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Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History

Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming

By: Roger V. Des Forges

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Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History

Northeast Henan in the Fall of the Ming

By: Roger V. Des Forges

The Ming period of Chinese history is often depicted as one of cultural aridity, political despotism, and social stasis. Recent studies have shown that the arts continued to flourish, government remained effective, people enjoyed considerable mobility, and China served as a center of the global economy. This study goes further to argue that China’s perennial quest for cultural centrality resulted in periodic political changes that permitted the Chinese people to retain control over social and economic developments. The study focuses on two and a half million people in three prefectures of northeast Henan, the central province in the heart of the "central plain”--a common synecdoche for China. The author argues that this population may have been more representative of the Chinese people at large than were the residents of more prosperous regions. Many diverse individuals in northeast Henan invoked historical models to deal with the present and shape the future. Though they differed in the lessons they drew, they shared the view that the Han dynasty was particularly relevant to their own time. Han and Ming politics were integral parts of a pattern of Chinese historical development that has lasted to the present.

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Stanford University Press

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0804740445

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France, 1800-1914

A Social History

By: Roger Magraw

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France, 1800-1914

A Social History

By: Roger Magraw

Nineteenth-century France was a society of apparent paradoxes. It is famous for periodic and bloody revolutionary upheavals, for class conflict and for religious disputes, yet it was marked by relative demographic stability, gradual urbanisation and modest economic change, class conflict and ongoing religious and cultural tensions. Incorporating much recent research, Roger Magraw draws both upon still-valuable insights derived from the 'new social history' of the 1960s and upon more recent approaches suggested by gender history , cultural anthropology and the 'linguistic turn'.

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Routledge

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1317892852

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The Mythistorical Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan

A Global Perspective, 1606-2018

By: Roger V. Des Forges

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The Mythistorical Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan

A Global Perspective, 1606-2018

By: Roger V. Des Forges

Roger Des Forges here examines the puzzle of Li Yan, a Chinese scholar who advised the rebel Li Zicheng (1605-1645), and helped him to overthrow the Ming, only to die at his hands. For more than three centuries, Li Yan’s identity and even existence were seriously questioned. Then, in 2004, there was discovered a genealogical manuscript which includes a Li Yan (1606-1644). He now appears to be the principal historical reality behind the Li Yan story, which became a powerful metaphor for the rise and fall of Li Zicheng’s rebellion. Offering a fresh theory of Chinese and world history, the author elucidates Li Yan’s historical significance by comparing and contrasting him with similar figures in other times and places around the globe.

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BRILL

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9004421068

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9789004421066

France, 1815-1914

The Bourgeois Century

By: Roger Magraw

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France, 1815-1914

The Bourgeois Century

By: Roger Magraw

In this lively and stimulating study, Roger Magraw examines how the 19th-century French bourgeoisie struggled and eventually succeeded in consolidating the gains it made in 1789. The book describes the attempts of the bourgeoisie to remold France in its own image and its strategy for overcoming the resistance from the old aristocratic and clerical elites and the popular classes. Incorporating the most recent research on religion and anticlericalism, the development of the economy, the role of women in society, and the educational system, this work is the first to draw extensively on the new social history in its interpretation of events in 19th-century France.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195205030

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People and Politics in France, 1848–1870

By: Roger Price

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People and Politics in France, 1848–1870

By: Roger Price

This 2004 book is about politicisation and political choice in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1848, and the emergence of democracy in France. The introduction of male suffrage both encouraged expectations of social transformation and aroused intense fear. In these circumstances the election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Republic - and his subsequent coup d'état - were the essential features of a counter-revolutionary process which involved the creation of a system of democracy as the basis of regime legitimacy and as a prelude to greater liberalisation. The state positively encouraged the act of voting. But what did it mean? How did people perceive politics? How did communities and groups participate in political activity? These and many other questions concern the relationships between local issues and personalities, and the national political culture, all of which impinged on communities increasingly as a result of substantial social and political change.

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Cambridge University Press

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113945448X

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Student Study Guide to The Asian World, 600-1500

By: Roger Des Forges,John Major

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Student Study Guide to The Asian World, 600-1500

By: Roger Des Forges,John Major

The Christian doctrine of heaven has been a moral source of enormous power in western culture. It has provided astriking account of the ultimate good in life and has for two millennia animated the hope that our lives can be fully meaningful. Recently, however, the doctrine of heaven has lost much of its grip on the western imagination and hasbecome a vague and largely ignored part of the Christian creed. Not only have our hopes been redefined as a result,but our very identity as human beings has been altered.In this book, Jerry L. Walls argues that the doctrine of heaven is ripe for serious reconsideration. He contends not only that the orthodox view of heaven can be defended from objections commonly raised against it, but also that heaven is a powerful resource for addressing persistent philosophical problems, not the least of which concern the ground of morality and the meaning of life. Walls shows how heaven is integrally related to central Christian doctrines, particularly those concerning salvation, and tackles the difficult problem of why faith in Christ is necessary to save us from our sins. In addition, heaven is shown to illumine thorny problems of personal identity and to be anessential component of a satisfactory theodicy. Walls goes on to examine data from near-death experiences from the standpoint of some important recent work in epistemology and argues that they offer positive evidence for heaven. He concludes that we profoundly need to recover the hope of heaven in order to recover our very humanity.

