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Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality by Vera Mackie 9780521527194
RRP: $83.98$69.85Feminism in Modern Japan is an original and path-breaking book which traces the history of feminist thought and women's activism in Japan from the late nineteenth century to the present. The author offers a fascinating account of those who struck out... -
Fire in Afghanistan 1914-1929: The First Opening to the West Undone by Tribal Ferocity Years Before the Taliban by Rhea Talley Stewart 9780595093199
RRP: $62.98$50.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595093199Author Rhea Talley StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 1012gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm *... -
China in Transformation: 1900-1949 by Colin Mackerras 9781405840583
$75.05The first half of the 20th century was a fascinating and tragic period for China. There were accomplishments, such as the strengthening economy, the improvements in the education system and the status of women, but these were overshadowed by continuing... -
Six Chapters from My Life "Downunder" by Yang Jiang 9780295966441
RRP: $33.58$29.90By now the world is familiar with the disastrous consequences of the ten year period (1966-1976) in China's history known as the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. The mistakes of Mao Zedong's later years have been officially acknowledged, and the... -
Red Star over China by Edgar Snow 9780802150936
RRP: $31.48$29.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802150936Author Edgar SnowFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly... -
Japan before Perry: A Short History, 25th Anniversary Edition by Conrad Totman 9780520254077
RRP: $63.00$49.75By 1853 Japan had been transformed from a sparsely populated land of nonliterate tribal peoples into an elaborately structured commercial society sustaining massive cities and a varied array of sophisticated cultural production. In this authoritative... -
The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays: Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century by Steven D. Carter 9780231167710
RRP: $79.80$63.86A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu-a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing... -
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Volume 2, Expansion and Crisis by Anthony Reid 9780300065169
RRP: $63.00$62.27Between the fifteenth and the mid-seventeenth centuries, when the Renaissance and early capitalism were transforming Europe, changes no less dramatic were occurring in Southeast Asia. This diverse tropical region was integrated into a global trade... -
Nomadic Narratives: A History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert by Tanuja Kothiyal 9781107080317
RRP: $144.88$129.49The Thar Desert, which is today divided by an international boundary, has historically been a frontier region connecting Punjab, Multan, Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. This book looks at the Desert as an historical region shaped through the mobility of... -
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia by Robert Carmichael 9781472143747
RRP: $42.00$8.21'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'Jon Swain, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time'Like Auschwitz, like Stalin's purges, the mass murders of the Khmer Rouge are one of those... -
English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China by James L. Hevia
RRP: $50.38$44.60Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in the wake of multipower invasions of China in 1860 and... -
Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China by Joshua Fogel
RRP: $52.50$41.14China's increasing prominence on the global stage has caused consternation and controversy among Western thinkers, especially since the financial crisis of 2008. But what do Chinese intellectuals themselves have to say about their country's newfound... -
Dear China: Emigrant Letters and Remittances, 1820-1980 by Gregor Benton 9780520298439
RRP: $63.00$48.91Qiaopi is one of several names given to the "silver letters" Chinese emigrants sent home in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the Chinese diaspora in different parts of the world and in... -
China and the International System, 1840-1949: Power, Presence, and Perceptions in a Century of Humiliation by David Scott 9780791476284
RRP: $56.64$50.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791476284Author David ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 371Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Indian Troops in Europe by Santanu Das 9788189995478
RRP: $50.40$43.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189995478Author Santanu DasFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Mapin Publishing Pvt.LtdPublisher Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd -
The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915-1952 by Reto Hofmann 9781501748486
RRP: $41.98$36.83In The Fascist Effect, Reto Hofmann uncovers the ideological links that tied Japan to Italy, drawing on extensive materials from Japanese and Italian archives to shed light on the formation of fascist history and practice in Japan and beyond. Moving... -
Japan faces the World, 1925-1952 by Mary L. Hanneman 9780582368989
RRP: $92.38$88.75By 1925 the process of Japan's transition to a modern industrialised, westernised state was pretty much complete. Not only had the imperial tradition been restored with the Meiji Restoration in 1868, but some forms of democratic parliamentary... -
Gentlemanly Terrorists: Political Violence and the Colonial State in India, 1919-1947 by Durba Ghosh
RRP: $56.68$47.88In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' used assassinations, bomb attacks, and armed robberies... -
Beastly Encounters of the Raj: Livelihoods, Livestock and Veterinary Health in North India, 1790-1920 by Saurabh Mishra
RRP: $178.50$126.36This is the first full-length monograph to examine the history of colonial medicine in India from the perspective of veterinary health. The history of human health in the subcontinent has received a fair amount of attention in the last few decades, but... -
Heart Like a Fakir: General Sir James Abbott and the Fall of the East India Company by Chris Mason 9781538169568
RRP: $195.30$171.78Heart Like a Fakir is a history of the final forty years of British East India Company rule in India as witnessedby General Sir James Abbott (1807-1896), the man for whom the Pakistani town of Abbottabad is named. Based on extensive research intoprimary... -
