The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China 9780674293144, 9780674278387, 9780674293137, 0674293142

The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China 0674278380, 9780674278387

The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chin

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The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China 9780674293137

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments tran

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The Crafting of the 10,000 Things: Knowledge and Technology in Seventeenth-Century China 9780226735856

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publication

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Staying Local in the Global Village: Bali in the Twentieth Century 9780824864460

One of the world's most intensively studied societies, Bali has hosted scholars and writers as renowned as Margaret

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Guanxi and Local Green Development in China: The Role of Entrepreneurs and Local Leaders 9780367001971, 9780429400810

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Religion and Politics in the 21st Century : Global and Local Reflections [1 ed.] 9781443850766, 9781443848169

Religion and Politics in the 21st Century is composed of a number of articles that were presented during the 2012 intern

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Negotiated Power: The State, Elites, and Local Governance in Twelfth- To Fourteenth-Century China 0674417143, 9780674417144

The internal dynamics driving the relationship between the state and local society during the Southern Song and Yuan dyn

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The Work of Hospitals: Global Medicine in Local Cultures 9781978823075

In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numero

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Penang Chinese Commerce in the 19th Century: The Rise and Fall of the Big Five 9789814515030

The story of Penang would be incomplete without the Big Five Hokkien families (the Khoo, the Cheah, the Yeoh, the Lim, a

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A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta 9781400889280

Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global t

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