2011, ISBN: 9789820200272

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Kalpaz Publications/Gyan Books Pvt Ltd, 2006. Hardcover. New. The bad impact of 9/11 Factor on the international Tourism didnt continue for long as the organizations, such as Hotels, To… Mehr…

Kalpaz Publications/Gyan Books Pvt Ltd, 2006. Hardcover. New. The bad impact of 9/11 Factor on the international Tourism didnt continue for long as the organizations, such as Hotels, Tour Promoters etc., involved in promoting tourism adopted such conservation and booster Measures and Green practices that they were able to recoup the revenues Loss and falling occupancies in the succeeding years. In India, Terrorism continues to pose a serious threat in Jammu and Kashmir. Frequent curfews and strict security measures helped to ensure that hardly any tourists came to the Valley and the famous houseboats on its Lakes found deserted since 1990. The number of tourists started dwindling after insurgency and the tourism almost came to naught from 1989-1990 onwards due to the turmoil situation in the State. However, the efforts of the government and the contribution of the Security Forces ensured that Jammu and Kashmir is again on the tourism map. The influx of the tourists in the State has increased manifold in the recent past. This book deals with the historical survey of the State, analyses the worst of global terrorism, traces out the Roots and present status about the terrorism in J&K, makes an updated and comprehensive survey about tourism in J&K till July 2005, examines the impact of terrorism on J&K tourism and finally makes the reader understand the latest developments in the State of Jammu And Kashmir with regard to tourism. The Study goes to prove that there is very Little impact of terrorism on the performance of tourism in Jammu and Kashmir. Printed Pages: 392. Imapct of Terrorism on J&K TourismP. Rajan,R. Soundararajan9788178354743, Kalpaz Publications/Gyan Books Pvt Ltd, 2006, Kalpaz Publications/Gyan Books Pvt Ltd, 2006. Hardcover. New. The bad impact of 9/11 Factor on the international Tourism didn’t continue for long as the organizations, such as Hotels, Tour Promoters etc., involved in promoting tourism adopted such conservation and booster Measures and Green practices that they were able to recoup the revenues Loss and falling occupancies in the succeeding years. In India, Terrorism continues to pose a serious threat in Jammu and Kashmir. Frequent curfews and strict security measures helped to ensure that hardly any tourists came to the Valley and the famous houseboats on its Lakes found deserted since 1990. The number of tourists started dwindling after insurgency and the tourism almost came to naught from 1989-1990 onwards due to the turmoil situation in the State. However, the efforts of the government and the contribution of the Security Forces ensured that Jammu and Kashmir is again on the tourism map. The influx of the tourists in the State has increased manifold in the recent past. This book deals with the historical survey of the State, analyses the worst of global terrorism, traces out the Roots and present status about the terrorism in J&K, makes an updated and comprehensive survey about tourism in J&K till July 2005, examines the impact of terrorism on J&K tourism and finally makes the reader understand the latest developments in the State of Jammu And Kashmir with regard to tourism. The Study goes to prove that there is very Little impact of terrorism on the performance of tourism in Jammu and Kashmir. Printed Pages: 392., Kalpaz Publications/Gyan Books Pvt Ltd, 2006, Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford/London: 2011. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by communism, has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, Burned Bridge reveals the hidden origins of the Iron Curtain, presenting it in a startling new light. Historian Edith Sheffer's unprecedented, in-depth account focuses on Burned Bridge - the intersection between two sister cities, Sonneberg and Neustadt bei Coburg, Germany's largest divided population outside Berlin. Sheffer demonstrates that as Soviet and American forces occupied each city after the Second World War, townspeople who historically had much in common quickly formed opposing interests and identities. The border walled off irreconcilable realities: the differences of freedom and captivity, rich and poor, peace and bloodshed, and past and present. Sheffer describes how smuggling, kidnapping, rape, and