Covering all of East Asian history from the Neolithic to the present-including Mongolia and Vietnam, alongside China, Japan, and Korea-Patterns of East Asian History uses recognizable and widely-accepted patterns of historical development as a framework around which to structure the material. This approach serves as both an organizational aid to instructors and as a tool to make complex material more comprehensible to students. The result is enhanced pedagogical flexibility. This subtly recursive format allows abundant opportunities for contrast and comparison among and within the societies under consideration. The overall aim is to simplify the immense complexities of history for beginning students without making them simplistic. Featuring nearly sixty maps and 200 photos, Patterns of East Asian History provides a rich visual history that complements its engaging narrative.
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• Geleitwort / Felix Klein
• Vorwort / Georg Ruppelt
• Einleitung
• Die jüdisch-christlich-muslimische "Klammer" / Abraham
• Die Bibel-Archäologie / Gabriel Barkay
• Über 2 Milliarden Anhänger / Jesus von Nazareth
• Die umfangreiche Verbreitung des Christentums durch Paulus / Paulus von Tarsus
• Die jüdischen Evangelisten / Markus, Matthäus
• Die allegorische Lesart der Bibel / Philo von Alexandria
• Die Unabhängigkeit Judäas / Simon Bar Kochba
• Der Ursprung der Alchemie / Maria Prophetissa
• Versöhnung der aristotelischen Logik mit der Bibel / Maimonides
• Der Begründer des westlichen Pantheismus / Baruch Spinoza
• Die jüdische Aufklärung / Moses Mendelssohn, David Friedländer
• Der Finanzier der US-Unabhängigkeit / Haym Salomon
• Der "entlaufene Romantiker" / Heinrich Heine
• Der "Vater" des British Empire / Benjamin Disraeli
• Das grösste Experiment der Weltgeschichte / Karl Marx
• Der "Vater" der Operette / Jacques Offenbach
• Der Urvater der SPD / Ferdinand Lassalle
• Die Erfinder der Jeans / Levi Strauss, Jacob Davis
• Der "Vater" des Impressionismus / Camille Pissarro
• Der erste Elektromotor / Moritz von Jacobi
• Der deutsche Impressionismus / Max Liebermann
• Der Erfinder der Schallplatte / Emil Berliner
• Wie gross sind Sterne? Wie schnell ist das Licht? / Albert Michelson
• Der Pionier des Datenschutzes / Louis Brandeis
• Die Psychoanalyse / Sigmund Freud
• Der Begründer der Phänomenologischen Philosophie / Edmund Husserl
• Der Zionismus / Theodor Herzl
• Der Pionier der Schwulen- und Lesbenbewegung / Magnus Hirschfeld
• Die Erfinder des Teddybärs / Rose und Morris Michtom
• Anti-Kriegs-Märtyrerin / Rosa Luxemburg
• Der Kosmetiker Hollywoods / Max Factor
• Die Citroën-Kultautos / André Citroën
• Die Individualpsychologie / Alfred Adler
• Die "Reine Rechtslehre" / Hans Kelsen
• Das Kafkaeske / Franz Kafka
• Rebellion in der Kunst / Amedeo Modigliani
• Weisse und schwarze Sänger erstmals zusammen / AL Jolson
• Zündfunke des Surrealismus / Marc Chagall
• Philosophie der Sprache / Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Suprematismus und Konstruktivismus / EL Lissitzky
• Die Gestalttherapie / Fritz und Laura Perls
• Der erste Kernreaktor / Leo Szilard
• Klassik erreicht die Massen / George und Ira Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, Kurt Weill
• Der Erfinder des Kugelschreibers / Lászlo Bíró
• Internationale Ahndung von Völkermord / Raphael Lemkin
• Archaische Monumentalität / Louis Kahn
• Philosophie der Wissenschaften / Karl Popper
• Pionier der Informatik / John von Neumann
• Die Pioniere der Farbfeldmalerei / Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman
• Die Banalität des Bösen / Hannah Arendt
• Der ethnologische Strukturalismus / Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Die ersten Fotos und Spielfilme in Farbe / Gabriel Lippmann, Leopold Godowsky Jr., Leopold Mannes
• Der Begründer der Chemotherapie / Paul Ehrlich
• Die Sofortbildkamera / Edwin Land
• Die Erfindung des Herzschrittmachers und des Defibrillators / Paul Zoll
• Die Impfung gegen Polio / Jonas Salk, Albert Sabin
• Wie nutzen Pflanzen das Licht? / Richard Willstätter
• Brot aus der Luft / Fritz Haber
• Die "Ära-Salinger" / Jerome David Salinger
• Die Zwölftonmusik / Arnold Schönberg
• Die Relativitätstheorie und die Solarenergie / Albert Einstein
• Die Quantensprünge im Atom / Niels Bohr
• Pionier der Pop Art / Roy Lichtenstein
