Chinese History in Geographical Perspective 9780739172315, 9780739172308

The authors in this volume believe that long-term, profound, and sometimes tumultuous changes in the last five hundred y

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Chinese History in Geographical Perspective
9780739172315, 9780739172308

This book, originally published in 1987, provides an integrative, analytical aproach to rural areas in advanced economie

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As the "world’s factory" China exerts an enormous pressure on workers around the world. Many nations have had

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Since the time of Adam Smith, there has been a voluminous literature concerned with the differing wealth of nations and

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One of the great themes in the history of Eastern Asia is the transformation of Chinese culture by Buddhism. This proces

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Are walls remnants of ancient and medieval societies, destined to become anachronistic in modern and post-modern times?

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Continental America offers a rather different way of looking at a period of enormous expansion, development, and crisis

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This is the third of four volumes in a series acclaimed by both historians and geographers for its breathtaking scope an

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