killing in the early postwar years led citizens to demand greater border control on both sides - 0long before East Germany fortified its 1,393 kilometer border with West Germany. It was in fact the American military that built the first barriers at Burned Bridge, which preceded East Germany's borderland crackdown by many years. Indeed, Sheffer shows that the physical border between East and West was not simply imposed by Cold War superpowers, but was in some part an improvised outgrowth of an anxious postwar society. Ultimately, a wall of the mind shaped the wall on the ground. East and West Germans became part of, and helped perpetuate, the barriers that divided them. From the end of World War II through two decades of reunification, Sheffer traces divisions at Burned Bridge with sharp insight and compassion, presenting a stunning portrait of the Cold War on a human scale. Features * The 50th anniversary of the construction of the Berlin Wall, August 13, 2011. * Details the contribution of local populations in both East and West to the construction and maintenance of the Iron Curtain. * Underscores the porousness of the barrier dividing Communist bloc and the West. * Based on never-before-used archival documents. * Foreword by Peter Schneider, author of The Wall Jumper. "An accessible, intriguing academic study tracking the building of the "wall in the head" between East and West Germany long before the actual construction in 1961." - Kirkus Reviews "The Cold War may have been triggered by the great powers, but Edith Sheffer shows that it was also given shape and reinforced by ordinary people who confronted its political realities every day. Her sensitive biography of a divided German community, ranging across the entire Cold War through reunification, is filled with arresting detail, fresh evidence, and surprises. This book helps us understand not just the trauma of the Cold War but also the many troubles Germans have faced in knitting their fractured nation together after the fall of the Wall in 1989. An outstanding and innovative work." - William I. Hitchcock, University of Virginia "Edith Sheffer's exquisitely nuanced and deeply researched narrative rewrites the history of the division of Germany, revealing an East/West border marked by the infamous Wall but actually constructed over time by postwar violence, Cold War tensions, and above all by the local everyday actions and attitudes of ordinary Germans living with and in both sides of the border." - Atina Grossmann, author of Jews, Germans, and Allies: Close Encounters in Occupied Germany "This fascinating micro-history of living with the Iron Curtain traces its divisive social and political impact. Based on exhaustive research, the book explores the local complicity in the construction, maintenance, and subversion of the barrier, illuminates the human dimension of the German division, and explains its lingering post-unification effects." - Konrad Jarausch, author of After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945-1995 "Edith Sheffer provides fascinating glimpses of the ways in which the Wall between East and West Germany was constructed-in every sense-by Germans on the ground, and in turn affected the character of life on either side. Significations of difference, emotional ties, misapprehensions, and mutual hostilities, were a living reality, changing over time and persisting in new ways long after the Wall itself has disappeared." - Mary Fulbrook, author of Dissonant Lives: Generations and Violence through the German Dictatorships "Edith Sheffer powerfully contributes to dismantling established views on the Cold War. Locals had a constant role in producing the border and, in a bitter irony, neither efforts to evade nor ways of considering the border 'normal' overcame the sense of estrangement among former neighbors." - Alf Ludtke, University of Erfurt "Lucidly written with plenty of anecdotes...will interest serious history buffs." - Publishers Weekly Edith Sheffer is Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. ISBN: 0199737045., Oxford University Press, New York/Oxford/London: 2011, London : Batsford , 1989. