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Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation. 'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In this Element, Mark Hudson examines whether these approaches can also be applied to East Asia. Focusing primarily on Island East Asia, he analyses trade, maritime interactions and warrior culture in a comparative Eurasian framework. He argues that the international division of labour associated with Bronze Age trade provided an important stimulus to the rise of decentralised complexity in regions peripheral to alluvial states. Building on James Scott's work, the concept of the 'barbarian niche' is proposed as a way to model the longue durée of premodern Eurasian history.

East Asia --- Antiquities. --- Asian history --- Ancient world --- East Asian history --- world history --- archaeology

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Covering trade, diplomacy, and colonial governance, this book demonstrates how the activities of the Dutch and English East India Companies took shape in direct response to European ideas about, understandings of, and attitudes towards Asian peoples and societies.

East Asian History --- Modern History --- Modern history --- World history, Modern --- World history --- Foreign trade policy --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie --- British East India Company [London] --- anno 1600-1699 --- Southeast Asia --- E-books

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In this cogent and insightful reading of China's twentieth-century political culture, David Strand argues that the Chinese Revolution of 1911 engendered a new political life-one that began to free men and women from the inequality and hierarchy that formed the spine of China's social and cultural order. Chinese citizens confronted their leaders and each other face-to-face in a stance familiar to republics worldwide. This shift in political posture was accompanied by considerable trepidation as well as excitement. Profiling three prominent political actors of the time-suffragist Tang Qunying, diplomat Lu Zhengxiang, and revolutionary Sun Yatsen-Strand demonstrates how a sea change in political performance left leaders dependent on popular support and citizens enmeshed in a political process productive of both authority and dissent.

Political activists --- Political oratory --- Political leadership --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Political culture --- History --- Sun, Yat-sen, --- Tang, Qunying, --- Lu, Zhenxiang, --- China --- Politics and government --- activism. --- chinese history. --- chinese politics. --- chinese revolution. --- chinese women. --- citizens. --- class. --- diplomacy. --- diplomat. --- east asian history. --- feminism. --- history. --- inequality. --- lu zhengxiang. --- modernity. --- national language. --- nonfiction. --- political culture. --- political history. --- political performance. --- politics. --- poverty. --- rebellion. --- republican china. --- revolution. --- revolutionary. --- revolutions. --- right to vote. --- social change. --- suffragist. --- sun yatsen. --- tang qunying. --- womens rights.

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It is widely known that such Western institutions as the museum, the university, and the penitentiary shaped Japan's emergence as a modern nation-state. Less commonly recognized is the role played by the distinctly hybrid institution-at once museum, laboratory, and prison-of the zoological garden. In this eye-opening study of Japan's first modern zoo, Tokyo's Ueno Imperial Zoological Gardens, opened in 1882, Ian Jared Miller offers a refreshingly unconventional narrative of Japan's rapid modernization and changing relationship with the natural world. As the first zoological garden in the world not built under the sway of a Western imperial regime, the Ueno Zoo served not only as a staple attraction in the nation's capital-an institutional marker of national accomplishment-but also as a site for the propagation of a new "natural" order that was scientifically verifiable and evolutionarily foreordained. As the Japanese empire grew, Ueno became one of the primary sites of imperialist spectacle, a microcosm of the empire that could be traveled in the course of a single day. The meaning of the zoo would change over the course of Imperial Japan's unraveling and subsequent Allied occupation. Today it remains one of Japan's most frequently visited places. But instead of empire in its classic political sense, it now bespeaks the ambivalent dominion of the human species over the natural environment, harkening back to its imperial roots even as it asks us to question our exploitation of the planet's resources.

Nature and civilization --- Philosophy of nature --- Zoos --- Civilization and nature --- Civilization --- Nature --- Nature, Philosophy of --- Natural theology --- Gardens, Zoological --- Zoological gardens --- Zoological parks --- Parks --- History. --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) --- Tokyo (Japan). --- Tōkyō-to Onshi Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) --- Onshi Ueno Dōbutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) --- Ueno Zoo (Tokyo, Japan) --- Ueno Zoological Gardens (Tokyo, Japan) --- Ueno Dobutsuen (Tokyo, Japan) -- History.. --- Zoos -- Social aspects -- Japan -- History.. --- Philosophy of nature -- Japan -- History.. --- Nature and civilization -- Japan -- History. --- books about the environment. --- books for history lovers. --- books for reluctant readers. --- east asian history. --- easy to read. --- engaging. --- gifts for friends. --- global history. --- historical novels. --- history and politics. --- humans and natural environment. --- imperial zoological gardens. --- japanese culture. --- japanese empire. --- japanese history. --- japanese politics. --- japanese zoos. --- japans emergence into the world. --- leisure reads. --- modernization of japan. --- natural environment. --- rapid modernization. --- shaping japan. --- vacation books. --- zoology. --- Ueno Dobutsuen (Tokyo, Japan)