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Oxford University Press

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0195223403

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The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry

By: Roger Paulin

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The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry

By: Roger Paulin

This is the first full-scale biography, in any language, of a towering figure in German and European Romanticism: August Wilhelm Schlegel whose life, 1767 to 1845, coincided with its inexorable rise. As poet, translator, critic and oriental scholar, Schlegel's extraordinarily diverse interests and writings left a vast intellectual legacy, making him a foundational figure in several branches of knowledge. He was one of the last thinkers in Europe able to practise as well as to theorise, and to attempt to comprehend the nature of culture without being forced to be a narrow specialist. With his brother Friedrich, for example, Schlegel edited the avant-garde Romantic periodical Athenaeum; and he produced with his wife Caroline a translation of Shakespeare, the first metrical version into any foreign language. Schlegel's Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature were a defining force for Coleridge and for the French Romantics. But his interests extended to French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literature, as well to the Greek and Latin classics, and to Sanskrit. August Wilhelm Schlegel is the first attempt to engage with this totality, to combine an account of Schlegel’s life and times with a critical evaluation of his work and its influence. Through the study of one man's rich life, incorporating the most recent scholarship, theoretical approaches, and archival resources, while remaining easily accessible to all readers, Paulin has recovered the intellectual climate of Romanticism in Germany and traced its development into a still-potent international movement. The extraordinarily wide scope and variety of Schlegel's activities have hitherto acted as a barrier to literary scholars, even in Germany. In Roger Paulin, whose career has given him the knowledge and the experience to grapple with such an ambitious project, Schlegel has at last found a worthy exponent.

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Open Book Publishers

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1909254959

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9781909254954

The World's Great Tanks

From 1916 to the Present Day

By: Roger Ford

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The World's Great Tanks

From 1916 to the Present Day

By: Roger Ford

The World's Great Tanks examines the best tanks to have ever entered combat - from the earliest British Mark IVs and Vs to classic World War II tanks such as the Russian T-34, the American Sherman, and the German Tiger and Panther tanks to the more modern tanks, such as the Abrams, T-72, Challenger and Leopard.

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Amber Books Ltd

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190869601X

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Terrorist Movements and the Recruitment of Arab Foreign Fighters

A History from 1980s Afghanistan to ISIS

By: Roger Warren

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Terrorist Movements and the Recruitment of Arab Foreign Fighters

A History from 1980s Afghanistan to ISIS

By: Roger Warren

This book offers the first detailed, in-depth account of how and why some Arab foreign fighters subsequently became involved in Islamist terrorism. Drawing on a personal dataset of 3,010 Arab foreign fighters compiled using biographies, martyrdom eulogies, and postings on 'jihadi' websites, Terrorist Movements and the Recruitment of Arab Foreign Fighters suggests that the subsequent involvement in Islamist terrorism by some Arab foreign fighters is primarily forged in the crucible of defensive jihad.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786736217

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Candor and Perversion

Literature, Education, and the Arts

By: Roger Shattuck

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Candor and Perversion

Literature, Education, and the Arts

By: Roger Shattuck

...he is an expert at intellectual and moral triage, sorting patiently through the tangle of mixed motives that make for art, admiring the candor, admonishing the perversion.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393321118

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9780393321111

Unacknowledged Legislators

The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France

By: Roger Pearson

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Unacknowledged Legislators

The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France

By: Roger Pearson

What is the public value of poetry? How do poets envisage their own role and function within society? How do we? Do poets seek to shape public opinion and behaviour? Should they? Or do they offer alternatives—perhaps sacred alternatives—to political and religious ideologies? Are they what Shelley in 1821 called 'the unacknowledged legislators of the World'? And what might that mean? During the decades immediately preceding the Revolution of 1789 the status of contemporary poetry in France was at its lowest ebb. At the same time the perceived power of the writer to influence public events reached a high-water mark with Voltaire's triumphant return to Paris in 1778. In the course of the next century French poetry enjoyed an extraordinary renaissance and flowering, perhaps its greatest. But what of the poet's public influence? In 1881 the people of Paris processed for six hours past the home of Victor Hugo on the occasion of his 79th birthday, and in 1885 an estimated two million people witnessed his state funeral. But who or what were they acknowledging? Poetry or republicanism? Or perhaps their own power? For with each Revolution that passed—1789, 1830, 1848—French poets themselves felt increasingly marginalised. This study addresses the first part of this story and focuses on the role and function of the poet during the so-called Romantic Period. Beginning with an account of the literary climate in pre-revolutionary France it then maps the changes in that climate wrought by the events of the 1789 Revolution. It describes the new politico-literary agendas set by Chateaubriand and others on the monarchist Right, and by Staël and others on the liberal Left. Against this background it then analyses in detail the poetic output and public exploits of the three major French poets of the period: Lamartine, Hugo, and Vigny. The Romantic figure of the poet as prophet and magus is habitually dismissed as a cliché. But by focusing on the role of the poet as lawgiver this book reveals the rich and complex terms in which the public function of poetry was debated in post-revolutionary France - and how amidst the centenary celebrations of 1889, as Romanticism gave way to Symbolism, the poet as lawgiver continued to play a central part in that debate.

