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A History of Asia

By: Rhoads Murphey

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A History of Asia is the only text to cover the area known as "monsoon Asia" - India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia--from the earliest times to the present. Written by leading scholar Rhoads Murphey, the book uses an engaging, lively tone to chronicle the complex political, social, intellectual, and economic histories of this area. Popular because of its scope and coverage, as well as its illustrations, maps, and many boxed primary sources, the new edition of A History of Asia continues as a leader in its field.

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1315509474

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Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700

By: Rhoads Murphey

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Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700

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Examines the Ottoman military machine, detailing its success in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. Focuses mainly on the evolution of the Ottoman military organization and its subsequent impact on Ottoman society in a period of change, analyzing why the Ottomans were the focus of such intense military concern. Provides a detailed study of several campaigns, recreating the physical and psychological realities of war as experienced by Ottoman soldiers. Includes bandw historical illustrations. Murphey is a senior lecturer at the Center for Byzantine, Ottoman, and modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Rutgers University Press

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081352685X

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9780813526850

Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

Tradition, Image and Practice in the Ottoman Imperial Household, 1400-1800

By: Rhoads Murphey

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Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

Tradition, Image and Practice in the Ottoman Imperial Household, 1400-1800

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Is it possible to identify the 'essence' of Ottoman kingship? And if so, what were the core motivating principles that governed the dynasty over its 600 year lifespan and how continuous and consistent were they? Following the death of the dynasty's eponymous founder Osman in 1324, 35 successors held the throne. Despite the wide range of character traits, dispositions and personal preferences, they led the expansion, stagnation and eventual collapse of the empire. Rhoades Murphey offers an alternative way of understanding the soul of the empire as reflected in its key ruling institution: the sultanate. For much of the period of centralized Ottoman rule between ca. 1450 and 1850 each of the dynasty's successive rulers developed and used the state bureaucratic apparatus to achieve their ruling priorities, based around the palace and court culture and rituals of sovereignty as well as the sultan's role as the head of the central state administrative apparatus. Sovereignty was attached to the person of the sultan who moved (with his court) both often and for prolonged stays away from his principal residence. In the period between 1360 and 1453 there were dual capitals at Bursa and Edirne (Adrianople) and even after 1453 several Ottoman sultans showed a preference for Edirne over Istanbul. Even Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent - held by the Ottomans, western contemporaries and modern analysts alike to be the pinnacle and paragon of Ottoman kingship - spent far more time away from his residence at the Topkapi Palace than in it. This book explores the growing complexity of the empire as it absorbed cultural influences and imperial legacies from a wide diversity of sources each in turn engendering a further interpretation of existing notions of kingship and definitions of the role and function of the ruler.

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1441102515

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The Fading of the Maoist Vision

City and Country in China's Development

By: Rhoads Murphey

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The Fading of the Maoist Vision

City and Country in China's Development

By: Rhoads Murphey

First published in 1980. This book analyzes Chinese society and evaluates the achievements and failures of the Maoist ideology. The central theme is the urban and rural balance in China's development from the Revolution to the late twentieth century. The Fading of the Maoist Vision shows how the original Revolutionary blueprint was altered and the ways in which China has steered a different course from that charted by Mao as the ideological vision encountered an increasingly pressing set of economic realities. The book: · Is particularly valuable in setting China's achievements in the larger context of global ideas about the problems of national development and by comparing them to the experience of India in its pursuit of the Gandhian ideal.

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1136574131

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Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume I

By: Colin Imber,Rhoads Murphey,Keiko Kiyotaki

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Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume I

By: Colin Imber,Rhoads Murphey,Keiko Kiyotaki

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture over the past two decades. The first volume reflects the growing interest in the provinces, communities and cultures outside the imperial capital of Istanbul and covers four major areas: politics and Islam; economy and taxation; development of Ottoman towns and Arab and Jewish communities. Chapters on Ottoman legal and fiscal institutions provide a fascinating insight into the Ottoman government's interaction with the Empire's subjects, while reviews of Egypt and the Arab provinces emphasise the stirrings of Arab nationalism in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries that ultimately contributed to the demise of the Empire.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857712810

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9780857712813

Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700

By: Rhoads Murphey

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Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700

By: Rhoads Murphey

A study of the Ottoman military machine and its successes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East in a period when they were feared by western European states and the focus of much military concern. The book is intended for undergraduate courses in early modern history, Ottoman history, history of the Middle East and North Africa, and for military historians.

