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The history of modern Afghanistan is an epic drama, a thriller, a tragedy, a surreal farce. Every forty years or so, over the last two centuries, some great global power has attempted to take control of Afghanistan, only to slink away wounded and...

On its release in 1988, Grave of the Fireflies riveted audiences with its uncompromising drama. Directed by Isao Takahata at Studio Ghibli and based on an autobiographical story by Akiyuki Nosaka, the story of two Japanese children struggling to survive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789937624145Author Mark F. WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vajra BooksPublisher Vajra BooksWeight(grams) 801gDimensions(mm) 240mm * 170mm * 20mm

When the samurai warlord and respected castle architect Todo Takatora died in 1630, the funeral attendants responsible for preparing his body were shocked to note that there was not a single part of his body not scarred or disfigured by sword, spear,...

Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020 On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurating a new era of liberty and freedom. With fundamental rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the...

An unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, China has maintained one of the world's richest built civilizations. The nation's architectural achievements range from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162101Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)...

The past twenty years have seen a proliferation of specialist scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from recent work and seeks in particular to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784583114019Author Masashi KoyamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 494Imprint Nippon BudokanPublisher Nippon Budokan

In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and French Revolutions. In this volume, leading historians from North America, Europe, and Japan employ global history in novel ways to offer...

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai-shek's regime collapsed in 1949. Peeling back layers of Cold War ideological constructs, he tells a very...

This book begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resource extracted from Angola was agricultural labour, first as privately...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849350822Author Maia RamnathFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 247g

Great floods and river Gods, snake spirits, and Immortals, China's unique set of mythological tales are derived from its vast expanse, diverse culture and the endless wars between tribes and dynasties. The result is a rich landscape of humanity, gods and...

A Financial Times Best Book of the YearThe untold story of how Russian espionage in imperial China shaped the emergence of the Russian Empire as a global power.From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the Russian Empire made concerted efforts to...

A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries "Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906375126Author Grant WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Pagoda Tree BooksPublisher Broomfield Books Limited

Without the horse, India would not be this India ... The history of the horse in India is an epic tale of life and war, of migration and intermingling, and points towards a greater history throughout the world, the history of humans and animals in...

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China has moved from being one of the poorest societies to a level now similar with other relatively developed Third World societies - like Mexico and Brazil. The dominant idea that it somehow threatens to 'catch up' economically, or overtake the rich...

Shortlisted for the Cundill History Prize"Remarkable and pathbreaking...A radical rethink of colonial historiography and a compelling argument for the reassessment of the historical traditions of Hindustan."-Mahmood Mamdani"The brilliance of Asif's book...

China is world renowned as the homeland of tea planting, production and drinking. In this illustrated introduction Liu Tong provides a fascinating insight into the ancient culture of Chinese tea, the trade, tradition, literature, philosophy and ceremony...

An intimate telling of the life and times of teenage Korean revolutionary Kim San First published in 1941 and long unavailable, Song of Arirang tells the true story of Korean revolutionary Kim San (Jang Jirak), who left colonized Korea as a teenager...

The end of the Second World War led to the United States' emergence as a global superpower. For war-ravaged Western Europe it marked the beginning of decades of unprecedented cooperation and prosperity that one historian has labeled "the long peace". Yet...

Following his prizewinning studies of the Vietnam War, renowned anthropologist Heonik Kwon presents this ground-breaking study of the Korean War's enduring legacies seen through the realm of intimate human experience. Kwon boldly reclaims kinship as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789887792703Author Richard J. GarrettFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Blacksmith BooksPublisher Blacksmith Books

Transport yourself to the global capital of cool with this ultimate guide to Japanese pop culture!Are you crazy about Japanese manga, anime, video games, cosplay, toys and idols? If so, this book is for you! Whether you're planning a trip to Japan, have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913118624Author Adrien FontanellazFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909982215Author Bill WhitburnFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Even though Africa has become a popular destination of foreign...

Step-by-step instructions and over 300 photographs allow the trainee to follow and learn the techniques with ease. The ideal weapon for self-defense is a stick. To find a comprehensive system of techniques using the stick, we must turn to the East, for...

To understand Japanese sword polishing is to understand the Japanese sword. Down through the years, the great sword connoisseurs in Japan have been sword polishers. A swordsmith can spend a large amount of time forging a classic sword, but refining and...

The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of 18th-century China, was in turn ruled by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and above all how he performed the yearly Grand...

This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores...

In this first social and cultural history of Japan's construction of Manchuria, Louise Young offers an incisive examination of the nature of Japanese imperialism. Focusing on the domestic impact of Japan's activities in Northeast China between 1931 and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800550476Author George BruceFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789077386132Author Bette DamFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ipso FactoPublisher Ipso FactoWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 14mm

Cambodia 1975-1982 presents a unique and carefully researched analysis of the Democratic Kampuchea regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (1975-79) and the early years of the People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-89). When it was first published in 1984,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680516401Author Nandini PurandareFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mountaineers BooksPublisher Mountaineers Books

Boldly illustrated and superbly translated, Folk Legends from Tono captures the spirit of Japanese peasant culture undergoing rapid transformation into the modern era. This is the first time these 299 tales have been published in English. Morse's...