Past Human Migrations In East Asia (Routledge Studies in the Early History of Asia) Author(s): Alicia Sanchez-Mazas (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: May 15, 2012 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 504 pages ISBN-10: 0415541883 ISBN-13: 9780415541886 Book Description The study of the prehistory of East Asia is developing very rapidly. In uncovering the story of the flows of human migration that constituted the peopling of East Asia there exists widespread debate about the...
Ctesias’ History of Persia: Tales of the Orient (Routledge Classical Translations) Author(s): Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones (Author), James Robson (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: January 15, 2010 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 253 pages ISBN-10: 0415364116 ISBN-13: 9780415364119 Book Description Towards the end of the fifth century BC Ctesias of Cnidus wrote his 23 book History of Persia. Ctesias is a remarkable figure: he lived and worked in the Persian court and, as...
Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) Author(s): Julia Kristeva (Author) Publisher: Columbia University Press Publication Date: January 30, 2024 Language: English Print length: 352 pages ISBN-10: 0231214553 ISBN-13: 9780231214551 Book Description Desire in Language presents a selection of Julia Kristeva’s essays that trace the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the...
After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation Author(s): George Steiner (Author) Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication Date: December 10, 1998 Edition: 3rd Language: English Print length: 560 pages ISBN-10: 0192880934 ISBN-13: 9780192880932 Book Description When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literary theory. In the original edition, Steiner provided readers with the first systematic...
Translation/History/Culture (Translation Studies) Author(s): André Lefevere (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: December 17, 1992 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 198 pages ISBN-10: 0784731918 ISBN-13: 9780784731918 Book Description The most important and productive statements on the translation of literature from Roman times to the 1920s are collected in this book. Arranged thematically around the main topics which recur over the centuries – power, poetics, univers...
The Cross-Cultural Legacy of Lin Yutang: Critical Perspectives (China Research Monograph 72) Author(s): Qian Suoqiao (Editor) Publisher: Institute of East Asian Studies Publication Date: December 31, 2015 Language: English Print length: 262 pages ISBN-10: 1557291691 ISBN-13: 9781557291691 Book Description Lin Yutang (1895–1976) was the modern Chinese writer and intellectual best known to the Western world in the twentieth century. Hailed as a “Chinese philosopher,” Lin was the de facto spokesman...
Music and Minorities from Around the World: Research, Documentation and Interdisciplinary Study Author(s): Ursula Hemetek (Editor), Essica Marks (Editor), Adelaida Reyes (Editor) Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing Publication Date: November 6, 2014 Language: English Print length: 230 pages ISBN-10: 1443866202 ISBN-13: 9781443866200 Book Description The acceleration of mobility among the world’s peoples, the growth of populations resettling in places other than their homelands, and world ev...
Philip Augustus: King of France 1180-1223 (The Medieval World) by: Jim Bradbury (Author) Edition: 1st Publication Date: 1997-11-11 Language: English Print Length: 400 pages ISBN-10: 0582060591 ISBN-13: 9780582060593 Book Description This is the first major study in English of the reign of Philip Augustus who ruled France from 1180 – 1223. Outshone for posterity, by his flamboyant contemporaries, the Angevin family of Henry II and his feuding sons, Philip was in fact far more successful tha...
Filth of Progress: Immigrants, Americans, and the Building of Canals and Railroads in the West Author(s): Ryan Dearinger (Author) Publisher: University of California Press Publication Date: October 30, 2015 Edition: First Edition Language: English Print length: 310 pages ISBN-10: 0520284593 ISBN-13: 9780520284593 Book Description The Filth of Progress explores the untold side of a well-known American story. For more than a century, accounts of progress in the West foregrounded the technological ...
Masculine Ideals and Alexander the Great: An Exemplary Man in the Roman and Medieval World Author(s): Jaakkojuhani Peltonen (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: June 27, 2025 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 274 pages ISBN-10: 1032523786 ISBN-13: 9781032523781 Book Description From premodern societies onward, humans have constructed and produced images of ideal masculinity to define the roles available for boys to grow into and images for adult men to imitate. The figure o...
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