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Whereas previous studies of the end of British rule in India have concentrated on the negotiations of the transfer of power at the all-India level or have considered the emergence of separatist politics amongst India's Muslim minorities, this study...

Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. John Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805895Author Hermann HesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

A fascinating history of China's relations with the West-told through the lives of two eighteenth-century translatorsThe 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510131Author Andrey KorotkovFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538187258Author David M. LamptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)...

This is a place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812984804Author Robert D. KaplanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm)...

In 1940s India, revolutionary and nationalistic feeling surged against colonial subjecthood and imperial war. Two-and-a-half million men from undivided India served the British during the Second World War, while 3 million civilians were killed by the...

We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood. John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the...

In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called 'Kashmir' - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307407160Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm)...

Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953663118Author James S. LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic PublishingWeight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312326098Author Professor Michael BreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736695401Author Erol I YorulmazogluFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Erol I. YorulmazogluPublisher Erol I. YorulmazogluWeight(grams)...

In 1839 forces of the British East India Company crossed the Indus to invade Afghanistan on the pretext of reinstating a former king Shah Soojah to his rightful throne. The reality was that this was another step in Britain's Great Game - Afghanistan...

'A tour de force of luminous writing.' Mark Cocker, Spectator 'Imagine if your family had lived in the mountains for a thousand years or more, what effect would that have upon your mind and your...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789814423885Author Brian FarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint monsoonPublisher Monsoon BooksDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm * 35mm

The Russo-Japanese War was the first major conflict of the 20th century, as vast armies clashed in Manchuria incurring enormous casualties. Its global significance was immense, as the tactics deployed during this war anticipated the trench warfare of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583946596Author Linda HolidayFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 594gDimensions(mm)...

A groundbreaking exploration of US-China relations as seen through the lens of international finance Rising tensions between China and the United States have kept the financial markets on edge as a showdown between the world's two largest economies seems...

China is unique in modern world history. No other rising power has experienced China's turbulent history in its relations with neighbors and Western countries. Its sheer size dominates the region. With leader Xi Jinping's political authority unmatched,...

Using India as a case study, Joseph McQuade demonstrates how the modern concept of terrorism was shaped by colonial emergency laws dating back into the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with the 'thugs', 'pirates', and 'fanatics' of the...

A timely look at the impact of China's booming emergence on the countries of Southeast Asia"An expert and lucid synthesis of the historical context and recent developments of Southeast Asia's rich and complex relations with Beijing."-John Reed, Financial...

The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violations, forced migrations and extra-judicial killings on an enormous scale. This unique study draws on...

Written by Toosey's granddaughter, this remarkable portrait of a forgotten British hero and leader is essential reading for anyone interested in the Second World War. 'Truly uplifting ... It makes you proud to be British.' The Guardian Alec Guinness won...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791420621Author Roger T. AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316410670Author James BradleyFormat HardbackPage Count 608Imprint Little, Brown & CompanyPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583942291Author Wayne BelonohaFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Blue Snake BooksPublisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 1242gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683839330Author Mandala PublishingFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Mandala Publishing GroupPublisher Mandala Publishing Group

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316066358Author Michael SallahFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Back Bay BooksPublisher Back Bay BooksWeight(grams) 380gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm...

Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun...

This book, first published in 2000, offers a wide-ranging and ambitious analysis of how European travellers in India developed their perceptions of ethnic, political and religious diversity over three hundred years. It analyses the growth of novel...

In November 1950 The US 1st Marine Division was trapped in the Chosin Reservoir following the intervention of Red China in the Korean War. Fought during the worst blizzard in a century, the ensuing battle is considered by the United States Marine Corps...

A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based...

In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single-child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as...

One of India's greatest epics, the Ramayana pervades the country's moral and cultural consciousness. For generations it has served as a bedtime story for Indian children, while at the same time engaging the interest of philosophers and theologians...

'An important contribution ... Delving lucidly into the most significant ideological battles of the era, this book deftly outlines the thinking and dialogue that laid the foundations of the Republic - and which remain deeply relevant and contentious...

In 1944, a compilation of medical reports from the main prisoner of war work camps along the infamous Thailand-Burma railway was submitted to General Arimura Tsunemichi, commander of the Japanese Prisoner of War Administration. The authors stated that...