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A History of China by Morris Rossabi
RRP: $92.30$81.52Discover the complexity of China's past with this multi-faceted portrayal of the storied nation from a leading expert in the field The newly revised Second Edition of A History of China delivers a comprehensive treatment of the political, economic,... -
ASEAN's Half Century: A Political History of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations by Donald E. Weatherbee 9781442272521
RRP: $73.50$65.00This authoritative book provides a comprehensive political history of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the ten members of which are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam... -
The Politics of the Governed: Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World by Partha Chatterjee 9780231130639
RRP: $52.50$41.14Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new... -
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in China: From the Neolithic Age to Present by Ping Yao
RRP: $75.58$66.55Women, Gender and Sexuality in China: A Brief History serves as a focal textbook for undergraduate courses on women, gender, and sexuality in Chinese history. Thematically structured, it surveys important aspects of gender systems and gender practices... -
Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India by Tripurdaman Singh 9781350384385
RRP: $42.00$32.17Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Award 2020 On 26th January 1950 India became a republic, shedding its last links with its colonial past and inaugurating a new era of liberty and freedom. With fundamental rights and civil liberties guaranteed by the... -
Constructive Bloodbath in Indonesia: The United States, Great Britain and the Mass Killings of 1965-1966 by Nathaniel Mehr 9780851247670
RRP: $33.60$32.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780851247670Author Nathaniel MehrFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Spokesman BooksPublisher Spokesman BooksDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 4mm -
The Epic of Ram, Volume 3 by Tulsidas
RRP: $62.90$49.69The authoritative new translation of the epic Ramayana, as retold by the sixteenth-century poet Tulsidas and cherished by millions to this day.The Epic of Ram presents a new translation of the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1543-1623). Written in Avadhi, a... -
Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo by Janet Borland 9780674247833
RRP: $56.60$44.96Japan, as recent history has powerfully illustrated, is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. Today it is also one of the best prepared to face such seismic risk. This was not always the case.Earthquake Children is the first book to examine... -
History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth by Paul A. Cohen 9780231106511
RRP: $73.50$59.09A comprehensive look at the Boxer Rebellion of 1898-1900, a bloody uprising in north China against native Christians and foreign missionaries.Cohen pares the overlays of historical accounts of the Boxers down to their constituent parts as myth and lived... -
Military Culture in Imperial China by Nicola Di Cosmo 9780674060722
$58.23This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government,... -
The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics by Ayesha Jalal
$44.69Established as a homeland for India's Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious... -
Jack of All Trades: An American Advisor's War in Vietnam, 1969-70 by Ronald L. Beckett 9780811717540
RRP: $31.48$27.36Maj. Ron Beckett had already served two tours in Vietnam when he received orders to return in April 1969. As the district senior advisor in the remote, rural Dinh Quan District of Long Khanh Province, he would face a demanding and dangerous assignment on... -
Chinese Festivals by Liming Wei 9780521186599
RRP: $41.98$31.98One of the most distinctive features of Chinese culture is the great variety of unique festivals that has evolved over the course of China's long history. Chinese festivals are deeply rooted in popular tradition and despite China's many changes they... -
Indonesia: Peoples and Histories by Jean Gelman Taylor 9780300105186
RRP: $52.50$51.11Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world. It comprises more than 17,000 islands inhabited by 230 million people who speak over 300 different languages. Now the world's largest Muslim nation, Indonesia remains extraordinarily heterogeneous due... -
The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 by Kyle J. Gardner
RRP: $65.08$53.45Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepot of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri archival sources. In so doing, he provides both a history... -
The Chinese People at War: Human Suffering and Social Transformation, 1937-1945 by Diana Lary 9780521144100
RRP: $48.28$37.57Diana Lary, one of the foremost historians of the period, tells the tragic history of China's War of Resistance and its consequences from the perspective of those who went through it. Using archival evidence only recently made available, interviews with... -
Making Enemies: War and State Building in Burma by Mary P. Callahan
RRP: $54.58$47.23The Burmese army took political power in Burma in 1962 and has ruled the country ever since. The persistence of this government-even in the face of long-term nonviolent opposition led by activist Aung San Suu Kyi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in... -
Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations Since Chinggis Khan by Timothy Brook
RRP: $65.10$63.40Contemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes,... -
Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture by James McHugh 9780199916320
RRP: $109.20$68.82James McHugh offers the first comprehensive examination of the concepts and practices related to smell in pre-modern India. Drawing on a wide range of textual sources, from poetry to medical texts, he shows the deeply significant religious and cultural... -
Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830-1920 by Ashutosh Kumar 9781107147959
RRP: $167.98$152.38This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the... -
The Cambridge Companion to Gandhi by Judith M. Brown 9780521133456
RRP: $48.28$41.08Even today, six decades after his assassination in January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi is still revered as the father of the Indian nation. His intellectual and moral legacy, and the example of his life and politics, serve as an inspiration to human rights and... -
Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping - Updated Edition by Richard Baum
RRP: $151.20$118.04For almost two decades after Mao Zedong's death, an epic, no-holds-barred contest was waged in China between orthodox Marxists and reformers. With Deng Xiaoping's strong support, the reformers ultimately won; but they--and China--paid a heavy price... -
Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture by Alessandro Russo
RRP: $54.58$43.76In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases... -
Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery by Andrew G. Walder 9781503635227
RRP: $54.58$43.76Guangxi, a region on China's southern border with Vietnam, has a large population of ethnic minorities and a history of rebellion and intergroup conflict. In the summer of 1968, during the high tide of the Cultural Revolution, it became notorious as the... -
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953 by Charles J. Hanley
RRP: $35.68$27.17Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply destructive conflict. American forces dropped 635,000 tons of bombs over Korea --- more than the entire Pacific campaign of... -
Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook by Wendy Swartz 9780231159876
RRP: $79.80$65.12This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220-589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw... -
The Empires of the Near East and India: Source Studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal Literate Communities by Hani Khafipour
RRP: $88.20$71.48In the early modern world, the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal empires sprawled across a vast swath of the earth, stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The diverse and overlapping literate communities that flourished in... -
Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China by Liz P. Y. Chee 9781478014041
RRP: $50.38$40.30Controversy over the medicinal uses of wild animals in China has erupted around the ethics and efficacy of animal-based drugs, the devastating effect of animal farming on wildlife conservation, and the propensity of these practices to foster zoonotic... -
Dear Knausgaard by Kim Adrian 9781913861384
RRP: $27.28$18.77In a series of warm and often funny letters, Kim Adrian delivers a compelling feminist critique of the 6-volume autobiographical novel My Struggle, by Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgaard.Reviews'Kim Adrian's loving struggle with Knausgaard is the kind... -
Taiwan: A Political History by Denny Roy
RRP: $50.38$43.76This is a history that provides excellent background information for understanding the complexities of the current 'Taiwan problem.'. Foreign Affairs For centuries, various great powers have both exploited and benefited Taiwan, their designs for this... -
Japan in the American Century by Kenneth B. Pyle
RRP: $69.20$56.78No nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt's uncompromising policy of unconditional surrender led to the catastrophic finale of the Asia-Pacific War and the most intrusive international... -
To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark Ravina
$77.97The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It... -
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 by Christopher S. Celenza 9781108970419
RRP: $48.28$41.08Christopher 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... -
Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China: Survival Strategies and Judicial Interventions by Matthew H. Sommer 9780520287037
RRP: $140.70$110.06This book is a study of polyandry, wife-selling, and a variety of related practices in China during the Qing dynasty (1644-1912). By analyzing over 1200 legal cases from local and central court archives, Matthew Sommer explores the functions played by... -
Voyager from Xanadu: Rabban Sauma and the First Journey from China to the West by Morris Rossabi 9780520262379
RRP: $52.50$41.14Toward the end of the thirteenth century, at about the time Marco Polo was being received by the great Khubilai Khan, a Nestorian Christian monk from China called Rabban Sauma was making the reverse journey from the Mongol capital (what is now Beijing)... -
Southeast Asia in World History by Craig Lockard 9780195338119
RRP: $54.58$40.24Here is a brief, well-written, and lively survey of the history of Southeast Asia from ancient times to the present, paying particular attention to the region's role in world history and the distinctive societies that arose in lands shaped by green... -
Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables by B. R. Ambedkar 9780231195850
RRP: $52.50$41.14One of twentieth-century India's great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace... -
Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall
RRP: $48.28$41.08The aim of Bengal: The British Bridgehead is to explain how, in the eighteenth century, Britain established her rule in eastern India, the first part of the subcontinent to be incorporated into the British Empire. Though the British were not in firm... -
Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
RRP: $81.90$71.65Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548-1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE-220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers-the Nile and... -
The Chinese World Order by John King Fairbank 9780674333475
$115.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674333475Author John King FairbankFormat HardbackPage Count 426Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 780g