Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes
Author: Robert J. Antony
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2023
Genre: Criminal anthropology
ISBN: 1538169347

Rats, Cats, Rogues, and Heroes reveals China's history and culture through the eyes of ordinary men and women using an interdisciplinary perspective that incorporates history, anthropology, folk studies, and literature to examine the sociocultural and symbolic worlds of gangsters, sorcerers, and prostitutes in late imperial and modern China.

Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare

Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Warfare
Author: Kaushik Roy
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2024-01-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0429795467

This handbook examines key aspects of the development of the global history of warfare and the changing patterns of warfare over time. Although scholarship has long eschewed a chronological narrative of the evolution of warfare that privileges the Western experience, global histories of warfare have had difficulty avoiding an overemphasis on the West. The present volume is a collection of themes rather than a history per se; it provides important perspectives on the emergence of warfare as a global historical experience from the ancient past to the present day. Drawing together numerous experts, it tells a broader, more inclusive story of the global, human experience with wars and warfare. The 35 cahtpers are organised in eight thematic parts: Part I: Origins of Warfare Part II: Polities and Armed Forces in the Pre-Modern Era Part III: Steppe Nomads of Eurasia Part IV: Naval Warfare and Piracy in the Pre-Industrial World Part V: The Impact of Gunpowder Part VI: Transition from Industrial to Total War Part VII: Wars of Decolonisation and Cold War Part VIII: Postmodern/New Wars These Parts offer an overview of the global experience of warfare to help readers understand how the wars and the militaries we see today have been shaped by historical developments across the globe. This handbook will be of great interest to students of military history, naval history, strategic studies and world history in general.

Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers

Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers
Author: James M. Dabbs
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2000
Genre: Medical
ISBN:

Interweaving intimate case histories with first-hand scientific research, this book examines how testosterone, the principal male hormone, has been maligned and misunderstood, and reveals its role in human evolution and its effect upon human and animal behavior.

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810
Author: Robert J. Antony
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2022-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1538161540

The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520–1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope anywhere else in the world. The book includes a carefully selected and wide range of Chinese, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and Japanese sources—some translated for the first time—to illustrate the complexity and variety of piratical activities in Asian waters. These documents include archival criminal cases and depositions of pirates and victims, government reports and proclamations, memoirs of coastal residents and pirate captives, and written and oral folklore handed down for generations. The book also illuminates the important role that pirates played in the political, economic, social, and cultural transformations of early modern China and the world. An historical perspective provides an important vantage point to understand piracy as a recurring cyclical phenomenon inseparably connected with the past.

One Country, Two Systems In Crisis

One Country, Two Systems In Crisis
Author: Wong
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2008-06-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 0739130366

In the tumultuous negotiations of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, the United Kingdom willingly signed over Hong Kong's reigns to the People's Republic of China, but with the presupposition that the PRC would faithfully implement the principle of 'one country, two systems' for the following fifty years. Yet since the handover in 1997, the PRC has failed to allow Hong Kong a higher degree of autonomy. 'One Country, Two Systems' in Crisis elucidates how China's intervention has curtailed Hong Kong's civil liberties; how freedom of speech is at the mercy of the government; and how deception has turned the 'Pearl of the Orient' into the rubber stamp of the Chinese Communist Party.

The Global White Snake

The Global White Snake
Author: Liang Luo
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2021-08-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0472038605

Tracing the history and adaptation of one of China's foundational texts

Rogue Heroes

Rogue Heroes
Author: Ben Macintyre
Publisher: Crown
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2016-10-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1101904178

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The incredible untold story of World War II’s greatest secret fighting force, as told by the modern master of wartime intrigue—now a limited series on Epix! “Reads like a mashup of The Dirty Dozen and The Great Escape, with a sprinkling of Ocean’s 11 thrown in for good measure.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “Rogue Heroes is a ripping good read.”—Washington Post (10 Best Books of the Year) Britain’s Special Air Service—or SAS—was the brainchild of David Stirling, a young aristocrat whose aimlessness belied a remarkable strategic mind. Where most of his colleagues looked at a World War II battlefield map and saw a protracted struggle, Stirling saw an opportunity: given a small number of elite men, he could parachute behind Nazi lines and sabotage their airplanes and supplies. Defying his superiors’ conventional wisdom, Stirling assembled a revolutionary fighting force that would upend not just the balance of the war, but the nature of combat itself. Bringing his keen eye for detail to a riveting wartime narrative, Ben Macintyre uses his unprecedented access to the SAS archives to shine a light on a legendary unit long shrouded in secrecy.

Corporate Conquests

Corporate Conquests
Author: Charles Patterson Giersch
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781503611641

The Muleteers -- Families -- The revolutionaries -- The excluded -- Mining -- The technocrat -- Corporations, the state, and ethnic difference.