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Jawhar Aftabachi was enslaved as a child by the Ottomans in the Black Sea region in the early sixteenth century. He was then sold to the Ottoman admiral Selman Reis, who took him with his fleet to Egypt and Yemen during his wars with the Portuguese; carried, after the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-18
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Jawhar Aftabachi was enslaved as a child by the Ottomans in the Black Sea region in the early sixteenth century. He was then sold to the Ottoman admiral Selman Reis, who took him with his fleet to Egypt and Yemen during his wars with the Portuguese; carried, after the...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-12-02
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This book provides a unique history of the Porcelain Road against the backdrop of Chinese and Western cultural exchanges. Written by one of China’s most influential scholars, it introduces the history of Chinese Porcelain, especially the history of the imperial...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-01
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This book makes an insightful investigation of historical agrotechnical geography in West China in the Qing Dynasty from the perspective of historical geography and the history of agricultural technology.This study first divides West China into four regions, i.e., the...
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Springer
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2024-08-28
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This book presents detailed research regarding the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, including studies of inscriptions on bones or tortoise shells, bronzeware, bamboo scripts, and silk manuscripts, in order to demonstrate the main features of various historical periods...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-24
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From being the last country in the world to open its doors to global trade in the 1850s to becoming the second industrialized nation in the 1960s, Japan has experienced impressive economic and social development over the last two centuries. In the last three decades,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-07-12
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This book identifies the formation, development and changes in New Zealand perceptions of its Asian neighbours, the work of which is based mainly on New Zealand sources—newspaper reports, Government and Parliamentary papers and documents from New Zealand individuals and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-10
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This handbook offers an updated and comprehensive presentation of knowledge on Korean modern and contemporary food history. It covers the changes in food availability, nutrition, and the health status of Koreans, and the Korean food industry's development from the late...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-29
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From being the last country in the world to open its doors to global trade in the 1850s to becoming the second industrialized nation in the 1960s, Japan has experienced impressive economic and social development over the last two centuries. In the last three decades,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-05-27
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Bangkok ist zwar weltberühmt für seine unzähligen Massagesalons, doch birgt die Hauptstadt Thailands unglaublich viele historische Schätze, die den Besucher in ihren Bann ziehen. Einige der buddhistischen Tempel sind mehr als vierhundert Jahre alt und bilden einen...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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Saigon – eine Stadt, die in manch einem Europäer oder Amerikaner, der dort einmal gelebt hat, Heimweh erweckt. Die bunten Bilder der Erinnerungen an Mädchen in ihrer traditionellen Kleidung, an die nachhaltigen Gerüche der Ngoc Man-Küche, an den Lärm des ständig...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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Saigon is the city known for the unexplainable languidness that possessed the “French and American” Europeans that lived in Vietnam. At night, in front of a drink, the memories of flowery young girls in their traditional costumes surrounded by the thick smells of the...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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Bangkok by night draws its lifeblood from the realms of the steamy and the seamy. The capital of Thailand is world-famous for its innumerable massage parlours, yet at the same time the city is rich in historical treasures. Some of its Buddhist temples are more than 400...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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Saint-Exupéry might have had the Little Prince say that he liked the desert because that is where camels can hide out. Dubai is one of the seven Gulf Emirates and has become a high-tech avantgarde metropolis where superlatives are superfluous. Major wonders of...
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Parkstone International
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2024-05-17
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What did Mao Zedong bring to China? Mao Zedong, a rare leader who is still regarded as a great hero on the Chinese continent, despite the large number of victims caused by the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. He called himself "Qin Shi Huang (First...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-05-11
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From the Emmy Award-winning Squid Game to streaming sensations like The Glory and Crash Landing on You, Korean television has emerged onto the global pop culture scene as compelling television—but what exactly makes these shows so irresistibly bingeable?...
Editeur :
Running Press Adult
Parution :
2024-04-23
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The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky narrates life at the Indian princely court of Bhopal, during the 1940s. Vera was the daughter of Professor M. J. Herzenstein, a member of the State Duma in pre-revolutionary Russia, and married to Count Mark Luboshinsky. After the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-13
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In diesem Buch werden die historischen Ereignisse entlang der Seidenstraße von den Anfängen der vier Zivilisationen bis zum Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts in Hinblick auf die religiöse Verbreitung, die materielle Verbreitung und die Völkerwanderung dargestellt.
Es zeigt...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-03-12
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This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought, focusing on his views on 'communal' relations within the Indian polity, on caste and reform in Hindu society, and on political ethics regarding violence and non-cooperation. The Thought of Bal Gangadhar...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-10
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The Indian Diary of Vera Luboshinsky narrates life at the Indian princely court of Bhopal, during the 1940s. Vera was the daughter of Professor M. J. Herzenstein, a member of the State Duma in pre-revolutionary Russia, and married to Count Mark Luboshinsky. After the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-03-07
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