The Canton Trade Morten Gram PedersenThis study utilizes a wide range of new source materials to reconstruct the day to day operations of the port of Canton during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Using a bottom up approach, it provides a fresh look at the successes and failures of the trade by focusing on the practices and procedures rather than on the official policies and protocols. The narrative, however, reads like a story as the author unravels the daily
this book helps us to understand how Buddhist influences on attitudes toward women
The contributors offer a broader understanding of how individuals and groups can get involved effectively in environmental decisions through traditional formats as well as alternative approaches ranging from leadership capacity building to social media activity to civic technology
Hakan Erdem
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With introductory pieces by Canon Robin Gibbons and Professor Anthony McClaran setting the context
and revolution and the state
this volume is designed for adult students at the high-intermediate/low-advanced levels of language proficiency
Human liberation has become an epochal challenge in today’s world
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Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material
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