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Japan and the Shackles of the Past by R.Taggart Murphy 9780199845989
RRP: $48.73$36.89Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India by Ali Raza
RRP: $48.73$43.62In this engaging and innovative history of the communist movement in colonial India, Ali Raza reveals the lives, geographies, and anti-colonial struggles of Indian revolutionaries and how they sought to remake the world. Driven by the utopian visions of... -
In the Ruins of Empire: The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia by Ronald H Spector 9780812967326
RRP: $33.13$25.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812967326Author Ronald SpectorFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Times BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 335gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Ganges: The Many Pasts of an Indian River by Sudipta Sen 9780300119169
RRP: $53.63$45.42A sweeping, interdisciplinary history of the world's third-largest river, a potent symbol across South Asia and the Hindu diaspora Originating in the Himalayas and flowing into the Bay of Bengal, the Ganges is India's most important and sacred river... -
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India by Sylvia Houghteling
RRP: $117.00$97.70A richly illustrated history of textiles in the Mughal EmpireIn the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a vast array of textiles circulated throughout the Mughal Empire. Made from rare fibers and crafted using virtuosic techniques, these exquisite... -
The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
RRP: $185.25$165.20The Cambridge Illustrated History of China is an illuminating account of the full sweep of Chinese civilisation - from prehistoric times to the intellectual ferment of the Warring States Period, through the rise and fall of the imperial dynasties, to the... -
Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
RRP: $50.68$46.86The films of Akira Kurosawa have had an immense effect on the way the Japanese have viewed themselves as a nation and on the way the West has viewed Japan. In this comprehensive and theoretically informed study of the influential director's cinema,... -
Slavery and South Asian History by Indrani Chatterjee
RRP: $42.88$38.20"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery. . . . [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." -Edward A. Alpers, UCLADespite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the... -
Seppuku: A History Of Samurai Suicide by Andrew Rankin
RRP: $33.13$22.50A collection of thrilling samurai tales tracing the history of seppuku from ancient times to the twentieth century. The history of seppuku -- Japanese ritual suicide by cutting the stomach, sometimes referred to as hara-kiri -- spans a millennium, and... -
Japan Blue Indigo Dyeing Techniques: A Beginner's Guide to Shibori Tie-Dyeing by Piggy Tsujioka
RRP: $31.18$22.09Discover the fun of shibori and the beauty of indigo dyeing in one book!This book presents a new spin on the beloved Japanese art of Shibori resist tie-dying using 100% natural indigo dyes and simple techniques that you can do at home.Add artistic... -
The Qing Dynasty: A Captivating Guide to the History of China's Last Empire Called the Great Qing, Including Events Such as the Fall of Beijing, Opium Wars, and Taiping Rebellion by Captivating History 9781647482428
RRP: $38.94$24.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647482428Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
The Opium Wars: A Captivating Guide to the First and Second Opium War and Their Impact on the History of the United Kingdom and China by Captivating History 9781647489083
RRP: $35.04$22.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647489083Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm)... -
Rascals in Paradise by James A Michener
RRP: $29.48$22.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812986860Author James A. MichenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Dial Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 374gDimensions(mm)... -
The Sewing Circles of Herat: A Personal Voyage Through Afghanistan by Christina Lamb 9780060505271
RRP: $35.08$23.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060505271Author Christina LambFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Harper PerennialPublisher Harper PerennialWeight(grams) 340g -
Target China: How Washington & Wall Street Plan to Cage the Asian Dragon by F. William Engdahl
RRP: $44.83$27.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615772278Author F William EngdahlFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Progressive PressPublisher Progressive PressWeight(grams) 400g -
Cloth that Changed the World: The Art and Fashion of Indian Chintz by Sarah Fee
RRP: $68.25$62.34The story of India's exuberantly colored textiles that made their mark on design, technology, and trade around the world Chintz, a type of multicolored printed or painted cotton cloth, originated in India yet exerted influence far beyond its home shores:... -
The Killing Season: A History of the Indonesian Massacres, 1965-66 by Geoffrey B. Robinson 9780691161389
RRP: $68.25$56.04The Killing Season explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century--the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, leaving some five hundred thousand... -
Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature in the Mekong Delta by David Andrew Biggs
RRP: $46.78$40.64Winner of the 2012 George Perkins Marsh Prize for Best Book in Environmental HistoryIn the twentieth century, the Mekong Delta has emerged as one of Vietnam's most important economic regions. Its swamps, marshes, creeks, and canals have played a major... -
The Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation by Alex Dehgan
RRP: $42.90$33.40Post-war Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary biologist Alex Deghan came to Afghanistan and created a startup, Conservation X Labs, to save Afghanistan's unique and extraordinary... -
Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China by Craig Clunas 9780824828202
RRP: $46.70$44.48This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes ""superfluous things"" - the paintings, calligraphy, bronzes, ceramics,... -
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the 21st Century by Giovanni Arrighi
$58.25In the late eighteenth century, the political economist Adam Smith predicted an eventual equalization of power between the West and the territories it had conquered. In this magisterial new work, Giovanni Arrighi shows how China's extraordinary rise... -
