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The Cambridge History of China: Volume 5, The Five Dynasties ...

The Cambridge History of China: Volume 5, The Five Dynasties ...

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Peter Lorge (Burlington, 2005), p. 443. 344 Peter Lorge, “The Northern Song military aristocracy and the royal family,” in Warfare in China to 1600, ed. Peter Lorge (Burlington, 2005), pp. 429–39; the Su trial case is treated on p. 42. 345 Lorge ...
Chinese and Indian Warfare – From the Classical Age to 1870

Chinese and Indian Warfare – From the Classical Age to 1870

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Kaushik Roy, Peter Lorge ... of Japan and the West. And mention may be made of Peter Lorge«s (one of the editors of this volume) book that traces the origin and spread of gunpowder technology in Asia.4 It may not be possible completely to ...
War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900–1795

War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900–1795

Peter Lorge

Peter Lorge. 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 first drew attention to this importance ofthis anecdote in 1948 in “Lun Song Taizu shou bingquan,” Yanjing xuebao, 34 (June 1948), reprinted in Songshi Congkao, Taibei: Huashi ...
The Reunification of China: Peace through War under the Song ...

The Reunification of China: Peace through War under the Song ...

Peter Lorge

Peace through War under the Song Dynasty Peter Lorge. causing a breakdown in communication. A similar problem would complicate Shizong's campaign against the Southern Tang. 1 Sima Guang, Zizhi Tongjian [hereafter ZZTJ], Beijing: ...
The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1618-44

The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1618-44

Kenneth M. Swope

One also needs the support and interest ofpublishers and series editors so Iwould first like tothank Peter Lorge ofVanderbilt University (Series Editor forAsian States&Empires) and Peter Sowdenat Routledge for soliciting and acceptingthe ...
Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750: ...

Military Transition in Early Modern Asia, 1400-1750: ...

Kaushik Roy

Peter C. Perdue, China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia ( Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 2005), pp. 19–23. Gerard Chaliand, Nomadic Empires: From ... in China, vol. 5, Part VI, pp. 112–13, 126. Peter A. Lorge, The Asian ...
Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Peter A. Lorge

This is an engaging and readable introduction to the authentic history of Chinese martial arts.
Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Peter A. Lorge

This is an engaging and readable introduction to the authentic history of Chinese martial arts.
War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849

War, Culture and Society in Early Modern South Asia, 1740-1849

Kaushik Roy

However, the three feudal monarchies of India did not get adequate time to create centralized institutions for governance.33 In 2008, Peter Lorge asserted that the EIC by initiating a Military Revolution between 1750 and 1850 gained military ...
War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900–1795

War, Politics and Society in Early Modern China, 900–1795

Peter Lorge

See also JamesT.C. Liu'sReform inSung China: Wang AnShih (1021–1086) and His New Policies, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959. Liang Gengyao has argued stronglythat the mainpointof the NewPolicies was increasing ...
Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History: From Ancient ...

Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History: From Ancient ...

Kai Filipiak

409–410. Cited from Ralph D. Sawyer, The Seven Military Classics of Ancient China (New York: Basic Books, 2007), p. 157. Peter Lorge, “The Northern Song Military Aristocracy and the Royal Family,” War and Society, 18 (2000), p. 46.
Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History

Waging War: Conflict, Culture, and Innovation in World History

Wayne E. Lee

Nicola Di Cosmo (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 1–22; Robin McNeal, Conquer and Govern: Early Chinese Military Texts from the Yizhou Shu ( Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2012), 1–2, 73–4, 128–9; Peter Lorge, ...
Pirates: A History

Pirates: A History

Tim Travers

... China against the nomads. 3. Peter Lorge, 'Water Forces and Naval Operations ', in A Military History of China, p.93; A.G. Course, Pirates of the Eastern Seas, Muller, London, 1966, pp.130–132 4. Course, Pirates of the Eastern Seas, p.134;  ...
Capital Cities and Urban Form in Pre-modern China: Luoyang, ...

Capital Cities and Urban Form in Pre-modern China: Luoyang, ...

Victor Cunrui Xiong

CivilMilitary Relations in Chinese History From Ancient China to the communist takeover Edited by Kai Filipiak 8. Chinese and Indian Warfare – From the Classical Age to 1870 Edited by Kaushik Roy and Peter Lorge 9. The East Asian War, ...
Warfare in Pre-British India – 1500BCE to 1740CE

Warfare in Pre-British India – 1500BCE to 1740CE

Kaushik Roy

Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History From Ancient China to the communist takeover Edited by Kai Filipiak 8. Chinese and Indian Warfare – From the Classical Age to 1870 Edited by Kaushik Roy and Peter Lorge 9. The East Asian War, ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
A place of our own: the rise of Reform Jewish camping : ...

A place of our own: the rise of Reform Jewish camping : ...

Michael M. Lorge

Andrew Chamberlin Rieser, The Chautauqua Moment: Protestants, Progressives, and the Culture of Modern Liberalism (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), and Wendy Rose Bice, A Timeless Treasure: 100 Years of Fresh Air Society ...
Castro Valley

Castro Valley

Lucille Lorge

... Edith Gunn Jensen, Katherine Kaye, and Clara May Krch; Steven Lavoie and the Oakland History Room; Betty Ray Lesch, Clyde Lyeria, and Doris Marciel; Paul Merrick and the Dunsmuir Ridge Alliance; George Miller, Nancy Summerlin,  ...
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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w l- I k - 'Take-r. 4. u ' Peter Strauss Ranch Guest House 59936 B Peter Strauss Ranch Main House 59926 B Peter Strauss Ranch Storage Shed 59937 B Peter Strauss Ranch Stone and Concrete Terracing 59927 B Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...

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