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A history of East Asia : from the origins of civilization to the twenty-first century / Charles Holcombe.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks DS511 .H65 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holcombe, Charles, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Asia--History.
- East Asia.
- East Asia--Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 430 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, <U+fffd>2011.
- Summary:
- "The interconnections among three distinct, yet related societies are at the heart of this book, which traces the story of East Asia from the dawn of history to the present"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The origins of civilization in East Asia
- The formative era
- The age of cosmopolitanism
- The creation of a community: China, Korea, and Japan (Seventh-Tenth centuries)
- Mature independent trajectories (Tenth-Sixteenth centuries)
- Early modern East Asia (Sixteenth-Eighteenth centuries)
- The nineteenth-century encounter of civilizations
- The age of Westernization (1900-1929)
- The dark valley (1930-1945)
- Japan since 1945
- Korea since 1945
- China since 1945.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-403) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Balch Ethnic Studies Collection
- ISBN:
- 9780521731645
- 052173164X
- 9780521515955
- 0521515955
- OCLC:
- 698593336
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