• MGM : Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer / Marcus Loew, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer, Irving Thalberg
• Warner Brothers und der erste Tonfilm / Sam, Jack, Albert und Harry Warner
• Sprunghafter Übergang zur Magnetisierung / Ernst Ising
• Fraktale / Felix Hausdorff, Benoît Mandelbrot
• Stimmt die Quantenphysik? / James Franck, Otto Stern
• Die Philosophie des élan vital / Henri Bergson
• Die Entdeckung der "dunklen Materie" / Vera Rubin
• Kernmagnetische Resonanz und MRT / Isidor Isaac Rabi, Felix Bloch
• Juden und Nichtjuden trauern zusammen / Anne Frank
• Die "Dekonstruktion" / Jacques Derrida
• Die Entdeckung der Blutgruppen / Karl Landsteiner
• Die chemischen und elektrischen Signale im Nervensystem / Otto Loewi, Joseph Erlanger
• Die Theorie zur Kernspaltung / Lise Meitner, Otto Frisch
• Der Pionier der Chaosforschung / Mitchell Feigenbaum
• Die Entdeckung des Penicillins / Boris Chain
• Der Vater der Atombombe / Robert Oppenheimer
• Zukunftsforschung : Wenn Computer schlauer werden als wir / Ray Kurzweil
• Die "Väter" der Pille / Carl Djerassi, Gregory Pincus
• Die Entdeckung des Positroniums / Martin Deutsch
• Hollywood : Die klassische Phase und die Monumentalfilme / David Selznick, Joseph Mankiewicz, Ernst Lubitsch, Michael Curtiz, William Wyler, Fred Zinnemann, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Stanley Kubrick, Sam Spiegel
• Die "New Hollywood"-Ära / Arthur Penn, Mike Nichols, Bob Rafelson, Mel Brooks, Dustin Hoffman, John Schlesinger, Sydney Pollack, Paul Mazursky, William Friedkin, Steven Spielberg, Alan Pakula, Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen
• Der Sieg über die Tuberkulose / Selman Waksman, Albert Schatz
• Die Wasserstoffbombe / Edward Teller, Stanislaw Ulam
• Wie atmen die Zellen? Der Krebs-Zyklus / Hans Adolf Krebs, Fritz Lipmann
• Die Mathematisierung der Quantenphysik / Max Born
• Die Entdeckung der Neutrinos / Frederick Reines, Melvin Schwartz, Leon Lederman, Jack Steinberger, Martin Lewis Perl
• Die erste Erzeugung von Antimaterie / Emilio Segrè
• Der Beginn der Gentechnik / Arthur Kornberg
• Die Erfindung der Blasenkammer / Donald Glaser
• Die Erklärung der Photosynthese / Melvin Calvin
• Die Quantenelektrodynamik / Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger, Alfred Landé
• Die Frankfurter Schule und die 68er-Bewegung / Wilhelm Reich, Max Horkheimer, Friedrich Pollock, Herbert Marcuse, Otto Kirchheimer, Franz Neumann, Erich Fromm, Walter Benjamin, Leo Löwenthal, Daniel Cohn-Bendit
• Viren gegen Bakterien / Salvador Luria
• Dialog mit dem Papst : Aufhebung der "jüdischen Schuld" / Jules Isaac
• Die Quarks / Murray Gell-Mann, George Zweig, Yuval NeʼEman, Jerry Friedman, Sheldon Glashow, Burton Richter, Leon Lederman, David Gross, David Politzer
• Die Funktionsweise des Immunsystems / Gerald Edelman
• Die Supraleitung / Alexei Abrikosov, Vitaly Ginsburg, Leon Cooper
• Die Erfindung der Holographie / Dennis Gabor
• Die Beendigung des Vietnamkrieges / Henry Kissinger
• Milton Friedman und die Chicagoer Schule / Milton Friedman, Paul Samuelson, Herbert Simon, Kenneth Arrow, Robert Fogel, Harry Markowitz, Gary Becker, Myron Scholes, Roger Myerson
• Die Theorie der Selbstorganisation / Ilya Prigogine
• Die Gründung von Amnesty International / Peter Benenson
• Die jiddische Literatur wird zur Weltliteratur / Mendele Mokher Sforim, Jizchok Leib Perez, Scholem Alejchem, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Elie Wiesel
• Blick in die Packung des Erbguts in der Zelle / Aaron Klug
• Wachstumstreibende Stoffe für Nerven, Haut und Tumore / Stanley Cohen, Rita Levi-Montalcini
• Kämpferin gegen die Apartheid / Nadine Gordimer
• Google / Sergey Brin, Larry Page, Susan Wojcicki
• Die Superflüssigkeiten / David Morris Lee, Lev Landau
• Die Prionen / Tikvah Alper, Stanley Prusiner
• Das Wundermolekül NO / Robert Furchgott
• Lösung eines Millennium-Problems / Grigori Perelman
• Die Irrationalität in der Wirtschaft / Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky
• Der programmierte Selbstmord der Zellen / Sydney Brenner, Robert Horvitz
• Facebook / Mark Zuckerberg
• Das Ubiquitin / Avram Hershko, Aaron Ciechanover, Irwin Rose
• Die Struktur von Ribosomen, Ziele von Antibiotika / Ada Yonath
• Die Entdeckung der "dunklen Energie" / Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess