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Oxford University Press

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0191069418

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A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France

By: Roger Price

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A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France

By: Roger Price

First published in 1987, A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France argues that the social impact of the French Revolution has been greatly exaggerated, and that in 1815 France was still predominantly a rural and pre-industrial society. The revolution introduced only very limited changes in social structures and relationships – the daily lives of ordinary people remained virtually unchanged. A much more decisive turning point in French history, the author suggests, was the period of structural change in economy and society, which began in the mid nineteenth century. The first part of the book looks at many changes in the economy and their effect on living standards and social environment. The second part identifies the social groups which make up French society and provides detailed analyses of their lifestyles and social relationships. Part Three considers the influence of such key institutions as churches, schools, and the state. Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of primary sources, this is likely to be the definitive overview of French society for many years to come and will be of interest to researchers of French history and European history.

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Routledge

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1000544540

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Buffon

A Life in Natural History

By: Jacques Roger

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Buffon

A Life in Natural History

By: Jacques Roger

A biography of a premier French scientist of the Enlightenment and the director of France's Royal Botanical Garden, using Buffon's enormous literary production as the major source of insight into his and his age's beliefs about the natural world. Includes bandw illustrations from his Natural History. First published in 1989 as Buffon, un philosophe au Jardin du Roi, by Librarie Artheme Fayard. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Cornell University Press

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0801429188

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The French Second Empire

An Anatomy of Political Power

By: Roger Price

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The French Second Empire

An Anatomy of Political Power

By: Roger Price

This is a most thoroughly researched book on Napoleon III's Second Empire. It makes a vital contribution to the quarter-century of French history following the 1848 revolution, which saw major developments in the 'modernization' of the French state and in its relationships with its citizens.

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1139430971

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France

By: Roger Williams,Robin Gauldie

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France

By: Roger Williams,Robin Gauldie

Spilling over with all sorts of useful information for the traveler, "Eyewitness Travel Guide: France" paints a complete picture of the country. Readers will appreciate the hundreds of color photos of everything from ski towns to beaches to wine vineyards.

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0756660564

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9780756660567

The Cunetio and Normanby Hoards

Roger Bland, Edward Besly and Andrew Burnett, with notes to aid identification by Sam Moorhead

By: Roger Bland,Edward Besly,Andrew Burnett

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The Cunetio and Normanby Hoards

Roger Bland, Edward Besly and Andrew Burnett, with notes to aid identification by Sam Moorhead

By: Roger Bland,Edward Besly,Andrew Burnett

The Cunetio and Normanby hoards are the two of the largest Roman coin hoards from Britain. They both comprise mostly radiate coins struck in the second half of the 3rd century and are the most important catalogues for people identifying radiate coins in Britain dating from AD 253 to AD 275. The Cunetio hoard was originally published as a single volume, The Cunetio Treasure by EM Besly and RF Bland (British Museum Press, 1983); the Normanby hoard was published along with several other hoards in The Normanby Hoard and other Roman coin hoards: Coin Hoards from Roman Britain VIII edited by RF Bland and AM Burnett (British Museum Press, 1988). This edition provides the two hoards in one volume with a note on more recent work on the radiate coinage of AD 253-96 and notes to aid identification by Sam Moorhead.

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1912667339

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Cultural Centrality and Political Change in Chinese History

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The Mythistorical Chinese Scholar-Rebel-Advisor Li Yan

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France, 1815-1914

France, 1815-1914

People and Politics in France, 1848–1870

People and Politics in France, 1848–1870

Student Study Guide to The Asian World, 600-1500

Student Study Guide to The Asian World, 600-1500

The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry

The Life of August Wilhelm Schlegel, Cosmopolitan of Art and Poetry

The World's Great Tanks

The World's Great Tanks

Terrorist Movements and the Recruitment of Arab Foreign Fighters

Terrorist Movements and the Recruitment of Arab Foreign Fighters

Candor and Perversion

Candor and Perversion

Unacknowledged Legislators

Unacknowledged Legislators

A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France

A Social History of Nineteenth-Century France

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Buffon

The French Second Empire

The French Second Empire

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The Cunetio and Normanby Hoards

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