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The History Wars by Stuart Macintyre 9780522851281
RRP: £25.95£12.61The nation's history has probably never been more politicised than it is today. Politicians, journalists, columnists, academics and Australians from all walks of life argue passionately - and often, ideologically - about the significance of the national... -
Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament by E. Perry Link 9780393310658
RRP: £23.50£19.56Chinese intellectuals have a traditional duty, for which there is no equivalent in the West: to worry, to "take responsibility for all under heaven," to argue the question "What can we do with China?" In this "utterly absorbing gem of a book" (Library... -
A History of Modern Tibet, volume 2: The Calm before the Storm: 1951-1955 by Melvyn C. Goldstein 9780520259959
RRP: £36.00£28.89It is not possible to fully understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened - and why - during the 1950s. In a book that continues the story of Tibet's history that he began in his acclaimed "A... -
The Habsburg Monarchy c.1765-1918: From Enlightenment to Eclipse by Robin Okey
£39.11The multi-national Habsburg empire has never lost its fascination since its fall in 1918. Robin Okey's book shows how the Habsburg peoples experienced the same social, economic and political processes as most other Europeans, in ways that cast... -
March Was Made of Yarn: Reflections on the Japanese Earthquake, Tsunami, and Nuclear Meltdown by Elmer Luke 9780307948861
RRP: £14.99£12.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307948861Author Elmer LukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 204g -
India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885 by Douglas M. Peers 9780582317383
RRP: £36.99£35.74Between 1700 and 1885 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and... -
China in War and Revolution, 1895-1949 by Peter G. Zarrow 9780415364485
RRP: £39.99£35.46Providing historical insights essential to the understanding of contemporary China, this text presents a nation's story of trauma and growth during the early twentieth century. It explains how China's defeat by Japan in 1895 prompted an explosion of... -
Print and the Urdu Public: Muslims, Newspapers, and Urban Life in Colonial India by Megan Eaton Robb 9780190089375
RRP: £97.00£72.17In early twentieth century British India, prior to the arrival of digital medias and after the rise of nationalist political movements, a small-town paper from the margins of society became a key player in Urdu journalism. Published in the isolated... -
India After Naxalbari: Unfinished History by Bernard D'Mello 9781583677063
RRP: £22.00£17.98"The armed rebellion of poor peasants that began fifty years ago in Naxalbari, India, continues to this day. Bernard D'Mello sets out the story of its origins and uneven development, in historical context. The armed struggle lives on because the... -
Gandhi's Way: A Handbook of Conflict Resolution by Mark Juergensmeyer 9780520244979
RRP: £25.00£19.59Gandhi's Way provides a primer of Mahatma Gandhi's principles of moral action and conflict resolution and offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach that can be used in any conflict - -at home or in business; in local, national, or international... -
This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History - Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by T. R. Fehrenbach
RRP: £25.99£21.73Updated with maps, photographs, and battlefield diagrams, this special fiftieth anniversary edition of the classic history of the Korean War is a dramatic and hard-hitting account of the conflict written from the perspective of those who fought it... -
America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations by Warren I. Cohen 9780231191999
RRP: £30.00£23.29America's Response to China has long been the standard resource for a succinct, historically grounded assessment of an increasingly complicated relationship. Written by one of America's leading diplomatic historians, this book analyzes the concerns and... -
Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism by Koichi Iwabuchi
RRP: £21.99£19.19Globalization is usually thought of as the worldwide spread of Western-particularly American-popular culture. Yet if one nation stands out in the dissemination of pop culture in East and Southeast Asia, it is Japan. Pokemon, anime, pop music, television... -
Decisive Encounters: The Chinese Civil War, 1946-1950 by Odd Arne Westad
RRP: £24.99£21.67The Chinese Civil War was one of the key conflicts of the twentieth century. The Communist victory determined Chinese history for several generations, and defined international relations in East Asia during the Cold War and after. Despite its importance... -
Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy by Sugata Bose
RRP: £33.99£30.00The fifth edition of Modern South Asia draws on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field to interpret and debate key developments in modern South Asian history and historical writing, covering the diverse spectrum of the subcontinent's... -
Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood by Martin Booth 9780312426262
RRP: £24.00£15.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312426262Author Martin BoothFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)... -
Land of Strangers: The Civilizing Project in Qing Central Asia by Eric Schluessel
RRP: £30.00£23.29At the close of the nineteenth century, near the end of the Qing empire, Confucian revivalists from central China gained control of the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, or East Turkestan. There they undertook a program to transform Turkic-speaking... -
Challenging China: Smart Strategies to Encourage China's Liberalization in the Xi Jinping Era by Sam Kaplan
£10.95Expertly researched and thought-out, yet approachable and witty, this book will immediately draw in anyone interested in global affairs, foreign policy and the future of America's role on the world stage.This book provides a fascinating insider's look at... -
The Educational Heritage of Ancient India: How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste by Sahana Singh 9781947586529
RRP: £10.00£8.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947586529Author Sahana SinghFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Dharma: The Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh Traditions of India by Veena R Howard
