In the Wake of the Mongols: The Making of a New Social Order in North China, 1200-1600 0674987152, 9780674987159

The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China 9780804780995

The author presents a convincing new interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian crisis that gripped the No

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In the Wake of Chaos: Unpredictable Order in Dynamical Systems 9780226429823

Chaos theory has captured scientific and popular attention. What began as the discovery of randomness in simple physical

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To wake the nations: race in the making of American literature 9780674893313, 9780674893306

This powerful book argues that white culture in America does not exist apart from black culture. The revolution of the r

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Capitalism and a New Social Order: The Republican View of the 1790s 0-8147-0581-2

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Nominal Things: Bronzes in the Making of Medieval China 9780226822471

How the medieval study of ancient bronzes influenced the production of knowledge and the making of things in East Asia.

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Weathering the World: Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village 9780857452009

The Asian tsunami in December 2004 severely affected people in coastal regions all around the Indian Ocean. This book pr

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The Dervishes of the North: Rumi, Whirling, and the Making of Sufism in Canada 9781487552312

The Dervishes of the North traces the legacy of the thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet, Jalal al-Din Rumi, and ex

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The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853–1937 [Reprint 2020 ed.] 9780520913196

This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological c

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Art's Undoing: In the Wake of a Radical Aestheticism 9780823290956

Radical aestheticism describes a recurring event in some of the most powerful and resonating texts of nineteenth-century

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The making of a hinterland: state, society, and economy in inland North China, 1853-1937 9780520080515, 9780520913196

This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological c

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