What China and India once were : the pasts that may shape the global future /
In the early years of the twenty-first century, China and India have emerged as world powers. In many respects, this is a return to the historical norm for both countries. For much of the early modern period, China and India were global leaders in a variety of ways. In this book, prominent scholars...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Life and energy / Kenneth Pomeranz and Sumit Guha
- Conquest, rulership, and the state / Pamela Crossley and Richard M. Eaton
- Gender systems: The exotic Asian and other fallacies / Beverly Bossler and Ruby Lal
- Relating the past: Writing (and re-writing) history / Cynthia Brokaw and Allison Busch
- Sorting out babel: Literature and its changing languages / Stephen Owen and Sheldon Pollock
- Big science: Classicism and conquest / Benjamin Elman and Christopher Minkowski
- Pilgrims in search of religion / Zvi Ben-Dor Benite and Richard H. Davis
- Art and vision: Varieties of world-making / Eugene Wang and Molly Aitken.