Spydus Search Results - Title: Current History (Keywords)

Three tigers, one mountain : a journey through the bitter history and current conflicts of China, Korea and Japan / Michael Booth.

The Chinese, Koreans and Japanese are more than neighbours, they are siblings from a Confucian family. They share so much culturally, from this ancient philosophy with its hierarchical, bureaucratic legacy, to rice-growing, art, architecture, chopsticks, noodles and much more which has been passed down from China over millennia. In turn, China has modelled much of its recent industrial and economic strategy on Japan's post-war manufacturing miracle, and adores contemporary Korean popular culture. Yet still East Asia festers with a mutual animosity which frequently threatens to draw the world into a 21st-century war. In this book, which blends popular anthropology, history, politics and travel, the subjects are these Asian tigers which have endured occupation, war and devastation to become among the richest, most developed and powerful societies on earth.
Author: Booth, Michael
Published: London : Jonathan Cape, [2020]
Published: ℗♭2020
viii, 349 pages : maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

St Pancras Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 915 - Available - 30111069116738

A history of world agriculture : from the Neolithic Age to the current crisis / Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart ; translated by James H. Membrez.

This text provides an analysis of the rise of agriculture & its handmaid - civilization itself. From the Near East & Egypt to China, the Americas & medieval & modern Europe, it traces the rise of agriculture & examines the tapestry of the social & economic structures it nurtured & attempts to show how this wealth is endangered.
Author: Mazoyer, Marcel, 1933-
Published: London : Earthscan, 2006.
528 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Reference use only - 630.9 - Available - 30111041898783

The Chinese language : its history and current usage / by Daniel Kane.

Author: Kane, Daniel
Published: Tokyo : Tuttle, 2006.
192 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.

Swiss Cottage Library - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 495.182 - Available - 30111041700179

Against the current : essays in the history of ideas / Isaiah Berlin ; edited and with a bibliography by Henry Hardy ; with an introduction by Roger Hausheer.

Author: Berlin, Isaiah, 1909-1997
Published: London : Hogarth Press, 1979.
liii,394p. ; 23cm.
Selected writings / Isaiah Berlin ; 3.

Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 192 BERL - Special Collections: reserve stock - Available - 551507566
Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 192 /BERL - Special Collections: reserve stock - Available - 551548514
Swiss Cottage Library Reserve Stock - (Camden Libraries) - Adult Non Fiction - 192 /BERL - Special Collections: reserve stock - Available - 551516716