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Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

Tradition, Image and Practice in the Ottoman Imperial Household, 1400-1800

By: Rhoads Murphey

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Tradition, Image and Practice in the Ottoman Imperial Household, 1400-1800

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River Dynamics

Geomorphology to Support Management

By: Bruce L. Rhoads

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River Dynamics

Geomorphology to Support Management

By: Bruce L. Rhoads

Rivers are important agents of change that shape the Earth's surface and evolve through time in response to fluctuations in climate and other environmental conditions. They are fundamental in landscape development, and essential for water supply, irrigation, and transportation. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the geomorphological processes that shape rivers and that produce change in the form of rivers. It explores how the dynamics of rivers are being affected by anthropogenic change, including climate change, dam construction, and modification of rivers for flood control and land drainage. It discusses how concern about environmental degradation of rivers has led to the emergence of management strategies to restore and naturalize these systems, and how river management techniques work best when coordinated with the natural dynamics of rivers. This textbook provides an excellent resource for students, researchers, and professionals in fluvial geomorphology, hydrology, river science, and environmental policy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108173780

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The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios Deacon (BHG1698)

Introduction, Edition, Translation and Commentary

By: Stephanos Efthymiadis

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The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios Deacon (BHG1698)

Introduction, Edition, Translation and Commentary

By: Stephanos Efthymiadis

The patriarch Tarasios holds a key position in the ending of the first period of Iconoclasm in Byzantium, with the seventh Oecumenical Council at Nicaea in 787. His Life forms an equally key source for the history and culture of the Byzantine world in the eighth and ninth centuries. This book provides a full introduction, a critical edition with English translation, and a detailed commentary and indexes for this important document. The introduction first places the text within the framework of other patriarchal biographies composed in the period c.850-950. Dr Efthymiadis then looks at Tarasios himself, as layman, patriarch, and saint, and provides a biographical sketch of the author of the Life, Ignatios the Deacon, together with a discussion of the date and reasons for the work’s composition. In addition, this new text and translation makes more accessible a highly sophisticated example of Byzantine prose.

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1351886738

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Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume I

By: Colin Imber,Rhoads Murphey,Keiko Kiyotaki

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Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume I

By: Colin Imber,Rhoads Murphey,Keiko Kiyotaki

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The Scope of Geography

By: Rhoads Murphey

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The Scope of Geography

By: Rhoads Murphey

This book introduces the beginning student to the major concepts, materials and tools of the discipline of geography. While it presents geographic theory, as whole and for each of its parts, the chief emphasis is on concrete analysis and example rather than on abstraction, an approach which has proven more successful for undergraduate courses than those with a more heavily theoretical bias. The text was extensively re-written for the third edition, which enhanced its clarity and effectiveness, with expanded cartographic coverage.

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1138989959

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The Military in the Early Modern World

A Comparative Approach

By: Markus Meumann,Andrea Pühringer

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The Military in the Early Modern World

A Comparative Approach

By: Markus Meumann,Andrea Pühringer

When looking at the early modern period (c. 1500–c. 1800), we often speak of "the military" or "the army". But what exactly do we mean when using these terms? The forms and structures of the armed forces have not only changed between 1500 and 1800, but also varied throughout different regions of the world and even within Europe. The contributors to this volume examine twelve early modern examples of armed forces in the Holy Roman Empire, Western and Eastern Europe, Eastern Asia and North America and paint a multifarious and even disparate picture during this period. The findings suggest that modern notions of the armed forces common in the early modern period should be used more prudently to avoid prevalent implications of non-existing continuity and uniformity.

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3847010131

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Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume II

By: Colin Imber,Keiko Kiyotaki

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Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume II

By: Colin Imber,Keiko Kiyotaki

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture of the past two decades. The second volume covers Ottoman-European International Relations; Ottoman manuscripts in Europe; Ottoman-European cultural exchange and Christian influence and the advent of the Europeans. The work makes a significant contribution to diplomatic history and international relations; Ottoman geographical knowledge; the nature of Ottoman artistic and cultural aesthetics and the intellectual, cultural, technological and human interactions between the Ottoman world and Europe.

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0857712829

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China Meets the West

The Treaty Ports

By: Rhoads Murphey,Ronald Posner

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China Meets the West

The Treaty Ports

By: Rhoads Murphey,Ronald Posner

19th century China -"Barbarians" were what the Chinese saw appearing on their shores--barbarians who knew nothing of the long centuries of civilization in China that set standards of conduct and developed customs the Chinese were convinced were superior to all others. Time line charts are provided. Compare with today's relationships.

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Book's by Rhoads Murphey

A History of Asia

A History of Asia

Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700

Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700

Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

The Fading of the Maoist Vision

The Fading of the Maoist Vision

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume I

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume I

Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700

Ottoman Warfare, 1500-1700

Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

Exploring Ottoman Sovereignty

River Dynamics

River Dynamics

The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios Deacon (BHG1698)

The Life of the Patriarch Tarasios by Ignatios Deacon (BHG1698)

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume I

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume I

The Scope of Geography

The Scope of Geography

The Military in the Early Modern World

The Military in the Early Modern World

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume II

Frontiers of Ottoman Studies: Volume II

China Meets the West

China Meets the West

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