Eastward to Empire

Eastward to Empire
Title Eastward to Empire PDF eBook
Author George V. Lantzeff
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 279
Release 1973-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 0773593187

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Russian expansion across Siberia to the Far East.

Eastward to Tartary

Eastward to Tartary
Title Eastward to Tartary PDF eBook
Author Robert D. Kaplan
Publisher Vintage
Pages 446
Release 2014-11-12
Genre Travel
ISBN 0804153477

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Eastward to Tartary, Robert Kaplan's first book to focus on a single region since his bestselling Balkan Ghosts, introduces readers to an explosive and little-known part of the world destined to become a tinderbox of the future. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a volatile region, stretching from Hungary and Romania to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable area that he describes as the new fault line between East and West. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. The result is must reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.

Stairway to Nirvāna

Stairway to Nirvāna
Title Stairway to Nirvāna PDF eBook
Author James B. Apple
Publisher SUNY Press
Pages 290
Release
Genre Religion
ISBN 0791478645

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James B. Apple examines one of the formative subjects in traditional Buddhist studies, the Twenty Varieties of the Saṃgha. The Saṃgha (community) is one of the Three Jewels (Buddha, Dharma, Saṃgha) universally revered by all Buddhists. While the Saṃgha is generally understood as the community of Buddhist ordained monks and nuns, along with lay adherents, the Twenty Varieties of the Saṃgha concerns an exemplary community of the twenty types of Noble Beings (ārya-pudgala) who embody the Buddha's teachings. Focusing on the interpretation of the Saṃgha given by the fourteenth-century Tibetan scholar Tsong kha pa, Apple provides a comprehensive typology and analysis of the stages through which Noble Beings pass in their progress toward enlightenment through multiple lifetimes in various cosmological realms. He explains the cosmographic formations and complex structures of Buddhist spiritual cultivation, illustrating how Tibetan and Indian Buddhists conceptualize all possible states on the path to enlightenment.

The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language

The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language
Title The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language PDF eBook
Author John Ogilvie
Publisher
Pages 710
Release 1883
Genre Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN

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The Russian Empire

The Russian Empire
Title The Russian Empire PDF eBook
Author Andreas Kappeler
Publisher Routledge
Pages 480
Release 2014-08-27
Genre History
ISBN 1317568109

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The "national question" and how to impose control over its diverse ethnic identities has long posed a problem for the Russian state. This major survey of Russia as a multi-ethnic empire spans the imperial years from the sixteenth century to 1917, with major consideration of the Soviet phase. It asks how Russians incorporated new territories, how they were resisted, what the character of a multi-ethnic empire was and how, finally, these issues related to nationalism.

The Comanche Empire

The Comanche Empire
Title The Comanche Empire PDF eBook
Author Pekka Hämäläinen
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 509
Release 2008-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 0300151179

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A study that uncovers the lost history of the Comanches shows in detail how the Comanches built their unique empire and resisted European colonization, and why they were defeated in 1875.

A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire

A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire
Title A Journey to the End of the Russian Empire PDF eBook
Author Anton Chekov
Publisher Penguin UK
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre Russia
ISBN 9780141025506

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Overwhelmed by what he felt was the worthlessness of his great success as a writer, Chekhov (1860-1904) decided to leave everything behind him and go to the far reaches of Siberia - to the terrible Russian penal colony on Sakhalin Island. This book mixes his witty, charming letters back to friends on his long journey with his grim account of the reality of life in one of the worst places on earth. Great Journeys allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things- Great civilisations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.