A History of Modern East Asia

1800 to the Present

Charles Armstrong (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2020
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd) (Verlag)
978-1-4051-2262-7 (ISBN)

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Offers a comprehensive view of East Asia, including Southeast Asia as well as China, Korea and Japan Examines East Asia within the context of global history, building on scholarship in modern world history.

A History of Modern East Asia illuminates the history of this vast and crucial region over the last two hundred years, exploring its many cultures, societies, states and economies, in the first major work on the modern history of the region as a whole. * Offers a comprehensive view of East Asia, including Southeast Asia as well as China, Korea and Japan * Examines East Asia within the context of global history, building on recent scholarship in modern world history * Introduces the innovative concept of interaction zone to define East Asia as a region of dynamic economic, political and cultural interaction rather than as a static and reified civilization * Provides a narrative that helps readers understand how the region came to its current place in the world and what the future of East Asia may hold

Charles K. Armstrong is Professor of History and former Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 1992 (2013) and co-editor of Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia (2006), among other books. He has written widely on East Asian and international history.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Wiley Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World
Verlagsort	Chicester
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-4051-2262-5 / 1405122625
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-2262-7 / 9781405122627
Zustand	Neuware