The North-West Frontier (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa): Essays in History by Sultan-i-Rome 9780190707903
RRP: $33.13$30.46The book covers a variety of topics about the Frontier (Khyber Pukhtunkhwa) and its people. It outlines the geography of the province and describes the three major theories about the origin of the Pukhtuns and recounts the Pukhtun code of life-Pukhtu... -
The Call by Mack Wilberg 9780193550759
$6.08for SATB (with divisions) and organ or orchestra This affecting setting of the well-known poem from George Herbert's The Temple features rich harmonies and sweeping melodies to create a work of depth and poignancy. The piece begins with an instrumental... -
Equity, Evaluation, and International Cooperation: In Pursuit of Proximate Peers in an African City by Gabriella Carolini 9780192865489
RRP: $161.85$146.91Is South-South Cooperation (SSC) any different from other international partnerships in practice? While straightforward, this question often gets lost in conventional scholarship on SSC and international cooperation, which privileges macro-level... -
Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India by Sujata Patel 9780190132019
RRP: $111.15$100.39This volume brings together scholarship from different disciplines on the theme of neoliberalism. Contemporary neoliberal economic policy, it argues has increased inequalities and exclusions while providing opportunities to the upper sections of the... -
Ganbare!: Workshops on Dying by Katarzyna Boni 9781948830423
RRP: $25.33$20.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948830423Author Katarzyna BoniFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Open LetterPublisher Open Letter -
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China by Frank Dikotter 9780231113700
$150.25In 1995 the People's Republic of China passed a controversial Eugenics Law, which, after a torrent of international criticism, was euphemistically renamed the Maternal and Infant Health Law. Aimed at "the implementation of premarital medical checkups" to... -
South Korea at the Crossroads: Autonomy and Alliance in an Era of Rival Powers by Scott A. Snyder 9780231185486
$72.03Against the backdrop of China's mounting influence and North Korea's growing nuclear capability and expanding missile arsenal, South Korea faces a set of strategic choices that will shape its economic prospects and national security. In South Korea at... -
An Encouragement of Learning by Yukichi Fukuzawa 9780231167147
$125.01The intellectual and social theorist Yukichi Fukuzawa wrote An Encouragement of Learning (1872-1876) as a series of pamphlets while completing his critical masterpiece, An Outline of a Theory of Civilization (1875). These closely linked texts illustrate... -
The World Turned Upside Down: Medieval Japanese Society by Pierre Francois Souyri 9780231118422
$193.50In the late twelfth century, Japanese people called the transitional period in which they were living the "age of warriors." Feudal clans fought civil wars, and warriors from the Kanto Plain rose up to restore the military regime of their shogun,... -
Longmen's Stone Buddhas and Cultural Heritage: When Antiquity Met Modernity in China by Dong Wang 9781538141113
RRP: $68.25$60.35This thoroughly researched book provides the first comprehensive history of how a UNESCO World Heritage site on the Central China Plain, Longmen's caves and the Buddhist statuary of Luoyang, was rediscovered in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries... -
Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879-2000 by Tze May Loo 9781498550536
RRP: $83.85$73.67Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorporation into Modern Japan, 1879-2000 is a study of Okinawa's incorporation into a subordinate position in the Japanese nation-state, and the role that cultural heritage, especially Okinawa's iconic... -
An Object of Seduction: Chinese Silk in the Early Modern Trans-Pacific Trade, 1500-1950 by Xiaolin Duan 9781793614902
RRP: $157.95$138.57In 1573, 712 bales of Chinese silk arrived in New Spain in the cargos of two Manila galleons. The emergence and the subsequent rapid development of this trans-Pacific silk trade reflected the final formation of the global circulation network. The first... -
The Beijing Young Women's Christian Association, 1927-1937: Materializing a Gendered Modernity by Aihua Zhang 9781793608147
RRP: $157.95$138.57By exploring the interplay among gender, religion, and modernity, this book exposes the part Chinese Christian women played in China's quest for a strong nation in general and in Republican Beijing's modern transformation in particular. Focusing on the... -
Citizen Refugee: Forging the Indian Nation after Partition by Uditi Sen 9781108425612
RRP: $175.50$158.79This innovative study explores the interface between nation-building and refugee rehabilitation in post-partition India. Relying on archival records and oral histories, Uditi Sen analyses official policy towards Hindu refugees from eastern Pakistan to... -
The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200-2000 by Cynthia Talbot 9781107118560
RRP: $175.50$158.79This fascinating new study traces traditions and memories relating to the twelfth-century Indian ruler Prithviraj Chauhan; a Hindu king who was defeated and overthrown during the conquest of Northern India by Muslim armies from Afghanistan. Surveying a... -
Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939 by Alvin D. Coox
$144.79From May to September 1939 Japan and the Soviet Union fought a fierce, large-scale undeclared war on the Mongolian plains that ended with a decisive Soviet victory with two important results: Japan reoriented its strategic emphasis towards the south,... -
Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950 by Claude Markovits
RRP: $224.25$204.73The idea of an 'eternal India', based on stable and unchanging villages, has been in disarray for at least two decades. However, having demolished this myth, historians have been rather less able to construct an alternative vision. This volume sets out... -
The Cultural Revolution on Trial: Mao and the Gang of Four by Alexander C. Cook 9780521135290
RRP: $48.73$41.30The trial of Cultural Revolution leaders, including Mao's widow and her Gang of Four, was the signal event in China's post-Mao transition. In its wake, Chinese socialism emerged from the rubble of the Cultural Revolution to create the China that we know... -
A History of Nepal by John Whelpton 9780521800266
RRP: $146.25$120.84Nepal emerged as a unified state over two hundred years ago, centred on the Kathmandu Valley with its two thousand years of urban civilisation. While John Whelpton's history focuses on the period since the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in...