Keay, John.
Summary: "In Midnight's Descendants, John Keay presents the first general history of present-day India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka and its peoples. The book examines the complex web of affiliations--of kinship, locality, language, tribe, clan, profession, and caste--that shape relations among the countries in the region. Keay argues that correlating and contrasting the fortunes of all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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Summary: More rugged and elevated than any other zone on earth, Himālaya embraces all of Tibet, plus six of the world's eight major mountain ranges and nearly all its highest peaks. Thirty-five percent of the global population depend on Himālaya's freshwater for crop irrigation, protein, and, increasingly, hydropower. It now sits seismically unstable, as tectonic plates consider to shift and the region...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2022
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Contents: Rites to writing, pre c.1050 BC -- Sages and heroes, c.1050-c. 250 BC -- The first empire, c. 250-210 BC -- Han ascendant, 210-141 BC -- Within and beyond, 141 BC-AD 1 -- Wang Mang and the Han reprise, AD 1-189 -- Four hundred years of vicissitude, 189-550 -- Sui, Tang and the second empire, 550-650 -- High Tang, 650-755 -- Reconfiguring the empire, 755-1005 -- Caving in, 1005-1235 -- By land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2009
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954 KEAContents: SIBERIA AND ALASKA : Stranded on Bering Island / Georg Wilhelm Stellar -- The walk to Moscow / John Dundas Cochrane -- CENTRAL AND SOUTH ASIA : Alarms amongst the Uzbeks / Alexander Burnes -- On the roof of the world / John Wood -- Lhasa beckons / Regis-Evariste Huc -- Exploring Angkhor / Henri Mouhot -- Over the Karakorams / Francis Edward Younghusband -- Trials in Tibet / Ekai Kawaguchi -- At...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf 2002