Ancient China and Its Enemies

Ancient China and Its Enemies
Author: Nicola Di Cosmo
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2002
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521543828

Relations between Inner Asian nomads and Chinese are a continuous theme throughout Chinese history. By investigating the formation of nomadic cultures, by analyzing the evolution of patterns of interaction along China's frontiers, and by exploring how this interaction was recorded in historiography, this looks at the origins of the cultural and political tensions between these two civilizations through the first millennium BC. The main purpose of the book is to analyze ethnic, cultural, and political frontiers between nomads and Chinese in the historical contexts that led to their formation, and to look at cultural perceptions of 'others' as a function of the same historical process. Based on both archaeological and textual sources, this 2002 book also introduces a new methodological approach to Chinese frontier history, which combines extensive factual data with a careful scrutiny of the motives, methods, and general conception of history that informed the Chinese historian Ssu-ma Ch'ien.

IBSS

IBSS
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 664
Release: 2001
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780415262378

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Ibss: Sociology: 1999

Ibss: Sociology: 1999
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Polit
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2000-12-07
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780415240116

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The Huns

The Huns
Author: Hyun Jin Kim
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2015-11-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1317340914

This volume is a concise introduction to the history and culture of the Huns. This ancient people had a famous reputation in Eurasian Late Antiquity. However, their history has often been evaluated as a footnote in the histories of the later Roman Empire and early Germanic peoples. Kim addresses this imbalance and challenges the commonly held assumption that the Huns were a savage people who contributed little to world history, examining striking geopolitical changes brought about by the Hunnic expansion over much of continental Eurasia and revealing the Huns' contribution to European, Iranian, Chinese and Indian civilization and statecraft. By examining Hunnic culture as a Eurasian whole, The Huns provides a full picture of their society which demonstrates that this was a complex group with a wide variety of ethnic and linguistic identities. Making available critical information from both primary and secondary sources regarding the Huns' Inner Asian origins, which would otherwise be largely unavailable to most English speaking students and Classical scholars, this is a crucial tool for those interested in the study of Eurasian Late Antiquity.

Yearbook on the African Union Volume 1 (2020)

Yearbook on the African Union Volume 1 (2020)
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004498915

This is the first edition of the Yearbook on the African Union. It is first and foremost an academic project that will provide an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements. Despite the increased agency in recent years of the African Union in general, and the AU Commission in particular, little is known – outside expert policy or niche academic circles – about the Union’s activities. This is the gap the Yearbook on the African Union wants to systematically bridge. It seeks to be a reference point for in-depth research, evidence-based policy-making and decision-making. Contributors are: Adekeye Adebajo, Habibu Yaya Bappah, Bruce Byiers, Annie Barbara Hazviyemurwi Chikwanha, Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu, Katharina P.W. Döring, Jens Herpolsheimer, Jacob Lisakafu, Frank Mattheis, Henning Melber, Alphonse Muleefu, John N. Nkengasong, Edefe Ojomo, Awino Okech, Jamie Pring, Elizabeth Sidiropoulos, Tim Zajontz.

Ibss: Anthropology: 1998

Ibss: Anthropology: 1998
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1999-12-16
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780415221047

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Ibss: Economics: 1999

Ibss: Economics: 1999
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2000-12-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415240093

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Ibss: Political Science: 1998

Ibss: Political Science: 1998
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2000-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780415221061

Renowned for its international coverage and rigorous selection procedures, this series provides the most comprehensive and scholarly bibliographic service available in the social sciences. Arranged by topic and indexed by author, subject and place-name, each bibliography lists and annotates the most important works published in its field during the year of 1997, including hard-to-locate journal articles. Each volume also includes a complete list of the periodicals consulted.