• Teleportation und Dekohärenz / Serge Haroche, Nathan Rosen, Boris Podolsky, David Bohm, Asher Peres
• Das Higgs-Teilchen / Franc̦ois Englert, Robert Brout
• Lyrik erreicht die Massen / Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen
• Nachwort / Daniel Libeskind
• Anhang
• Literaturverzeichnis
• Sachverzeichnis
• Bildnachweis
• Danksagung.

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Self in the World
• 3. Adaptive Ambivalence
• 4. Modernity and Migration
• 5. China: Race and Ethnicity
• 6. Contemporary Blackness in China: Psychosocial Perspectives-- Aspirations and Constraints
• 7. Africana Persons and Self-Making in China
• 8. Conclusions and Possibilities for the Future.
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This book examines the psychosocial experiences of foreign workers from Africa and its diaspora in China, within the context of international socio-economic forces. By exploring employment-based migration from a psychoanalytic perspective, this volume investigates the utility of adaptive ambivalence and the challenges that migrant workers face around issues of self-development, agency, and identity. Through a careful analysis of interviews with Africana people, the author demonstrates that the capacity to be reflective and resilient alongside having a strong and diversified support network are crucial for the psychological well-being of those living and working in unfamiliar geographic and cultural conditions.
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After the Coup brings together the work of a group of leading Thai intellectuals of several generations to equip readers to anticipate and understand the developments that lie ahead for Thailand. Contributors offer findings and perspectives both on the disorienting period following the Thai coup of May 2014 and on fundamental challenges to the country and its institutions. Chapters address regionalism and decentralization, the monarchy and the military, the media, demography and the economy, the long-running violence in Southern Thailand, and a number of surprising social and political trends certain to shape the future of Thailand. The volume will serve as a valuable resource for all those concerned with that future.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. The Angami Science of Dreaming
• 3. The Phenomenology of Dreaming
• 4. The Corporeality of Dreams
• 5. The Authority of Dreams
• 6. The Landscapes of Dreams
• 7. The Public Life of Dreams
• 8. The reversibility of dreaming.
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The Nagas of Northeast India give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict have resulted in sweeping cultural and political transformations in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands, dream sharing and interpretation remain important avenues for negotiating everyday uncertainty and unpredictability. This book explores the relationship between dreams and agency through ethnographic fieldwork among the Angami Nagas. It tackles questions such as: What is dreaming? What does it mean to say `I had a dream'? And how do night-time dreams relate to political and social actions in waking moments? Michael Heneise shows how the Angami glean knowledge from signs, gain insight from ancestors, and potentially obtain divine blessing. Advancing the notion that dreams and dreaming can be studied as indices of relational, devotional, and political subjectivities, the author demonstrates that their examination can illuminate the ways in which, as forms of authoritative knowledge, they influence daily life, and also how they figure in the negotiation of day-to-day domestic and public interactions. Moreover, dream narration itself can involve techniques of `interference' in which the dreamer seeks to limit or encourage the powerful influence of social `others' encountered in dreams, such as ancestors, spirits, or the divine. Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book advances research on dreams by conceptualising how the `social' encompasses the broader, co-extensive set of relations and experiences - especially with spirit entities - reflected in the ethnography of dreams. It will be of interest to those studying Northeast India, indigenous religion and culture, indigenous cosmopolitics in tribal India more generally, and the anthropology of dreams and dreaming.
