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Assassination - in Japanese, ansatsu or "dark murder" - was instrumental in the samurai-led revolution known as the Meiji Restoration, by which the shogun's military government was overthrown and the Imperial monarchy restored in 1868. The ideology and...

This comprehensive guide to the appreciation and appraisal of the blades of Japanese swords still offers an English translation of a definitive Japanese text on the subject. Taking the practical historical approach, it discusses each tradition, examining...

Sarnath has long been regarded as the place where the Buddha preached his first sermon and established the Buddhist monastic order. Excavations at Sarnath have yielded the foundations of temples and monastic dwellings, two Buddhist reliquary mounds...

Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal, environmental, and agro-economic aspects of tea production...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780834803800Author Mark SchillingFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Weatherhill IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams) 591g

Fountainhead of Jihad is the first in-depth study of the history, links, and organisational logic of the Haqqani network. Drawing upon a wealth of previously unresearched primary sources in many languages, the authors shed much new light on a group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881762115Author Graham EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint China Economic Review PublishingPublisher China Economic Review Publishing

Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all...

Image Text Music by writer and editor Catherine Taylor is a series of textual and photographic essays that explore our encounters with the place where the visual meets the verbal. Taylor riffs on and subverts Roland Barthes' classic 1977 essay...

A 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...

Featuring dozens of high-quality photographs, schematic designs and insightful commentary this Japanese architecture book is a must-have for architects or collectors.The past five years are widely considered to have been the most innovative period in...

Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to...

For fans of Julia Baird's Phosphorescence, Sarah Wilson's This One Wild and Precious Life or Leigh Sales' Any Ordinary Day comes an unforgettable and poignant exploration of the healing power of nature. 'A tender, touching and at times bloody funny...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735221178Author Jack WeatherfordFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Central China, 1264. When Mongol armies storm into the Middle Kingdom, the descendents of Yun Cai (Taming Poison Dragons) are trapped in a desperate siege that will determine the fate of the Empire. Guang and Shih are identical twins, one a heroic...

In the mid-1910s, what historians call the "Golden Age ofChinese Capitalism" began, accompanied by a technologicaltransformation that included the drastic expansion of China's"Gutenberg revolution." Gutenberg in Shanghaiexamines this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512500Author Michael Fredholm von EssenFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

When the crucial years after the Korean War are remembered today, histories about North Korea largely recount a grand epic of revolution centering on the ascent of Kim Il Sung to absolute power. Often overshadowed in this storyline, however, are the...

Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women"). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this...

"Well-researched... a welcome guide." The Spectator "Reliable and lucid." History Today With a fractured geography and complex identity, The Philippines is an eclectic and unique mix of culture, environment, people and politics. Known mostly for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805086645Author John PomfretFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Soon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask...

This extensively researched and elegantly written study offers a fine-grained analysis of the origins of the Chinese Communist Revolution in the countryside. Building on decades of research in newly available sources and multiple trips to Jiangxi,...

Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation myth-told here for the very first time in illustrated form. In the beginning there was nothing-a void. Then the heavens and the earth took shape, as the ancient gods of Japan breathed the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578890463Author Connie ShakespearFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Highlander PressPublisher Highlander PressWeight(grams) 336g

Despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia, the Kingdom of Thailand-or Siam, as it was formerly known-has succeeded in transforming itself into a rival modern nation-state over the last two centuries. Recent historiography...

In 1931, China suffered a catastrophic flood that claimed millions of lives. This was neither a natural nor human-made disaster. Rather, it was created by an interaction between the environment and society. Regular inundation had long been an integral...

Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people from all areas of society - from capitalists and...

A 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...

Post-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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788691994Author John Grant RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Camphor Press LtdPublisher Camphor Press LtdWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791424001Author Nancy G. HumeFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

An excavation of the sociocultural, economic, and political history of everyday commoditiesThe growth of markets and consumerism in China's post-Mao era of political and economic reform is a story familiar to many. By contrast, the Mao period...

This updated version of a fantastic account of Chinese culture and civilization provides analysis of notable historical documents, social records, and laws.Setting the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses, the newly expanded...

Compiled in the second century B.C.E, the Huainanzi clarifies a crucial period in the development of Chinese conceptions of the cosmos, human nature, and the social order. Outlining "all that a modern monarch needs to know," the text emphasizes rigorous...

Created in 1945 when Korea was partitioned, North Korea or the Democratic People's Republic of Korea remains the world's most secretive nation. Even the few permitted visitors are tightly monitored by minders, so accounts of those who have escaped are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162972Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm)...

Mao Zedong's land reform campaigns comprise a critical moment in modern Chinese history, and were crucial to the rise of the CCP. In Land Wars, Brian DeMare draws on new archival research to offer an updated and comprehensive history of this attempt to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143122166Author Steve InskeepFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 140mm...