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To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World History by Mark Ravina
€44.18The 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 Visceral Logics of Decolonization by Neetu Khanna
RRP: €23.79€21.19In The Visceral Logics of Decolonization Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by exploring a knotted set of relations between embodied experience and political feeling that she conceptualizes as the visceral. Khanna focuses on the work of... -
Rivers Divided: Indus Basin Waters in the Making of India and Pakistan by Daniel Haines
RRP: €41.65€37.46The Indus Waters Treaty is considered a key example of India-Pakistan cooperation, but less has been said about its critical influence on state-making in both countries. Rivers Divided reveals the importance of the Indus Basin river system, and thus... -
The Italian Renaissance and the Origins of the Modern Humanities: An Intellectual History, 1400–1800 by Christopher S. Celenza 9781108970419
RRP: €27.36€23.28Christopher 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... -
Southeast Asia in World History by Craig Lockard 9780195338119
RRP: €30.93€22.80Here 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: €29.75€23.31One 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... -
An Urban History of China by Toby Lincoln
RRP: €28.55€24.63In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultural society for thousands of years, China had an imperial urban civilization. Over the last century, this... -
Archiving the Unspeakable: Silence, Memory, and the Photographic Record in Cambodia by Michelle Caswell 9780299297541
€40.40Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years in the late 1970s. The regime's brutality has come to be symbolized by the multitude of black-and-white mug... -
The Steppe and the Sea: Pearls in the Mongol Empire by Thomas T. Allsen 9780812251173
RRP: €46.41€40.92In 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)... -
Bengal: The British Bridgehead: Eastern India 1740-1828 by Prof. P. J. Marshall
RRP: €27.36€23.28The 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... -
Chinese Publishing by Hu Yang 9780521186759
RRP: €23.79€18.12As the birthplace of moveable-type printing, China has some claim to being the homeland of publishing. China's ancient civilisation has nurtured a distinctively Chinese publishing industry, and this industry has done much to spread Chinese ideas and... -
The Anglo-Japanese Alliance, 1902-1922 by Phillips O'Brien
RRP: €64.25€55.78The Anglo-Japanese Alliance was the first formal agreement of its type reached by a Western 'great' power with a non-Caucasian nation in the modern era. As such, it represented an important milestone diplomatically, strategically and culturally. This... -
Behind the Painting: And Other Stories by Siburapha
€21.54This volume brings together Siburapha's most highly acclaimed novel, Behind the Painting, with three short stories highlighting the plight of the underclass: "Those Kind of People," "Lend Us a Hand," and "The Awakening." Behind the Painting is the story... -
Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery by Andrew G. Walder 9781503635227
RRP: €28.55€25.18Guangxi, 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... -
A Different Shade of Colonialism: Egypt, Great Britain, and the Mastery of the Sudan by Eve Troutt Powell
RRP: €35.70€28.16This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general. Eve M. Troutt Powell challenges many accepted tenets of the... -
The Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories by Sumathi Ramaswamy 9780520244405
RRP: €32.13€25.06During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the... -
Endgame: Britain, Russia and the Final Struggle for Central Asia by Jennifer Siegel
€72.72By the early 1900s both Britain and Russia, suspicious of Imperial Germany, decided to stabilize their relations and replace their rivalry in Central Asia - the 'Great Game' - with rapprochement. But as Jennifer Siegel here demonstrates, reality in the... -
Tamils and the Nation: India and Sri Lanka Compared by Madurika Rasaratnam
RRP: €29.75€26.63Why are relations between politically mobilised ethnic identities and the nation-state sometimes peaceful and at other times fraught and violent? Madurika Rasaratnam's book sets out a novel answer to this key puzzle in world politics through a detailed... -
The History of Akbar, Volume 5 by Abu'l-Fazl
RRP: €35.64€29.79The exemplar of Indo-Persian history, at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.Akbarnama, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a... -
Inked: Tattooed Soldiers and the Song Empire’s Penal-Military Complex by Elad Alyagon
RRP: €49.92€40.29Inked 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... -
No Shining Armour: Marines at War in Vietnam - An Oral History by Otto J. Lehrack 9780700605347
€45.23An account of the Vietnam War, as seen by the American PFCs, sergeants and platoon leaders in the rivers and jungles and trenches. Into their stories, Lehrack has woven a narrative that explains the events they describe and places them into both a... -
Brokers of Empire: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1876-1945 by Jun Uchida 9780674492028
RRP: €29.69€24.15Between 1876 and 1945, thousands of Japanese civilians-merchants, traders, prostitutes, journalists, teachers, and adventurers-left their homeland for a new life on the Korean peninsula. Although most migrants were guided primarily by personal profit and... -
The British Raj: A Captivating Guide to the British in India, Starting from the Indian Rebellion of 1857 to the Indian Independence Act of 1947 by Captivating History 9781647488345
