Social Militarisation and the Power of History

This book examines the scholarly treatment of three macro-regions: East Aasia, Southeast Asia and Mesoamerica. The early medieval history of Europe is also analysed from the point of view of militarisation

ISBN	9189116089	DEWEY edition	DC21
ISBN13	9789189116085 (What's this?)	Pages	240
Publisher	Nordic Academic Press	Volumes	001
Imprint	Nordic Academic Press	Weight (grammes)	496
Format	Hardback	Published in	Lund
Publication date	01 Jan 1999	Height (mm)	230
Library of Congress	U21.5.H369	Width (mm)	155
DEWEY	909.07	Academic level	Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly

		Acknowledgments		7
		Introduction		11
		Charles XII and Saddam Hussein		11
		The Other, Orientalism, and the past		16
		Militarism and social militarisation		21
		Material		26
		East Asia		29
		China according to Otto Franke		30
		China according to Wolfram Eberhard		43
		John King Fairbank's China: a system of imperial bipolarity		48
		A land of bureaucrats		50
		Japan: a parallel to Europe and a contrast to China?		58
		John W. Hall and the history of the lords of Bizen		66
		A never-ending bipolarity?		69
		Korea		72
		Southeast Asia		81
		Coedes and Hall: in the shadow of colonialism		82
		Religious and cultural spheres in colonial and post-war historiography		87
		The emergence of an economic theme: trade and commercial networks		92
		The central mainland		99
		Vietnam		109
		Mesoamerica		113
		An age of priests and an age of warriors		114
		Maya civilisation as a Pre-Columbian Utopia		120
		From Utopia to a jungle of blood		125
		A forest of soldiers		133
		Teotihuacan		137
		Zapotecs and Mixtecs		143
		Europe: the passage from antiquity to the Middle Ages		147
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Social Militarisation and the Power of History

A Study of Scholarly Perspectives

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