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• Contents
• Acknowledgments Preface Notes on Transliteration
• Part 1: The Ancestors of Shah Esma'il
• 1 The story of Soltan Firuzshah
• 2 The story of 'Evaz al-Khavass and his son Mohammad al-Hafez
• 3 The story of Salahoddin Rashid
• 4 The story of Seyyed Jebra'il
• 5 The story of Soltan Khwajeh 'Ali
• 6 The battle between Soltan 'Ali Mirza and Aybeh Soltan and the death of Soltan 'Ali
• Part 2: Shah Esma'il vs. the Torkmans
• 7 Shah Esma'il catches sight of His Majesty the Lord of the Age
• 8 The emergence of Shah Esma'il from Gilan and Lahijan with seven people, and the conquest of Tarom
• 9 The story of the sons of Rostam Shah, and of how His Majesty the Shadow of God went to Ardabil-- the killing of 'Ali Khan Soltan
• 10 Alvand sends 'Othman Soltan to fight the Shah, who in turn sends Qarapari Qajar-- the latter is killed, and the Torkmans are defeated
• 11 King Alvand goes to the Anatolian emperor and seeks help-- he comes to Iran and is defeated-- his qualities
• 12 The world-conquering Shah's proposal to Tajlu Begom, the daughter of 'Abedin Beg Shamlu, and the wedding feast of that fortunate prince
• 13 Birth of the Shadow of God, Shah Tahmasp, in the village of Ranan near Esfahan
• 14 Shah Esma'il sends an army against Soltan Morad, and that failure is captured
• 15 Soltan Morad flees toward Shiraz-- Mohammad Karahi captures him and sends him to Shah Esma'il, but he flees again
• 16 Soltan Morad flees toward Shiraz as Elyas Beg pursues him
• 17 Elyas Beg goes to Damghan to fight Hosayn Kiya Cholavi and is killed by that man's duplicity
• 18 Shah Esma'il proceeds from Qom towards Firuzkuh and Mazandaran to defeat Hosayn Kiya Cholavi
• 19 'Ali Kiya goes to take the pass of Firuzkuh
• 20 Shah Esma'il arrives at the fortress of Marankuh and does battle with Hosayn Kiya Cholavi, who is killed
• 21 Shu'ayb Aqa is killed by Soltan Ahmad Saru'i-- Mohammad Karahi rebels, Soltan Ahmad is killed, and Yazd is captured
• 22 His Majesty arrives at Yazd, and Mohammad Karahi is killed
• 23 Shah Esma'il goes from Yazd to Tabas-- Tardi Baba is killed, and Amir Kamaloddin Hosayn comes to the royal court on behalf of Soltan Hosayn Bayqara
• 24 'Abdi Beg is martyred at the hands of Hosayn Beg, son of Sarem Khan the Kurd-- Shah Esma'il arrives, and Sarem Khan flees
• 25 The conquest of Baghdad by the Qezelbash-- Bayrak Soltan flees to Mosul, and Shah Esma'il visits Najaf
• 26 The royal banners leave for 'Eraq and Khorramabad, where Malekshah Rostam is
• 27 The Shah and his army come to fight Malekshah Rostam, who pledges obedience-- together they go to Hovayzeh to fight Malek Fayyaz
• 28 His Majesty sends Nur 'Ali Khalifeh to the Sufis of Rum on his behalf, and he accepts oaths of fealty in Tabriz and Diyarbakr
• 29 The royal banners head for Diyarbakr, and Shah Esma'il does battle with 'Ala'oddawleh Dhulqadr
• 30 Shah Esma'il sends a letter to 'Ala'oddawleh, who responds with an offer of peace-- His Majesty returns to Adharbayjan
• 31 Saru Aslan and Saru Qaplan come to the aid of Mohammadi Soltan and are killed by Qarakhan the brother of Mohammad Khan Ostajlu, who is victorious
• 32 On the nature and circumstances of Soltan Salim, son of Soltan Bayazid of Anatolia
• 33 Qarakhan attacks Arzenjan, and Mohammad Khan sends Soltan Bayazid of Anatolia an envoy with women's clothing
• 34 Soltan Bayazid and Soltan Qansaw, the ruler of Egypt, fight against 'Ala'oddawleh Dhulqadr
• Part 3: Shah Esma'il vs. the Uzbeks
• 35 Shahi Beg Khan, son of Abulkhayr Khan, makes his emergence and seizes Torkestan from the descendants of Amir Timur
• 36 Of the sons of Soltan Hosayn Bayqara and their circumstances, and how their fates were ruined
• 37 Babor Padeshah goes to Kabol, while Shahi Beg Khan goes to Balkh and Badi'ozzaman sets out to fight him
• 38 Shahi Beg Khan comes to Damghan, then returns to Samarqand-- Mohammad Hosayn Mirza comes to the service of Shah Esma'il-- Amir Najm II and the great commanders subdue Khorasan, entrust it to the sons of Soltan Hosayn Mirza, and leave
