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  • ENGLISH CONVENTS IN EXILE, 1600-1800, PART I, VOL 1
    CAROLINE BOWDEN / LAURENCE LUX-STERRITT / NICKY HALLETT / ELIZABETH PERRY / VICTORIA VAN HYNING
    Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource. ...

    $5,100.00

  • ENGLISH CONVENTS IN EXILE, 1600-1800, PART I, VOL 2
    CAROLINE BOWDEN / LAURENCE LUX-STERRITT / NICKY HALLETT / ELIZABETH PERRY / VICTORIA VAN HYNING
    Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource. ...

    $5,100.00

  • ENGLISH CONVENTS IN EXILE, 1600-1800, PART I, VOL 3
    CAROLINE BOWDEN / LAURENCE LUX-STERRITT / NICKY HALLETT / ELIZABETH PERRY / VICTORIA VAN HYNING
    Between 1600 and 1800 around 4,000 Catholic women left England for a life of exile in the convents of France, Flanders, Portugal and America. These closed communities offered religious contemplation and safety, but also provided an environment of concentrated female intellectualism. The nuns’ writings from this time form a unique resource. ...

    $5,100.00

  • PROLETARIAN POWER
    ELIZABETH PERRY / LI XUN
    This pathbreaking book offers the first in-depth study of Chinese labor activism during the momentous upheaval of the Cultural Revolution. Arguing that labor was working at cross purposes, the authors explore three distinctive and different forms of working-class protest: rebellion, conservatism, and economism. Drawing upon a wealth of heretofore inaccessible archival sources, ...

    $1,460.00

  • CHINESE PERSPECTIVES ON THE NIEN REBELLION
    ELIZABETH J. PERRY
    This title was first published in 1981. The study of peasant rebellion constitutes a major research field among contemporary Chinese historians. This book brings together translated excerpts of primary and secondary materials dealing with one of the largest rebellions in Chinese history: the Nien Rebellion of 1851-1868. The selections have been made with two main purposes in mi...

    $1,320.00

  • CHALLENGING THE MANDATE OF HEAVEN
    ELIZABETH J. PERRY
    Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of either the Chinese Communist revolution or the Cultural Revolution -- surely two of the most momentous social movements of the twentieth century. Moreover, China's record of popular uphe...

    $1,320.00

  • THE DANWEI
    XIAOBO LÜ / ELIZABETH J. PERRY
    The danwei, or work unit, occupies a central place in Chinese society. To understand Chinese politics demands a better understanding of this system. This volume provides a systematic study of the danwei system and addresses a variety of questions from historical and comparative perspectives. ...

    $1,760.00

  • CHINESE SOCIETY
    PERRY, ELIZABETH J. / SELDEN, MARK
    This bestselling introduction to Chinese society uses the themes of resistance and protest to explore the complexity of life in contemporary China. An interdisciplinary and international team of China scholars draw on perspectives from sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and political science and covers a broad range of issues. Topics covered include: labour and enviro...

    $1,420.00

  • BRITISH MISSION TO THE JEWS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY PALESTINE
    YARON PERRY / ELIZABETH YODIM
    Yaron Perry's account reveals, without bias or partiality, the story of the "London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews" and its unique contribution to the restoration of the Holy Land. This Protestant organization were the first to take root in the Holy Land from 1820 onwards. ...

    $1,800.00

  • FANTASTIC CRIMES
    ANNE PERRY / CHRISTOPHER FOWLER / F. PAUL WILSON / ELIZABETH GEORGE
    Book-centered mystery novellas from four masters of the craft.   From Anne Perry, the New York Times–bestselling author of the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, comes The Scroll.   Hapless bookseller Monty Danforth’s recent discovery of a millennia-old manuscript plunges him into a cutthroat conspiracy.   “A master storyteller.” —The Star-Ledger   Christopher Fowler, author of ...

    $85.00