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MiGs Over North Vietnam by Roger Boniface 9780859791878
RRP: €13.03€10.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791878Author Roger BonifaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing -
Nirguna Bhakti in Eastern India: Ideology, Identity and Resistance Dambarudhar Nath 9789394262256
€97.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789394262256Author Dambarudhar NathFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and... -
Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse by Shelley Rigger 9781442204805
RRP: €41.65€37.13Now in an updated paperback edition, Why Taiwan Matters offers a comprehensive but compact introduction to a country that exercises a role in the world far greater than its tiny size would indicate. Leading expert Shelley Rigger explains how Taiwan... -
The Rise of the Ottoman Empire: Studies in the History of Turkey, thirteenth-fifteenth Centuries by Paul Wittek
RRP: €52.35€46.10Paul Wittek's The Rise of the Ottoman Empire was first published by the Royal Asiatic Society in 1938 and has been out of print for more than a quarter of a century. The present reissue of the text also brings together translations of some of his other... -
Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought by Durba Mitra
RRP: €35.70€28.16How British authorities and Indian intellectuals developed ideas about deviant female sexuality to control and organize modern society in IndiaDuring the colonial period in India, European scholars, British officials, and elite Indian... -
Learning Femininity in Colonial India, 1820-1932 by Tim Allender
RRP: €35.70€31.75This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both... -
Based on a True Story by Thomas Stewart 9781739169701
RRP: €9.52€8.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739169701Author Thomas StewartFormat PaperbackImprint Fourteen PublishingPublisher Fourteen Publishing -
Britain in India, 1858-1947 by Lionel Knight 9780857285171
€16.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857285171Author Lionel KnightFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 590g -
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung by Mao Tse-Tung 9780979311901
RRP: €11.89€11.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979311901Author Mao Tse-TungFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 223gDimensions(mm)... -
Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought by Nazmul Sultan 9780674290372
RRP: €45.16€36.59An original reconstruction of how the debates over peoplehood defined Indian anticolonial thought, and a bold new framework for theorizing the global career of democracy.Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind... -
Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India by Gyan Prakash
RRP: €65.45€51.47Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the... -
China's Twentieth Century: Revolution, Retreat, and the Road to Equality by Wang Hui
€33.52What must China do to become truly democratic and equitable? This question animates most progressive debates about this potential superpower, and inChina's Twentieth Century the country's leading critic, Wang Hui, turns to the past for an answer... -
Through the Arc of the Rain Forest by Karen Tei Yamashita 9781566894852
RRP: €15.46€15.26"Fluid and poetic as well as terrifying." New York Times Book Review "Dazzling . . . a seamless mixture of magic realism, satire and futuristic fiction." San Francisco Chronicle "Impressive . . . a flight of fancy through a dreamlike Brazil." ... -
A Brief History of the Pacific: The Great Ocean Jeremy Black 9781472146731
RRP: €15.46€10.51This brilliantly concise history of the Pacific Ocean nevertheless succeeds in examining both the indigenous presence on ocean's islands and Western control or influence over the its islands and shores. There is a particular focus on the period from the... -
Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China by Joseph W. Esherick
RRP: €35.70€27.72A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Yan'an is China's "revolutionary holy land," the heart of Mao Zedong's Communist movement from 1937 to 1947. Based on thirty years of archival and documentary... -
An Illustrated History of Cambodia by Philip Coggan 9781912081974
RRP: €29.75€21.78Beginning with a definition of who the Cambodians are, this fully illustrated history then tracks back to the earliest kingdoms before 800 AD, followed by an investigation of the creation of the magnificent city of Angkor and Cambodia's centuries of... -
Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jnanasrimitra on Exclusion by Lawrence J. McCrea
RRP: €33.32€25.94Jnanasrimitra (975-1025) was regarded by both Buddhists and non-Buddhists as the most important Indian philosopher of his generation. His theory of exclusion combined a philosophy of language with a theory of conceptual content to explore the nature of... -
Hiroshima: Three Witnesses by Richard H. Minear 9780691008370
RRP: €69.02€53.76"I'll search you out, put my lips to your tender ear, and tell you...I'll tell you the real story--I swear I will."--from Little One by Toge Sankichi Three Japanese authors of note--Hara Tamiki, Ota Yoko, and Toge Sankichi--survived the atomic bombing of... -
Structure of the Seraglio: European Fantasies of Asiatic Despotism by Alain Grosrichard
RRP: €21.41€21.32Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) has justly attracted great respect and attention for its account of Western perceptions and representations of the Orient, but the English-speaking world has for too long been unaware of another classic in the same field... -
The Children of China's Great Migration by Rachel Murphy
RRP: €35.69€32.61In China in 2018 over 200 million rural migrants worked away from their home villages, fuelling the country's rapid economic boom. In the 2010s over sixty-one million rural children had at least one parent who had migrated without them, while nearly half... -
Faithful Fighters: Identity and Power in the British Indian Army by Kate Imy 9781503610743
RRP: €28.55€25.18During the first four decades of the twentieth century, the British Indian Army possessed an illusion of racial and religious inclusivity. The army recruited diverse soldiers, known as the "Martial Races," including British Christians, Hindustani... -
