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T'ang China
S. A. M. Adshead
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Description for T'ang China
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3F; HBJF; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
This book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics offers a distant mirror of our own time. An argument in world history may thus cast light on issues in contemporary politics.
This book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang period and its dynamics offers a distant mirror of our own time. An argument in world history may thus cast light on issues in contemporary politics.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403934574
SKU
V9781403934574
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99-15
About S. A. M. Adshead
S.A.M. ADSHEAD is Professor Emeritus in History at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He was educated at Stowe School and Christ Church, Oxford, and studied Chinese History at Harvard University. He is the author of The Modernization of the Chinese Salt Administration, Province and Politics in Late Imperial China, Salt and Civilization, Central Asia in World History ... Read more
Reviews for T'ang China
'Any student interested in macro-history, as well as in the history of China in pre-modern times, will be well rewarded by reading it.' - Professor John S. Gregory, former Professor of History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 'T'ang China is historical argument at its best... The Adsheadian view of world history is wonderfully integrated and distinctive, and ... Read more