Book Description
Presents an overview of the different peoples of Eastern Asia from pre-history to the present.
Author : Cavendish Square Publishing LLC
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 23,79 MB
Release : 2004-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761475477
Presents an overview of the different peoples of Eastern Asia from pre-history to the present.
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Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761476429
Most of what is known about the outside world remains superficial and stereotypical. World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia brings a long, rich story to light about ethnic groups, the impact of terrain and natural resources, and the influence of history. This unique reference work maps out how the nations of the modern world became what they are today through photographs of the geography and people of foreign lands, through discussion of ancient and contemporary works of art and events, and through scores of maps detailing geographical features, historic and modern places, natural habitats, rainfall, locations of ethnic and linguistic groups, natural resources, and centers of industry and transportation. No single resource assembles such comprehensive insight into the world and the people who live in it.
Author : Robert L. Winzeler
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 2010-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0759118647
The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today offers an anthropological treatment of the ethnography and ethnology of Southeast Asia, covering both the mainland and the insular regions. Based on the proposition that Southeast Asia is a true culture area, the book offers background information on geography, languages, prehistory and history, with a particular emphasis on the role of colonialism and the development of ethnic pluralism. It then turns to classic anthropological topics of interest including modes of adaptation, ways of life, and religion, all illustrated with relevant, current case studies. Students will find well-supported discussions of subjects ranging from the development of agriculture and language dispersals, to fantasy and reality in hunter-gatherer studies, to disputed interpretations of Thai Buddhism and Javanese Islam, to ongoing government efforts to manage religion, create proper citizens, resettle and assimilate indigenous populations, end shifting cultivation and promote modernization.
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Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : 9780761475538
Presents an overview of the different peoples of Eastern Asia from pre-history to the present.
Author : Jean Michaud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136827889
Scattered across the South-East Asian massif, a few dozen ethnic groups (numbering around 50 million) maintain highly original cultural identities and political and economic traditions, against pressure from national majorities. They face the same challenges. The means by which social change has been imposed by the lowlanders are similar from country to country, and the results are comparable. The originality of this book lies in the combination of multi-disciplinary mixing of social anthropology, history and human geography; multi-culturality grouping together several cultural contexts; trans-nationality straddling five countries and bridging the traditional divide between South China and Mainland South-East Asia; and history reaching back 300 years.
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Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761476450
Most of what is known about the outside world remains superficial and stereotypical. World and Its Peoples: Eastern and Southern Asia brings a long, rich story to light about ethnic groups, the impact of terrain and natural resources, and the influence of history. This unique reference work maps out how the nations of the modern world became what they are today through photographs of the geography and people of foreign lands, through discussion of ancient and contemporary works of art and events, and through scores of maps detailing geographical features, historic and modern places, natural habitats, rainfall, locations of ethnic and linguistic groups, natural resources, and centers of industry and transportation. No single resource assembles such comprehensive insight into the world and the people who live in it.
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Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : 9780761475583
Presents an overview of the different peoples of Eastern Asia from pre-history to the present.
Author : Charles Holcombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 2017-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1107118735
The second edition of Charles Holcombe's acclaimed introduction to East Asian history from the dawn of history to the twenty-first century.
Author : David Kang
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 30,15 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231153198
From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown more powerful, the atmosphere around them has stabilized. Focusing on the role of the "tribute system" in maintaining stability in East Asia and fostering diplomatic and commercial exchange, Kang contrasts this history against the example of Europe and the East Asian states' skirmishes with nomadic peoples to the north and west. Scholars tend to view Europe's experience as universal, but Kang upends this tradition, emphasizing East Asia's formal hierarchy as an international system with its own history and character. His approach not only recasts common understandings of East Asian relations but also defines a model that applies to other hegemonies outside of the European order.
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Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,62 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Asia, Southeastern
ISBN : 9780761475507
Presents an overview of the different peoples of Eastern Asia from pre-history to the present.