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.. Series; Batsford local history series. Physical description; 128 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary; Old photographs are an important source of evidence for local historians, as well as a means of greatly enhancing the presentation of their work. They can be problematical to deal with - the historian may well be equipped to research written archives, but how does he or she set about locating the best sources for photographs? And what about the technical aspects of dating, care and reproductions? The value of photographs in the study of any period after about 1840 is stressed in this work. They are mostly a reliable source of information as changes are difficult to make and easy to detect, and the data they provide on dress, occupations, the environment, leisure and almost every aspect of past life is unique. The book continues with guidance on likely sources of photographs, on searching them out from individuals, collections and organizations of various kinds and on their selection and processing for reproduction. It concludes with a chapter on photographic techniques useful for local historians and a guide for further reading. The text is supported throughout by photographs, each with a caption which gives clues to dating and interpretation. Subjects; Local history - Methodology. Photography in historiography. England - History, Local - Sources. Local historical sources: Photographs. historical sources - local - photographs. historical methods. England - History - Social - 19th century - 20th century. Genres; Illustrated. Monographs., London : Batsford, 1989, Somerset: Patrick Stephens Limited, (1989). First Edition. Octavo, geen boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 206 pp. Very Good+, with light rubbing to covers; in a Very Good, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: The profusion of bladed weapons during Hitlers Third Reich was remarkable. Worn principally as emblems of authority, their use extended across the entire spectrum of the Nazi State, from conventional military forces and the SS, to the Hitler Youth, the Police, Diplomatic Service, and such organizations as the Labour Corps, hunting fraternities and even the Red Cross. All such groupings had their own designs of blade, usually graded according to rank. As well as these mass-produced blades, there were other, one-off swords and daggers which were commissioned for presentation to, or by, prominet Nazis. Often these were superb examples of the bladsmiths skill, being elaborately engraved, occasionally with runic inscriptions. Almost without exception, bladed weapons produced for the Third Reich were of the highest quality in terms of both design and execution, which probably accounts for their present-day status as highly-prized collectors pieces. In this superbly-illustrated book, Frederick Stephens shows how the blades of Hitlers Germany were not a Nazi innovation, but were in fact a continuation of a tradition which had existed in Germany since medieval times, representing the carrying forward of skills for which, in the past, Germany, and especially the town of Solingen, had rightly been famous. Daggers, Swords, and Bayonets of the Third Reich is a unique study in providing both a comprehensive introduction for the new collector and researcher, as well as information that even the advanced student of the subject will find revealing and informative., Patrick Stephens Limited, (1989). First Edition., 1989, [Suva, Fiji]: Institute of Pacific Studies of University of the South Pacific. 1989. Trade paperback. Fine.. 176 p., illustrations, bibliography, index. . Solomon Islanders have recorded much of their history-a term which refers both to the events of the past and to ways of viewing those events-in a rich oral tradition, and in a variety of art forms. But hitherto few of them have written about it. Most of the writing about the Solomon Islands has been done by foreigners, araikwao. Ples Blong Iumi is an important exception. The authors are Solomon Islanders. Academically trained and drawing on a wide range of sources (from archaeology to archives, and including oral tradition), they present a survey of their people's history that is well-informed, wide-ranging and up-to-date; and at once critical yet sympathetic. Significant as a contribution to an incipient national literature and as a work of scholarly reference, Ples Blong Iumi is also important as an expression of a new political identity. Solomon Islands became an independent nation in 1978. It is fitting, and not before time, therefore, that its own writers should now present the story of their own nation, for the enlightenment of their own people-and for that of the wider audience beyond the Solomons., Institute of Pacific Studies of University of the South Pacific, 1989<

