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Geopolitikens återkomst : striden om framtidens historia
Det var inte länge sedan idén om att vi nått historiens slut vann kraft och spridning: tanken att människans sociokulturella evolution nått fram till en punkt där den knappast …
The return of geopolitics : a global quest for the right side of history
It wasn't so long ago that a notion gained currency suggesting we had reached the end of history, that humanity's sociocultural evolution had advanced to a point beyond which it …
Khubilai Khan
Living from 1215 to 1294 Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Here for the first time is an English-language biography of the man. Morris Rossabi draws on …
Tribute System and Rulership in Late Imperial China
Demanding and offering tribute is a most common feature in human societies and nothing special to China. In the course of the development of Neolithic and later societies social …
China Among Equals
Scholars have long accepted China's own view of its traditional foreign relations: that China devised its own world order and maintained it from the second century B.C. to the …
Voyager from Xanadu
Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was …
Governing China's Multiethnic Frontiers
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295804057Upon coming to power in 1949, the Chinese Communist government proclaimed that its stance toward ethnic minorities--who comprise …
Modern Mongolia
Land-locked between its giant neighbors, Russia and China, Mongolia was the first Asian country to adopt communism and the first to abandon it. When the Soviet Union collapsed in …
History of China
Capturing China s past in all its complexity, this multi-faceted history portrays China in the context of a larger global world, while incorporating the narratives of Chinese as …
China and the Uyghurs
This balanced history of Xinjiang and its Uyghur inhabitants traces the development of this ethnic group from imperial China to the present and its fraught relationship with the …
Khubilai Khan
Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European …
Multicultural China
With its easy-to-use format, this book provides a collection of annual data on China's 56 ethnic groups. It is a resource book that profiles the demography, employment and wages, …