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A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century / Charles Holcombe.
Lippincott Library - Reserve Desk DS511 .H65 2017
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Log in to request item- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holcombe, Charles, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Asia--History.
- East Asia.
- History.
- East Asia--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 470 pages ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Introduction: what is East Asia?
- The origins of civilization in East Asia
- The formative era
- The age of cosmopolitanism
- The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (seventh to tenth centuries)
- Mature independent trajectories (tenth to sixteenth centuries)
- Early modern East Asia (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries)
- Dai Viet (Vietnam before the nineteenth century)
- The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations
- The age of westernization (1900-1929)
- The dark valley (1930-1945)
- Japan since 1945
- Korea since 1945
- Vietnam since 1945
- China since 1945.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107118737
- 1107118735
- 9781107544895
- 1107544890
- OCLC:
- 972124786
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