Spreading Protestant Modernity

Lou Antolihao, Ryan Bean, Katrin Bromber, Doina Anca Cretu, Lance Cummings, Harald Fischer-Tine, Paul Hillmer

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a moderniza... Lees meer

Land of Plants in Motion

Thomas R H Havens

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Land of Plants in Motion is the first in any language to examine two companion stories: (1) the rise of an East Asian floristic zone and how the Japan... Lees meer

Spreading Protestant Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• A half century after its founding in London in 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) became the first NGO to effectively push a moderniza... Lees meer

Navigating the Spanish Lake

Rainer F Buschmann, Edward R Slack, James B Tueller

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing... Lees meer

Transcending Patterns

Mariachiara Gasparini

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin a... Lees meer

Shipped But Not Sold

Nancy Um

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• In the early decades of the eighteenth century, Yemen hosted a bustling community of merchants who sailed to the southern Arabian Peninsula from the e... Lees meer

Sudden Appearances

Roxann Prazniak

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible... Lees meer

Liminality of the Japanese Empire

Hiroko Matsuda

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the pe... Lees meer

The Qing Opening to the Ocean

Gang Zhao

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Did China drive or resist the early wave of globalization? Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that ... Lees meer

Encounters Old and New in World History

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• This collection of essays asserts the specific value of world history research and teaching, showing how the field contributes to the larger historica... Lees meer

Burnt by the Sun

Jon K Chang

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Burnt by the Sun examines the history of the first Korean diaspora in a Western society during the highly tense geopolitical atmosphere of the Soviet ... Lees meer

Exile in Colonial Asia

• Hardcover | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks ... Lees meer

Migrant Ecologies

Anand A. Yang, Kieko Matteson, James Beattie, William Matt Cavert, Holger Droessler, Katsuya Hirano, Hannah Cutting-Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on the Global Past
• Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth's large... Lees meer