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Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 292

Nation, Governance, and Modernity in China

This work studies the city of Canton (Guangzhou), the cradle of the Chinese revolution. It argues that modernist politics as practiced by the Nationalists and Communists represented a specific political rationality embedded in the context of a novel conception of the social realm.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 31

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy, and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and concepts.

Worlds Together Pa + Eis Registration Card
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1040

Worlds Together Pa + Eis Registration Card

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-07-16
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  • Publisher: W. W. Norton

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy, and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and concepts.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Concise One-Volume, 2nd Edition + Reg Card
  • Language: en

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Concise One-Volume, 2nd Edition + Reg Card

"A truly global approach to world history, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others ... The authors have refreshed throughout coverage of the environment in addition to cutting edge scholarship, designed to help students think critically, master content and make connections across time and place."--Provided by publisher.

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
  • Language: en

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

Global connections and comparisons, now more accessible and interactive

English Lessons
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 411

English Lessons

Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and 1900. Focusing on the processes by which Great Britain enacted a pedagogical project that was itself a form of colonization, James L. Hevia demonstrates how British actors instructed the Manchu-Chinese elite on “proper” behavior in a world dominated by multiple imperial powers. Their aim was to “bring China low” and make it a willing participant in British strategic goals in Asia. These lessons not only transformed the Qing dynasty bu...

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart
  • Language: en

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-12-08
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  • Publisher: W. W. Norton

The most globally integrated book in its field, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is unmatched in helping students draw connections and comparisons across time and place. Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy, and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet. NEW interactive learning resources develop history skills and assess comprehension of major themes and concepts.