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Gandhi's Rise to Power: Indian Politics 1915-1922 by Judith M. Brown 9780521098731
RRP: €47.59€39.58Dr Brown presents a political study of the first clearly defined period in Mahatma Gandhi's Indian career, from 1915 to 1922. The period began with Gandhi's return from South Africa as a stranger to Indian politics, witnessed his dramatic assertion of... -
In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India by Edward Luce 9781400079773
RRP: €27.37€16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400079773Author Edward LuceFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 202mm *... -
Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan by Shahid Amin 9780226372600
RRP: €30.94€29.57Few topics in South Asian history are as contentious as that of the Turkic conquest of the Indian subcontinent that began in the twelfth century and led to a long period of Muslim rule. How is a historian supposed to write honestly about the bloody... -
Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680: Volume 2, Expansion and Crisis by Anthony Reid 9780300065169
RRP: €35.70€35.28Between 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... -
An Environmental History of India: From Earliest Times to the Twenty-First Century by Michael H. Fisher
RRP: €29.74€25.20India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh contain one-fifth of humanity, are home to many biodiversity hotspots, and are among the nations most subject to climatic stresses. By surveying their environmental history, we can gain major insights into the causes and... -
Early Medieval China: A Sourcebook by Wendy Swartz 9780231159876
RRP: €45.22€36.90This 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... -
Beijing Bastard: Coming of Age in a Changing China by Val Wang
RRP: €19.03€13.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592409426Author Val WangFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Gotham BooksPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337g -
Burma: The Curse of Independence by Shelby Tucker 9780745315416
RRP: €35.69€23.44This book is an overview and understanding of Burma's tragic armed conflict in the twentieth century. Examining the 'causes' of the war, Shelby Tucker traces the political development of the country from the occupations by the British and Japanese and... -
Children of Colonialism: Anglo-Indians in a Postcolonial World Lionel Caplan 9781859736326
RRP: €42.83€38.01Among the legacies of the colonial encounter are any number of contemporary 'mixed-race' populations, descendants of the offspring of sexual unions involving European men (colonial officials, traders, etc.) and local women. These groups invite serious... -
Mao's Bestiary: Medicinal Animals and Modern China by Liz P. Y. Chee 9781478014041
RRP: €26.17€23.19Controversy 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... -
Independent Kashmir: An Incomplete Aspiration by Christopher Snedden
RRP: €41.65€29.87Many disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir's troubled past, this book revisits the topic of independence for the region (also known as Jammu and Kashmir, or J&K), and... -
Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period by Mary Elizabeth Berry
RRP: €35.70€27.72A quiet revolution in knowledge separated the early modern period in Japan from all previous time. After 1600, self-appointed investigators used the model of the land and cartographic surveys of the newly unified state to observe and order subjects such... -
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China by Matthew H. Sommer
RRP: €29.74€26.67This study of the regulation of sexuality in the Qing dynasty explores the social context for sexual behavior criminalized by the state, arguing that the eighteenth century in China was a time of profound change in sexual matters. During this time, the... -
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities Saurabh Dube 9781032653709
RRP: €47.59€41.72In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America - Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few - discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This... -
The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan by Ali Usman Qasmi 9781783084258
RRP: €29.75€28.74In this path-breaking new work, Ali Usman Qasmi traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan by drawing on revealing new sources. This volume is the first scholarly study of the declassified material of... -
Ancient Egypt and Early China: State, Society, and Culture by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low
RRP: €46.41€40.60Although 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... -
Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations by Katharine H. S. Moon 9780231106436
RRP: €35.70€27.72This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the... -
Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration by Marius B. Jansen
RRP: €41.65€33.01Exploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed exile, this study profiles activists such as Sakamoto Ryoma and Nakaoka Shintaro, who played an important role in the development of a... -
Amboina, 1623: Fear and Conspiracy on the Edge of Empire by Adam Clulow
RRP: €65.45€51.06In 1623, a Japanese mercenary called Shichizo was arrested for asking suspicious questions about the defenses of a Dutch East India Company fort on Amboina, a remote set of islands in what is now eastern Indonesia. When he failed to provide an adequate... -
The Chinese Communist Party: A Century in Ten Lives by Timothy Cheek
RRP: €83.30€70.36Ten engaging personal histories introduce readers to what it was like to live in and with the most powerful political machine ever created: the Chinese Communist Party. Detailing the life of ten people who led or engaged with the Chinese Communist Party,... -
Pretext for mass murder by John Roosa 9780299220341
RRP: €28.50€21.92In the early morning hours of October 1, 1965, a group calling itself the September 30th Movement kidnapped and executed six generals of the Indonesian army, including its highest commander. The group claimed that it was attempting to preempt a coup, but... -
