This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709–1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that extraordinarily dynamic state in the Ferghana Valley. Levi reveals the many ways in which the Khanate’s integration wi...(展开全部)

This book analyzes how Central Asians actively engaged with the rapidly globalizing world of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In presenting the first English-language history of the Khanate of Khoqand (1709–1876), Scott C. Levi examines the rise of that extraordinarily dynamic state in the Ferghana Valley. Levi reveals the many ways in which the Khanate’s integration wi...(展开全部)

Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of gedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. After Genghis' death (1226), gedei was enthroned as the Great Khan or the Qa'an, the supreme ruler of the entire Mongol Empire. The gedeids retained their position as Qa'ans in the reign of gedei's son, Qaidu's uncle, Gnynk Q...(展开全部)

Qaidu (1236-1301), one of the great rebels in the history of the Mongol Empire, was the grandson of gedei, the son Genghis Khan had chosen to be his heir. After Genghis' death (1226), gedei was enthroned as the Great Khan or the Qa'an, the supreme ruler of the entire Mongol Empire. The gedeids retained their position as Qa'ans in the reign of gedei's son, Qaidu's uncle, Gnynk Q...(展开全部)

A collection of papers on the history of Christianity along the Silk Road and in pre-modern China, pushing back the frontier of knowledge in a fast developing new area of research. The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the premodern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xian (Nestorian) Mon...(展开全部)

While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. The Global Bourgeoisie explores the rise of the middle classes around the world during the age of empire. Bringing together eminent scholars, this landmark essay collection compares middle-cla...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)

"This is scientific storytelling at its most visceral, striding with the beasts through their Triassic dawn, Jurassic dominance, and abrupt demise in the Cretaceous." — Nature The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today they remain one of our planet’s great mysteries. Now The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs reveals their extrao...(展开全部)