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| Modern East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History
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Edition: 1
Author: Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Anne Walthall, James Pal
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Release Date: 2005-08-09
ISBN-10: 0618133852
ISBN-13: 9780618133857
List Price: $72.95
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Designed for the East Asian history course, these texts feature the latest scholarship on the region and offer a range of cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history. Coverage is balanced among East Asian regions, with approximately 20 percent of the complete volume focused on Korea, an area that has become increasingly important in East Asian courses and in world politics.Special attention is devoted to coverage of gender and material culture, themes that are reinforced through the text's pedagogical features. Color inserts illustrate the rich artistic heritage of East Asia and bolster the coverage of material culture.
A Well-Rounded Overview of East Asian Civilization
| Customer Rating: | | ~East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History~ is a fairly well-written overview of East Asian civilization. Broad in scope, it gives depth to cultural, economic, political and social facets of history. The book is decisively China-centric, but the preponderance of materials on China owes to its startling geographic scope and paramount role at influencing East Asian civilization. The treatments of Japan and Korea are pretty in-depth nonetheless. This book covers everything from Qin Shi Huang Di, the First Emperor of China, to the climatic Battle of Sekigahara, which inaugurated the Tokugawa Dynasty in seventeenth century Japan. Designed as a textbook for college students, all things considered, it's a worthwhile contribution to East Asian historical scholarship. |
Great Book
| Customer Rating: | | Great book, the author is very clear and helpful and has a great way to organize the history of east asia |
Great coverage of all of northeast Asia
| Customer Rating: | | I don't understand why some reviews were not so good. I thought this book did an excellent job of covering the history of East Asia (mostly Korea, China, and Japan). There are some good photos here too and I liked how there was some analysis on the relations of the countries and not just bland statements or repetitions of other history books (ie-there's some good writing on how Japanese history was influenced by Korean and Chinese culture). The format is easy to read and does not bore you to sleep. I would have bought a hardcover copy if they had one as I liked this very much. |
Great Text book
| Customer Rating: | | This is a fantastic text book that covers vast amounts of history with great care and detail, yet it is very accessible to a beginning student. |
Dont get it, unlesss you have no choice
| Customer Rating: | this is a book thats mandatory for my asian history class
i found it to be rather boring since it really concentrated on the minute details that noone would be interested in unless they are getting their phd in asian history
i would have really liked to have this book cover is more detail the more important things such as: political advanced, technological advances and such. instead the book concentrated mostly in ancient times and how different classes intermarry and such
the more recent times are not really covered as well. they only list basics of korean war and barely cover the ww2
someone once said this quote:
if you ask this guy: what time is it? he tells you how clock operates
this is the type of book i feel this is, there are no straight answers to questions, instead they go around and round and never end up saying things
i feel that this book is only interesting for someone who already considers themselves very knowledgible in east asian history, for it will only deepen your knowledge instead of actually teaching you the knowledge |
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