China: An Environmental History by Robert B. Marks 9781442277885
RRP: $84.00$74.80This deeply informed and clearly written text provides a comprehensive and comprehensible history of China from prehistory to the present. Now updated to include recent political events and scientific research, the book focuses on the interaction of... -
The Modern Uzbeks: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present: A Cultural History by Edward A. Allworth
RRP: $52.40$50.88In this study of the modern Uzbeks, Professor Edward A. Allworth provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of an important group of Muslim people who live within the boundaries of the Soviet Union. After the Russians and the Ukranians, the... -
How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani
RRP: $71.38$59.60How India Became Democratic explores the greatest experiment in democratic human history. It tells the untold story of the preparation of the electoral roll on the basis of universal adult franchise in the world's largest democracy. Ornit Shani offers a... -
Guardians of Shi'ism: Sacred Authority and Transnational Family Networks by Elvire Corboz
RRP: $60.88$56.51Based on a political sociology of two families of religious scholars, al-Hakim and al-Khu'i, Elvire Corboz explains the internal workings of transnational leadership patterns in Shi`ism for the first time. Corboz compares the multifaceted roles played by... -
The agrarian crisis in India before independence: toward its solution by Kundan Misra 9780980532029
RRP: $20.79$17.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980532029Author Rajani Palme DuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Gambol BooksPublisher Gambol BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *... -
The Making of the Modern Philippines: Pieces of a Jigsaw State by Philip Bowring 9781350427884
RRP: $31.48$30.11"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... -
Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945 by Chalmers A. Johnson
RRP: $50.38$43.76A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804700740Author Chalmers A. JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 363g -
War and Faith: Ikko Ikki in Late Muromachi Japan by Carol Richmond Tsang 9780674025097
RRP: $71.30$58.40During the sengoku era-the period of "warring provinces" in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Japan-warlords vied for supremacy and sought to expand their influence over the realm. Powerful religious institutions also asserted their military might by... -
China in the World: Culture, Politics, and World Vision by Ban Wang
RRP: $44.08$38.58In China in the World, Ban Wang traces the evolution of modern China from the late nineteenth century to the present. With a focus on tensions and connections between national formation and international outlooks, Wang shows how ancient visions persist... -
Manual Of Standard Tibetan by Sangda Dorje
RRP: $153.30$119.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559391894Author Nicolas TournadreFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Snow Lion PublicationsPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times, 20th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface by Morris Rossabi 9780520261327
RRP: $63.00$48.91Living from 1215 to 1294, Khubilai Khan is one of history's most renowned figures. Morris Rossabi draws on sources from a variety of East Asian, Middle Eastern, and European languages as he focuses on the life and times of the great Mongol monarch. This... -
Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China's Modern Icon by E. Elena Songster
RRP: $50.38$45.49A logo on products ranging from chopsticks and toilet paper to cell phones and automobiles, the panda is one of the most ubiquitous images in China and throughout the world. Yet the panda holds little notable historical significance in China. Although it... -
The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt
RRP: $65.08$53.45In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, courtliness was crucial to the political and cultural life of the Deccan. Divided between six states competing for territory, resources and skills, the medieval and early modern Deccan was a region of... -
A Concise History of Modern Korea: From the Late Nineteenth Century to the Present by Michael J. Seth 9781538129043
RRP: $79.80$70.37Now in a fully revised and updated edition including new primary sources and illustrations, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political issues it has faced since being catapulted into the wider... -
The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition by Sunil Khilnani 9780374537623
RRP: $44.10$27.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537623Author Sunil KhilnaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phuntso Wangye by Melvyn C. Goldstein 9780520249929
RRP: $50.40$39.54This is the as-told-to political autobiography of Phuntso Wangye (Phunwang), one of the most important Tibetan revolutionary figures of the twentieth century. Phunwang began his activism in school, where he founded a secret Tibetan Communist Party. He... -
The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel
RRP: $48.28$42.02In The Nation's Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality. Demonstrating a new direction for historical... -
India and South Asia: A Short History by David Ludden
RRP: $23.08$17.33Combining factual information with a critical approach which probes the nature of culture and identity, this concise yet authoritative account paints a graphic picture of an area stretching from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayan mountains. This new... -
Landing in Hell: The Pyrrhic Victory of the First Marine Division on Peleliu, 1944 by Peter Margaritis 9781612006451
RRP: $52.50$43.95On September 15, 1944, the United States, in its effort to defeat the Japanese Empire, invaded a tiny island named Peleliu, located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. This island chain lay in the main line of the American advance eastward. The... -
Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family by Jennifer Lin 9781538121276
RRP: $41.98$36.98Within the next decade, China could be home to more Christians than any country in the world. Through the 150-year saga of a single family, this book vividly dramatizes the remarkable religious evolution of the world's most populous nation. Shanghai...