Frontier Encounters and State Formation in Northeast Asia - Making Borders in Modern East Asia: The Tumen River Demarcation. By Nianshen Song. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 324 pp. ISBN: 9781316626290 (paper). - Beyond the Steppe Frontier: A History of the Sino-Russian Border. By Sören Urbansky. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2020. 392 pp. ISBN: 9780691181684 (cloth).

2021 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-246
Author(s):  
Anne-Sophie Pratte
1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. England

The history of Eastern Christianity in central, south, and east Asia prior to A.D. 1500 is rich and extensive, yet has been largely ignored. Material evidence now available from southeast and northeast Asia shows that Christian communities were present in seven countries for different periods between the sixth and fifteenth centuries. Often termed “Nestorian,” or “Jacobite,” these communities have left a diversity of remains—epigraphical, architectural, sculptural, documentary—which testify to their presence, as far northeast as Japan and southeast as far as Indonesia. The glimpses of Christian churches in medieval Asia afforded by the evidence from these and other regions of Asia offer alternatives to Westernized patterns of mission, and question many assumptions concerning the history and character of Christian presence in the region.


Short notices - At home with your calculator, by Andrew Rothery. Pp 51. 95p. 1980. ISBN 0 245 53526 8 (Harrap) - The calculator game book for kids of all ages, by Arlene Hartman. Pp 190. $1·50. 1977. ISBN 0 45107399 1 (Signet) - Cross Maths 1 and 2, by H. D. Saxton. 98p and £1·10. 1979 and 1980. ISBN 0 7131 0397 3/0459 7 (Edward Arnold) - Mathematical statistical mechanics, by Colin J. Thompson. Pp 278. £3·35. 1979. ISBN 0 691 08220 0 (Princeton University Press) - The Penguin book of mathematical and statistical tables, by R. D. Nelson. Pp 64. 95p. 1980. ISBN 0 14 051097 4 (Penguin) - Essentials of mathematics (4th edition), by Russell V. Person. Pp 865. £12. 1980. ISBN 0 471 05184 5 (Wiley) - Basic algebra, by Marvin Schlichting. Pp 388. £11·20. 1980. ISBN 0 442 25765 1 (Van Nostrand) - Notes on mathematics in primary schools, bymembers of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics. Pp 340. £3·50. Reissued 1979. ISBN 0 900095 06 7 (Association of Teachers of Mathematics) - Numerical solution of differential equations, byM. K. Jain. Pp 443. £7·50. 1979. ISBN 0 85226 427 5 (Wiley Eastern) - Algebra and trigonometry refresher for calculus students, by Loren C. Larsen. Pp 192. £3·10. 1979. ISBN 0 7167 1110 9 (Freeman) - Mathematics for decisions, by Helen B. Siner and others. Pp 502. £11·95. 1979. ISBN 0 442 27651 6 (Van Nostrand Reinhold) - A history of mathematics (3rd edition), byFlorian Cajori. Pp 524. $18·50. 1980. ISBN 0 8284 0303 1 (Chelsea) - Unified mathematics, byJ. B. Morgan and K. S. Snell. Book 4. Pp 346. £1·80. 1977. ISBN 0 521 21298 7 (Cambridge University Press) - House maths, byN. S. Armstrong and others Pupils’ book Teacher’s guide. Pp 32, 11. 60 p, 90 p. 1976. ISBN 0 216 90211 8/90212 6 (Blackie)

1980 ◽  
Vol 64 (430) ◽  
pp. 304-306

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 547-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRUCE KUKLICK

George A. Reisch, How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science: To the Icy Slopes of Logic (Cambridge and New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005)Scott Soames, Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 1, The Dawn of Analysis; Vol. 2, The Age of Meaning (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2003)Although How the Cold War Transformed Philosophy of Science is narrower in scope, the two books included in this review by and large cover the same ground—the history of anglophone philosophy in the first two-thirds of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, the two authors occupy two different universes, and it is instructive to examine the issues and styles of thought that separate their comprehension of analytic philosophy.


1997 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 449-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Lieberman

The contributions in this collection, with one exception, are revised versions of papers prepared for a workshop on ‘The Eurasian Context of the Early Modern History of Mainland South East Asia, 1400–1800,’ which was held at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London, 22–24 June, 1995. This gathering was organized thanks to the imagination and infectious enthusiasm of Dr Ian Brown, then Director of the Centre of South East Asian Studies at SOAS, and was funded with grants from SOAS, Modern Asian Studies and Cambridge University Press, and the British Academy.


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