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  • The Private World of Ottoman Women

    Serier Bog 2 - Saqi Essentials
    Recovering the oft-neglected role of women in Ottoman high society and power politics, this book brings to life the women who made their mark in a male domain. Though historical records tend to favour the glitter of palaces over the trials of daily life, Goodwin also reconstructs ordinary women's domestic toil. As the Ottoman Empire first expanded and then shrank, women travelled its width and ... Læs mere

    91,74 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Janissaries

    Serier Bog 4 - Saqi Essentials
    From the fifteenth to the sixteenth century, the janissaries were the scourge of Europe. With their martial music, their muskets and their drilled march, it seemed that no one could withstand them. Their loyalty to their corps was infinite as the Ottomans conquered the Balkans as far as the Danube, and Syria, Egypt and Iraq. They set up semi-independent states along the North African coast and ... Læs mere

    107,91 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

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    The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers and Workers Who Are Remaking the World in Beijing's Image

    China's Silent Army is a revealing and gripping piece of investigative journalism into the unknown extent of China's global power, from China-based reporters Juan Pablo Cardenal and Heriberto AraújoThis book stems from the remarkable, determined work of these two China-based journalists who, frustrated by the facile, pro-business commentary of so much writing on China and the evasions of Beijing's ... Læs mere

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  • Forged From Silver Dollar

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  • A History of Early Modern Southeast Asia, 1400–1830

    Written by two experienced teachers with a long history of research, this textbook provides students with a detailed overview of developments in early modern Southeast Asia, when the region became tightly integrated into the world economy because of international demand for its unique forest and sea products. Proceeding chronologically, each chapter covers a specific time frame in which Southeast ... Læs mere

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  • Modern Greece

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    When Greece's economic troubles began to threaten the stability of the European Union in 2010, the nation found itself in the center of a whirlwind of international finger-pointing. In the years prior, Greece appeared to be politically secure and economically healthy. Upon its emergence in the center of the European economic maelstrom, however, observers and critics cited a century of economic ... Læs mere

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  • No Exit from Pakistan

    America's Tortured Relationship with Islamabad

    This book tells the story of the tragic and often tormented relationship between the United States and Pakistan. Pakistan's internal troubles have already threatened US security and international peace, and Pakistan's rapidly growing population, nuclear arsenal, and relationships with China and India will continue to force it upon America's geostrategic map in new and important ways over the ... Læs mere

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  • China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800

    Trade, Settlement, Diplomacy, and Missions

    China and Maritime Europe, 1500–1800 looks at early modern China in some of its most complicated and intriguing relations with a world of increasing global interconnection. New World silver, Chinese tea, Jesuit astronomers at the Chinese court, and merchants and marauders of all kinds play important roles here. Although pieces of these stories have been told before, these chapters provide the ... Læs mere

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  • Mad About the Mekong

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  • The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895

    Perceptions, Power, and Primacy

    The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted China as the dominant regional power, disrupting the traditional power balance and fracturing the ... Læs mere

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  • The Makings of Indonesian Islam

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  • The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it

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