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according to Romila Thapar: how to recognize

  • Uyghur Nation

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    innbundet, 2016, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674660373

    The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central Asia’s Muslim communities. Along this frontier, a new political space

  • Guardian of a Dying Flame

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    tekstilinnbinding, 2019, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674984356

    Arthur McKeown presents the first full-length analysis of the continuation of Buddhism in India after the thirteenth century. This study describes later Indian Buddhism through a

  • Accidental State

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    innbundet, 2016, Engelsk, ISBN 9780674659810

    The existence of two Chinese states—one controlling mainland China, the other controlling the island of Taiwan—is often understood as a seemingly inevitable outcome of the Chinese