Confucius’ Courtyard : Architecture, Philosophy and the Good Life in China / Xing Ruan |
Autore | Ruan, Xing <1965-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Bloomsbury, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 320 p. : ill. ; 22 cm |
Soggetto topico | Asian History, Cultural History, Architecture, World Architecture, Chinese Philosophy, Architectural History |
Soggetto non controllato |
1000
1949 500 ARCH Along Architecture Armed Art BCE China China’s Chinese Concepts Confucian Confucius’ Culture Defects English Equilibrium Erudite For Form God History Level Longevity Meaning Middle Mind Part Philosophy Pitching Shapes Singular Society State Story Such They Time West about accessible accomplishments achievable actively almost also an ancient and anything approximately architectural are around artistic as assorted at avoiding away awe awesome be bedrock been beginning below bespoke between beyond blessing book bother brothel building but by can celestial centuries century certain change check chronology city civilization compound compromize configured confines correspond cosmic courtyard cultural dear desired develop did do doctrine early earth earthly element elites embarks emerged enclosure enduring enjoying entirely equally especially established even explore explores extent extraordinary extremes facets family following freely from fully gentry good grounded guiding half has have heart heavens held hence holds home house housed how humanly humans humble imperial indeed indulge inextricably innate inner institutional institutions interest intertwined introduction is it it’s kept key large largely letting lies life life’s live living maintaining manage managed market materialistic millennia moment moral most much nation need next nineteenth no nonchalantly not of on one’s only open or origin over overlooked palace participating peculiar persistent philosophical pleasurable pleasures poetic political populace populous preached principle principles propriety provides put quadrangle radically rare reason represents respecting responsibility retreating reveals roam saints same saw search secular selective separated shows since snatching so somewhat soul space span special specificity staged static staying sustained taking tells temple that theatre their thematic these this thousand three through to today together too took twentieth two type understanding understood unfolds unparalleled use very view virtuous walled was way weaves well were what when which while with within without work workshop world worth years yet zhongyong – ‘the |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0241586 |
Ruan, Xing <1965->
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London, : Bloomsbury, 2021 | ||
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Imperial connections [[electronic resource] ] : India in the Indian Ocean arena, 1860-1920 / / Thomas R. Metcalf |
Autore | Metcalf Thomas R. <1934-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 p.) |
Disciplina | 909/.09824081 |
Collana | The California world history library |
Soggetto topico |
East Indians - Colonization - Indian Ocean Region - History
East Indians - Employment - Indian Ocean Region - History |
Soggetto non controllato |
1800s
1900s 1920s africa agriculture architecture british empire colonial colonialism conquest east africa empire geography global trade government immigrants immigration imperial india indian army indian ocean investment malaya mesopotamia migration policing provinces railroad railway regional sikh transcolonial uganda |
ISBN |
1-282-76223-0
9786612762239 0-520-93333-8 1-4337-0969-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Empire Recentered -- 1. Governing Colonial Peoples -- 2. Constructing Identities -- 3. Projecting Power: The Indian Army Overseas -- 4. Recruiting Sikhs for Colonial Police and Military -- 5. "Hard Hands and Sound Healthy Bodies": Recruiting "Coolies" for Natal -- 6. India in East Africa -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784418803321 |
Metcalf Thomas R. <1934->
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Law and the economy in colonial India / / Tirthankar Roy, Anand V. Swamy |
Autore | Roy Tirthankar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (253 pages) : illustrations, map |
Disciplina | 349.5409034 |
Collana | Markets and Governments in Economic History |
Soggetto topico |
Law - India
British Indian law Raj commercial contracts corporate law imperial BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General |
Soggetto non controllato |
British Indian law
Raj commercial contracts corporate law imperial |
ISBN | 0-226-38778-X |
Classificazione | NQ 9410 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ONE. Introduction -- TWO. The Process of Legislation, 1772- 1857 -- THREE. Landed Property: Security and Incentives -- FOUR. Landed Property and Credit -- FIVE. Succession of Property: Joint versus Individual Right -- SIX. Labor Law: From "Slavery" to Trade Union -- SEVEN. Contract: Late Westernization -- EIGHT. Corporate Law: Flawed Westernization -- NINE. The Burden of Procedures -- TEN. Conclusion -- TIMELINE -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554274103321 |
