Course Guide ~ HIST 124 / The Silk Road

Features over 2000 broad-ranging entries on the history and doctrines of the major Buddhist schools, information on the spread of Buddhism in Asia and the West, and coverage of issues of contemporary concern such as human rights, abortion, euthanasia, engaged Buddhism, and the role of women in Buddhist teachings.

v. 1. Methodologies, paradigms, and sources
v. 2. Family, law, and politics
v. 3. Family, body, sexuality and health
v. 4. Economics, education, mobility and space
v. 5. Practices, interpretations and representations
v. 6. Supplement & index.

Volumes 1-6 available.

v. 1. The Ch`in and Han Empires, 221 B.C.-A.D. 220
v. 3. Sui and T`ang China, 589-906, pt. 1.
v. 5. pt. 1. The Sung dynasty and its precursors, 907-1279
v. 6. Alien regimes and border states, 907-1368
v. 8. The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644
v. 9. pt. 1. The Chìng dynasty to 1800
v. 10-11. Late Ch`ing, 1800-1911. v. 12-13. Republican China, 1912-1949
v. 14. The people's republic, part 1. The emergence of Revolutionary China 1949-1965
v. 15. The people's republic, part 2. Revolutions within the Chinese revolution, 1966-1982.

This volume offers a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history of a complex and varied body of ideas over a period of more than 1000 years. A work of both synthesis and assessment, it presents the results of several decades of critical scholarship in the field. It looks at questions such as the nature of authority, of justice, of property; the problem of legitimacy, of allegiance, of resistance to the powers that be; the character and function of law, and the role of custom in sustaining a social structure. While the predominant emphasis of the volume is necessarily upon those ideas that developed within Latin Christendom, full weight is also given to the impact of Byzantine, Jewish, and Islamic thought.

Byzantium to Turkey, 1071-1453

The Ottoman Empire as a World Power, 1453-1603

The later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839