£25.15Dharma is central to all the major religious traditions which originated on the Indian subcontinent. Such is its importance that these traditions cannot adequately be understood apart from it. Often translated as "ethics," "religion," "law," or "social... -
Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History by David Gilmartin 9780520355538
RRP: £34.00£26.97The Indus basin was once an arid pastoral watershed, but by the second half of the twentieth century, it had become one of the world's most heavily irrigated and populated river basins. Launched under British colonial rule in the nineteenth century, this... -
The Columbia Guide to Modern Chinese History by R. Keith Schoppa
RRP: £80.00£62.29China, the world's oldest and most populous state, remains an enigma to most people in the West, even at a time when that country is playing an increasingly prominent role on the international stage. At the heart of modern Chinese history have been the... -
The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire by Thomas T. Allsen 9780812251173
RRP: £39.00£34.12In 1221, in what we now call Turkmenistan, a captive held by Mongol soldiers confessed that she had swallowed her pearls in order to safeguard them. She was immediately executed and eviscerated. On finding several pearls, Chinggis Qan (Genghis Khan)... -
Sanyan Stories: Favorites from a Ming Dynasty Collection by Menglong Feng
RRP: £27.99£24.14Presented here are nine tales from the celebrated Ming dynasty Sanyan collection of vernacular stories compiled and edited by Feng Menglong (1574-1646), the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time in China. The stories he... -
North of the DMZ: Essays on Daily Life in North Korea by Andrei Lankov 9780786428397
RRP: £24.99£20.29The Kim dynasty has ruled North Korea for over 60 years. Most of that period has found the country suffering under mature Stalinism characterized by manipulation, brutality and tight social control. Nevertheless, some citizens of Kim Jong Il's regime... -
Samurai: The Unnamed Island by Jean-Francois Di Giorgio
RRP: £13.99£7.10Having escaped from the clutches of the 13th Prophet, Takeo, the young Samurai, is free to continue with his quest to find out who he is. His journey leads him to an unnamed island, where he hopes to find his missing brother. Instead, he finds a place... -
A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta by Tariq Omar Ali 9780691202570
RRP: £28.00£21.80Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed... -
The Philosophy of the Mozi: The First Consequentialists by Chris Fraser 9780231149273
RRP: £35.00£27.74Mohism was an ancient Chinese philosophical movement founded in the fifth century BCE by the charismatic artisan Mozi, or "Master Mo." Its practitioners advanced a consequentialist ethics, along with fascinating political, logical, and epistemological... -
Spymaster: Dai Li and the Chinese Secret Service by Frederic Wakeman, Jr.
RRP: £71.00£56.05The most feared man in China, Dai Li, was chief of Chiang Kai-shek's secret service during World War II. This sweeping biography of 'China's Himmler', based on recently opened intelligence archives, traces Dai's rise from obscurity as a rural hooligan... -
Red Creative: Culture and Modernity in China by Justin O'Connor 9781789382303
RRP: £35.95£31.77This book brings together multiple strands of debate around the cultural creative industries and contemporary capitalism, China’s position in global capitalism, the future of modernity and new ways of thinking about culture and cultural policy. Clearly... -
The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913: Trade, Investment and Production by Sevket Pamuk 9780521130929
RRP: £30.99£23.80Originally published in 1987, this book examines the consequences of the nineteenth-century economic penetration of Europe into the Ottoman Empire. Professor Pamuk makes subtle use of a very wide range of sources encompassing the statistics of most of... -
Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, and Ethics in the Zhuangzi by Paul Kjellberg 9780791428924
£25.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791428924Author Paul KjellbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Everything Is Broken: Life Inside Burma by Emma Larkin
RRP: £8.99£6.08On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, and provided little... -
Karma and Grace: Religious Difference in Millennial Sri Lanka by Neena Mahadev 9780231205290
RRP: £30.00£23.29Around the turn of the millennium, Pentecostal churches began to pepper majority-Buddhist Sri Lanka, setting off a sense of alarm among Buddhists who saw Christianity as a neocolonial threat to the nation. Rumors of foul play in the death of a Buddhist... -
Japan's Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937-1945 by Benjamin Uchiyama
RRP: £30.99£23.80Japan in the Asia-Pacific War years is usually remembered for economic deprivation, political repression, and cultural barrenness. Benjamin Uchiyama argues that although the war created the opportunity for the state to expand its control over society and... -
The Khmer Empire: A Captivating Guide to the Merged Kingdoms of Cambodia That Became the Angkor Empire That Ruled over Most of Mainland Southeast Asia and Parts of Southern China by Captivating History 9781637162880
RRP: £15.97£10.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637162880Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm)... -
Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka by Nira Wickramasinghe
RRP: £30.00£27.39For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri... -
Inked: Tattooed Soldiers and the Song Empire’s Penal-Military Complex by Elad Alyagon
RRP: £41.95£33.60Inked is a social history of common soldiers of the Song Dynasty, most of whom would have been recognized by their tattooed bodies. Overlooked in the historical record, tattoos were an indelible aspect of the Song world, and their ubiquity was tied to... -
Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895-1945: History, Culture, Memory by Ping-hui Liao 9780231137980
RRP: £62.00£48.62The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a... -
The Bhagavata Purana: Selected Readings by Ravi Gupta
RRP: £30.00£23.69Formalized by the tenth century, the expansive Bhagavata Purana resists easy categorization. While the narrative holds together as a coherent literary work, its language and expression compete with the best of Sanskrit poetry. The text's theological...