The Meiji Restoration by W. G. Beasley
RRP: €94.01€83.60For Japan, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 has something of the significance that the French Revolution has for France: it is the point from which modern history begins. In this now classic work of Japanese history, the late W. G. Beasley offers a... -
The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk 9781568360225
RRP: €21.42€16.14THE GREATGAME: THE EPIC STORY BEHIND TODAY'S HEADLINESPeter Hopkirk's spellbinding account of the great imperial struggle for supremacy in Central Asoa has been hailed as essential reading with that era's legacy playing itself out today.The Great Game... -
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley 9781501188527
RRP: €33.32€20.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Pulitzer Prize (Biography) 2021.Book InformationISBN 9781501188527Author Amy StanleyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher... -
Making a Muslim: Reading Publics and Contested Identities in Nineteenth Century North India by S. Akbar Zaidi
RRP: €89.25€81.25Using primarily Urdu sources from the nineteenth century, this book allows us to rethink notions of 'the Muslim', in its numerous, complex and often contradictory forms, which emerged in colonial North India after 1857. Allowing the self-representation... -
China's Millennials: The Want Generation by Eric Fish 9781442272491
RRP: €35.70€32.00In 1989, students marched on Tiananmen Square demanding democratic reform. The Communist Party responded with a massacre, but it was jolted into restructuring the economy and overhauling the education of its young citizens. A generation later, Chinese... -
Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean by Leila Fawaz 9780231114271
RRP: €38.08€29.94Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century... -
Queer Korea by Todd A. Henry 9781478002901
RRP: €28.55€25.66Since the end of the nineteenth century, the Korean people have faced successive waves of foreign domination, authoritarian regimes, forced dispersal, and divided development. Throughout these turbulent times, "queer" Koreans were ignored, minimized, and... -
China by Henrietta Harrison 9780340741344
RRP: €71.39€70.94Both Western historians and Chinese nationalists have argued that from early times China had the features of a nation state: a common language, culture, and bureaucracy. This argument is important not only because it affects our understanding of how... -
India and the British Empire by Douglas M. Peers 9780199259885
RRP: €110.67€72.29South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history... -
Patterned Splendour: Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures; Eighth to Fifteenth Century by Lesley Pullen 9789814881845
RRP: €46.35€45.43There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress displays detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal, varying in both size... -
Coins, Trade, and the State: Economic Growth in Early Medieval Japan by Ethan Isaac Segal 9780674060685
RRP: €40.40€32.62Framed by the decline of the Heian aristocracy in the late 1100s and the rise of the Tokugawa shogunate in the early 1600s, Japan's medieval era was a chaotic period of diffuse political power and frequent military strife. This instability prevented... -
Global South Asians: Introducing the modern Diaspora by Judith M. Brown 9780521606301
RRP: €27.36€23.28By the end of the twentieth century some nine million people of South Asian descent had left India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in different parts of the world, forming a diverse and significant modern diaspora. In the early nineteenth century,... -
The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan: Nationalism, Islamism, and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Space by Tim Epkenhans 9781498532808
RRP: €63.07€55.16In May 1992 political and social tensions in the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan escalated to a devastating civil war, which killed approximately 40,000-100,000 people and displaced more than one million. The enormous challenge of the Soviet Union's... -
Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage during China's Revolution and Reform by Ying Ruocheng 9780742555556
RRP: €52.36€46.35Voices Carry is the moving autobiography of the late Ying Ruocheng, beloved Chinese stage and screen actor, theatre director, translator, and high-ranking politician as vice minister of culture from 1986-1990. One of twentieth-century China's most... -
The Palace Law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat: Law and Kingship in Siam by Chris Baker
RRP: €28.55€25.18This book contains the first academic translations of key legal texts from the Ayutthaya era (1351-1767), along with an essay on the role of law in Thai history. The legal history of Southeast Asia has languished because few texts are accessible in... -
The Sovereign Trickster: Death and Laughter in the Age of Duterte by Vicente L. Rafael
RRP: €23.79€21.19In The Sovereign Trickster Vicente L. Rafael offers a prismatic view of the age of Rodrigo Duterte in the contemporary Philippines. Framing Duterte as a trickster figure who boasts, jokes, terrorizes, plays the victim, and instills terror, Rafael weaves... -
History of Taiwan: A Captivating Guide to Taiwanese History and the Relationship with the People's Republic of China by Captivating History 9781950922833
RRP: €23.76€14.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922833Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 109gDimensions(mm)... -
Naga Cities of the Mekong: A Guide to the Temples, Legends and History of Laos by Martin Stuart-Fox 9789810559236
RRP: €17.84€15.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789810559236Author Martin Stuart-FoxFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Media MastersPublisher Media Masters -
Political Violence in Ancient India by Upinder Singh
RRP: €52.30€42.64Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures a troubled and complex heritage: a long struggle to...