2018, ISBN: 9789820200272

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Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2018. Hardcover. As New. Black paper-covered boards with dark color pictorial dustjacket. 264 pp., profusely illustrated in color and bw. Contents… Mehr…

Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2018. Hardcover. As New. Black paper-covered boards with dark color pictorial dustjacket. 264 pp., profusely illustrated in color and bw. Contents as follows: Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Note to the reader -- Chronology of ancient China -- Emperors of the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties -- Matter of things : how to read ancient Chinese bronzes / Tao Wang -- Bronze-casting technology in the late Shang Dynasty / Su Rongyu -- Interpreting the decoration of early Chinese bronze vessels / Sarah Allan -- Lost archaeology : from antiquity to plaything / Tao Wang -- Chen Mengjia and the reading of bronze inscriptions as historical sources / Edward L. Shaughnessy -- Figuring things : early scholarship on Chinese bronzes / Jeffrey Moser -- Mirroring the past : Emperor Qianlong and his bronzes / Tao Wang -- Emperor Qianlong's four catalogues on bronzes / Liu Yu -- One or two? : self-representation in Emperor Qianlong's portraiture / Lu Zhang -- The Hezi You vessels : a case study in authenticity and forgery / Zhou Ya -- Rivals and friends : scholar-collectors and their circles / Tao Wang -- A legend retold : the Duanfang bronzes' journey to the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Zhixin Jason Sun -- The past in the present : an epilogue / Tao Wang -- Checklist -- Selected bibliography -- Index. "A lavishly illustrated book that offers an in-depth look at the cultural practices surrounding the tradition of collecting ancient bronzes in China during the 18th and 19th centuries. In ancient China (2000-221 b.c.) elaborate bronze vessels were used for rituals involving cooking, drinking, and serving food. This fascinating book not only examines the cultural practices surrounding these objects in their original context, but it also provides the first in-depth study tracing the tradition of collecting these bronzes in China. Essays by international experts delve into the concerns of the specialized culture that developed around the vessels and the significant influence this culture, with its emphasis on the concept of antiquity, had on broader Chinese society. While focusing especially on bronze collections of the 18th and 19th centuries, this wide-ranging catalogue also touches on the ways in which contemporary artists continue to respond to the complex legacy of these objects. Packed with stunning photographs of exquisitely crafted vessels, Mirroring China's Past is an enlightening investigation into how the role of ancient bronzes has evolved throughout Chinese history"--., The Art Institute of Chicago, 2018, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Chinese-American relations are often viewed through the prism of power rivalry and civilization clash. But China and America's shared history is much more than a catalog of conflicts. Using culture rather than politics or economics as a reference point, Xu Guoqi highlights significant yet neglected cultural exchanges in which China and America have contributed to each other's national development, building the foundation of what Zhou Enlai called a relationship of "equality and mutual benefit." Xu begins with the story of Anson Burlingame, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to China, and the 120 Chinese students he played a crucial role in bringing to America, inaugurating a program of Chinese international study that continues today. Such educational crosscurrents moved both ways, as is evident in Xu's profile of the remarkable Ge Kunhua, the Chinese poet who helped spearhead Chinese language teaching in Boston in the 1870s. Xu examines the contributions of two American scholars to Chinese political and educational reform in the twentieth century: the law professor Frank Goodnow, who took part in making the Yuan Shikai government's constitution; and the philosopher John Dewey, who helped promote Chinese modernization as a visiting scholar at Peking University and elsewhere. Xu also shows that it was Americans who first introduced to China the modern Olympic movement, and that China has used sports ever since to showcase its rise as a global power. These surprising shared traditions between two nations, Xu argues, provide the best roadmap for the future of Sino-American relations. Xu Guoqi is Professor of History at the University of Hong Kong. Akira Iriye is Charles Warren Professor of American History, Emeritus, at Harvard University. "This important book provides a fresh way to examine the shared histories of the U.S. and China and will influence scholars for years to come."ÑD. L. Wilson, Choice "With the support of extensive, highly original, and reliable research, Xu Guoqi has written a truly pathbreaking book, one with the scholarly and intellectual power to redefine some key dimensions of studies on international history in general and Chinese-American relations in particular. It is a book that concentrates on people rather than on the state, government, and various institutions; it presents the important and enlightening 'shared history' thesis concerning encounters between the Chinese and the Americans; and without burdening readers with complicated, obscure, or meaningless jargon, it tells a series of fascinating stories."ÑChen Jian, Cornell University "The history of Chinese-American relations is the history of people, not just of high politics and diplomacy. Ours has been a relationship defined largely by the private spheres of Chinese who came to America and Americans who went to China. They went and came as advisers; as students and teachers; as workers; as intellectuals; and as entrepreneurs. And they still do. In this volume of elegant essays on the shared history of Chinese and Americans over the past two centuries, Xu Guoqi retells the sojourns of men well known in their time, but not in ours: of generations of cultural ambassadors who framed the foundation of the Chinese-American relationship we have inherited. Any serious student of U.S.-China relations will want to read this book."ÑWilliam C. Kirby, Harvard University, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014, [Suva, Fiji]: Institute of Pacific Studies of University of the South Pacific. 1989. Trade paperback. Fine.. 176 p., illustrations, bibliography, index. . Solomon Islanders have recorded much of their history-a term which refers both to the events of the past and to ways of viewing those events-in a rich oral tradition, and in a variety of art forms. But hitherto few of them have written about it. Most of the writing about the Solomon Islands has been done by foreigners, araikwao. Ples Blong Iumi is an important exception. The authors are Solomon Islanders. Academically trained and drawing on a wide range of sources (from archaeology to archives, and including oral tradition), they present a survey of their people's history that is well-informed, wide-ranging and up-to-date; and at once critical yet sympathetic. Significant as a contribution to an incipient national literature and as a work of scholarly reference, Ples Blong Iumi is also important as an expression of a new political identity. Solomon Islands became an independent nation in 1978. It is fitting, and not before time, therefore, that its own writers should now present the story of their own nation, for the enlightenment of their own people-and for that of the wider audience beyond the Solomons., Institute of Pacific Studies of University of the South Pacific, 1989<

