Novedades del último mes en eBooks de Historia de los países de Asia

Este libro es el relato de un viaje hacia el asombro, en busca de lo exótico, lo nuevo, lo que está por descubrir. Los encuentros y desencuentros entre Oriente y Occidente se despliegan ante el lector a traves de la prosa de Gautier, uno de los mas grandes viajeros europeos y de la poesia de Kavafis, con Bizancio como telon de fondo, que dibujan una Constantinopla mitica, referente esencial de las culturas mediterraneas.Un viaje inolvidable ilustrado con magnificas imagenes de la epoca para desvelar el misterio y la belleza de Constantinopla, esa ciudad unica a caballo entre Europa y Asia.

A terrific overview of Japans long and rich history... covers an astonishing amount of ground PETER FRANKOPANJapan is a country of islands, strung like a necklace around the Asian mainland...Ever since US Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open its borders in 1853, the culture of this remarkable and distant archipelago has enriched western life. At the same time the country has embraced foreign institutions from baseball to barber shops. Yet for centuries under the rule of the shoguns, the islands were largely sealed off from the outside world. In charting a course between openness and insularity, Japan has found a way to become ultra-modern while breathing new life into its own unique traditions.In The Shortest History of Japan, Lesley Downer brings an expert storytellers eye to the sweep of Japanese history. Here are the emperors and warlords, the samurai and women warriors, the merchants and geisha who shaped this extraordinary modern society. From the hunter-gatherers who fashioned the worlds first pots to the novel-writing ladies of the eleventh-century Heian court, from the devastation of Hiroshima to todays economic and cultural powerhouse, this is an indispensable, riveting history of the land of the rising sun.