Roy Tirthankar
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] | ||
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The Persianate World : The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca / / Nile Green |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366) |
Disciplina | 491/.5509 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature & literary studies
History |
Soggetto non controllato |
beijing
bengali chinese eurasian language geographical imperial islamic world language literary london persian persographia pre modern cosmopolitanism punjabi shared language siberia social frontiers southeast asia turkic under explored language vernacular competitors world historical inquiry world history written persian |
ISBN | 0-520-30092-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- A Note on Transliteration -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800-1900) -- 1. Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World -- 2. Persian at the Court or in the Village? The Elusive Presence of Persian in Bengal -- 3. The Uses of Persian in Imperial China: Translating Practices at the Ming Court -- 4. Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers in Muslim Inner Asia -- 5. Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian Scholarly Networks in Mughal Punjab -- 6. A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China -- 7. Speaking "Bukharan": The Circulation of Persian Texts in Imperial Russia -- 8. Lingua Franca or Lingua Magica? Talismanic Scrolls from Eastern Turkistan -- 9. Conflicting Meanings of Persianate Culture: An Intimate Example from Colonial India and Britain -- 10. De-Persifying Court Culture: The Khanate of Khiva's Translation Program -- 11. Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan -- 12. From Peshawar to Tehran: An Anti-imperialist Poet of the Late Persianate Milieu -- Epilogue: The Persianate Millennium -- Glossary -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910321956603321 |
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] | ||
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The Persianate World : The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca / / Nile Green |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366) |
Disciplina | 491/.5509 |
Soggetto topico |
Literature & literary studies
History |
Soggetto non controllato |
beijing
bengali chinese eurasian language geographical imperial islamic world language literary london persian persographia pre modern cosmopolitanism punjabi shared language siberia social frontiers southeast asia turkic under explored language vernacular competitors world historical inquiry world history written persian |
ISBN | 0-520-30092-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- A Note on Transliteration -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction The Frontiers of the Persianate World (ca. 800-1900) -- 1. Imperial Ambitions, Mystical Aspirations: Persian Learning in the Ottoman World -- 2. Persian at the Court or in the Village? The Elusive Presence of Persian in Bengal -- 3. The Uses of Persian in Imperial China: Translating Practices at the Ming Court -- 4. Persian and Turkic from Kazan to Tobolsk: Literary Frontiers in Muslim Inner Asia -- 5. Marking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Persian Scholarly Networks in Mughal Punjab -- 6. A Lingua Franca in Decline? The Place of Persian in Qing China -- 7. Speaking "Bukharan": The Circulation of Persian Texts in Imperial Russia -- 8. Lingua Franca or Lingua Magica? Talismanic Scrolls from Eastern Turkistan -- 9. Conflicting Meanings of Persianate Culture: An Intimate Example from Colonial India and Britain -- 10. De-Persifying Court Culture: The Khanate of Khiva's Translation Program -- 11. Dissidence from a Distance: Iranian Politics as Viewed from Colonial Daghestan -- 12. From Peshawar to Tehran: An Anti-imperialist Poet of the Late Persianate Milieu -- Epilogue: The Persianate Millennium -- Glossary -- List of Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996328038003316 |
Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2019] | ||
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Tensions of empire [[electronic resource] ] : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world / / edited by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 470 pages) |
Disciplina | 909.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CooperFrederick <1947->
StolerAnn Laura |
Soggetto topico |
History, Modern - 19th century
History, Modern - 20th century Imperialism - History - 19th century Imperialism - History - 20th century Colonies |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
19th century 20th century academic analysis bourgeoisie colonialism colonies colonists colonization empire essay anthology essay collection europe european colonies european history exclusion imperial imperialism inclusion metropolis metropolitan modern life modern world modernity political politics scholarly small town welfare world history |
