Timothy Brook is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Praying for Power: Buddhism and the Formation of Gentry Society in Late-Ming China (1993), and Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement (1992), and the coeditor of Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities (1999) and China and Historical Capitalism: Genealogies of Sinological Knowledge (1999).
19 Ebooks tarafından Timothy Brook
Timothy Brook: The Confusions of Pleasure
The Ming dynasty was the last great Chinese dynasty before the Manchu conquest in 1644. During that time, China, not Europe, was the center of the world: the European voyages of exploration were …
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Timothy Brook: Chinese State in Ming Society
The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and …
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€38.41
Timothy Brook: Chinese State in Ming Society
The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and …
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€69.20
Timothy Brook: Chinese State in Ming Society
The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and …
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€69.35
Timothy Brook: Asiatic Mode of Production in China
Brook (history, U. of Toronto) surveys the history of the concept of the AMP (a concept formulated by Karl Marx in the 1850s) in China in relation to debates elsewhere, and examines the particular …
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€223.75
Timothy Brook: Asiatic Mode of Production in China
Brook (history, U. of Toronto) surveys the history of the concept of the AMP (a concept formulated by Karl Marx in the 1850s) in China in relation to debates elsewhere, and examines the particular …
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€222.75
Timothy Brook & B. Michael Frolic: Civil Society in China
The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes …
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€55.99
Timothy Brook & B. Michael Frolic: Civil Society in China
The concept of civil society was borrowed from 18th-century Europe to provide a framework for understanding the transition to post-authoritarian regimes in Latin America and post-communist regimes …
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€56.27
Timothy Brook: Mr Selden’s Map of China
A fascinating work of history, biography, cartography, and literary mystery, Mr Seldens Map of China unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time.In 1659, a …
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€38.46
Timothy Brook: Vermeer’s Hat
‘Effortless and compelling, Brooks is a wonderful storyteller. I doubt I will read a better book this year.’ Sunday Telegraph Each of Vermeer’s paintings tells a story. In one, a military officer lea …
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Timothy Brook: Mr Selden’s Map of China
In 1659, a vast and unusual map of China arrived in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. It was bequeathed by John Selden, a London business lawyer, political activist, former convict, MP and the city’s fir …
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Timothy Brook: Great State
China is one of the oldest states in the world. It achieved its approximate current borders with the Ascendancy of the Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, and despite the passing of one Imperial dynast …
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Timothy Brook: Great State
The author of Vermeer’s Hat shares "a dizzying and exhilarating journey" through 800 years of Chinese history and national identity (New Statesman).China is one of the oldest states in the …
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€30.39
Timothy Brook: The Price of Collapse
How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history’s mighty empires In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians …
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€31.99
Mark Edward Lewis: China’s Cosmopolitan Empire
The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age, ” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of unsurpassed literary creati …
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€66.98
Timothy Brook: Troubled Empire
The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire—a millennium and a half in the making—was suddenly thrust under foreign occupation. What China had been …
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€33.21
Timothy Brook: Collaboration
Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this aspect of wartime conduct has remained largely unacknowledged. In a bold new w …
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€88.95
Mark Edward Lewis: Early Chinese Empires
In 221 BC, the First Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental …
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€70.40
Miek Boltjes & Timothy Brook: Sacred Mandates
Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, …
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