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Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China by Wasserstrom Jeffrey N.; Perry Elizabeth J.; & Elizabeth J. Perry
epub |eng | | Author:Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N.; Perry, Elizabeth J.; & Elizabeth J. Perry

The Problem of Chinese Intellectuals The literary critic Luo Changpei did not live to see the seventieth anniversary of May Fourth. He did not have a chance to comment on ...
( Category: Asia March 5,2020 )
Suppressed Terror by Greiner Bettina
epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:Greiner, Bettina. [Greiner, Bettina]

Detention Memories Die Erinnerung schreibt Romane, keine dokumentarischen Wahrheiten. Memory writes novels, not documentary truths. —Gerhard Roth, Das Alphabet der Zeit, 2007 Freedom The Closure of the Special Camps, 1950 ...
( Category: Asia March 5,2020 )
Obedience to the Amir: An early text on the Afghan Taliban Movement (First Draft Publishing Primary) by Mufti Rasheed Ludhianvi
azw3 |eng | 2015-11-26 | Author:Mufti Rasheed Ludhianvi [Ludhianvi, Mufti Rasheed]

THE SECRET FORMULA FOR AVOIDING EVERY ERROR “Do not become like those people who after the arrival of the clear instructions divided themselves with differences, as for those people the ...
( Category: Asia March 5,2020 )
India in the Persianate Age by Richard Eaton
azw3, epub |eng | 2019-07-24 | Author:Richard Eaton [Eaton, Richard]

THE VIEW FROM THE FRONTIER Jahangir’s India amounted to much more than the palace intrigues and battles that fill the pages of contemporary chronicles, or the courtly gossip that so ...
( Category: Asia March 5,2020 )
Stalin by Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov
epub |eng | 1991-12-03 | Author:Dmitriĭ Antonovich Volkogonov [Volkogonov, Dmitriĭ Antonovich]

Stalin crazy. With characteristic sarcasm and perspicacity, Trotsky pinpointed the phoney nature of the trials: In this criminal activity the people’s commissars, marshals, ambassadors and secretaries invariably receive their orders ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 5,2020 )
The Making of Modern Economics by Mark Skousen
epub |eng | | Author:Mark Skousen [Mark Skousen]

Veblen was famous for his extremely shy and taciturn personality. Colleagues, students, and visitors were put off by his apparent inability to carry on a conversation. He would be invited ...
( Category: Economic History March 5,2020 )
Confucianism and the Chinese Self by Jack Barbalet
epub |eng | | Author:Jack Barbalet

Confucian Selves The notion of the relational-self in Chinese philosophy and sociology is derived from the Confucian ideal of familial role relations (parent–child, husband–wife, elder–younger sibling) and those relationships which ...
( Category: Asia March 5,2020 )
Atisa Dipamkara by James B. Apple
epub |eng | 2019-07-22 | Author:James B. Apple

The Song with a Vision for the Realm of Reality composed by great master Dīpaṃkaraśrījñāna is completed. Translated by the very same Indian abbot and the Tibetan translator, the monk ...
( Category: Religious March 5,2020 )
The Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri: or, Memoirs of Jahangir (Volume 2 of 2) by Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir
epub |eng | 2016-12-10 | Author:Emperor of Hindustan Jahangir [Jahangir, Emperor of Hindustan]

Verse. So clear the water that the grains of sand at bottom Could be counted at midnight by a blind man. As I gave127 the village to my son K͟hān ...
( Category: Historical March 5,2020 )
A Short History of the Russian Revolution by Swain Geoffrey;
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Swain, Geoffrey;

INDUSTRIAL CRISIS As Steve Smith has commented, ‘the revolutionary process of 1917 can only be understood in the context of a growing crisis of the economy […] a crisis in ...
( Category: Asia March 5,2020 )
The Rig-Vedic and Post-Rig-Vedic Polity (1500 BCE-500 BCE) by R.R.S. Prasad
epub |eng | 2016-04-20 | Author:R.R.S. Prasad [Prasad, R. U. S.]

c) Varṇa System During the early Ṛgvedic period, we notice intermingling between the Aryan tribes and the local population. The results of such intermingling were seen in social interaction between ...
( Category: Asia March 5,2020 )
The Morbid Age by Richard Overy
epub |eng | 2009-04-15 | Author:Richard Overy

A ‘Peace Bus’ organized by the Peace Pledge Union at the end of its long journey from Carlisle to London. The Union had an estimated 1,150 branches countrywide by the ...
( Category: Asia March 5,2020 )
Chinese Bridges by Ronald G. Knapp
epub |eng | | Author:Ronald G. Knapp

The triangular-shaped cut-waters, which face upstream, served once to deflect ice floes in winter and storm surges at other times. Seven meters wide and modified in 1913 to allow motor ...
( Category: Architecture March 4,2020 )
A Garland of Bones by Jonah Steinberg
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-03-03 | Author:Jonah Steinberg

Shadow zone: Raju, rushing train, soaked rag, Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station There is also, of course, the World Beyond, beyond even the far reaches of the station, the part of ...
( Category: Asian March 4,2020 )
Stalin's Scribe by Brian Boeck
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Boeck

TWENTY Upon the conclusion of the war, Sholokhov came under intense pressure to deliver the novel he had promised to Stalin. He boasted to journalists in Moscow in September 1945 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2020 )

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