ISBN |
1-283-31138-0
9786613311382 0-520-91808-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Between Metropole and Colony -- 1. Liberal Strategies of Exclusion -- 2. Imperialism and Motherhood -- 3. Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse -- 4. Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience -- 5. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers -- 6. "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable" -- 7. Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire -- 8. "Le bebe en brousse" -- 9. Tradition in the Service of Modernity -- 10. Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria -- 11. he Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity -- 12. The Dialectics of Decolonization -- 13. Cars Out of Place -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784605003321 |
Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c1997 | ||
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Tensions of empire : colonial cultures in a bourgeois world / / edited by Frederick Cooper, Ann Laura Stoler |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 470 pages) |
Disciplina | 909.8 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
CooperFrederick <1947->
StolerAnn Laura |
Soggetto topico |
History, Modern - 19th century
History, Modern - 20th century Imperialism - History - 19th century Imperialism - History - 20th century Colonies |
Soggetto non controllato |
18th century
19th century 20th century academic analysis bourgeoisie colonialism colonies colonists colonization empire essay anthology essay collection europe european colonies european history exclusion imperial imperialism inclusion metropolis metropolitan modern life modern world modernity political politics scholarly small town welfare world history |
ISBN |
1-283-31138-0
9786613311382 0-520-91808-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Between Metropole and Colony -- 1. Liberal Strategies of Exclusion -- 2. Imperialism and Motherhood -- 3. Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse -- 4. Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience -- 5. Sexual Affronts and Racial Frontiers -- 6. "The Conversion of Englishmen and the Conversion of the World Inseparable" -- 7. Race, Gender, and Citizenship in the German Colonial Empire -- 8. "Le bebe en brousse" -- 9. Tradition in the Service of Modernity -- 10. Educating Conformity in French Colonial Algeria -- 11. he Difference-Deferral of a Colonial Modernity -- 12. The Dialectics of Decolonization -- 13. Cars Out of Place -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248032003316 |
Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c1997 | ||
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Transcultural approaches to the concept of imperial rule in the Middle Ages / / Christian Scholl, Torben R. Gebhardt, Jan Clauss (eds.) |
Autore | Scholl Christian |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (380 pages) |
Disciplina | 321/.60940902 |
Soggetto topico |
World politics - To 1900
Middle Ages Imperialism - History - To 1500 |
Soggetto non controllato |
History
Middle Ages imperial Charlemagne Saladin Europe Byzantium Middle East |
ISBN |
3-631-70624-3
3-653-05232-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Christian Scholl, Torben R. Gebhardt, Jan Clauss: Transcultural approaches to the concept of imperial rule in the Middle Ages : introduction -- Christian Scholl: Imitatio imperii? : elements of imperial rule in the barbarian successor states of the Roman West -- Sebastian Kolditz: Barbarian emperors? : aspects of the Byzantine perception of the qaghan (chaganos) in the earlier Middle Ages -- Jan Clauss: Imports and embargos of imperial concepts in the Frankish kingdom : the promotion of Charlemagne's imperial coronation in Carolingian courtly culture -- Simon Groth: How to become emperor : John VIII and the role of the papacy in the 9th century -- Jessika Nowak: Imperial aspirations in Provence and Burgundy -- Torben R. Gebhardt: From Bretwalda to Basileus : imperial concepts in late Anglo-Saxon England? -- Nadeem Khan: The caliphates between imperial rule and imagined suzerainty : a case study on imperial rituals during Saladin's rise to power -- Tobias Hoffmann: Von verlorenen Hufeisen und brennenden Nussen : über Konflikte im Rahmen des "diplomatischen" Zeremoniells des byzantinischen Kaiserhofes -- Roland Scheel: Byzantium, Rome, Denmark, Iceland : dealing with imperial concepts in the north -- Stefan Burkhardt: Intoxication with virtuality : French princes and Aegean titles -- Grischa Vercamer: Imperiale Konzepte in der mittelalterlichen Historiographie Polens vom 12. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910287940103321 |
Scholl Christian
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Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group, 2017 | ||
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