RRP: €19.00€13.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647488345Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm)... -
Media, Communication, Culture: A Global Approach James Lull (San Jose State University) 9780745621913
RRP: €21.41€19.39Media, Communication, Culture offers a bold and comprehensive analysis of developments in the field amidst the effects of postmodernism and globalization. James Lull, one of the leading scholars in the discipline, draws from a wide range of social and... -
The Partition of British India: The History and Legacy of the Division of the British Raj into India and Pakistan by Charles River Editors 9781973722144
€9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781973722144Author Charles River EditorsFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpace -
The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China by James C.S. Lin
RRP: €77.35€66.82The Han dynasty was the first to forge a stable empire governing all of China. It ruled during a golden age that shaped much of the nation's cultural history and development. In an effort to preserve their legacy of beauty and power, the Han created... -
Tales of Old Hong Kong by Derek Sandhaus 9789881866721
€16.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789881866721Author Derek SandhausFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint China Economic Review PublishingPublisher China Economic Review Publishing -
Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game by Ali Ahmad Jalali 9780700632633
€80.41Afghanistan: A Military History from the Ancient Empires to the Great Game covers the military history of a region encompassing Afghanistan, Central and South Asia, and West Asia, over some 2,500 years. This is the first comprehensive study in any... -
Saigon at War: South Vietnam and the Global Sixties by Heather Marie Stur
RRP: €29.74€25.61During South Vietnam's brief life as a nation, it exhibited glimmers of democracy through citizen activism and a dynamic press. South Vietnamese activists, intellectuals, students, and professionals had multiple visions for Vietnam's future as an... -
Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries by Jagdish Bhagwati
€18.99In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India's,... -
Readings of the Lotus Sutra by Stephen F. Teiser 9780231142892
RRP: €33.32€25.94The Lotus Sutra proclaims that a unitary intent underlies the diversity of Buddhist teachings and promises that all people without exception can achieve supreme awakening. Establishing the definitive guide to this profound text, specialists in Buddhist... -
Confronting Colonialism: Resistance and Modernization under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan by Irfan Habib 9781843310242
RRP: €20.22€19.93These essays, devoted to the history of Mysore under Haider Ali and Tipu Sultan, underscore the need to defend the memory of two rulers, who were indomitable opponents of the colonial regime; they also emphasize the centrality of Haider Ali and Tipu... -
'My' Self on Camera: First Person Documentary Practice in an Individualising China by Kiki Tianqi Yu 9781474474122
RRP: €26.17€21.72This book problematises how the sense of self and subjectivities are understood in contemporary China, and provides illuminating new insights on the changing notion of the individual through cinema.Book InformationISBN 9781474474122Author Kiki Tianqi... -
China and Her Neighbours: Asian Diplomacy from Ancient History to the Present by Michael Tai 9781786997777
RRP: €17.84€10.36For centuries, China was confident in its role as the 'Middle Kingdom', the undisputed cultural, economic and political powerhouse of Asia. Today, with China once again a leading player on the world stage, countries across the continent are facing an... -
The Performative State: Public Scrutiny and Environmental Governance in China by Iza Ding
RRP: €52.36€45.98What does the state do when public expectations exceed its governing capacity? The Performative State shows how the state can shape public perceptions and defuse crises through the theatrical deployment of language, symbols, and gestures of good... -
India, China, and the World: A Connected History by Tansen Sen 9781538111727
RRP: €45.22€40.04This pathbreaking study provides the first comprehensive examination of India-China interactions in the broader contexts of Asian and world history. By focusing on material exchanges, transmissions of knowledge and technologies, networks of exchange... -
The Incredible History of the Indian Ocean by Sanyal, Sanjeev 9780143446019
RRP: €9.46€8.98An adaptation of The Ocean of Churn for young readersWhen did the first humans arrive in India and how did they get here?What are Roman artefacts from hundreds of years ago doing in a town near Puducherry?How did merchants from Arabia end up near... -
Poisoning the Pacific: The US Military's Secret Dumping of Plutonium, Chemical Weapons, and Agent Orange by Jon Mitchell
RRP: €22.60€18.90For decades, the US military has been contaminating the Pacific region with toxic substances. Thousands of service members, their families, and local residents have been exposed-but the US has hidden the damage and refused to help victims. This book... -
Negotiating Mughal Law: A Family of Landlords across Three Indian Empires by Nandini Chatterjee
RRP: €29.74€26.62Based on a completely reconstructed archive of Persian, Hindi and Marathi documents, Nandini Chatterjee provides a unique micro-history of a family of landlords in Malwa, central India, who flourished in the region from at least the sixteenth until the... -
Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan by Donald Keene 9780231130578
RRP: €33.32€25.94Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. According to Donald...