Royal Hue: Heritage of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam Vu Hong Lien 9789749863954
RRP: €23.74€16.58Hue, the ancient, royal capital of Vietnam, is a city remarkable in its strive for greatness and to achieve breathtaking beauty. Despite its many dramatic historic events, from conflicts between ancient Vietnam and the now extinct kingdoms of Champa to... -
The Left in China: A Political Cartography Ralf Ruckus 9780745342955
RRP: €20.22€13.93'Does a great service by shifting our attention to the oppositional movements of Chinese workers, peasants, students, and women who have contested inequality and exploitation' - Manfred Elfstrom Tracing the history of left-wing, subversive and... -
The Making of Modern Burma by Thant Myint-U 9780521799140
RRP: €27.36€23.28Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many... -
Wild Grass: China's Revolution from Below by Ian Johnson
RRP: €13.08€8.72'Illuminating ... Johnson has not only lifted a corner of the curtain which covers China's reality beyond its glittering eastern cities; he has drawn the whole curtain' The Times Literary SupplementIn Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson... -
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey 9780375754555
RRP: €28.56€20.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375754555Author Christopher BenfeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House TradePublisher Random House TradeWeight(grams) 263g -
The Morality of China in Africa: The Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent by Stephen Chan 9781780325668
€26.48Edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, this unique collection of essays gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on China's place in Africa. The book starts with an excellent introductory... -
Pakistan: Origins, Identity and Future by Pervez Hoodbhoy 9781032270234
RRP: €154.70€134.47This book is an accessible, comprehensive, and nuanced history of Pakistan. It reflects upon state and society in Pakistan and shows they have been shaped by historical forces and personae. Hoodbhoy expertly maps the journey of the region from many... -
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land by Gardner Bovingdon
RRP: €23.80€18.91For more than half a century many Uyghurs, members of a Muslim minority in northwestern China, have sought to achieve greater autonomy or outright independence. Yet the Chinese government has consistently resisted these efforts, countering with... -
A Culinary History of Taipei: Beyond Pork and Ponlai by Steven Crook
RRP: €44.03€39.17There is a compelling story behind Taiwan's recent emergence as a food destination of international significance. A Culinary History of Taipei is the first comprehensive English-language examination of what Taiwan's people eat and why they eat those... -
Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: €28.56€27.41In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. The questions that motivate Chakrabarty are shared by... -
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400-1800 by Christopher S. Celenza
RRP: €45.21€36.85Christopher Celenza is one of the foremost contemporary scholars of the Renaissance. His ambitious new book focuses on the body of knowledge which we now call the humanities, charting its roots in the Italian Renaissance and exploring its development up... -
The Year of the Rabbit by Tian Veasna 9781770463769
RRP: €29.75€20.27Year of the Rabbit tells the true story of one family s desperate struggle to survive the murderous reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. In 1975, the Khmer Rouge seizes power in the capital city of Phnom Penh. Immediately after declaring victory in the... -
The China Paradox: At the Front Line of Economic Transformation Paul G. Clifford 9781501515743
RRP: €29.16€22.66Featured as Book of the Week by The Wire China in August 2020! If your business has anything to do with China or you simply seek to understand the rise of China, you need to read this book. In The China Paradox, business strategist and historian... -
Asian Place, Filipino Nation: A Global Intellectual History of the Philippine Revolution, 1887-1912 by Nicole Cuunjieng Aboitiz
RRP: €35.70€27.72The Philippine Revolution of 1896-1905, which began against Spain and continued against the United States, took place in the context of imperial subjugation and local resistance across Southeast Asia. Yet scholarship on the revolution and the turn of the... -
What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China by Tobie Meyer-Fong
RRP: €28.55€25.18The Taiping Rebellion was one of the costliest civil wars in human history. Many millions of people lost their lives. Yet while the Rebellion has been intensely studied by scholars in China and elsewhere, we still know little of how individuals coped... -
The Mongols and Global History by Morris Rossabi 9780393927115
€22.56The volume opens with a brief original essay by Morris Rossabi, one of the world's foremost scholars on the Mongols. Rossabi's essay gives a historical and interpretive overview of the Mongols and charts their invasions and subsequent rule over the... -
Essays in Indian History: Towards a Marxist Perception by Irfan Habib 9781843310259
RRP: €23.79€23.69This volume brings together, for the first time, several of Professor Habib's essays, representing three decades of scholarship and providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history from the standpoint of Marxist... -
The Untold History of Ramen: How Political Crisis in Japan Spawned a Global Food Craze by George Solt 9780520282353
RRP: €35.70€27.72A rich, salty, and steaming bowl of ramen noodle soup climbed its way onto the international culinary scene and, from Tokyo to New York, is now a symbol of the cultural prowess of Japanese cuisine. In this highly original account of geopolitics and... -
The Tibetan Nun Mingyur Peldroen: A Woman of Power and Privilege by Alison Melnick Dyer
RRP: €33.31€28.73Born to a powerful family and educated at the prominent Mindroeling Monastery, the Tibetan Buddhist nun and teacher Mingyur Peldroen (1699-1769) leveraged her privileged status and overcame significant adversity, including exile during a civil war, to...