1989, ISBN: 9789820200272

[Suva, Fiji]: Institute of Pacific Studies of University of the South Pacific. 1989. Trade paperback. Fine.. 176 p., illustrations, bibliography, index. . Solomon Islanders have recorded … Mehr…

[Suva, Fiji]: Institute of Pacific Studies of University of the South Pacific. 1989. Trade paperback. Fine.. 176 p., illustrations, bibliography, index. . Solomon Islanders have recorded much of their history-a term which refers both to the events of the past and to ways of viewing those events-in a rich oral tradition, and in a variety of art forms. But hitherto few of them have written about it. Most of the writing about the Solomon Islands has been done by foreigners, araikwao. Ples Blong Iumi is an important exception. The authors are Solomon Islanders. Academically trained and drawing on a wide range of sources (from archaeology to archives, and including oral tradition), they present a survey of their people's history that is well-informed, wide-ranging and up-to-date; and at once critical yet sympathetic. Significant as a contribution to an incipient national literature and as a work of scholarly reference, Ples Blong Iumi is also important as an expression of a new political identity. Solomon Islands became an independent nation in 1978. It is fitting, and not before time, therefore, that its own writers should now present the story of their own nation, for the enlightenment of their own people-and for that of the wider audience beyond the Solomons. ., Institute of Pacific Studies of University of the South Pacific, 1989<

1989, ISBN: 982020027X

[EAN: 9789820200272], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Institute of Pacific Studies], SOLOMON ISLANDS - HISTORY, 176 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. Solomon Islanders have recorded… Mehr…

[EAN: 9789820200272], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Institute of Pacific Studies], SOLOMON ISLANDS - HISTORY, 176 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. Solomon Islanders have recorded much of their history - a term which refers both to the events of the past and to ways of viewing those events - in a rich oral tradition, and in a variety of art forms. But hitherto few of them have written about it. Most of the writing about the Solomon Islands has been done by foreigners, araikwao. Ples Blong Iumi is an important exception. The authors are Solomon Islanders. Academically trained and drawing on a wide range of sources (from archaeology to archives, and including oral tradition), they present a survey of their people's history that is well-informed, wide-ranging and up-to-date; and at once critical yet sympathetic. Significant as a contribution to an incipient national literature and as a work of scholarly reference, Ples Blong Iumi is also important as an expression of a new political identity. Solomon Islands became an independent nation in 1978. It is fitting, and not before time, therefore, that its own writers should now present the story of their own nation, for the enlightenment of their own people - and for that of the wider audience beyond the Solomons., Books<