• 39 The victorious royal banners come to Marv, and the Shah plays a trick on Shahi Beg Khan the ruler of Torkestan, who is killed
• 40 Mirza Mohammad Talesh returns from Mazandaran and is met by the Shah-- Barsil Khan, the king of Urgench, comes to the foot of the royal throne with Ovays Mirza and Babor Padeshah-- Amir Najm II goes to Torkestan
• 41 Amir Najm II and his commanders head for Torkestan, and Babor Padeshah comes to Balkh
• 42 Amir Najm II arrives at Qarshi-- Shaykham Mirza mounts a night attack on the Qezelbash encampment-- Amir Najm executes his nephew Mohammad Kazem-- the victory of Amir Najm and the death of Shaykham Mirza
• 43 Jani Beg Soltan goes to Balkh-- 'Obayd Khan comes, and Khorasan is seized by an Uzbek army-- Shah Tahmasp Khan Mirza leaves Harat for 'Eraq-- Shah Esma'il receives word that Amir Najm II has been killed
• 44 Shah Tahmasp returns to Iran and to His Majesty, who summons an army to conquer Khorasan and Torkestan-- the kings of Torkestan flee
• 45 Jani Beg Soltan reaches Qasem Khan, the Padeshah of the steppe of Baghlan, who sends his son Abulkhayr Khan with a great army to fight Shah Esma'il-- Abulkhayr Khan is killed, and the Uzbek kings flee
• Part 4: Shah Esma'il vs. Soltan Salim
• 46 The glorious banners turn back to Iran, and His Majesty the Shadow of God learns of the death of Solayman Mirza in Tabriz-- he sends an emissary to Anatolia to see Soltan Bayazid, the Qaysar of Rum
• 47 Soltan Salim, the Padeshah of Rum, comes to Iran and arrives at Chalderan-- the victorious banners of the Shadow of God turn toward him, but the Qezelbash are defeated
• 48 Mohammad Zaman Mirza, the son of Badi'ozzaman Mirza, rebels and goes to Astarabad-- 'Obayd Khan arrives at Balkh with all his corruption
• 49 Soltan Salim learns of the theft and burning of his supplies by 'Ala'oddawleh Dhulqadr and the death of Mostafa Pasha at the hands of his men, then goes to fight 'Ala'oddawleh and kills him
• 50 Soltan Salim, the ruler of Anatolia, fights Soltan Qansaw, the king of Egypt, who is killed
• 51 Soltan Morad, the son of Ya'qub Padeshah son of Hasan Pasha the Torkman, comes to conquer Diyarbakr and is killed by Ahmad Soltan Qajar
• 52 Ghazali joins forces with Soltan Solayman to fight Nur 'Ali Khalifeh, who is killed by the Anatolians
• 53 Soltan Solayman comes to Iran a second time, and Ghazali is captured by His Majesty the Shadow of God
• Part 5: The Later Years
• 54 Shah Esma'il learns of the death of Soltan Salim and of Soltan Solayman's accession to the throne and return to Istanbul-- His Majesty leaves Chalderan with the intention of conquering Khorasan
• 55 Jani Beg Soltan the Uzbek comes to Balkh and fights Kopek Soltan, and the Uzbek army is defeated-- 'Obayd Khan comes to Harat and returns without having attained his goal-- Amir Khan Torkman, the governor of Harat, kills Amir Mohammad and is deposed-- His Majesty sends Durmesh Khan to fight in Harat
• 56 Durmesh Khan comes to Harat, seizes Amir Khan Torkman, and sends him to the royal court, then settles down to rule the city
• Bibliography Index.
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The Adventures of Shah Esma'il recounts the dramatic formative years of the Safavid empire (1501-1722), as preserved in Iranian popular memory by coffeehouse storytellers and written down in manuscripts starting in the late seventeenth century. Beginning with the Safavids' saintly ancestors in Ardabil, the story goes on to relate the conquests of Shah Esma'il (r. 1501-1524) and his devoted Qezelbash followers as they battle Torkmans, Uzbeks, Ottomans, and even Georgians and Ethiopians in their quest to establish a Twelver Shi'i realm. Barry Wood's translation brings out the verve and popular tone of the Persian text. A heady mixture of history and legend, The Adventures of Shah Esma'il sheds important light on the historical self-awareness of late Safavid Iran.
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